Around The League Thread | Let the Games Begin

[valkynax]

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F***ing hell...

 

[Canuckle1970]

Looking forward to the Battle of Alberta tomorrow at 5:00pm.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Oilers losing.

You love to see it.

 

[Coffees]

tomorrow is going to be one hell of a game

 

[Raistlin]

Want to play EDM as soon as we can to join in on last year's good feels.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

 

[nucks88]

I don’t know which would be a better dessert after Thanksgiving Dinner…..pumpkin pie or the Flames embarrassing the Oilers……I am on a diet…..

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

BOA tonight should be fun.

 

[timw33]

Totally. They basically gutted all their mid-roster glue guys doing the dirty work for them, especially for the PK on the crazy PK run they had. And all their non-McDavid team speed.

Interesting, they are currently running a 16.7% PK through two games. I just checked out the goals they ceded and and almost all of them are from the forwards being way too slow applying pressure or losing their guys and being too slow to recover. I am totally fine with this trend continuing.

1st: Kyle Connor has lots of time to walk in and snipe, RNH too slow to get to him, Derek Ryan on the other side literally motionless for most of this clip

2nd: Arvidsson takes the wrong person opening up a gaping hole for Ehlers to step into. Henrique too slow to keep up with Scheifele

3rd: Arvidsson/Henrique again, they get caught collapsed, Seth Jones has a massive hole to walk in. On this one it's doubly funny because they weren't even caught over chasing Bedard, they were chasing Teravinen, a guy who isn't a major shooter.

4: Now it's Janmark/Ryan, but again they lose the plot and give Jones all the time in the world to move it to Teravinen on the right side and into the middle for a goal

5: This one's better if you watch the clip but it's Janmark/Ryan again, Janmark chases a guy to Ryan's side and Ryan doesn't switch coverage and is way too slow to realize he needs to shade over, leaving Teravinen open for a one timer.

 

[wonton15]

DIG IN

RIGHT NOW!!!!

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Interesting, they are currently running a 16.7% PK through two games. I just checked out the goals they ceded and and almost all of them are from the forwards being way too slow applying pressure or losing their guys and being too slow to recover. I am totally fine with this trend continuing.

1st: Kyle Connor has lots of time to walk in and snipe, RNH too slow to get to him, Derek Ryan on the other side literally motionless for most of this clip
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2nd: Arvidsson takes the wrong person opening up a gaping hole for Ehlers to step into. Henrique too slow to keep up with ScheifeleView attachment 916147


3rd: Arvidsson/Henrique again, they get caught collapsed, Seth Jones has a massive hole to walk in. On this one it's doubly funny because they weren't even caught over chasing Bedard, they were chasing Teravinen, a guy who isn't a major shooter.
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4: Now it's Janmark/Ryan, but again they lose the plot and give Jones all the time in the world to move it to Teravinen on the right side and into the middle for a goal View attachment 916150

5: This one's better if you watch the clip but it's Janmark/Ryan again, Janmark chases a guy to Ryan's side and Ryan doesn't switch coverage and is way too slow to realize he needs to shade over, leaving Teravinen open for a one timer.View attachment 916152

 

[F A N]

Joel Blomqvist looking pretty good for the Pens. He was going to be a Canuck if they hadn’t traded their 2nd in the Toffoli deal that year. That one stings a bit…

What is up with the frequency of these type of posts? The Canucks still had Dipietro and drafted Silovs the previous year. The immediate thought is they would have drafted a goalie over a D, C or winger with size?

Plus the mistake isn’t in trading for Toffoli it was using up all the time to chase OEL and not re-signing Toffoli and Tanev.

 

[timw33]

What is up with the frequency of these type of posts? The Canucks still had Dipietro and drafted Silovs the previous year. The immediate thought is they would have drafted a goalie over a D, C or winger with size?

Plus the mistake isn’t in trading for Toffoli it was using up all the time to chase OEL and not re-signing Toffoli and Tanev.

I think there was some reporting out there just after the draft was that they were targetting Blomqvist with the pick they ended up using on Jurmo (3rd) but he went back half of the 2nd round.

 

[Vector]

I will be endlessly smug about criticizing the Yzerplan years before it was trendy.

 

[timw33]

I will be endlessly smug about criticizing the Yzerplan years before it was trendy.

Those back to back years of adding Husso 4.75MM x 3 + Copp 5 x 5.65MM + Chiarot 4 x 4.75MM and then Compher 5 x 5.1MM and Holl 3 x 3.4MM were legitimately Benning-esque.

 

[DFAC]

Those back to back years of adding Husso 4.75MM x 3 + Copp 5 x 5.65MM + Chiarot 4 x 4.75MM and then Compher 5 x 5.1MM and Holl 3 x 3.4MM were legitimately Benning-esque.

Yep, Yzerman is not a good GM.

 

[rypper]

Remembering the structure that Tampa had with their asst GMs focusing on different roles etc, makes you see that perhaps Yzerman was a good manager when he had great people under him making him look good. Now that he doesn't, he's exposed.

 

[LemonSauceD]

I’d put a claim in for Barre Boulet.

 

[Hooz]

What is up with the frequency of these type of posts? The Canucks still had Dipietro and drafted Silovs the previous year. The immediate thought is they would have drafted a goalie over a D, C or winger with size?

Plus the mistake isn’t in trading for Toffoli it was using up all the time to chase OEL and not re-signing Toffoli and Tanev.

This isn’t me projecting what I wanted with that pick. It was heavily rumoured at the time that Blomqvist was Clark’s guy and he was pushing hard for management to make that pick. Also, I don’t think the Toffoli trade was a mistake. It was just a random comment about a hypothetical scenario that almost happened.