Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season

[sufferer]

Add this to the list of things I'd never thought I'd agree with 20 years ago.

Lindy up to his old tricks.

 

[BB79]

Go Dallas in the West I guess.

It sounds petty but I still can't bring myself to rout for them since '99..Go Oilers. It'll be nice for a Canadian (non-Maple Leafs) team to win again

 

[Chainshot]

Lindy up to his old tricks.

Perhaps his greatest prank of all time? Making people enjoy Devils games.

 

[brian_griffin]

Any day that the Bruins are eliminated, is a great day for me!

An upcoming Mastercard commercial...

A record 65 total wins, with only four regulation and three overtime home losses all season?
Eighty Four Million Dollars.

Next season's performance bonus cap hit for the stingiest defensive and 2nd-highest scoring team in the NHL?
Four Point Five Million Dollars.

Getting bounced in Round 1 Game 7 Overtime on home ice?
Priceless.

 

[BFLO]

I've got no ill will towards Fitz and Dalpe.

Me trying to remember Dalpe playing for the Sabres:

 

[toddkaz]

Adams was asked about it on Seravelli's podcast and his answer made it sound like Montour wanted to leave, one way or the other.

Thinking back to his play I don't think he was handled correctly. It was a revolving door of benchings along with Colin Miller. Its amazing how many defensemen struggle in a sabres uniform and then go on to be full-time NHLers like Miller on Dallas and here we are again struggling to find defensemen.

 

[Chainshot]

Thinking back to his play I don't think he was handled correctly. It was a revolving door of benchings along with Colin Miller. Its amazing how many defensemen struggle in a sabres uniform and then go on to be full-time NHLers like Miller on Dallas and here we are again struggling to find defensemen.

Ralph would bench people who didn't adhere to his system. His system included stapling defensemen to the offensive blueline. What does Montour do well? He transitions the puck from defense to offense, then fills a lane or orbits the net which creates chaos and opportunities. That, like Dahlin's ability to pinch, does not happen when one either plays to that directive or else.

 

[debaser66]

The East is WIDE open for the Leafs now. They've gotta be the favorites to come out of the East at this point.

maybe if you view the Panthers from a regular season perspective but now? I don't see it. its gonna be close

 

[debaser66]

Seattle and Florida proving why just getting in is worth it. Hopefully Adams takes note. This time.

there s no notes to take, next year its expected, unless you built him a time machine

 

[TheMistyStranger]

So we're all Devils fans for Lindy's sake, right?

 

[Chainshot]

So we're all Devils fans for Lindy's sake, right?

For Lindy and entertainment, yep.

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

This is why, if the sabres had gotten in, i wanted the boston match up. Boston was hobbled and not playing as well as very early in the season. Florida really worked for it, but i think Boston was in a very vulnerable position. If we had even halfway decent goaltending, we might have been in a similar position.

In the east, i think it comes down to Toronto and Carolina.

 

[TehDoak]

So we're all Devils fans for Lindy's sake, right?

Isn't Ruff like 0-4 or something like that in Game 7's? I remember he was 0-3 with us (Pittsburgh, Carolina, and Philly). And he was 0-1 in Dallas IIRC. So hopefully Lindy gets the monkey off of his back.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Chainshot]

I didn't read that as "plot" twist at first.

 

[Dubi Doo]

Ralph would bench people who didn't adhere to his system. His system included stapling defensemen to the offensive blueline. What does Montour do well? He transitions the puck from defense to offense, then fills a lane or orbits the net which creates chaos and opportunities. That, like Dahlin's ability to pinch, does not happen when one either plays to that directive or else.

Yeah. Reminds me of our 'strategy' in house hockey as a kid. D men stay at the blue line and opposing wingers cover those d men. Rinse and repeat year in and year out, haha.

 

[old kummelweck]

Perhaps his greatest prank of all time? Making people enjoy Devils games.

Keyser Soze

 

[toddkaz]

combined draft picks for Tampa, Rangers and Boston in 2023.

1 1st
2 3rd
1 4th
4 6th
4 7th

I don't feel bad for them.

 

[joshjull]

Seattle and Florida proving why just getting in is worth it. Hopefully Adams takes note. This time.

I’m pretty confident Adams knows you need to be in the playoffs to win in the playoffs. But what specifically is he supposed to be taking notes on with respect to these two teams?

Francis didn’t make any moves at the deadline because he liked the chemistry of his team. It’s basically a “vibes“ argument. He wanted to see what his group could do. So no reinforcements for the playoffs or to ensure they made them. Things you would be screaming bloody murder over.

Florida is even crazier. Knight entered the substance abuse program a week before the trade deadline. Florida did nothing to address that loss at the deadline. So they just rode Bob into the ground. Then we’re miraculously saved by Alex Lyon at the end of the season.

Just to bring into to focus how insane it is that Lyon saved their season.

-He is a 30yr old undrafted journeyman in his 7th pro season
-In the 6yrs prior only played 24gms in NHL with a career .895sv%.
-In his 6 game call up with Panthers this January (6gms 892sv%).
-his one game during Bob‘s grind he got lit up (5 goals on 23 shots)

But somehow the guy I describe above channeled Patrick Roy for 7gms in a row at the end of the season. He carried the Panthers into the playoffs with a 6-0-1 record and 1.57gaa/.952sv% during that. To say the odds of that happening were pretty slim is an understatement. I think it’s fair to say the Panthers were very lucky they made the playoffs. Plus you would have been ranting about Zito’s inaction dealing with losing Knight.


So whats the lesson Adams should have learned? There are no guarantees? Shit happens? That hockey can be stupid? Or that luck plays a bigger role than many want to admit?

 

[Der Jaeger]

The only task left for Sabres fans this season is for the Leafs to lose.

 

[joshjull]

 

[toddkaz]

The only task left for Sabres fans this season is for the Leafs to lose.

And depending on how jaded you are Vegas too.

 

[Chainshot]

I guess if enough people say they don't want to play for the coach, even the hardest headed ownership has to change course.

 

[Der Jaeger]

And depending on how jaded you are Vegas.

As soon as Stone came off LTIR, I thought Vegas would win the cup. Kind of don't care, even with Eichel. We've sort of been down that road with O'Reilly.

Toronto fans are insufferable. If they win the cup, the main boards will become more of a cesspool than they already can be at times. We could survive the 3 dozen Vegas fans posting on the boards.

 

[Push Dr Tracksuit]

I didn't read that as "plot" twist at first.

Plot twizzle