Around the League - 2024-2025

[Gabriel426]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1846372081400762646

He got more goals than AM, lol.

 

[Peasy]

Tampa has looked solid through their first 2 games. Vasy healthy again this year?

 

[Nineteen67]

Nashville off to a rough start after a pretty hype off-season. Still early though obviously..

Signing FA takes time. Once they bring in coach Q, they’ll turn it around, maybe not enough for this year. Next year will be the last year of their window before they have to start selling.

 

[Evilhomer]

Their GDT is pages and pages and pages of "the league is rigged, refs refs refs, disband the nhl, everyone hates us" over and over. No wonder their fan base is hated so much, maybe even more than the Leafs and thats saying something. GAWD they're whiners...

ummmm....have you ever read the threads on this board after a Leafs loss?

I don't care what Calgary does this season, but it's nice to see Wolf get off to a good start. They left him in the AHL for far too long.

 

[1specter]

Tampa has looked solid through their first 2 games. Vasy healthy again this year?

Feel like we are destined to meet them again

 

[supermann_98]

I’m so thankful Montreal didn’t take Michkov, although it would be kinda funny to read the posts about how he’ll be a better goal scorer than Matthews in a couple years.

Add Michkov and Demidov to their team and it wouldn’t take a lot of projecting to make them look somewhat scary moving forward

 

[3blizzard4]

Lol it took a gift of a non-call for the Oilers to win in OT

When you are 0-3 and you win against the lowly Flyers in OT it’s pandemonium!

 

[Jojalu]

Van, Edm, and Col having 1 win in 10 combined games is surprising.

More surprising is Cal being 4-0.

Pretty sure it will even out by Dwc 1

 

[Evilhomer]

Feel like we are destined to meet them again

That would be a good thing for the Leafs.

 

[Fogelhund]

Van, Edm, and Col having 1 win in 10 combined games is surprising.

More surprising is Cal being 4-0.

Pretty sure it will even out by Dwc 1

I have confidence that Vancouver will turn it around without issue.

Colorado is a bit of a mess right now, terrible goaltending, and missing key players, which was expected. They are going to need Nichushkin, who I think is eligible to be reinstated mid month November... it's not guaranteed though. Landeskog might be back at some point too... They need these guys.

Edmonton... who knows. They've shown good play at times, and being tire fires at times... in the same season last year. They've got what it takes to be better, but seem a bit unstable as a group. Momentum is their key... if things are going bad, it's really bad. When things are good, it goes well. They won't shoot at 5.5% for the season though, that much is for sure. Outside of Bouchard and Ekholm, their D just isn't good, and relying on Calvin Pickard for many games isn't a recipe for success.

 

[ULF_55]

Classy by all involved!

https://x.com/i/web/status/1846331901386072114

Brings tears ...

 

[Peasy]

Ontario woman alleges sexual assault by junior hockey players; details what happened when she called police

The Ontario Provincial Police has acknowledged that one of its employees did not follow the organization's policy when an alleged victim of sexual assault called a local detachment earlier this year to report an incident involving eight former junior hockey players.

www.ctvnews.ca

The woman, who is now 32, said she contacted the OPP on Feb. 28 to report an alleged assault in November 2014. […] The alleged victim goes by the pseudonym, Anne Marie.

She said that when she was 22, she was in a consensual relationship with a 19-year-old Ontario Hockey League player for about six months when he invited her to watch TV with one of his teammates at his billet home, the home where he lived during the hockey season.

Anne Marie said when she visited the player and went with him into the basement, there were eight players there. After the 19-year-old player took her into the bathroom, they started fooling around. What began as a consensual act became a group sexual assault, the woman said.

Anne Marie said she felt trapped and was assaulted for about 90 minutes. She said she froze and “pretty much blacked out.”

 

[fahad203]

I have confidence that Vancouver will turn it around without issue.

Colorado is a bit of a mess right now, terrible goaltending, and missing key players, which was expected. They are going to need Nichushkin, who I think is eligible to be reinstated mid month November... it's not guaranteed though. Landeskog might be back at some point too... They need these guys.

Edmonton... who knows. They've shown good play at times, and being tire fires at times... in the same season last year. They've got what it takes to be better, but seem a bit unstable as a group. Momentum is their key... if things are going bad, it's really bad. When things are good, it goes well. They won't shoot at 5.5% for the season though, that much is for sure. Outside of Bouchard and Ekholm, their D just isn't good, and relying on Calvin Pickard for many games isn't a recipe for success.

Hurricanes missed the playoffs year after they won the Stanly Cup. I have Oilers missing the playoffs this year

They have been god like fortunate that their top 2 players always been healthy for last 4 years.

They have some good fortune. A lot on their way last year. I can easily see them missing playoffs

 

[Fogelhund]

Hurricanes missed the playoffs year after they won the Stanly Cup. I have Oilers missing the playoffs this year

They have been god like fortunate that their top 2 players always been healthy for last 4 years.

They have some good fortune. A lot on their way last year. I can easily see them missing playoffs

I can see them missing the playoffs, I can see them winning the West. It's just totally unpredictable what you are going to get with this team. They can be absolutely terrible, or absolute juggernauts.

 

[Fogelhund]

Hmm... all that for a guy who ends up in the AHL anyway. When do the trade demands start?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

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Hmm... all that for a guy who ends up in the AHL anyway. When do the trade demands start?

Live footage of Max Domi banishing Rutger to the AHL.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1845250180834263068

 

[3blizzard4]

I can see them missing the playoffs, I can see them winning the West. It's just totally unpredictable what you are going to get with this team. They can be absolutely terrible, or absolute juggernauts.

But but but what about all the cup predictions. You are in timeout young man!

I will get Knoblauch to yell at you. He has been yell free for ten years.

 

[Rare Jewel]

Live footage of Max Domi banishing Rutger to the AHL.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1845250180834263068

Slide tackles aren't allowed in hockey Rutger...

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Quick start for Buffalo. 43 seconds

 

[BallardEra]

Jarry looking great!

2 shots and 2 goals allowed.

EDIT: Now pulled. 3 goals on 5 shots.


Jarry’s SV%:

2021-22: .919
2022-23: .909
2023-24: .903
2024-25: .833

 

[Evilhomer]

Buffalo doing its thing.

 

[Fogelhund]

Buffalo doing its thing.

Yup, Pittsburgh up 4-3 now. Malkin with his 500th goal. Way to blow up Buffalo.

and now Buffalo up 5-4...

 

[BertCorbeau]

Buffalo loses 6-5 in OT

Gotta love those early season barn burners

 

[Sypher04]

Man 11 points already for Malkin this season in just 5 games.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Would be nice if Colorado could heat Boston in regulation. They’ve been struggling though.