Around the League - 2023/24

[Foppa2118]

Interesting things happening in Rockyland:

I would have thought this would be illegal everywhere outside of Florida.

 

[Pokecheque]

Johnny Gaudreau scored his first goal of the season. 1G 4A in 10 games.

He may be worse than Huberdeau but everyone is looking the other way because of how great it was for the Jackets to sign a high profile UFA.

No one is looking the other way. Dude needs to produce.

 

[Pokecheque]

The owners must hate him and want to fire him any minute now.

I would like to see if it ever comes to light how much, if anything, Andlauer gets back for losing a first round pick. Putting a dollar value on picks would be very interesting to see.

Nah. They love him. Except for Andlauer.

 

[Balthazar]

No one is looking the other way. Dude needs to produce.

On a very related note, does it every go well for the team when they sign a star winger in his late 20's for max term big AAV?

Gotta be careful with Rantanen's next contract.

Huberdeau and Gaudreau were as elite as it gets at 28 yo.

 

[PAZ]

Sharks are going to have 1 point in their first 10 games. The Avs iced some pretty horrific teams... but the Sharks are at another level.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

On a very related note, does it every go well for the team when they sign a star winger in his late 20's for max term big AAV?

Gotta be careful with Rantanen's next contract.

Huberdeau and Gaudreau were as elite as it gets at 28 yo.

Neither were ever on Rantanen's level, though.

 

[Pokecheque]

On a very related note, does it every go well for the team when they sign a star winger in his late 20's for max term big AAV?

Gotta be careful with Rantanen's next contract.

Huberdeau and Gaudreau were as elite as it gets at 28 yo.

Third contracts at ANY position mean you’re buying decline years for sure.

 

[Balthazar]

Sharts are significantly worse than the 2016-17 Avs. Trailing 3-0 after 1, heading for 10 losses in 10 games.

 

[Balthazar]

Neither were ever on Rantanen's level, though.

That's extremely debatable, both finished 2nd in scoring in the whole league at the time of their signing. Rantanen has never finished a season that high.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Oilers going right back to their losing ways is something you just love to see.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Also this is a serious question and not a joking matter, will San Jose win a game this year?

 

[Foppa2118]

On a very related note, does it every go well for the team when they sign a star winger in his late 20's for max term big AAV?

Gotta be careful with Rantanen's next contract.

Huberdeau and Gaudreau were as elite as it gets at 28 yo.

Max term is usually a bad idea for teams. Which is why the Avs have smartly avoided it, outside of Nate and Landy who they had to give 8 years to.

Big UFA contracts (which Huberdeau basically was since he hadn't played there yet) are usually equally a bad idea.

You're guessing at how the player will fit into the team while investing big money and term in them. The best value you're gonna get is the first year or two, and it can take a year or two to properly build chemistry and start to fit in with a new team.

 

[Balthazar]

Max term is usually a bad idea for teams. Which is why the Avs have smartly avoided it, outside of Nate and Landy who they had to give 8 years to.

Nuke?

Rants is next, possibly Makar if that's what he wants.

 

[Foppa2118]

Nuke?

Good call. Val too.

 

[Foppa2118]

I bet Mikko doesn't get the max though. Probably gets 6 or 7 years.

Nate and Landy were 28 in the first year of their deal and Val was 27. Mikko will be 30 in the first year of his next deal. Toews deal takes him to 36/37 in his final year too.

35 or 36 you can potentially still be a decent player. 37 is pushing it. 38 is a bit too risky and seems to be the cutoff that the Avs and other teams try to avoid. That's one year deal territory.

Cale probably gets 8 though.

 

[NorthernAvsFan]

f*** off Edmonton. Would it kill you to win a damn game for once and keep the Stars from climbing up the Central.

 

[Gigantor The Goalie]

That play at the end with the puck going around the boards and Bouchard taking his sweet time getting over was astonishing. Feels like Bouchard leads the league in lazy highlights. Sometimes he just can't be bothered to play hockey.

 

[the_fan]

Has Vegas played any good teams yet? Seems like they’ve been playing all the bad to mediocre teams and all of them at home so far

 

[Pokecheque]

That play at the end with the puck going around the boards and Bouchard taking his sweet time getting over was astonishing. Feels like Bouchard leads the league in lazy highlights. Sometimes he just can't be bothered to play hockey.

Bouchard is astoundingly casual retrieving pucks in his own end, I mean, just look how easy he fell over in a key playoff game when JT Compher shoved him into the boards.

Not to diminish what JTC did there. He actually cared. Sometimes I wonder if Bouchard does.

 

[The Moops]

Boy it’s a good thing the Leafs went out and got Ryan Reaves so that rats like Brad Marchand don’t try any bullshit that ends up with a Leafs player getting hurt, yes sir…

You clearly have never played hockey at a competitive level!!!! If you had you'd know that someone like Reaves or MacDermid prevent all those kinds of things!

 

[Cypher]

the corpse that is Sam Gagner, after 1 game, has as many goals as McDavid on the season

 

[The Kingslayer]

Quinn Hughes 1G and 4 Assists. Give the Norris to the man now. Race is over.

 

[LOFIN]

That's extremely debatable

Lol

 

[Pokecheque]

I wonder if the Sharks will be the 1997 Nuggets of hockey. That team, like the Sharks, was supposed to tank it, but was so transcendently, unbelievably bad that they ended up firing everyone anyway.

 

[PAZ]

I expect things will eventually regress to the norm, but nobody could've predicted Vancouver and Montreal being the 2 best Canadian teams 10 games into the season.