Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition

[Gabriel426]

Oyy....

Full disclosure, I was one who was hugely advocating for OEL. Swing and a huuuuuge miss.

So I got humbled badly, and then I see people wanting to trade the world for Chychrun. I mean.....even on shit teams, they need someone to call a #1 D.....sooo.....OEL v2.0?

That’s way I think too. Chychrun got buyers’ beware all over him. He is solid player but not for that price.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Maybe I just don’t hear Holland talk all that often but what the hell is this?



Why does he sound so unsure and nervous? Or, in the words of Tommy Devito to Spider in Goodfellas, he sounds like a mumbling stuttering f***. Man sounds like he’s trying too hard to make Kane sound like this massive addition that’s coming to justify not doing anything once again to try to help the best player in the world win.

 

[3blizzard4]

Boston gave up two grade A chances on that 5 on 3. Very uncharacteristic of them. Not only that, they also executed that 5 on 3 very poorly.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

That’s way I think Chychrun got buyer’s beware all over. He is solid player but not for that price.

At least Chychrun is turning 25 with only 2 years left on his deal. OEL was traded at age 30 with 6 years left on his deal. Chychrun is also playing much better than OEL was at the time of the trade

 

[Gabriel426]

At least Chychrun is turning 25 with only 2 years left on his deal. OEL was traded at age 30 with 6 years left on his deal. Chychrun is also playing much better than OEL was at the time of the trade

Chychrun is better than OEL, just don’t think he is the right player for the Leafs

 

[1specter]

Boston gave up two grade A chances on that 5 on 3. Very uncharacteristic of them. Not only that, they also executed that 5 on 3 very poorly.

Bruins were coasting playing at like 70% while the Oilers treated it like a playoff game and gave everything they had, they were likely pissed after their embarrassing performance against Columbus. Of course only McDavid could do anything and they still lost lol.

 

[3blizzard4]

Bruins were coasting playing at like 70% while the Oilers treated it like a playoff game and gave everything they had, they were likely pissed after their embarrassing performance against Columbus. Of course only McDavid could do anything and they still lost lol.

Yeah I agree.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

50 for McDavid

Glad it wasn't against us on Wednesday. Never hear the end of it.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Poor McDavid, that’s bad.

 

[BallardEra]

Bruins were coasting playing at like 70% while the Oilers treated it like a playoff game and gave everything they had, they were likely pissed after their embarrassing performance against Columbus. Of course only McDavid could do anything and they still lost lol.

They also play again tonight so probably played with that in mind. Even started their back-up and saved Ullmark for tonight against the Flames.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

Chychrun is better than OEL, just don’t think he is the right player for the Leafs

OEL's peak was better than anything Chychrun has shown so far; OEL just peaked, and then completely fell off.

 

[Jojalu]

I hope the NHL puts TB/Tor and NY/NJ on seperate nights for the playoffs.

NY/NJ could be a really fun series

 

[ULF_55]

Chychrun is better than OEL, just don’t think he is the right player for the Leafs

Rielly-Brodie
Chychrun-McCabe
Giordano-Liljegren
Sandin-Timmins

A little nicer than

Rielly-Brodie
McCabe-Liljegren
Giordano-Holl
Sandin-Timmins

For next year under contract for $19mm

Rielly-Brodie
McCabe-Liljegren
Giordano-Timmins
Sandin

 

[Leaf Rocket]

I laughed too hard because of the yellow M&M

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[Dekes For Days]

LMAO. The NHL is such a joke.
After all that's happened, Nyquist is the hill they die on?
Probably means Leafs were looking at him.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I don’t know if Chris is using the Leafs as an example because it’s the Leafs, but if this is really what has pissed off GMs and not the obvious Kucherov shenanigans Tampa pulled that is absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Peasy]

I don’t know if Chris is using the Leafs as an example because it’s the Leafs, but if this is really what has pissed off GMs and not the obvious Kucherov shenanigans Tampa pulled that is absolutely ridiculous.

Chicago did it first with Kane didnt they?

 

[uncleben]

This doesn't shock me tbh.
Nor do I think it will change too much.


You will still be able to acquire an injured player. You will still be to acquire an injured player, keep them on IR until the playoffs, and then play them in the playoffs if that is when they are legitimately cleared to play.

I think what the League will do is just be more critical of "was this player ready to return earlier, and you just held him off waiting for the cap to end?"
This is not a new rule, it just means they will be stringently applying CBA 16.11 (f), which, imo, frankly is fair.

The Commissioner may take whatever steps he deems necessary to investigate the circumstances under which a Player is: (i) placed, or remains, on the Injured Reserve List, or (ii) designated Injured Non-Roster. If the Commissioner has reason to believe that the Injured Reserve List or Injured Non-Roster status has not been utilized properly by the involved Club or otherwise Circumvents any provision of this Agreement, or if he determines that the Club has used the Injured Reserve and/or Injured Non-Roster designations to evade the Active Roster limit, he may take such disciplinary action against the Club as he deems appropriate.

Acquire an injured player? Sure.
Play that player when they are healthy again? Sure.
Stash them on the IR even if their placement there is questionable to avoid their cap hit, and then they come back conveniently in time for the playoffs? We'll investigate and determine if was appropriate or not.




Editing to add: My own pure speculation, but I wonder if the League is genuinely concerned about this, if they add a rule similar to players who skip the All-Star Game along the lines of, if they are on IR the last day of the regular season, they have to miss at minimum your team's first playoff game, or something. Would require approval across the League and from the NHLPA, I'm sure though.

 

[uncleben]

I don’t know if Chris is using the Leafs as an example because it’s the Leafs, but if this is really what has pissed off GMs and not the obvious Kucherov shenanigans Tampa pulled that is absolutely ridiculous.

I think, to be fair, he's using that as example not because it was the most egregious example (far from it), but just because he's a Leafs writer and the majority of his followers are Leafs fans, so its a relevant example to them.

 

[SprDaVE]

Rachel is on fire.

 

[uncleben]

Rachel is on fire.

Eh. As I mentioned above, it's already a rule, the League just wants to crack down because the line's being pushed more and more.
And Chris' followers are largely Leafs based, so it's not a stretch to use a Leafs example. Especially if the alternativel is using TBL as an example and then followers witch hunt Tampa completely blind to the fact that we did the same thing, which we both know would happen

 

[Dekes For Days]

This doesn't shock me tbh.
Nor do I think it will change too much.

You will still be able to acquire an injured player. You will still be to acquire an injured player, keep them on IR until the playoffs, and then play them in the playoffs if that is when they are legitimately cleared to play.

I think what the League will do is just be more critical of "was this player ready to return earlier, and you just held him off waiting for the cap to end?"
This is not a new rule, it just means they will be stringently applying CBA 16.11 (f), which, imo, frankly is fair.

Acquire an injured player? Sure.
Play that player when they are healthy again? Sure.
Stash them on the IR even if their placement there is questionable to avoid their cap hit, and then they come back conveniently in time for the playoffs? We'll investigate and determine if was appropriate or not.

I agree that it's good for the NHL to investigate issues of cap circumvention...
My question then would be, why wasn't the NHL stringently looking into this stuff already?
Why are they sending out memos out now to protect against a team acquiring Nyquist?
Where were the memos when Chicago and Tampa were pretty flagrantly abusing the system years ago to win cups?
Does anybody actually think Kucherov just conveniently happened to be healthy from his season-long absence for game 1 of the NHL playoffs?

 

[1specter]

Rachel is on fire.

This is why the NHL is a loser league. Shit teams trying to stay shit get constantly babied and supported but how dare good teams try to find ways to make their teams more competitive and better!

 

[uncleben]

I agree that it's good for the NHL to investigate issues of cap circumvention...
My question then would be, why wasn't the NHL stringently looking into this stuff already?
Why are they sending out memos out now to protect against a team acquiring Nyquist?
Where were the memos when Chicago and Tampa were pretty flagrantly abusing the system years ago to win cups?
Does anybody actually think Kucherov just conveniently happened to be healthy from his extended absence for game 1 of the NHL playoffs?

A few times here or there, turn a blind I guess, but then a pattern forms? And several players line up for the same thing this year, crack down..?
I obviously have no idea, but messing up and let a rule slide before doesn't mean you have to keep doing it lol


And frankly, to that point, we have no way of knowing if the League did do its own investigation on Kucherov et al., Nash for that matter, and ruled it was above board