Around the League - 2023/24

[GeoRox89]

Not sure how long its going to last but Chicago hasnt been a dumpster fire to start the season at all. They actually been solid. To hold the Leafs wagon to 1 goal with Soderblom in net is something to be proud of.

The kids are out there playing hard looking to stick in the NHL. Eventually, the veteran teams will get going again and also not take them lightly. I do expect they’ll surprise by being more in that 20-24 range than a complete basement dweller this year

 

[The Abusement Park]

Matthew Phillips. Goal (First in NHL) and Assist against the home team that drafted him and never let him play despite wrecking the AHL and while Calgary was a shit hole team last season. I hope he has an MSL type career.

Would be hilarious to see another tiny guy break out away from CGY and MSL them again.

 

[Pokecheque]

Boldy out week-to-week, on top of Spurgeon being out indefinitely the Wild might be hard pressed to keep pace in the West.

Meh it’ll just be some dipshit scrub who suddenly shows up outta nowhere and posts a career year or something. Always the case with the Wylde.

In a way that’s a good thing. They’ll never tear it down and and get the proper core pieces if they just keep getting overachievers to fill the gaps during the regular season.

 

[Pokecheque]

The biggest problem with hockey is that the stars don’t play enough each game.

Bednar vs Matthews and you don’t see them with the puck all that often. Lots of supporting cast.

Think to football and a Brady vs Manning duel and every snap of the game one of them has the ball. Huge difference in watching and marketing stars.

And it almost never lives up the hype when they market these stars going “head to head.” Coaches are way more obsessed with shutting down the stars on the other side than they are putting their own in a position to succeed.

 

[UncleRisto]

"Matthews denied hat trick record" is a weird way to lead when the Leafs lost to the Blackhawks, NHL.com.

 

[LOFIN]

"Matthews denied hat trick record" is a weird way to lead when the Leafs lost to the Blackhawks, NHL.com.

Or if he had come up 1 goal short of a hatty. 1 disallowed goal and that's the headline? Lol.

 

[LOFIN]

The Rangers victory music fits perfectly here lol

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[UncleRisto]

Great. Sounds good.

 

[Pokecheque]

Oh I saw that, wondered which defender did that.

Vincent’s gotta be careful though. He’s a brand new head coach and entered under inauspicious circumstances. He could lose that locker room very, very easily.

Also, Spencer Martin was a terrible pickup for the Jax. That guy couldn’t stop a beach ball last night, though it’s not like Lumbus was doing much at all to slow down the Red Wings. They pretty much had a clear path to the net all night.

 

[UncleRisto]

Or if he had come up 1 goal short of a hatty. 1 disallowed goal and that's the headline? Lol.

This was the whole headline:

CASE OF THE MONDAYS
Matthews held scoreless, denied of hat trick record in Toronto’s loss to Bedard, Chicago.

 

[Ceremony]

This was the whole headline:

CASE OF THE MONDAYS
Matthews held scoreless, denied of hat trick record in Toronto’s loss to Bedard, Chicago.

America's use of the apostrophe in headlines like this drives me insane, but I think this is the first time I've seen it twice in one sentence.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Boldy out week-to-week, on top of Spurgeon being out indefinitely the Wild might be hard pressed to keep pace in the West.

And now Gologoski

 

[Ceremony]

green filth in for a terrible season is it? What a shame.

 

[Balthazar]

green filth in for a terrible season is it? What a shame.

 

[Tralfamadore]

And now Gologoski

Omg oh noo

 

[Balthazar]

Good one

 

[Balthazar]

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

I think if you can flip Bo for a good, young affordable 2C, you can avoid it. Tampa relied on their goalie a lot more than Colorado has.

The problem is no one with a good young affordable 2C is interested in trading for Byram.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Exactly what I was thinking. They were rolling last season with no problems. Let's see how they deal when things don't go their way.


Shocking. Maybe they are the team who surprises?

Detroit beat Toronto handedly, Chicago having success against them too?

Is it that the shit teams got better, or is Toronto broken? It was quite the off season lol.

 

[henchman21]

The AHL being unwilling to be unbalanced from the NHL is the root of the issue... the Wolves owners will eventually get quite the payday when they sell.

 

[Balthazar]

The AHL being unwilling to be unbalanced from the NHL is the root of the issue... the Wolves owners will eventually get quite the payday when they sell.

Do we know why the Wolves dumped them? It doesn't make sense to have 32 NHL teams, 32 AHL teams and one team that is in the Canes situation.

 

[Deadsy]

Do we know why the Wolves dumped them? It doesn't make sense to have 32 NHL teams, 32 AHL teams and one team that is in the Canes situation.

Canes were too hands on with roster and icetime decisions and threatened to fire the Wolves coach in the middle of 2022 Calder Cup run because he was putting Alex Lyon in the net instead of Pyotr Kochetkov.

 

[henchman21]

Do we know why the Wolves dumped them? It doesn't make sense to have 32 NHL teams, 32 AHL teams and one team that is in the Canes situation.

Essentially Wolves have different goals than the team. The Wolves want to be a top AHL team and play to win over everything else. They want final decisions on the front office, coaching staff, and roster. Canes want input and they care about development. There are some specifics as mentioned above, but that is just the first layer of the onion. The Wolves are pretty notoriously hard to work with and each affiliation doesn't last very long. The AHL Board can't really force them to work with a team, so they are going alone on it. This is the 2nd or 3rd time they've done this.