Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season

[Oneiro]

I didn't expect them to be this bad but knew it wouldn't work out. I thought they'd still be an easy round 1 out, as usual.

You alway respect goal scoring ability but I've never been a big fan of Stamkos. I kind of enjoy that they did the right thing under all that heat and swapped him for Guentzel, who I think will be viewed as just as good by the time his career is done.

 

[jkrdevil]

there is always a team willing to roll the dice that an aging top player can hold on at a top level a few more years. I’m sure each player is different but my guess is that if you looked closely at Stamkos you would have seen the erosion in his game

I mean they basically won a Cup without Stamkos already and if you want to go way back nearly got to a final without him (though a bit unfair to go back that far as he was still a play driving player then and they had gone to the Final previous year with him).

 

[MasterofGrond]

there is always a team willing to roll the dice that an aging top player can hold on at a top level a few more years. I’m sure each player is different but my guess is that if you looked closely at Stamkos you would have seen the erosion in his game

Stats have been suggesting Stammer was pretty cooked last year and declining the year before that, point totals be damned.

I’m not saying Kucherov could turn me into an NHL player, but he could probably get me going in the NCAA

 

[TheBeerNerd]

I'm seeing multiple users in the Rangers/Sabres postgame thread saying they need to call up Rempe.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/ixVEp2pxos8AAAAd/the-simpsons-simpsons.gif

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

 

[Brodeur]

They waived Engvall before the season, Wahlstrom has seemingly been a tweener (we'll see if this ends up being Alexander Holtz in a couple years).

 

[Triumph]

I don't think anyone takes Wahlstrom. I doubt he was ever going to be any good anyway, he's probably too slow, but boy the Islanders do just let guys rot until they're worthless.

 

[Bleedred]

I remember watching the Wahlstrom clip and segment when it was new, back when he was like 9 years old. I figured he was so good that he'd really have to suffer some kind of a physical injury or just completely lose interest and passion to not do hockey as a profession. But I forgot all about him after that.

It wasn't until he was drafted and that video resurfaced that I remembered seeing all of that back in 2009.




He has a pretty good shot, but not much else. It seemed like for a while that maybe Trotz just didn't like him, but he's been even worse under Lambert and Roy. Seems like a dude that might just spend the remainder of his career in Europe after another year or two of staying here in the AHL and trying to get back in the NHL.

 

[Brodeur]

Oklahoma City Barons 2012-13 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 2012-13 Oklahoma City Barons playing in the AHL.

www.hockeydb.com

Sounds like Justin Schultz is retiring after a brief stint in the Swiss league. Doesn't seem that long ago that I thought about flying to Oklahoma City to catch the Oilers prospects (Schultz, Hall, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins) during the 2012 lockout.