Around the NHL - 2024-25 season.

[Figgy44]

I didn't know what thread to put this question in so will ask it here:

Did Mangiapane always play LW for you guys? Or did he swap between LW and RW on 5v5, PP etc?

Caps have him playing 1RW and he is a left hand shot but now there is talk of moving Ovie to RW (which makes no sense to me) and I wonder if they are going to move Mangiapane to LW.

Thanks in advance. Nice start to the season btw. Your team looks good and nice to see Mantha playing well (hopefully he can keep it up).

Started off as LW on a line with Jankowski and Hathaway. Often played RW due to our lack of RW options, became a swing wing for us.

 

[PlushMinus]

Cheers for the answers, folks!

 

[Xirik]

Devils fan here that has a question about Markstrom.

So far for the Devils he's been going behind his net or going close to the side boards to stop a pack and pass it back up ice. Is that normal for him? I really only watched him when he played the Devils and I don't recall him being that kind of goalie.

 

[Khrox]

Devils fan here that has a question about Markstrom.

So far for the Devils he's been going behind his net or going close to the side boards to stop a pack and pass it back up ice. Is that normal for him? I really only watched him when he played the Devils and I don't recall him being that kind of goalie.

It was fairly common when he was here too.

 

[Xirik]

It was fairly common when he was here too.

cool, Haven't had a goalie in NJ who could handle the puck good since Brodeur.

 

[Figgy44]

cool, Haven't had a goalie in NJ who could handle the puck good since Brodeur.

Yeah that's normal. But good?

Hmm... I guess he had occasional gaffes, but not as crazy as the gaffes Mike Smith occasionally had.

I guess Markstrom puck play is typically quite acceptable. But he might run into certain bad weeks where you're basically yelling at the screen begging him to stay in his crease for the rest of the game.

I never thought of Markstrom as good with the puck vs all goalies. There was always a gap between him vs other better puck playing goalies. But I guess puck playing goalies like Smith and Price retired, so he may have bumped up the list.

 

[Xirik]

Yeah that's normal. But good?

Hmm... I guess he had occasional gaffes, but not as crazy as the gaffes Mike Smith occasionally had.

I guess Markstrom puck play is typically quite acceptable. But he might run into certain bad weeks where you're basically yelling at the screen begging him to stay in his crease for the rest of the game.

I never thought of Markstrom as good with the puck vs all goalies. There was always a gap between him vs other better puck playing goalies. But I guess puck playing goalies like Smith and Price retired, so he may have bumped up the list.

Well Corey Schneider you never wanted out of the net, Blackwood never barely went out of his net and same with Vitek. So yeah it's been a loooong time for Devils fans.

 

[Lunatik]

Canucks may have just lost JT Miller, left the ice in pain after the opening faceoff in Philly

 

[Rubi]

Canucks may have just lost JT Miller, left the ice in pain after the opening faceoff in Philly

Boy oh boy... Vancouver just can't catch a break

 

[Rubi]

Just saw that lost another game.. 4-1 to the

Suck it Oilers fans.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Canucks may have just lost JT Miller, left the ice in pain after the opening faceoff in Philly

Is this when we start chanting his name?

 

[Rubi]

Stuart Skinner off to a slow start...

 

[Mobiandi]

I still don't think Skinner is as bad as Edmonton is making him look

 

[Lunatik]

Who cares about Edmonton

 

[Anglesmith]

I still don't think Skinner is as bad as Edmonton is making him look

Me neither. I'm not sure if any of their goalies that I can remember are as bad as they've looked in Edmonton.

 

[Mobiandi]

Me neither. I'm not sure if any of their goalies that I can remember are as bad as they've looked in Edmonton.

Talbot going full Kipper in 2017 is the closest thing I've seen since 06 Roloson

 

[Rubi]

Me neither. I'm not sure if any of their goalies that I can remember are as bad as they've looked in Edmonton.

A number of them do seem to have rebound years after leaving Edmonton.

 

[Anglesmith]

Talbot going full Kipper in 2017 is the closest thing I've seen since 06 Roloson

True, but they eventually wore him down too. The typical arc for a goalie entering a team like that is to thrive initially. But over time when goalies have to stare down too many poorly defended plays, they start trying to guess and do too much.

 

[Mobiandi]

True, but they eventually wore him down too. The typical arc for a goalie entering a team like that is to thrive initially. But over time when goalies have to stare down too many poorly defended plays, they start trying to guess and do too much.

First they ran him into the ground, then out of town. 73 and 67 games is a workload that no other NHL goaltender has matched since Talbot.

The Oilers had a golden goose that they acquired for pennies from their old pal Glen Sather, and they squandered it and turned to their version of the best goalie not in the NHL.