Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season

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Well now that Blackwood has gotten his medical degree from Facebook Medical School he’s too pricey

I’m pretty sure Facebook is the opposite of where Blackwood got his medical degree.

 

[Bleedred]

I bet they’ll now start Wedgewood against us next week when they come in. So even though he’s in the Western conference, we will have had to play him three times with the Nashville relief game.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

 

[Mgd31]

Minnesota is going to turn him into a top pairing defenseman

 

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Incase anyone was wondering what Nemecs value would be… think it’s pretty massive considering he had a better last year (I don’t think we should trade him).

 

[Bleedred]

Who the hell is Daemon Hunt?

Okay, they at least got a first round pick for him.

 

[DerekDevils30]

Worth a claim? We need 4th line bodies

 

[Guttersniped]

Incase anyone was wondering what Nemecs value would be… think it’s pretty massive considering he had a better last year (I don’t think we should trade him).

If we traded Nemec now for Minny’s 2020 3rd Rd #65 pick, a LHD who’s been in the AHL for several seasons, and some meh picks, this place would freak the f*** out.

Hunt is the Wild’s 8th best prospect on EPRinkside’s list.

The Wild have the 2nd best win % in the NHL. Sure, they may cool down, but that 2025 1st is looking real late.

And 2nd in 2027? Then two more random picks for good measure. Woopie.

This trade is just bizarre.

Either the new regime in Columbus didn’t think much of Jiricek at all or the relationship between the team and the player is super toxic.

And the other offers must have been underwhelming.

People compared the situation to Cutter Gauthier and Rutger McGroaty but they were unsigned NCAA players.

Theoretically Jiricek could threaten to go to Europe, but there’s been no report about that being an issue and that’s typically an empty threat.

 

[MasterofGrond]

weird f***ing trade for the jackets

Can’t believe they actually sold on him

 

[Ripshot 43]

If we traded Nemec now for Minny’s 2020 3rd Rd #65 pick, a LHD who’s been in the AHL for several seasons, and some meh picks, this place would freak the f*** out.

Hunt is the Wild’s 8th best prospect on EPRinkside’s list.

The Wild have the 2nd best win % in the NHL. Sure, they may cool down, but that 2025 1st is looking real late.

And 2nd in 2027? Then two more random picks for good measure. Woopie.

This trade is just bizarre.

Either the new regime in Columbus didn’t think much of Jiricek at all or the relationship between the team and the player is super toxic.

And the other offers must have been underwhelming.

People compared the situation to Cutter Gauthier and Rutger McGroaty but they were unsigned NCAA players.

Theoretically Jiricek could threaten to go to Europe, but there’s been no report about that being an issue and that’s typically an empty threat.

It’s weird because I knew that Minnesota strangely was having a great start to the season but my mind still reverted to thinking the pick would be a mid 1st rounder which made the trade seem more even. If it ends up a late 1st it definitely hurts to lose a recent 6th overall for a bunch of picks.

 

[Goptor]

Jiricek should be fine, but Columbus' coaches held him back 2 years with what they did to him.

 

[Guadana]

It's a lost trade for jackets. The only reason to make it even if they know that his legs will never fully heal or something like that.

 

[Brodeur]

Amusing reading the Jiricek trade articles from the Columbus and Minnesota beat writers on The Athletic. You can sorta understand it from both sides.

Columbus: If Jiricek couldn't clearly beat out guys like Jack Johnson and Jordan Harris, they might be trading him while he has some new car smell rather than have him languish like Filip Zadina. They didn't think his trade value would suddenly spike any time soon. New GM can't do anything about where the previous GM/administration picked him.

Minnesota: Reasonable gamble as they have an idea of the type of players who'll be available in the 20s in this year's draft. Jiricek in theory could help this season.

Maybe not exactly the same, but the Islanders drafted Griffin Reinhart 4th overall in what was considered a weaker draft in 2012. They flipped him for the 15th (Barzal) and 33rd (eventually Beauvillier) picks in 2015. We'll see if Columbus can salvage it.

 

[Triumph]

Amusing reading the Jiricek trade articles from the Columbus and Minnesota beat writers on The Athletic. You can sorta understand it from both sides.

Columbus: If Jiricek couldn't clearly beat out guys like Jack Johnson and Jordan Harris, they might be trading him while he has some new car smell rather than have him languish like Filip Zadina. They didn't think his trade value would suddenly spike any time soon. New GM can't do anything about where the previous GM/administration picked him.

Minnesota: Reasonable gamble as they have an idea of the type of players who'll be available in the 20s in this year's draft. Jiricek in theory could help this season.

Maybe not exactly the same, but the Islanders drafted Griffin Reinhart 4th overall in what was considered a weaker draft in 2012. They flipped him for the 15th (Barzal) and 33rd (eventually Beauvillier) picks in 2015. We'll see if Columbus can salvage it.

The thing that sucks for Columbus is dealing him for picks - obviously they can take this 2025 1st and shop it for something else, but otherwise they're drafting a player who is probably not anything until 2029.

One thing I don't understand about Jiricek's stat line last season is how a player can be -16 in 29 games while scoring 19 points on a playoff team that finished with an even goal differential. There has to be plenty of bad luck in there but that'd have me wary.

If the Devils had cut bait on Holtz with a deal like this in 2022-2023, we would've been very angry. In 2023-2024, at this time of year, we (or at least I) would've been celebrating.

 

[MadDevil]

So the Avs traded an .872 goalie for an .878 goalie? Um...well I guess technically it's an improvement.

 

[Oneiro]

It's not like there aren't a bunch of teams clamoring for a big physical RHD with a big shot.

Very much seems like another Holtz situation where the team did not like parts of his game and the majority of the league agreed. I still maintain that his skating is quite bad, and prior to the draft, it's not like he was the most disciplined heady defender either. Add the attitude on top, and I think a lot of veteran GMs would do what Waddell did.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Quinn Hughes played 31:04 and had 3 assists in the Canucks 5 to 4 win over the Red Wings. He helped us out.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Quinn Hughes played 31:04 and had 3 assists in the Canucks 5 to 4 win over the Red Wings. He helped us out.

I can't wait for Luke to reach his peak like his older brothers. It's going to be a filthy watch.

 

[Brodeur]

So the Avs traded an .872 goalie for an .878 goalie? Um...well I guess technically it's an improvement.

I'm tempted to be petty and to bump a summer time main board thread about Kevin Lankinen. One Avs poster said we were all dumb for suggesting that Colorado would be in the market for another NHL goalie. We were all blind if we didn't see that Justus Annunen was only going to get better and he had a .928 sv% last season!

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Going back to Jiricek, I was just reminded of Chicago trading Kirby Dach. I didn't understand it in the moment for Chicago, but it looks like they might have cut bait at a good time. Granted Dach has had some unforeseen injuries in Montreal.

 

[Brodeur]

Not directly NHL related, but USA/Canadian WJC camp rosters are out:





No Yakemchuk (final year of eligibility and the tournament is in Ottawa), Parekh, or Iginla is a little surprising.

USA/Canada will be new year's eve. I'm debating whether to go the Devils@Ducks game that night, or save the money for a rainy day and nerd out at home and watch the games.