Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season

[My3Sons]

Even Bob Dylan is tweeting these days

How does it feel?

 

[sabremike]

I think he may not have liked that if that happened. I don't think he's on such great terms with the organization.

It's been so long that there's hardly anybody still working there who was there when he last played there almost 20 years ago, but I think that probably would have been in bad taste if you asked him.

Sometimes they do that against the other team the player played for. I think they retired Selanne's number in Anaheim when Winnipeg was in town, even though it wasn't the same organization as the Winnipeg Jets that he played for. I think they also retired Ryan Miller's number in Buffalo a few years back when Anaheim was in town, the team he last played with in the NHL.

Was against the Isles on a Thursday night because Pegula wanted to turn a 13k attendance into a sellout and the Ducks game was a Saturday which was going to do well regardless. I was there, Cozens won it in OT.

 

[Blackjack]

I laughed so hard at washed up Trouba.

I'm not sure why he has it in for Igor though.

He's been griefing Igor ever since some of the contract demands leaked out at the beginning of the season. He's had some legitimately funny tweets about it and Rangers fans cannot take a joke.

 

[Saugus]

He's been griefing Igor ever since some of the contract demands leaked out at the beginning of the season. He's had some legitimately funny tweets about it and Rangers fans cannot take a joke.

Stan just can’t believe how much players are getting paid these days.

Hell, when he first started as a cub reporter, guys played each game for a ham sandwich and a bunk in the hayloft. And they thought they were overpaid!

 

[My3Sons]

Stan just can’t believe how much players are getting paid these days.

Hell, when he first started as a cub reporter, guys played each game for a ham sandwich and a bunk in the hayloft. And they thought they were overpaid!

When he first covered the game I recall he’d have to ride a donkey sixteen leagues and then we’d pay to get in with bushels of wheat since coinage had yet to be invented. Even then I wore depends.

 

[Incharge1976]

Aren't the Rangers like 12-5 and a point or two behind us with games in hand? Why the panic in Rangerland?

7 points behind us now with 4 in hand but the problem with them is that they are 1-6 against teams in a playoff spot and they are getting caved in every night giving up a ton of shots. They have given up 132 shots in the last 3 games.

 

[Devils731]

Even though it wasn’t that bad a play tonight the league should still fine Rempe. It was such an egregious foul play that it had no hockey value.

He’s dirty and doesn’t mind injuring opponents through dirty plays so you have to hammer him with punishments for the smallest infractions. The infractions will only grow if he’s given an inch.

 

[Bleedred]

Was against the Isles on a Thursday night because Pegula wanted to turn a 13k attendance into a sellout and the Ducks game was a Saturday which was going to do well regardless. I was there, Cozens won it in OT.
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Ah, maybe I’m remembering Anaheim because they continued the festivities that weekend and had Miller do the ceremonial opening faceoff for that Ducks game?

 

[sabremike]

When he first covered the game I recall he’d have to ride a donkey sixteen leagues and then we’d pay to get in with bushels of wheat since coinage had yet to be invented. Even then I wore depends.

When Stan first started covering hockey the Dead Sea was only sick.

 

[Forge]

Celebrini is going to be a freaking stud for San Jose

 

[SJinNewJersey]

7 points behind us now with 4 in hand but the problem with them is that they are 1-6 against teams in a playoff spot and they are getting caved in every night giving up a ton of shots. They have given up 132 shots in the last 3 games.

If I had any photo shop talent, I would have put Igor's face over Seagal's.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

The Rangers are paper tigers propped up by a pillow soft schedule. No back-to-backs, mostly bottom feeder opponents, and they lose handily to the quality opponents they do play. The standings are starting to show that the Canes, Devils, and Caps are miles ahead of them. They're now points back of third place and it probably will get worse.

Celebrini is going to be a freaking stud for San Jose

The Sharks are going to be out of this rebuild pretty quickly. They're not good yet but they play hard and they've got talent.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

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If I had any photo shop talent, I would have put Igor's face over Seagal's.

 

[MachoDiablo]

The Rangers are paper tigers propped up by a pillow soft schedule. No back-to-backs, mostly bottom feeder opponents, and they lose handily to the quality opponents they do play. The standings are starting to show that the Canes, Devils, and Caps are miles ahead of them. They're now points back of third place and it probably will get worse.

The Sharks are going to be out of this rebuild pretty quickly. They're not good yet but they play hard and they've got talent.

They've honestly spent a few years now as a good team masquerading as a great one. They're built on Igor being *that* good and their power play being near unstoppable. That's great for beating crappy teams in the regular season, but leads to them getting dominated by good teams in the playoffs when it comes to shots, chances, possession, etc. But since Igor and their PP have usually been excellent, they've survived that and turned it into a couple of deep runs in recent years, albeit with some luck with other teams facing them having tons of injuries or whatever the hell the Caps were last season.

Well, this year the top names aren't producing to their usual levels, which in turn likely hurts Sheshterkin's ability to prop them up. We'll see what they do moving forward, but just watching them last night they looked like they were skating through sludge.

 

[Guttersniped]

Their fans aren’t kidding when they say Zibanejad has fallen off a cliff.

Zib being signed to a buyout proof 5 years/8.5m deal, with a full NMC/NTC for 4 years, is a f***ing delight. They’re stuck with his crying hippie ass.

Chytil is a great young player who keeps getting knee-capped by injuries, so losing him hurt.

Their defense has issues. It’s not just Trouba being problematic, Lindgren is also having his second bad year in a row.

The Trouba-Miller pairing is cosmically toxic, and the Fox-Lindgren pair is meh, so Fox-Miller is basically a must.

They’ve been riding the Braden Schneider and Zac Jones pairing more and that’s been getting solid results.

But the Trouba-Lindgren pairing has been adventure. They’ve been on the ice for a total of 7 GF 8 GA but 5 GF 7 GA happened in the last 4 GP.

Lindgren’s a UFA after this year so he isn’t a longterm issue. They probably can move Trouba in the off-season.

 

[Forge]

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Bleedred]

I'm not sure Duchene would be helping them much more than some of the other 34 year olds they've since replaced his salary/cap hit with.

It just seemed like a very unnecessary buyout though.

And I didn't even know they were still paying the buyout for Kyle Turris until very recently, They bought him out the same day we bought Cory Schneider out lol.

He played for 2 more years after that, and then retired due to injuries.

I remember being really puzzled by the Duchene buyout. It made me wonder if he was being bought out for some off ice stuff. Did it come out that he was bought out because he wasn't well-liked in their locker room or something? Or am I thinking of something else? It's like the bought out Duchene just to bring in other Duchene's for close to the same price, and the same age or even older.

 

[Brodeur]

I remember being really puzzled by the Duchene buyout. It made me wonder if he was being bought out for some off ice stuff. Did it come out that he was bought out because he wasn't well-liked in their locker room or something? Or am I thinking of something else? It's like the bought out Duchene just to bring in other Duchene's for close to the same price, and the same age or even older.

I got the sense that they felt Duchene got a little complacent in Nashville. Duchene is a big country music guy and perhaps some thought that was a distraction. Trotz was quoted saying "I don't want you to come to Nashville to retire. I want you to come to Nashville to win" after the buyout and subsequent signings of Ryan O'Reilly and Gus Nyquist.

I remember Dean Lombardi saying that was an issue when he was GM in LA. Sometimes it was hard to predict which guys were still motivated versus other guys who just wanted the LA lifestyle.

When Sergei Fedorov went to Anaheim in 2003, hockey took a backseat to being a D list celebrity. In just one season he pretty much rubbed everybody the wrong way. When Brian Burke took over in 2005, he didn't want Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry on the team until he dumped Fedorov since he didn't want them learning any bad habits.

To Duchene's credit, I think the buyout did light a fire under him.