Around the League Thread | Pre-Season Approaches
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David Bruce Banner
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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.
Injuries at his age are harder and harder to fully return to form from.
Can LA survive without his 25+ a minutes a game?
Josepho
i want the bartkowski thread back
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.
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.
Breakers
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Nick Lang
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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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Brutal knee-on-knee. No idea why it was not called. Xhekaj enacted some street justice for it.
Another reminder why players don’t take preseason too seriously, you have plugs who don’t belong trying to do whatever they can to stick.
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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
Also want to mention, the Anaheim ducks orange jerseys on ice are absolutely amazing looking
Josepho
i want the bartkowski thread back
Ffs. Was really rooting for Laine to have a bounceback year. Hope he's gonna be ok but that looked bad.
WTG
December 5th
Tampa really bushleague for sending a bunch of kids to play the predators
Between Bruce, Tocchet and Green which one was the career Dman?
Or are you referring to Benning?
Surprisingly they lost 6-0 and why would anyone even go to a game like this?
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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Geekie
Sheary
Chaffee
Lilleberg (35 games last year)
Perbix
Pouliot
Santini
Johansson
… is exactly 8.
To me only 4 of those guys should qualify.
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.
