2022-2023 Around The League

[Ceremony]

I like the NHL logo being in orange I guess.

 

[Pokecheque]

I like the NHL logo being in orange I guess.

So do I. Wish they had kept it that way.

I also hate that they reversed it so the letters read upwards. That's always looked weird to me.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[The Merchant]

Holy shit are the Panthers effed now.

How to Kill Your Cup Hopes in One Trade

 

[Balthazar]

Even before this I never understood that trade from Detroit's perspective.

 

[TruePowerSlave]

Seattle showing how development is done. 6 min a game for Wright + scratched some nights for the laughs.

 

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Seattle showing how development is done. 6 min a game for Wright + scratched some nights for the laughs.

I member Drai getting similar treatment…

 

[LOFIN]

How to Kill Your Cup Hopes in One Trade

To be fair, I think the Panthers probably knew that they would be a worse team in the short term, but Tkachuk is going to be better for the franchise in long term. 4 years younger.

 

[The Abusement Park]

To be fair, I think the Panthers probably knew that they would be a worse team in the short term, but Tkachuk is going to be better for the franchise in long term. 4 years younger.

I get that. But they also gave up their best/2nd best dman and a 1st pick in the process. Literally all their organizational depth got moved in the last year.

 

[LOFIN]

I get that. But they also gave up their best/2nd best dman and a 1st pick in the process. Literally all their organizational depth got moved in the last year.

I think one of the interesting storylines is the battle between Toronto and Florida from an ideological standpoint. We all know the history Toronto has had, but Dubas has stayed true to his vision and refused to make drastic changes. Florida loses to Tampa in consecutive years, they do a massive shakeup. Coach is gone, the 2nd best player of the team is gone. Should be interesting to see whether or not these changes Florida made paid off, and if the patience of Dubas will be rewarded. A clash of two ideologies.

 

[The Moops]

I think one of the interesting storylines is the battle between Toronto and Florida from an ideological standpoint. We all know the history Toronto has had, but Dubas has stayed true to his vision and refused to make drastic changes. Florida loses to Tampa in consecutive years, they do a massive shakeup. Coach is gone, the 2nd best player of the team is gone. Should be interesting to see whether or not these changes Florida made paid off, and if the patience of Dubas will be rewarded. A clash of two ideologies.

aka, which management group gets the door first?

 

[Chiarelli]

Between Florida/Tampa/Toronto all sucking their is some real opportunity for buffalo/Detroit/Ottawa this year.

Tampa should bounce back, Toronto as well if they get goaltending, Florida I think is toast.


Also, for how awful we look we’re still 2nd in our division. Not worried about our boys we’ll get the forward depth cleaned up with a couple trades at some point

 

[MacKaRtin]

I think one of the interesting storylines is the battle between Toronto and Florida from an ideological standpoint. We all know the history Toronto has had, but Dubas has stayed true to his vision and refused to make drastic changes. Florida loses to Tampa in consecutive years, they do a massive shakeup. Coach is gone, the 2nd best player of the team is gone. Should be interesting to see whether or not these changes Florida made paid off, and if the patience of Dubas will be rewarded. A clash of two ideologies.

What if both ideologies are wrong and the answer is to draft Cale Makar?

 

[The Abusement Park]

Between Florida/Tampa/Toronto all sucking their is some real opportunity for buffalo/Detroit/Ottawa this year.

Tampa should bounce back, Toronto as well if they get goaltending, Florida I think is toast.


Also, for how awful we look we’re still 2nd in our division. Not worried about our boys we’ll get the forward depth cleaned up with a couple trades at some point

Maybe Buffalo or Ottawa. Detroit isn’t close to being a playoff team.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Dallas has allowed 3 goals in 3 games. Deboer is going to be a pain in the dick to play against.

 

[Freudian]

Seattle showing how development is done. 6 min a game for Wright + scratched some nights for the laughs.

Need to save him so he can play 25 minutes against Habs.

 

[The Kingslayer]

I member Drai getting similar treatment…

We should have swooped in and gotten him for whatever price Chia wanted back then lol

 

[Pokecheque]

Dallas has allowed 3 goals in 3 games. Deboer is going to be a pain in the dick to play against.

Especially if Seguin has finally recovered from hip surgery. Usually requires about a full year at least to bounce back from that.

 

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Dallas has allowed 3 goals in 3 games. Deboer is going to be a pain in the dick to play against.

As long as DeBoer doesn't Fluery Otter.... Dallas will be a challenge.

 

[Pokecheque]

As long as DeBoer doesn't Fluery Otter.... Dallas will be a challenge.

Is that what we're calling it? He was far, far worse to Lehner.

 

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Is that what we're calling it? He was far, far worse to Lehner.

You could really pick any goalie who has ever played for DeBoer

 

[The Kingslayer]

As long as DeBoer doesn't Fluery Otter.... Dallas will be a challenge.

Otter doesnt have anyone thats close to usurping him though. I mean Scott Wedgewood is only good against the Avs.

 

[Nihiliste]

I mean… it was hyperbole (and in a joking way) and scoring won’t be exact pacing of today (Greer is on his way for Gretzky), but clear we are out of the 3-2 world of years past.we don’t know where it will fall, but entirely possible we are in a new scoring boom.

I hated the mid 10s, DPE 2.0 minus the violence. I’m ready for 80s 2.0

 

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I hated the mid 10s, DPE 2.0 minus the violence. I’m ready for 80s 2.0

I'd rather not go all the way to the 80s... getting to a 4-3 world would be a lot better. Moving to the 5-4/6-5 80s is a bit much to me.

Either way though... when you go back and say __ point player from 5 years ago (or even 2), I don't think you can apply it today if this continues. A 40 point defensemen a few years ago might be a 55-60 today. A 55 point 2nd liner might have to be 65-70 today. PPG turns into 90+. etc. Right now in the crossroads, it is just hard to know what to expect there.

 

[Pokecheque]

The scoring will never get back to the 80s-highs. Go look at the goals that goalies let in back in those days. There's literally a video out there of Mike Vernon (yes, THAT Mike Vernon) inching his way across the ice sideways like he had just put skates on for the first time in his life. It's not that he couldn't skate, it's the way goalie mechanics were taught back then, they were drawing from the same handbook that hadn't changed for, like, 50 years. I don't believe goalie coaches were even a thing until Francois Allaire revolutionized the way the position is taught and played later on. Even with the equipment changes, goaltending will never regress to...that.

Someone on Twitter posted a challenge--show me one goal Gretzky scored that I wouldn't be mad at my beer league goalie for letting in.