Around the League Thread | Pre-Season Approaches

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arttk

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Yeah, I looked at the footage a couple of more times and it could've definitely ended much much worse. Almost as if his ankle was gonna bend into right angle, jeez.

Hope he'll be OK.
He turns 35 in Dec, I think this injury will be the point when his game starts to decline. I don’t know if I should feel bad because I’ve always hated him as a kings player.
 

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Yeah, I looked at the footage a couple of more times and it could've definitely ended much much worse. Almost as if his ankle was gonna bend into right angle, jeez.

Hope he'll be OK.
Injuries at his age are harder and harder to fully return to form from.

Can LA survive without his 25+ a minutes a game?
 

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I'd be extremely surprised if LA made the playoffs at this point. Even before the Doughty injury, I thought they had an extremely uninspiring offseason and I cannot imagine player morale is great there.
 
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I'd be extremely surprised if LA made the playoffs at this point. Even before the Doughty injury, I thought they had an extremely uninspiring offseason and I cannot imagine player morale is great there.
Rob Blake will skate with the players until morale improves
 

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Very well said. I still find it incredible how so many people started blaming Green when the roster construction was 99% to blame.

As you said the many people jumping and piling on to call out Green should re-evaluate their understanding of what was happening on the team on that point. Obviously he is a good enough coach that informed hockey people keep giving him chances. Should tell people something. As you said it often takes a coach several iterations before they come into their own. He's just a regular coach who coached poorly built hockey teams.
Yes, but lets not forget that he had a big say in which players they signed. He's way worse than you're admitting despite being correct about how bad the rosters he had to work with. He got a massive amount of good will from the media and the fans for years, when frankly he deserved a little more pushback. I liked the hire and felt his frustration after they made the playoffs that one year, but he also played a part in how bad they were. If he had have been fired earlier, I suspect he'd have found another job sooner.
 

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I think it was proved with Bruce and Tocchet that the same lineup gave different results than he ever did. For someone who played his career on D, he certainly couldn't come up with a system that worked other than over relying on the goalie.

For further proof, he's the only coach for the Canadian team at the Spengler Cup to never win a game. Yes, they were a beer league team, but so were all the other teams.

The one that had one of the worst PK and defenses in the history of the modern era in 2022-23 and finished 11th last after being in the bottom 6 for an extended period? Yeah, no this team was absolutely horrific until they re-made the defence last year and brought in excellent depth like Suter, Blueger, Joshua, and Lindholm. RT is a great coach but he wouldn't have done much better with that disaster of a squad.

Coaching in the Spengler (losers) Cup doesn't really mean anything one way or the other. People were just confused and desperately wanted the team to be better than they were.
 
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I really like Montréal Canadiens, and their fans, they have every right to be upset, it’s brutal brutal luck.

Also want to mention, the Anaheim ducks orange jerseys on ice are absolutely amazing looking
 

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Yikes,. It looks like the face went into the skate at the end.

I think it was proved with Bruce and Tocchet that the same lineup gave different results than he ever did. For someone who played his career on D, he certainly couldn't come up with a system that worked other than over relying on the goalie.

For further proof, he's the only coach for the Canadian team at the Spengler Cup to never win a game. Yes, they were a beer league team, but so were all the other teams.
Between Bruce, Tocchet and Green which one was the career Dman?

Or are you referring to Benning?



This is an amazing roster.

Surprisingly they lost 6-0 and why would anyone even go to a game like this?
 
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This is an amazing roster.


I’m struggling to see how that meets the NHL’s veteran requirements.

Edit : they get to exactly the 8 veterans required because Derrick Pouliot and Steven Santini qualify as 100-game ‘NHL veterans’ despite barely playing in the NHL for the last 5 years. Also Mitchell Chaffee played the exact minimum 30 games last year to qualify.

This really needs to be tightened up.
 
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I’m struggling to see how that meets the NHL’s veteran requirements.

Edit : they get to exactly the 8 veterans required because Derrick Pouliot and Steven Santini qualify as 100-game ‘NHL veterans’ despite barely playing in the NHL for the last 5 years. Also Mitchell Chaffee played the exact minimum 30 games last year to qualify.

This really needs to be tightened up.

Logan Brown only has 99 games though and didn’t play 30 last year, so I’m not sure they do unless I’m missing someone (Johansson, Perbix, Santini, Pouliot, Sheary, Chaffee, Ylonen and ?)
 

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Logan Brown only has 99 games though and didn’t play 30 last year, so I’m not sure they do

Geekie
Sheary
Chaffee
Lilleberg (35 games last year)
Perbix
Pouliot
Santini
Johansson

… is exactly 8.

To me only 4 of those guys should qualify.
 

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Geekie
Sheary
Chaffee
Lilleberg (35 games last year)
Perbix
Pouliot
Santini
Johansson

… is exactly 8.

To me only 4 of those guys should qualify.

Ah I missed Lilleberg. Though it’d be Ylonen not Geekie (this is Conor not Morgan). That’s got to be one of the lowest man games for a preseason roster though.
 

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Ah I missed Lilleberg. Though it’d be Ylonen not Geekie (this is Conor not Morgan). That’s got to be one of the lowest man games for a preseason roster though.

Yeah you’re right. I didn’t realize Ylonen had played that many games and got my Geekies confused.

But yeah that must be the worst roster since the veteran rule was put in about 20 years ago.
 
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