Around the League - 2022 offseason thread

[Patrik26]

Watching Chicago/Minnesota and see Patrick Sharp is doing color commentary for the Blackhawks. Too bad he's not doing any national work. I thought he was excellent with NBC and TNT.

 

[Patrik26]

Hall Listed As Week-to-Week with Upper-Body Injury | Boston Bruins

Winger was injured during the B's preseason tilt against Philadelphia

www.nhl.com

From the article .... "With Hall absent from Sunday's practice at Warrior Ice Arena, Pavel Zacha slid down to skate with fellow Czech natives David Krejci and David Pastrnak on Boston's second line."

LOL!

 

[RangerDoggo]

Hall Listed As Week-to-Week with Upper-Body Injury | Boston Bruins

Winger was injured during the B's preseason tilt against Philadelphia

www.nhl.com

From the article .... "With Hall absent from Sunday's practice at Warrior Ice Arena, Pavel Zacha slid down to skate with fellow Czech natives David Krejci and David Pastrnak on Boston's second line."

LOL!

I honestly wish Hall the worst because of all the places he could have chosen, he chose Boston and its sewer dwelling fanbase. Enjoy hell.

 

[NJDevs26]

Eh I can't hate on Hall, dude won an MVP and gave us our only exciting season in the last decade. Plus it's not like we really put much effort into re-signing him, correctly as it turned out but regardless it was pretty much a mutual parting of the ways, it wasn't a big tease like the Parise situation.

 

[Triumph]

I honestly wish Hall the worst because of all the places he could have chosen, he chose Boston and its sewer dwelling fanbase. Enjoy hell.

What NJDevs26 said, and also 'of all the places he could've chosen'? He could've chosen the Rangers or the Flyers. The Devils are 3-1 lifetime against the Bruins in the playoffs with their only loss coming 35 years ago. I hate pretty much all of the East more, even as much as I cheer for other East teams over the Bruins, I don't have a specific hate of them.

 

[JrFischer54]

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The actual Kraken mascot. Accept no substitute.

they should've gone with a that squid pirate from the pirates movies

Zacha looks like a better player wearing #18 instead of #37, as stupid as that seems. I truly hope he rips it up this year, in his contract year, and dupes Boston to pay him longterm as an "heir" to Bergeron and Krejci. Then regresses back to the same player we watched for six seasons, but now while playing in a passionate hockey market.

lol i dont even think zacha is good enough for a career year in a contract year. #bust

 

[JrFischer54]

I honestly wish Hall the worst because of all the places he could have chosen, he chose Boston and its sewer dwelling fanbase. Enjoy hell.

dang the guy was an absolute beast for us and thats how you feel? man wonder how you would feel if he was on the rangers!

 

[MasterofGrond]

Bruins are by far the least odious of the Boston fan bases, and in the bottom third for annoying eastern conference ones imo

 

[TrufleShufle]

Eh I can't hate on Hall, dude won an MVP and gave us our only exciting season in the last decade. Plus it's not like we really put much effort into re-signing him, correctly as it turned out but regardless it was pretty much a mutual parting of the ways, it wasn't a big tease like the Parise situation.

This is the internet sir, you don't need a good reason to hate someone.... to hate them.

 

[Eggtimer]

What NJDevs26 said, and also 'of all the places he could've chosen'? He could've chosen the Rangers or the Flyers. The Devils are 3-1 lifetime against the Bruins in the playoffs with their only loss coming 35 years ago. I hate pretty much all of the East more, even as much as I cheer for other East teams over the Bruins, I don't have a specific hate of them.

I hate a lot of teams a lot more than the Bruins . Their play by play guy is the worst in the league though ( besides Leah Hextall)
In the East , I can easily list a few teams I hate more than the Bruins . The obvious ones like the Rags , Flyers , Pens , then the Bluejackets and Senators or weird ones to me as I find them annoying as hell . Capitals , Islanders , Hurricanes, Leaf’s. . all more hated than the Bruins

 

[Brodeur]

 

[My3Sons]

Will this goalie have to play? It’s interesting that teams will pick up a guy off the scrap heap this early. Tells me they aren’t confident they will actually be good this season.

 

[RangerDoggo]

Let's be honest, their goaltending and defense was going to hinder them this year.

 

[Bleedred]

Will this goalie have to play? It’s interesting that teams will pick up a guy off the scrap heap this early. Tells me they aren’t confident they will actually be good this season.

They'll probably play him sparingly when Forsberg isn't playing.

They probably don't have anybody that's any good in the minors.

Hellberg must be close to 30 himself (just guessing, as he used to be a Rangers prospect about 10 years ago) and he's spent most of his career in the AHL and then Europe.

 

[Brodeur]

Will this goalie have to play? It’s interesting that teams will pick up a guy off the scrap heap this early. Tells me they aren’t confident they will actually be good this season.

The tweet mentioned that Talbot is out until mid-late November. So I imagine Hellberg will get some action backing up Anton Forsberg.



Naturally most people are bummed that Hellberg got awesome custom pads that might go unused. Although I think there's a good chance that Seattle reclaims Hellberg once Ottawa has to make room for a healthy Talbot.

Seattle only has three healthy goalies under contract, so they might have to scramble to find a warm body for their AHL team. Last year they split an AHL team, so they didn't have to worry as much but now they have their own affiliate in Palm Springs.

 

[Bleedred]

Hellberg is actually already 31 and has played 5 NHL games and only 2 were starts.

One of them was against us in the season finale last year for Detroit.

 

[HBK27]

I know the Zacha pick haunted us, but imagine Canuck fans dealing with taking Olli Juolevi one pick ahead of Mathew Tkachuk...or seeing the next defenseman to get taken was Mikhail Sergachev.

 

[Brodeur]

I know the Zacha pick haunted us, but imagine Canuck fans dealing with taking Olli Juolevi one pick ahead of Mathew Tkachuk...or seeing the next defenseman to get taken was Mikhail Sergachev.

I still remember a Jim Benning pre-draft radio interview where he specifically said their scouts didn't project any of that D crop to have top pairing upside.

Also an oddity with Juolevi and Tkachuk being teammates that draft year.

 

[Saugus]

Bruins are by far the least odious of the Boston fan bases, and in the bottom third for annoying eastern conference ones imo

This feels like it can't possibly be true, but to be fair I don't interact with a ton of Celtics fans.

 

[MartyOwns]

gelinas sighting! on sc bern vs the preds

 

[RangerDoggo]

I still remember a Jim Benning pre-draft radio interview where he specifically said their scouts didn't project any of that D crop to have top pairing upside.

Also an oddity with Juolevi and Tkachuk being teammates that draft year.

God I miss Benning. I hope he goes to another team soon. One of the most clueless GMs I've seen.

 

[Bleedred]

gelinas sighting! on sc bern vs the preds

I forgot Sven Baertschi was even a thing until I started watching this game and he scored a goal.

 

[Guttersniped]

Will this goalie have to play? It’s interesting that teams will pick up a guy off the scrap heap this early. Tells me they aren’t confident they will actually be good this season.

It tells us Talbot is 35 and going to be out for over a month.

I guess it also tells us what they think of their goalie depth but this is the best time to pick off a depth goalie if one of your guys can’t go.

I do wonder if Arizona would have grabbed Wedgewood if we sent him down at the start of the year with the rest of the herd.

Both our goalies were injured and neither were on the IR so we kept him up and waived him on Nov 3rd.

If we waived him earlier then he could have been sent down in Nov but we would have risked losing him early, when both goalies were injured and we had very little depth in the minors.

The Sens can grab someone else and then dump this guy if/when someone more appealing pops up.

Other teams, Chicago is a likely candidate, might be looking to pick up a waiver wire goalie too so they might have wanted to be sure they got someone at least first.

Hellberg was dominate in the KHL and had a nice National team run last season, I could see a team liking the experience.

A team like Chicago should take a chance on Connor Ingram if Nashville waives him.

The Capitals have vaguely interesting log jam of depth guys with experience.

The Sabres also have a bunch of dudes, I don’t see them risking Luukkonen on waivers even if he’s been an up and down prospect.

Not sure who else could be a likely target.

 

[My3Sons]

It tells us Talbot is 35 and going to be out for over a month.

I guess it also tells us what they think of their goalie depth but this is the best time to pick off a depth goalie if one of your guys can’t go.

I do wonder if Arizona would have grabbed Wedgewood if we sent him down at the start of the year with the rest of the herd.

Both our goalies were injured and neither were on the IR so we kept him up and waived him on Nov 3rd.

If we waived him earlier then he could have been sent down in Nov but we would have risked losing him early, when both goalies were injured and we had very little depth in the minors.

The Sens can grab someone else and then dump this guy if/when someone more appealing pops up.

Other teams, Chicago is a likely candidate, might be looking to pick up a waiver wire goalie too so they might have wanted to be sure they got someone at least first.

Hellberg was dominate in the KHL and had a nice National team run last season, I could see a team liking the experience.

A team like Chicago should take a chance on Connor Ingram if Nashville waives him.

The Capitals have vaguely interesting log jam of depth guys with experience.

The Sabres also have a bunch of dudes, I don’t see them risking Luukkonen on waivers even if he’s been an up and down prospect.

Not sure who else could be a likely target.

It's one thing to pick up a fifth line forward to sit in the press box and play once or twice a month. If you pick up a goalie off waivers and he actually has to play a decent amount, you might look back at your season and wonder what might have been if you'd gotten average goaltending.

 

[Brodeur]

A team like Chicago should take a chance on Connor Ingram if Nashville waives him.

The Capitals have vaguely interesting log jam of depth guys with experience.

The Sabres also have a bunch of dudes, I don’t see them risking Luukkonen on waivers even if he’s been an up and down prospect.

CapFriendly has Luukkonen as waiver exempt. Off the top of my head, I think goalies get a longer leash in that regard that F/D.

Ingram is mildly interesting. Chicago did sign Alex Stalock to be the backup for their tank attempt. But you wouldn't have to twist my arm very hard to convince me that Ingram would be an upgrade.