Around the NHL 2023-24

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Teehee. His own coach cooking him.

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

GM Hughes and his scouting guys he brought in look really bad in hindsight.
Its like they were better off with Bergevin who may have preferred Cooley because he's not afraid to draft skill over size.

Keep in mind that the PoHO in Montreal is Jeff Gorton, who by my record has had 6 top-10 picks in his 8+ seasons as a top team-building exec with both the Habs and the Rangers. They are as follows:

Lias Andersson (2017, 7)
Vitali Kravtsov (2018, 9)
Kaapo Kaako (2019, 2)
Alexis Lafrenière (2020, 1)
Juraj Slafkovsky (2022, 1)
David Reinbacher (2023, 5)

Some of those aren’t all his fault and might be a victim of circumstance, some of them are too early to tell, but that résumé screams OOF size: large

 

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Edmonton is 15 minutes away from a panic trade.

 

[Quack Shot]

Edmonton is 15 minutes away from a panic trade.

Quick trade Gibson for McDavid

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

On an unrelated note to the actual game going on, do the Coyotes not have sponsors or is it just part of Scripps broadcasting that the commercial breaks during the TV timeout feature what appears to be little more than what could be described as a PowerPoint slide show of random stock videos and images?

 

[Dryish]

Edmonton is 15 minutes away from a panic trade.

Love to see it. Although I'd rather they hovered right outside the playoff contention and not at the bottom of the pack. Another decade of solid mediocrity is what that franchise and its fans deserve.

 

[slippingsloth]

Love to see it. Although I'd rather they hovered right outside the playoff contention and not at the bottom of the pack. Another decade of solid mediocrity is what that franchise and its fans deserve.

With McDrai that is a crime… even if there is some schadenfreude.

 

[KelVarnsen]

Kings are a pretty good team so far this season.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Kings are a pretty good team so far this season.

Byfield is playing really good, looking close to the player they were expecting at draft.

Mctavish lvl right now

 

[ScarTroy]

Byfield is playing really good, looking close to the player they were expecting at draft.

Mctavish lvl right now

Yeah people who wrote him off that early were off base, he’s 21. Kings vs Ducks games in 2-3 years are going to be crazy.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Yeah people who wrote him off that early were off base, he’s 21. Kings vs Ducks games in 2-3 years are going to be crazy.

Fairly obvious he was going to click at some point

 

[AngelDuck]

Kings are a pretty good team so far this season.

I fear they are legitimately a top 2-3 team in the west this season. Goaltending the only question mark for them

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Mangiapane should get the book thrown at him by DoPS, that’s just disgraceful. 5-gamer minimum, IMO

 

[Ducks DVM]

Sharks have had horrible attendance post-Covid, they'll have back to back sub 14k attendance seasons which we haven't had since the early 00's.

Heck even last season we were pretty much at 15k....which is staggering given the on ice product that was put out.

Last year was actually fun in person until the last 4 weeks or so.

 

[Arthuros]

Yeeeah, Sharks are like...tragically depressing.

 

[Ducks DVM]

Mangiapane should get the book thrown at him by DoPS, that’s just disgraceful. 5-gamer minimum, IMO

What happened?

edit - found it. Yeah, that actually needs to be 10+ IMO

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

What happened?

 

[All Mighty]

The Sharks have 1 even strength goal since October 21.

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Has any team given up 10+ in back-to-back games before this?

 

[slippingsloth]

Has any team given up 10+ in back-to-back games before this?

That is a very good question….

 

[ff8]

Has any team given up 10+ in back-to-back games before this?

Lmao

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

That is a very good question….

@ff8 coming in clutch with the Sportsnet stats graphic.

As bad and embarrassing as this stretch is for them, it is absolutely hilarious that the Oilers are only 4 points ahead of them.

 

[ff8]

If we’re the first team to lose to SJ, the only thing that could make up for it is winning the cup

 

[mightyquack]

It's nice of San Jose to erase our horrid season last year from the record books so quickly.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Keep in mind that the PoHO in Montreal is Jeff Gorton, who by my record has had 6 top-10 picks in his 8+ seasons as a top team-building exec with both the Habs and the Rangers. They are as follows:

Lias Andersson (2017, 7)
Vitali Kravtsov (2018, 9)
Kaapo Kaako (2019, 2)
Alexis Lafrenière (2020, 1)
Juraj Slafkovsky (2022, 1)
David Reinbacher (2023, 5)

Some of those aren’t all his fault and might be a victim of circumstance, some of them are too early to tell, but that résumé screams OOF size: large

How Gorton has a job is beyond me.