2024/2025 Around the League

[Balthazar]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843000517993320944

Ok calm down @henchman21 , we aren't getting him

Do you hate converted wings and geriatrics from Boston?

I liked him in Vancouver

 

[BobRossColton]

Lavoie as a big 4c
Ylonen as more PK
Skarek as a Czech backup work him with Francouz

 

[henchman21]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843000517993320944

Ok calm down @henchman21 , we aren't getting him


I liked him in Vancouver

You have no idea the rage I’d have.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Incoming Sam Gagner as 4C

 

[McMetal]

Goncalves is definitely an interesting name in that group. Scores like crazy in the AHL, but hasn't gotten a real chance in the big show yet. And he's from the Tampa system, if their scouts liked him that's a point in his favor. Ylonen is another name that jumped out, although that may just be leftover from his draft year when I really liked him.

Basically anything to inject a little more skill into the forward group, the 4th line does not whelm me at all.

 

[MacKaRant]

Claim Slavin and hope someone screws up and sends over the wrong guy.

Let's put in claims for Suzuki and Aho while we're at it

 

[Balthazar]

Considering the lack of center depth and their love history with 1st round picks I wonder if the Avs could be tempted.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843012423001031046

 

[GoNordiquesGo]

Wow, the Engvall experiment isn't going well in Roy in NY!

 

[dahrougem2]

I'd trade Wood for Engvall if they retained 250K so their salaries matched.

 

[UncleRisto]

Goncalves is definitely an interesting name in that group.

Yeah, I think it's Portuguese.

 

[AvsMakar08]

Does anyone here know if they even play hockey in Portugal?

 

[henchman21]

Does anyone here know if they even play hockey in Portugal?

Yes… but people of Portuguese decent are everywhere because they were really good at the whole colonization thing.

 

[UncleRisto]

Does anyone here know if they even play hockey in Portugal?

Yeah, apparently an IIHF member since 1999, but only competing in the Development Cup.

Yes… but people of Portuguese decent are everywhere because they were really good at the whole colonization thing.

Won the Corsi.

 

[McMetal]

Yeah, I think it's Portuguese.

 

[S E P H]

Considering the lack of center depth and their love history with 1st round picks I wonder if the Avs could be tempted.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843012423001031046

Suzuki is in the JL Foudy category. Both had offensive instincts that got them drafted, but their play away from the puck is severely lacking. Suzuki was a disaster when I watched him in junior. He was sort of worth it to be a late first (I saw him more as a second-rounder personally), but he was one of the most notorious cherry-picking players I have ever seen. A team lacking offensive depth might take a gamble on him, but I see him as a player who doesn't play a defensive game and his offence in juniors simply can't translate or beat out already superiorly talented, established NHL forwards.

 

[S E P H]

Yeah, apparently an IIHF member since 1999, but only competing in the Development Cup.

There's a big difference between being an actual full member and an affiliated member. For example, Sweden is an actual member, but Kenya/Bahrain got approved last week by the IIHF are affiliated members. I would think Portugal is an affiliated member due to a lack of ice rinks.

 

[Gumballhead]

Does anyone here know if they even play hockey in Portugal?

They made the DNA that makes Evan Rodriguez so handsome.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

They made the DNA that makes Evan Rodriguez so handsome.

*Rodrigues

Portuguese spelling.

NHLers with either one or both parents being Portuguese:

John Tavares
Drew Doughty
Adam Henrique
Dylan DeMelo
Evan Rodrigues

Mike Ribeiro and Raffi Torres were the pioneers.

 

[henchman21]

Mike Ribeiro and Raffi Torres were the pioneers.

And like all true pioneers, mired in controversy.

 

[Alienblood]

MacK would be so upset.

Mack is a Donair guy

Place called Tony"s

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1843314586881233236

 

[Ceremony]

Does no-one remember the John Tavares ethnicity thread?

 

[Bender]

I'd love for the Avs to claim Jesse Ylonen but they probably won't.

 

[The Abusement Park]

I'd love for the Avs to claim Jesse Ylonen but they probably won't.

Do we really need another winger?

 

[Richard88]

Do we really need another winger?

The team could do with another forward for sure, at least until Lehkonen is back. And long term a 4c is also a need.