Around the League - Pre-Season 2024-2025

[TMLBlueandWhite]

Ottawa just lost 2 preseason games in a row. Time to panic?

The problem with Ottawa is their coach.

He doesn't trust his players to transport the puck up the ice effrctively. So they rely heavily on the stretch pass for zone exits and dump ins for entries. It's almost like he wants to eliminate the neutral zone.

If the Leafs play "keep away" the Senators are playing "hot potato".

I had high hopes for Ottawa until they hired Green. The only reason he got the job is because the NHL thinks retired players make good coaches. If you played the game you’re apparently smart enough to be gifted a role behind the bemch.

The whole league is a closed inbred society.

Ottawa regurgitating Green as one of the best thirty two coaches in the world tells us that. He has no record of success at the NHL level. There's hundreds of professional leagues with thousands of coaches all over the world.

For a team looking to turn it around they should have tried anything but proven badness.

 

[Darcy Tucker]

 

[Jmo89]

Rielly gets 5 games and Jackeye gets a fine, funny stuff

Chasing an unwilling participant around and punching him in the back of the head with your glove on is more of a hockey play than riding a jackass into the boards after a goal.

I don't even care that much but the NHL's inconsistency is fascinating.

 

[MCR74]

LMAO oh man....

https://x.com/i/web/status/1838015426225176643

They deserve it.

The problem with Ottawa is their coach.

He doesn't trust his players to transport the puck up the ice effrctively. So they rely heavily on the stretch pass for zone exits and dump ins for entries. It's almost like he wants to eliminate the neutral zone.

If the Leafs play "keep away" the Senators are playing "hot potato".

I had high hopes for Ottawa until they hired Green. The only reason he got the job is because the NHL thinks retired players make good coaches. If you played the game you’re apparently smart enough to be gifted a role behind the bemch.

The whole league is a closed inbred society.

Ottawa regurgitating Green as one of the best thirty two coaches in the world tells us that. He has no record of success at the NHL level. There's hundreds of professional leagues with thousands of coaches all over the world.

For a team looking to turn it around they should have tried anything but proven badness.

Don't vworry. This is Tkachuk's year.

 

[Fogelhund]

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So, Boston's offered 8 x $8 million, and Swayman isn't accepting... I guess we are at the airing dirty laundry in public stage.

 

[dangomon]

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So, Boston's offered 8 x $8 million, and Swayman isn't accepting... I guess we are at the airing dirty laundry in public stage.

If I'm Swayman my ask goes up after this. If they want to vilify me, then I'll actually become the villain.

 

[BertCorbeau]

If I'm Swayman my ask goes up after this. If they want to vilify me, then I'll actually become the villain.

I’d demand a trade at this point .. to a rival team who needs a goalie.. like Montreal

 

[Fogelhund]

If I'm Swayman my ask goes up after this. If they want to vilify me, then I'll actually become the villain.

Or at minimum, stick to my guns.

The funny thing... Boston's two other signed goalies... DiPietro has three NHL games, over three seasons, the last in 2021/22... and their other goalie has no NHL games yet.

If Korpisalo goes down, they are in very serious trouble here.

I’d demand a trade at this point .. to a rival team who needs a goalie.. like Montreal

Josh Anderson + Montembeault + 2025 1st.

 

[BertCorbeau]

B’s management are botching this whole this and putting it out in public now is a real shitty move, politicizing Swayman as the bad guy.

Inadvertently there is high pressure on Swayman to perform if he does sign, and that will only increase with his salary demands.

In that Boston market, that can be relentless and toxic if he struggles a little.

At this point he might as well stick to his guns and get his bag, because of the volatile nature of goalies and risks associated. Or he can be dealt to another team.

 

[Peasy]

B’s management are botching this whole this and putting it out in public now is a real shitty move, politicizing Swayman as the bad guy.

Inadvertently there is high pressure on Swayman to perform if he does sign, and that will only increase with his salary demands.

In that Boston market, that can be relentless and toxic if he struggles a little.

At this point he might as well stick to his guns and get his bag, because of the volatile nature of goalies and risks associated. Or he can be dealt to another team.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1840796447760896509

Weekes said it best.

 

[Punch Drunk Loov]

Kind of nice to see a Bruins star player demand top dollar. Bergeron always felt like he'd be fine playing for free

 

[Menzinger]

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So, Boston's offered 8 x $8 million, and Swayman isn't accepting... I guess we are at the airing dirty laundry in public stage.

This is incredibly embarrassing for their GM..like laughably so.

I hope management gets taken to the cleaners on this deal

 

[BamBamCam]

This is incredibly embarrassing for their GM..like laughably so.

I hope management gets taken to the cleaners on this deal

Why because he is sticking to his guns and not giving in to the player unlike lets say a Kyle Dubas?

 

[stickty111]

This is incredibly embarrassing for their GM..like laughably so.

I hope management gets taken to the cleaners on this deal

Maybe the Bruins culture isn't all that it's made out to be of team over individual?


"Ducks" before the Overdrive guys come after me.

 

[DragoGrizzly]

I have no problems with what Seabass said. Gross and Swayman had already came out and made it seem like it was the Bruins low balling them. A $64 mill contract seems like fair value so it’s just putting the ball back in Gross/Swayman’s court. I’m sure GMs are getting a bit tired of this particular agent’s games.

That being said I hope he holds out and ends up costing the Bruins 12+ mill a year.

 

[Mess]

Patrik Laine's test results are officially in for the Canadiens, and the news is not good following the hit from Leafs' Cedric Pare.​