NHL Around the NHL - Offseason moves and rumblings

[GarbageGoal]

But, but, BUT has this trade been cleared with Dougie Hamilton's parents!?!?!?!?!?!?

Is Freddie going to Carolina too????

 

[N o o d l e s]

Sucks cause I would love Hanifin here, but there's likely no way to pry him out of CGY with him having gone for Hamilton.

 

[BruinsFanMike82]

Pacioretty to the Sharks?

 

[Gordoff]

Pacioretty to the Sharks?

Well, there's one obnoxious mugg that we won't have to see again for a while! I wonder whom it's for?

 

[bruinmann77]

NHL network reports this trade is close as max goes to SJ

 

[Bruinaura]

 

[WestCoastBruinsFan]

Should we tell Montreal they have a better chance at the first overall pick with Max in the lineup?

 

[Gator Mike]

Huh. Jimmy Murphy reported something that wasn't true?

I'm shocked. That never happens.

 

[BruinsFanMike82]

 

[KrejciMVP]

Very disappointed that Kovy chose not to play with Krejci and Bergy. Bad choice

 

[BB88]

Perhaps today. What about 2 years from now? At this point in his career I think Dougie is who he is.

Hanifin was a top4 last season, he needs to improve a lot to get to Hamilton level.
He could get there but there are no quarantees.

I now expect Faulk to hit the trade market who Hamilton replaces and is a massive upgreade. Fleury takes over Hanifin's LD spot.

 

[Gee Wally]

Carolina and Calgary pull off a major deal.

from tsn.ca:

The Calgary Flames are finalizing a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes for D Noah Hanifin and forward Elias Lindholm. The Flames will send defenceman Dougie Hamilton, forward Micheal Ferland, and prospect Adam Fox.

I’m a betting Mama Hamilton is royally pissed off.

 

[Oates2Neely]

Dougie isn’t a heart and grit guy but he puts up points and can skate like the wind.

 

[Bruinaura]

 

[Baddkarma]

Seems like a solid draft full of potential. On to FA "frenzy" I expect a Riley Nash replacement and thats about it...

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Seems like a solid draft full of potential. On to FA "frenzy" I expect a Riley Nash replacement and thats about it...

Dont forget the PTO at training camp to guys like Scott Gomez and Chris Drury

 

[Chief Nine]

Dougie is a Norris level dman, Hanifin is trash so far.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah no. He isn’t a Norris level defenseman.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Carolina and Calgary pull off a major deal.

from tsn.ca:

The Calgary Flames are finalizing a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes for D Noah Hanifin and forward Elias Lindholm. The Flames will send defenceman Dougie Hamilton, forward Micheal Ferland, and prospect Adam Fox.

Could the B's have gotten those 2 guys for Krug, Heinen & Zboril?

 

[BB88]

Could the B's have gotten those 2 guys for Krug, Heinen & Zboril?

I'm not sure.

Dougie sets up a trade for Faulk for Carolina, Krug wouldn't have done that.

 

[McGarnagle]

Waddell gonna Waddell

 

[Pia8988]

Carolina made out okay. Especially with how poor negotiations were going with Lindholm. Hanifin I feel is draft hype still, he's still young, but he's not the top pair his draft number says he should be. Fox as well is a good prospect. Ferland I feel was a product of Gaudreau and Monahan last year.

 

[N o o d l e s]

Hamilton has been traded twice now and he’s only 25. That doesn’t look great.

 

[Johnny Hoxville]

Hey guys, I’m just curious if any confirmed links about whatever issues Dougie may have had here ever came out? Because it sure sounds like he was moved today for locker room issues.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Sucks cause I would love Hanifin here, but there's likely no way to pry him out of CGY with him having gone for Hamilton.

Soft gets traded for soft. Think both guys will actually benefit from this assuming Hamilton is OK with having to reside in the USA.

Hamilton was never 'unpopular' until he left but he was a high pick not our own of course that we were gifted and chipped in some offense next to Chara. He got a pass where a lot of guys wouldn't have on being soft and a defensive turnstile. Hanifin would never get the same benefit of the doubt if we offered up a huge package to bring him here. I'm only talking about on the ice of course but I think it would be a Kevin Stevens type of homecoming and a major let down.

 

[Gee Wally]

Denied by Ilya Kovalchuk, will Bruins turn attention back to Rick Nash? - The Boston Globe


Don Sweeney and Co. also departed with the shattered hope that Ilya Kovalchuk might be the answer to shoring up their 2018-19 secondary scoring. Early in Day 2 of the draft, the once-sublime Russian scorer agreed to contract terms with Los Angeles, the Kings believing they won the sweepstakes for the winger.

Of course, the aspect of winning took some faith on the part of the Kings. Kovalchuk is 35, a graybeard in the go kart-on-steroids NHL, and he didn’t exactly tear up the KHL the last five years of his Russia redux tour.

“He can’t skate,” opined Craig Button, the former Flames general manager turned TSN commentator. “He was a fourth-line winger [in Russia]. He was just average. He finished five goals behind Nigel Dawes in their scoring race. So why didn’t [the Kings] sign Nigel Dawes?”

 

[ODAAT]

Denied by Ilya Kovalchuk, will Bruins turn attention back to Rick Nash? - The Boston Globe


Don Sweeney and Co. also departed with the shattered hope that Ilya Kovalchuk might be the answer to shoring up their 2018-19 secondary scoring. Early in Day 2 of the draft, the once-sublime Russian scorer agreed to contract terms with Los Angeles, the Kings believing they won the sweepstakes for the winger.

Of course, the aspect of winning took some faith on the part of the Kings. Kovalchuk is 35, a graybeard in the go kart-on-steroids NHL, and he didn’t exactly tear up the KHL the last five years of his Russia redux tour.

“He can’t skate,” opined Craig Button, the former Flames general manager turned TSN commentator. “He was a fourth-line winger [in Russia]. He was just average. He finished five goals behind Nigel Dawes in their scoring race. So why didn’t [the Kings] sign Nigel Dawes?”

Now to be fair, I rarely look to Button as my go to help me assess a player but this isn`t great to read if your a Kings fan

 

[LouJersey]

Not huge on Rick. Two years 8 mil is ok, I guess because the cap went up, but won't be devastated if they don't get him.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

Button lost me a long time ago. Even just look at that quote.

He was a fourth liner.
He was average.
He was five goals shy of winning the scoring race.

Which is it?

I’m with Flannelman anyway in believing the veteran add should be at center. I’m not sure adding another $6M at wing is the most prudent allocation of cap space.

But Button’s comments here are nonsense.

 

[Yeti34]

Button lost me a long time ago. Even just look at that quote.

He was a fourth liner.
He was average.
He was five goals shy of winning the scoring race.

Which is it?

I’m with Flannelman anyway in believing the veteran add should be at center. I’m not sure adding another $6M at wing is the most prudent allocation of cap space.

But Button’s comments here are nonsense.

It’s not that difficult to figure out what Button was getting at. Not saying I agree, but it looks like a criticism of Kovy and the KHL.

 

[Chief Nine]

Interesting take from Calgary Sun columnist Eric Francis about Dougie Hamilton. Seems his issues have more to do with drive and where his heart is than anything else:

However, while Flames GM Brad Treliving is taking the high road on Hamilton’s situation, the fact that the 25-year-old has been traded twice in three years says plenty about the 6-foot-6, 210-lb. defenceman.

Treliving’s contriteness when addressing the reasons why you’d trade a player with Hamilton’s stats says even more.

“Dougie is a terrific talent on the ice,” said the Flames GM, who traded for Hamilton at the NHL Draft three years earlier.

“I think I have a good and open relationship with players, and so there’s things I’m not going to share. We take everything on and off the ice into consideration here. I’m going to keep that stuff internal.”

Hamilton isn’t disruptive or hated in the room or by the media.

He simply falls into the category of a player who isn’t bothered at all by losses, which rubs teammates and upper management the wrong way.

Winning, and all the things necessary to do so, isn’t paramount to him.

Conversely, Hamilton was clearly frustrated by the team’s decision to put his brother on waivers (after which he was claimed by the Arizona Coyotes) in January and did several things as the year wound down to demonstrate his unhappiness.

Francis: Flames make necessary move to help change dressing-room dynamic

Sounds to me that Dougie is a bit delusional and quite the spoiled brat