Around the League - 2022-23 season thread part I

[Classic Devil]

Aside from the dig at Hamilton at the end, is Edwards wrong here?

Say NJ was to move and on retro night 30 years from now Quebec City was to wear the 1995 Dev's jersey and some guy rolled out in #4. Would folks here not be upset by that?

So, I was curious about how good a player McKenzie was, so I looked him up.

John McKenzie (b.1937) Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics and Records of John McKenzie, a hockey player and coach from High River, ALTA born Dec 12 1937 who was active from 1953 to 1979.

www.hockeydb.com

John McKenzie played three seasons for the New England Whalers.

The Whalers weren't even an NHL team when McKenzie played for them. And he played for them his retirement years. McKenzie was principally a Boston Bruin (which, I suppose should not be surprising given who we're talking about). It's more like, if Colorado moved and someone wore Borque's number. And no, McKenzie wasn't better than Hamilton. He had one PPG season in the NHL, and this was playing in the 1960s.

Edwards is just blowing smoke up his own ass.

 

[Saugus]

Like 20% of my hs class went to college in boston, and then most of them never left

we're not sending our best, folks

This is just well-disguised Harvard hate from a Cornell alum, and I am here for it.

 

[MasterofGrond]

This is just well-disguised Harvard hate from a Cornell alum, and I am here for it.

We had one Harvard guy, my best friend. He legitimately did not speak to me again after he got in.

He’s a doctor or something now.

Everybody else went to BC or northeastern (another school on my shitlist for SHAMLESSLY stealing valor from my other alma mater, northwestern)

 

[FinnishDevil]

This Shit is no joke. I use to weigh 250-270 as a kid and teenager. Was bullied in school for a decade straight. It’s starts with “small” jokes like that. Then it morphed into people telling me to go kill myself. I tried doing just that one night when I hit a breaking point. Thankfully I failed.

16 years later I weigh 185 and the healthiest and happiest I’ve been. f*** YOU Jack Edwards. You will get yours one day. Scumbag announcer for a scumbag organization.

We're all glad to have you here, brother.

 

[Guttersniped]

 

[Saugus]

There's trying to buck up your team, and then there's delusional. Fletcher probably thinks he is the former, but is actually the latter.

 

[MadDevil]

Good on you Chuck. Keep up that drive for mediocrity.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Time to trade some draft capital for upgrades, fletch

 

[Clam Jensen]

Time to trade some draft capital for upgrades, fletch

They should trade Brink, Koenecny, and a 1st for EK65.

 

[AfroThunder396]

They should trade Brink, Koenecny, and a 1st for EK65.

Brink, Konecny, and a 1st for Josh Anderson would be more in line with Fletcher's MO.

 

[Saugus]

Brink, Konecny, and a 1st for Josh Anderson would be more in line with Fletcher's MO.

Gotta get that grit, son!

 

[JrFischer54]

I never got to see the flyers live in their cooperalls as a kid but always liked the look seeing them now 100% beautiful. Why did they stop? Can’t be a competitive difference?

 

[My3Sons]

I never got to see the flyers live in their cooperalls as a kid but always liked the look seeing them now 100% beautiful. Why did they stop? Can’t be a competitive difference?

I think there were complaints about the black pants making it hard to see the puck if memory serves. I’m so old I remember those. I agree they made a lot of sense as a practical matter.

 

[njdevils1982]

I think there were complaints about the black pants making it hard to see the puck if memory serves. I’m so old I remember those. I agree they made a lot of sense as a practical matter.

I never got to see the flyers live in their cooperalls as a kid but always liked the look seeing them now 100% beautiful. Why did they stop? Can’t be a competitive difference?

along with goalies complaining it was for safety reasons....the were made of material that was much more slippery if players slid on the ice and smashing to to the boards at high speeds

Flyers bust out the 80's Cooperalls in glorious 'reverse retro' debut

After sporting the ankle-to-waste throwbacks for the first time in warmup on Tuesday, the Flyers plan to rock these beauts another seven times this season.

ca.sports.yahoo.com

 

[My3Sons]

along with goalies complaining it was for safety reasons....the were made of material that was much more slippery if players slid on the ice and smashing to to the boards at high speeds

Flyers bust out the 80's Cooperalls in glorious 'reverse retro' debut

After sporting the ankle-to-waste throwbacks for the first time in warmup on Tuesday, the Flyers plan to rock these beauts another seven times this season.

ca.sports.yahoo.com

in todays' world they could easily alter the friction quotient of the material. Maybe they can revisit them as a choice at some point with some changes to texture and color.

 

[JrFischer54]

along with goalies complaining it was for safety reasons....the were made of material that was much more slippery if players slid on the ice and smashing to to the boards at high speeds

Flyers bust out the 80's Cooperalls in glorious 'reverse retro' debut

After sporting the ankle-to-waste throwbacks for the first time in warmup on Tuesday, the Flyers plan to rock these beauts another seven times this season.

ca.sports.yahoo.com

Meh the goalie complaint is weak. I say wear em. Shit is noice

 

[MauDevils]

Boeser's agent given permission to seek out a trade. What's the scouting report?

Lots of injuries, good shooter and bad skater?

 

[FooteBahl]

Boeser's agent given permission to seek out a trade. What's the scouting report?

Lots of injuries, good shooter and bad skater?

So Holtz, minus the injuries, at six times the cost? Nah, I’m good

 

[Guttersniped]

Boeser's agent given permission to seek out a trade. What's the scouting report?

Lots of injuries, good shooter and bad skater?

Is this the cover story for them dumping him or is this more about Vancouver locker room toxicity? Hmmm…

 

[SKNJD9]

Boeser's agent given permission to seek out a trade. What's the scouting report?

Lots of injuries, good shooter and bad skater?

Slower than molasses

 

[NJDevs26]

Slower than molasses

At least we can bring back the Jimmy Hayes Spiderman meme!

 

[NjDevsRR]

So why in tarnation did Drury trade Reaves when the room is lacking leaders?

Like, Reaves is one of the only goons who can actually play a decent 4th line game. Say what you want about him but he a leader in the lockerroom. What a circus over there.

 

[Guttersniped]

So why in tarnation did Drury trade Reaves when the room is lacking leaders?

Like, Reaves is one of the only goons who can actually play a decent 4th line game. Say what you want about him but he a leader in the lockerroom. What a circus over there.

Reaves wouldn’t help much at all, he’s a faded 4th liner who was getting scratched and you don’t lead from there. The trade gave them needed cap relief.

I don’t think Drury has done a good job but the Reaves trade is not where I’d ding him.

All losing locker-rooms look like messes. This is presumably directed at the bigger name guys (other than Fox, who carries the team as much as he can, and Lindgren, who’s the hard-nailed player Trouba cosplays at while he gets away with CTE-inducing open ice Charges/Elbowing).

If you look at Krieder’s shot charts the only thing different this season is his finishing. He’s uncharacteristically underperforming xG, which he never does, so the drop off from his white hot last season is enormous. Some Rags fans bitch about his effort but that can happen when guys don’t score. I don’t know his effort level though (I’m not watching these assholes much as some of you lol). It’s Krieder, he is what he is.

Zib is one of the weirder star players to me, he’s an assassin on the PP and drives play less than you think he would. At 5v5 (337 total minutes) other than Krieder (280 minutes), Zib’s most common line mates are Kakko (167), Jimmy Vesey (120), and Panarin (56). They ain’t scoring.

Panarin always looks like he’s “going for a twirl” so Trouba has to get over that and hope he can focus on scoring more.

 

[ChicksDigTheTrap]

 

[Smitty426]

So why in tarnation did Drury trade Reaves when the room is lacking leaders?

Like, Reaves is one of the only goons who can actually play a decent 4th line game. Say what you want about him but he a leader in the lockerroom. What a circus over there.

No he really can't keep up. Other than asking Eyegor to release them, that's it. All of what we said was unsustainable finally is! 5v5 sucked last yr., Still does, PP has dried up a bunch, G is now human though it took a while. Can't pull out the come from behind wins like they were doing regularly last year. Young guys aren't producing as are old guys. Trouba, yeah with the call out, but most of the nsvk breaking goals are his fault. They say hes hurt, I think he's just slow and using his elbow to slow stuff down. So stunned they made him C. I think Fix is way overrated but a better choice for Capt. Not impressed at all wurh Drury (although tdl pickups were better than I'd ever imagined) but he let them all leave!