Around the NHL: 2019-20 Part 2

[joshjull]

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Blake Coleman for 2 1sts is more than I'd have guessed.

 

[Zip15]

*cuts away to Jason Botterill's office, where he is on the telephone*

JB: It's a situation where if you give me a 5th for Frolik, I will take on a cap dump for this season and next to give you some salary relief...is that a scenario you could work with?

 

[Fjordy]

We have the worst GM in the league.

 

[Ace]

We have the worst GM in the league.

In league history.

He fails in the offseason. He fails in season. He fails at the deadline. He fails at the draft. He fails on July 1.

The leagues failure is having no other times for him to work.

 

[SundherDome]

All I can see is Botts doing this.

 

[Jim Carr's Rug]

*cuts away to Jason Botterill's office, where he is on the telephone*

 

[jc17]

2-0 pens so far

 

[SundherDome]

2-0 pens so far

BOGO wudda cleared that net on the Angello goal. Also, reviewing that penalty was weird

 

[sabrebuild]

He got worked on the ROR trade, what other trades?

Mods can move as they see fit.

Besides the worst trade in years in this league.

Sheary and Hunwick sucked and he was shackled so he couldn't even move Hunwick without penalty. For no good reason.

Miller has been embarrassing, more future assets for a guy who has been healthy scratched repeatedly.

Vesey, same thing as above, futures for a useless ufa. A type of player that could just as easily have been gotten cheaper in ufa without a pick lost.

Better question, Joker and Skinner are the only two inarguable good results for the team. Let's pretend that how those trades happened were Botts being savvy.

In three years his only other maybe good move is... Montour? Who was expensive in trade, not an elc and about to get a large payday, while not really being a particularly effective player.

Ehh, mods please delete or move this to the Sun Cannon.

 

[joshjull]

 

[jd1970]

I had thought the Leaves were tanking to get Babcock fired, but I can see now I was wrong.

 

[Jim Bob]

NHL Coaches Have Been On Thin Ice All Season

Axed coaches tend to have bad goalies

Coaches fired for on-ice reasons* during the 2019-20 season and the team rankings in goals above replacement (GAR) by category

COACHES	LEAGUEWIDE GAR RANK
TEAM	OUTGOING	INCOMING	OFFENSE	DEFENSE	GOALIES	TOTAL
Minnesota Wild	Boudreau	Evason	16th	24th	23rd	25th
Toronto Maple Leafs	Babcock	Keefe	4th	27th	24th	15th
San Jose Sharks	DeBoer	Boughner	27th	25th	25th	28th
Nashville Predators	Laviolette	Hynes	9th	23rd	26th	20th
Vegas Golden Knights	Gallant	DeBoer	15th	13th	29th	21st
New Jersey Devils	Hynes	Nasreddine	23rd	30th	30th	30th

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*The Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames weren’t included because their coaches were fired due to scandals.
SOURCE: HOCKEY-REFERENCE.COM
Many of these teams also had problems extending well beyond shaky netminders, of course. But their sieve-like goaltending didn’t help — the same way a superior backstop could potentially have saved the jobs of other equally mediocre bench bosses across the league. Even basketball coaches have the stability of star players to hold onto in the face of crushing job insecurity. But by relying on streaky goalies and icy puck-bounces as much as they do, hockey coaches are at the whims of near total randomness.

This aligns with the research about Jack Adams finalists usually having gotten really good goaltending.

 

[TehDoak]

I had thought the Leaves were tanking to get Babcock fired, but I can see now I was wrong.

Toronto's issue has always been their defense. They've got an elite forward group and middling defense. It's been covered up because Anderson has played well. But you take Reilly out of that group, its a baaad defense.

 

[Chainshot]

Toronto's issue has always been their defense. They've got an elite forward group and middling defense. It's been covered up because Anderson has played well. But you take Reilly out of that group, its a baaad defense.

Freddie has also been struggling for a couple of months. It’s a perfect storm.

 

[Chainshot]

 

[Djp]

Toronto's issue has always been their defense. They've got an elite forward group and middling defense. It's been covered up because Anderson has played well. But you take Reilly out of that group, its a baaad defense.

toronto will not fix this problem until they trade their forwards for Dmen.

 

[Sabre the Win]

Damnit Botterill where were you on this!!!??!?

Am I doing this right?

 

[Club]

Like this for the Leafs

 

[Buffaloed]

Watch the Habs trade Kovalchuk for a 2nd.

 

[Baccus]

Watch the Habs trade Kovalchuk for a 2nd.

Watch it be to us...

 

[Myllz]

My sister used to have that phone.

 

[Chainshot]

 

[JThorne]

My sister used to have that phone.

A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!

 

[jc17]