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