Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

Tuna99

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I like what Cirelli brings (this year) but I am leery of Guys brought for their defense only. Despite a great start this year, Cirelli's best year ever was last year at 45 points. Zaumner when he went to the Olympics was coming off his best year ever of 50 points and a great world championship the previous spring.
Guys ho historically are closer to 0.5 PPG that go on a hot streak and put up PPG over 20 games are still not PPG players.

This may work out but there is more risk in taking a Cirelli over a Thomas or a Suzuki

But gold medal teams have had Kris Draper, Maltby, Brendan Morrow. Pretty normal for Team Canada to have a couple of roll players
 

Mark Stones Spleen

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I knew there was a reason I did not play Pro Hockey.. so you know... this wasn't it

Interesting.

I'm curious to know how much WWE contributed. I just watched the Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix and they completely disregarded the theory that wrestlers were getting concussed. After some negative press, they flipped the script, but my guess was that they weren't doing a lot, thought it was just a mirage.
 

Xspyrit

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Rest of the rosters for the 4 nations face off seem set. Surprised on:
-Arvidsson made it on Sweden over Eklund or Zetterlund
-Nelson & Kreider made it over Caufield or Tage Thompson
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Caufield is not a Top-20 American forward, very small and pretty unidimensional too

For me, the 4 big snub among US forwards are :

Jason Robertson
Tage Thompson
Clayton Keller
Alex Tuch

I would easily have each one of them over Kreider. Nelson has a strong case, very underrated player.

Why did Columbus dump Laine again?

It must be because he has a high cap hit and misses games every season. But I still wish we were all in on these moves.

Laine - Stutzle - Batherson
Tkachuk - Norris - Giroux
Greig - Pinto - Joseph

Don't sign Perron, give the 2nd to another team to retain an amount of Laine's AAV
 
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Mr Hat

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Crazy to see Duchene lighting it up with 14g and 28p in 24 games playing only 16 minutes. Happy for him and Stars will definitely be my bandwagon team assuming Sens keep on being Sens. With Seguin out they can load up at the deadline and go full Vegas.
 
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Silencio

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Every season at some point I think "ok this is finally the year the Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs in the Matthews/Marner era" and then of course they go like 12-1 over the next stretch of games. So f***ing annoying.
 
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Xspyrit

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What the Sharks are currently is starting to look absolutely filthy. This is the 6th season of their rebuild (missed the playoffs 5 seasons in a row) although IIRC they didn't start right away and it took them time to trade Meier, Hertl and Karlsson

Macklin Celebrini (18)
William Eklund (22)
Will Smith (19)
Quentin Musty (19)

Filip Bystedt (20)
Kasper Halttunen (19)
Igor Chernyshov (19)
Collin Graf (22)
Fabian Zetterlund (25)
David Edstrom (19)
Daniil Gushchin (22)
Thomas Bordeleau (22)
Sam Dickinson (18)
Luca Cagnoni (19)
Timothy Liljegren (25)
Jake Walman (28)
Mario Ferraro (26)
Henry Thrun (23)
Shakir Mukhamadullin (22)
Jack Thompson (22)
Yaroslav Askarov (22)

Crazy to see Duchene lighting it up with 14g and 28p in 24 games playing only 16 minutes. Happy for him and Stars will definitely be my bandwagon team assuming Sens keep on being Sens. With Seguin out they can load up at the deadline and go full Vegas.

Or Tampa or etc

Every team that has LTIR contracts at that right timing can do it. It's not a conspiracy like it has been depicted for years (not saying you are doing that)

With how injury prone Mark Stone is, it was no surprise, except to some people apparently. That the Knights need to do it or not, he will most likely miss games. Like right now, he has the second highest PPG in the NHL and has missed 14 games in a row (50% of the season). I don't think his injuries are "desired"

Every season at some point I think "ok this is finally the year the Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs in the Matthews/Marner era" and then of course they go like 12-1 over the next stretch of games. So f***ing annoying.

Good team, properly built. We have been lucky that they choked so much in the playoffs, our neverending rebuild would have been even harder to endure. At least, we can think that Toronto and Montreal didn't have any success while we sucked (expect MTL's miracle run in 2021)

Since 2017-18 (our freefall) in the regular season :

Toronto : 332-168-61, 725 Pts, 0.646 P% (3rd OA in the NHL) + 299
Montreal
: 220-265-77, 517 Pts, 0.460 P% (28th OA in the NHL) - 309
Ottawa
: 224-282-55, 503 Pts, 0.448 P% (28th OA in the NHL) - 292
 
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BonHoonLayneCornell

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Every season at some point I think "ok this is finally the year the Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs in the Matthews/Marner era" and then of course they go like 12-1 over the next stretch of games. So f***ing annoying.
I think they'll make the playoffs every year as long as that core is in place. It's a non issue basically. We just have to hope they keep choking every year. Looks good on them.
 
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BigRig4

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Every season at some point I think "ok this is finally the year the Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs in the Matthews/Marner era" and then of course they go like 12-1 over the next stretch of games. So f***ing annoying.
As much as they underperform in the playoffs, they’re still a really good team. They have 4 star level guys at F.
 

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