Around the League - ...in 56 Games

[Critical13]

Flames are train wreck right now.

Reminiscent of Men's League D League warm ups for the 11:30pm game. Lucic would fit right in!

 

[Caroline Says ll]

Man my mouth is watering for a poor showing for Price against the Sens tonight.

 

[mcleafs]

Man my mouth is watering for a poor showing for Price against the Sens tonight.

Honestly I want it just to listen to TSN 690 tomorrow. Tony Marinaro is the best, and no one freaks out or rants like he can!

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Holy what happened to Nashville? That whole team is made up of cap dumps

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

is carey price bad or is he a victim of montreal's bad defence?

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

is carey price bad or is he a victim of montreal's bad defence?

he's bad. Allen looks great in front of the same team

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I thought Babs was going to be coaching U. Saskatchewan. Guess he’s still an analyst for NBC though.

 

[Critical13]

Cmon Canucks. I would love for them to pull out another W against The Peggers.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Any chance the league will go with top 4 in each division making the playoffs and ditch the wild cards going forward when the "normal" divisions return? I would love a straight divisional playoff till the conference finals to be a permanent thing.

 

[TheShape]

Any chance the league will go with top 4 in each division making the playoffs and ditch the wild cards going forward when the "normal" divisions return? I would love a straight divisional playoff till the conference finals to be a permanent thing.

That's exactly where it's going once Seattle joins. Although I'm a fan of the old 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7 etc.

 

[Not My Tempo]

The Sabres and the Rangers are both so sloppy.

 

[CanadasTeam]

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[zeke]

Good stuff kappy.

 

[Pi]

Yikes. Not a good look for the Habs to hire Sean Burke. A simple google search would have helped them but I guess they don’t really care too much.

 

[ACC1224]

Yikes. Not a good look for the Habs to hire Sean Burke. A simple google search would have helped them but I guess they don’t really care too much.

What’s wrong with Sean Burke?

 

[BertCorbeau]

Peculiar timing ..Bergevin is shooting from the hip

 

[Auston 316]

What’s wrong with Sean Burke?

He hit his wife 25 years ago. So obviously he should never work again.

 

[Stephen]

I notice the Avalanche have really not lived up to expectations this year.

 

[Critical13]

I notice the Avalanche have really not lived up to expectations this year.

Their secondary players have been pretty dissapointing. Kadri, Saad and Donskoi have all played better hockey than what they are playing now. Kadri has been Kerfoot-esque but with more goals scored and more goals against. Not ideal 2nd line C on a contender, I would argue.

The crazy thing is they've been getting very good goaltending.

 

[Stephen]

Their secondary players have been pretty dissapointing. Kadri, Saad and Donskoi have all played better hockey than what they are playing now. Kadri has been Kerfoot-esque but with more goals scored and more goals against. Not ideal 2nd line C on a contender, I would argue.

The crazy thing is they've been getting very good goaltending.

Grubauer is pretty good. Underrated for sure. Though I think they’re suffering a bit of the same of kind of hangover Toronto had in 2019-20 to start the season when they had so much hype attached to them.

The Avalanche cup projections are basically predicated on having young superstar talent at forward and defense, plenty of cap space in the offseason, an overrated run in the playoffs vs weak competition like Arizona, and suffering massive injuries last season in the bubble.

Logic is if their stars keep growing linearly, if they spent their money on upgrades and stayed healthy, surely they’d be even greater.

Doesn’t look like that’s happened. Guess they can’t handle strong competition from Minnesota.

 

[zeke]

Their secondary players have been pretty dissapointing. Kadri, Saad and Donskoi have all played better hockey than what they are playing now. Kadri has been Kerfoot-esque but with more goals scored and more goals against. Not ideal 2nd line C on a contender, I would argue.

The crazy thing is they've been getting very good goaltending.

Last year the avs seemed to have every player setting personal bests in p/60 no matter who was injured and plugged into the lineup. Lots of luck going on there.

In general though their forwards are imo overrated - guys like Landeskog and Kadri imo shouldn't be core scoring forwards on a contender. Meanwhile their bottom 6 depth has all come crashing back down to earth offensively after last year's weird boom year.

That being said - Makar-Girard-Toews is as good an offensive 3-punch on the blueline as you'll find.

 

[willmma]

Fredric got 2 jingles AND two minutes

 

[Superstar]

Fredric got 2 jingles AND two minutes

He really asked for it...those two successive crosschecks to OV's arm probably don't feel too pleasant...the only thing OV did before that was whacking his stick.

 

[Critical13]

Bruins 5-4-1 in their last 10 now.