Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition

[htpwn]

Bettman ignored my emails to rig it for the Caps.

Bedard with late career Ovie would have been awesome to watch*

*except for the four times a year they would have played the Leafs.

 

[Trapper]

Horseshoes up their a55...after losing Kane and Toews, they get Bedard for their rebuild...at least it's not the Habs.

3 Cups and Bedard.
Oh well, back to Wednesday.

 

[Menzinger]

Do you mean because they showed CBJ twice?

Yes. There was a gap between journalists tweeting out the results and the broadcast

This wasn't live despite the insinuation that it was

 

[MSZ]

Not in Montreal or Van City.

Win win win.

 

[Bomber0104]

Gonna be a great Blackhawk for years to come, would have been cool actually to see the Habs get him for the rivarly.

 

[Aashir]

All of a sudden, I’ll be watching chicago games

 

[Budz22]

Anywhere but Montreal.

 

[Menzinger]

 

[BallardEra]

This Broissot guy isn't very good

Neither is Skinner.

 

[Cleetus]

This Broissot guy isn't very good

Neither is Skinner.

caught the edit and made me laugh, and its so true

 

[kb]

This is for those who thought the Leafs were cap strapped.....15 teams worse off.

 

[BallardEra]

Man, Draisaitl all over them.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

This is for those who thought the Leafs were cap strapped.....15 teams worse off.

we are in cap hell man *looks at the last 4 years*

 

[BallardEra]

Broissot hurt. Possible groin injury.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Lol @ the lottery. Poor Columbus fans. They've had very little to cheer about since entering the league.

Of course it had to be Chicago. Better than Montreal and Arizona State I suppose.

 

[BallardEra]

2-1 Vegas

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Looks like game 1 where Vegas dominated play. Keep it 5 on 5 and they'll be in decent shape (refs missed a couple of calls on Vegas lolol)

 

[Darcy Tucker]

Chicago winning the Bedard lottery with 11.5 percent chance instead of Anaheim at 25.5 percent is completely horrible for the league and Bedard himself. He will be going to a horrible team with very little else to build around. They just went through a scandal and complete roster dismantling. Bettman must be pissed.

First having teams obviously tank and put the league's integrity into question while coinciding with a massive sports gambling partnership is not a good look. I don't care what the facts are the optics are bad right now. The respect and dignity for the game seems to be dipping and it is quite demoralizing.

Instead of a generational franchise changing talent going to a big market like California or even Columbus would have been preferable this is what we get after all the hysteria and tank jobs.

With a couple decent stars at least Bedard could play with it would be pretty promising. He could have been lining up with up and coming stars like Zegras and Terry or even with established talent like Gaudreau, Laine and Werenski.

Who is he going to be playing with in Chicago?

Is he good enough to single handedly change the complexion of a dumpster fire organization single handedly? Will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

The league just had the worst possible team win the Bedard sweepstakes. Boo to you Bettman. Boo I say.

 

[Mess]

Love the Chicago outcome for Bedard.

Jonathan Toews was always one of my favourite NHL players so I followed the Hawks as a result.

Before Toews that it was Dennis Savard and so now it looks like I can continue to support them through Connor Bedard as a distant 2nd favourite NHL team.

 

[BallardEra]

Skinner.

 

[PromisedLand]

Yikes Eichel fooled him

 

[TMLeafer]

lol that's one of the funniest blown wheels I've seen in a while

 

[BallardEra]

Here comes Jack Campbell!

 

[Blanka]

Really don't want to see Vegas go anywhere for at least another 10 years. They need to suffer like the rest of us. Besides, Edmonton is Canadian. Sick of American clubs winning the Cup.

 

[3blizzard4]

You really hate to see what's happening in Edmonton.