Around the League 2022-23 season

[BringTheReign]

Imagine if he didn't lose all those seasons to Lockouts.
Ovechkin is a player we will be telling our grandkids about.

I used to love watching his hit highlight reels. He doesn't go looking for it as much anymore, but god could he just f***ing run people over at will. I think the only player I've seen who loves every part of hockey as much as Ovie is Drew.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I used to love watching his hit highlight reels. He doesn't go looking for it as much anymore, but god could he just f***ing run people over at will. I think the only player I've seen who loves every part of hockey as much as Ovie is Drew.

Fun watching them play each otehr too, all smiles

 

[BringTheReign]

Fun watching them play each otehr too, all smiles

I always thought it was rad that they both wear #8 too.

 

[johnjm22]

He needs 95 more goals to break Gretzky's record.

If he finishes this season with say 45 goals, he'd need 70 goals over the next 3 seasons.

He'd need to do something like this:

22/23 [37YO] 45 Goals
23/24 [38YO] 35 Goals
24/25 [39YO] 30 Goals
25/26 [40YO] 20 Goals (final year of his contract)

^That would give him 910 goals. 895 is the record.

It's going to be tough, but with goal scoring up the way it is, he could do it.

 

[tny760]

3 years is a long time at that age but i think he could do it, even if they basically use him as a DH on the PP

if there's anyone who can, it's probably him. durable as hell

 

[johnjm22]

One of the things that's allowed AO to accumulate so many goals is his durability. He's only missed 27 games due to injury since his rookie year in 2005.

Crosby, also a rookie in 2005, has missed 150+ games due to injury. Crosby is also two years younger.

 

[YP44]

He needs 95 more goals to break Gretzky's record.

If he finishes this season with say 45 goals, he'd need 70 goals over the next 3 seasons.

He'd need to do something like this:

22/23 [37YO] 45 Goals
23/24 [38YO] 35 Goals
24/25 [39YO] 30 Goals
25/26 [40YO] 20 Goals (final year of his contract)

^That would give him 910 goals. 895 is the record.

It's going to be tough, but with goal scoring up the way it is, he could do it.

hopefully he can stay healthy

 

[johnjm22]

Hard to find comps for Ovechkin obviously.

But Thornton was relatively productive up to 39.

Pavelski is 38 and scoring at a 27 goal pace.

Gretzky retired when he was 38, but was relatively productive in his final season (62pts, 70gp).

Selanne was productive up until 41. Played until he was 43.

Jagr had 27 goals with the Panthers at 43 years old.

 

[ru4reals]

Right around our Rangers game, Guerin said his team needed more personality and toughness

9-8-2 before the trade, 7-3 since

imagine

Perhaps soooomeone in our organization may look into this. Not sure who to acquire but we can all just dream. *Sigh*

 

[ru4reals]

One of the things that's allowed AO to accumulate so many goals is his durability. He's only missed 27 games due to injury since his rookie year in 2005.

Crosby, also a rookie in 2005, has missed 150+ games due to injury. Crosby is also two years younger.

It is such a shame, when you look back both players could have had more points, goals and assists if not for as you mentioned the lockout years, and injuries especially for Sidney Crosby. He has 1447 points as we speak but if not for those obstacles we mentioned he'd be close to 1600 points by now perhaps more. Such a shame dude missed so many games.

 

[bouncesonly]

The one time Ovechkin's reputation lead to his best assist:



Ovechkin faked Giroux so bad, he made him stop skating at the blue line.

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

BUF beat COL tonight....nothing to see here.

 

[Statto]

BUF beat COL tonight....nothing to see here.

So that makes our loss (the performance in particular) ok?

 

[Kudelski37]

Imagine if he didn't lose all those seasons to Lockouts.
Ovechkin is a player we will be telling our grandkids about.

He might have lost his rookie year. It wasn't clear he was going to come to the US for his d+1 year. That extra year to get stronger might have helped him avoid injuries caused by his all out/wreck less style as a young player. The rule changes after the 2004 lockout certainly helped dramatically increase scoring which helped players like OV. Gretzky and OV both lost half a season in the middle of their careers to labor issues.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Another trade yesterday. Not sure why Blske wasn't burning the phone lines up. Probably surfing, as usual.

 

[Schmooley]

Another trade yesterday. Not sure why Blske wasn't burning the phone lines up. Probably surfing, as usual.

Get your tongue out of Blakes gooch already man you need to take a breath

 

[KingsFan7824]

Get your tongue out of Blakes gooch already man you need to take a breath

At least I'm not irrational when a GM doesn't make a trade in a league where actual trades worth a single damn are rare this early in a season. They could've gotten Reaves, but that would only have cost yet another young guy a spot on this roster.

 

[ru4reals]

Another trade yesterday. Not sure why Blske wasn't burning the phone lines up. Probably surfing, as usual.

Damn a day of surfing, rather than work. I think I need one of those days right about now.

 

[King'sPawn]

At least I'm not irrational when a GM doesn't make a trade in a league where actual trades worth a single damn are rare this early in a season. They could've gotten Reaves, but that would only have cost yet another young guy a spot on this roster.

Yes, if only everyone was as rational as you when shrugging and saying a team manager has no options when that's misleading at best.

You keep acting as if trades are the only way to address the roster. And even when you see that Petersen got waived, still act as if underachievers like Walker can't be waived. Or that even if trades are rare, Durzi wouldn't have value.

This is Blake's sixth season as a GM. Why do you keep acting like he hasn't had time to fill holes? Especially since in the offseason, he knew he'd have to hope that a RD would have to play LD? How can a manager worth his salt not plan for that?

 

[YAYSAY]

So that makes our loss (the performance in particular) ok?

Also doesn't take into account that the Avs have like the majority of their best players out. No one disputes that any given team can win on any given night, but it's not expected that you give up 6 goals all in one period against a lower end team in a spectacular collapse

 

[DoktorJeep]

At least I'm not irrational when a GM doesn't make a trade in a league where actual trades worth a single damn are rare this early in a season. They could've gotten Reaves, but that would only have cost yet another young guy a spot on this roster.

Early season hockey trades are improbable and not impossible. So rationality has nothing to do with it. If you think someone being upset with a GM for not making one of those trades is irrational, you’re saying they are guilty of a logic error. Which is why it’s easy to point out the flaws in your argument with a single piece of evidence.

You’d be better off arguing that being a GM is hard and Blake is an average one, so his actions aren’t going to break the mold. Yet that would make it hard to pull the only sane guy in the room act you seem to cherish.

 

[bland]

Early season hockey trades are improbable and not impossible. So rationality has nothing to do with it. If you think someone being upset with a GM for not making one of those trades is irrational, you’re saying they are guilty of a logic error. Which is why it’s easy to point out the flaws in your argument with a single piece of evidence.

You’d be better off arguing that being a GM is hard and Blake is an average one, so his actions aren’t going to break the mold. Yet that would make it hard to pull the only sane guy in the room act you seem to cherish.

But off-season trades aren't as difficult, and not knowing that this lineup was problematic shouldn't surprise anyone since this was the only guy who thought Phanuef could still play, thought that an ill-fitting 30+ year old who hadn't played in the league for years was worth a 3 year big money deal before hiring a lame duck coach just to waste a season convincing that player to leave, and that a goaltender with very few NHL starts was worth a 3 year $15 million deal, all while screwing up the development of top shelf kids AND only winning 3 playoff games in his entire tenure.

 

[YP44]

I still would have rather had Dion as our 7th D for the length of his contract instead of buying him out.

God I hated the fact that guy was ever even a king

 

[YP44]

I liked the fact you would play a team a couple of times on a road trip during the Covid year:

Sources: NHL considering 84-game schedule

The NHL is considering expanding its regular-season schedule from 82 to 84 games in an effort to create more regional rivalry matchups and balance in divisional games, sources confirmed to ESPN.

www.espn.com

Interesting article here.

 

[JeanBlanc]

I'm reading a lot of different news sites recently, looking for Kings coverage that I don't know about. I've recently come across Hockey Feed which sticks out as having the most clickbait-y titles; And maybe the worst disconnect between title and content.

Example:
Derek Lalonde releases latest news on Jakub Vrana

From the article:

No updates at all.