Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season

[Fjordy]

Good

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Gras]

I imagine the Canes social media team has to be coming up with some reply

 

[Jim Bob]

Carolina Hurricanes sign defenceman Caleb Jones to one-year deal | TSN

The Carolina Hurricanes have signed defenceman Caleb Jones to a one-year, $775,000 contract, it was announced Thursday.

www.tsn.ca

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5 are UFAs after this season.

The other 3 are UFAs after next season.

It is going to be interesting to see how this works out for them.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

Gives them flexibility to work extensions with their most crucial players

 

[Jim Bob]

Calgary Flames’ Oliver Kylington opens up about mental health struggles

Kylington had a career-high 31 points in 2021-22, his last NHL season to date.

www.dailyfaceoff.com

 

[Dingo44]

Sherwood is old-school and bad ass. All the best goalies used to rock Sherwood paddles.

I'd love to see them blow up again.

 

[Zman5778]

Good signing for the Canucks, especially if he ever learns to win faceoffs.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Seeing Bedard practice in person, here’s what I think:

He’s small. My son is 12 and I got a great picture of them together. There isn’t much of a height difference. I’d say 5-9. If he measured in at 5-8 I wouldn’t be surprised.

His shot is elite by NHL standards right now. Almost no load up and his release is violent.

He’s not an elite skater. He’s really good but he’s not blowing by anyone regularly. His edge work is good.

The other dangerous part of his game is stickhandling in high traffic areas. He can maintain control among defenders.

Here’s my best comparison for him: a mini-Stamkos. I think he’s going to be a big goal scorer nearly immediately, then round out his game.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Re: McDavid. Two notes.

He’s human. First five reps, he he the PEPs 3 times, whiffed on 3 shots, and missed the net the other 2 times.

His secret is accelerating using crossovers around turns. He explodes on change of direction. No one in the camp could do it, even the bigger, stronger kids like Cole Sillinger. Their brains aren’t as tightly wired to do it.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Re: McDavid. Two notes.

He’s human. First five reps, he he the PEPs 3 times, whiffed on 3 shots, and missed the net the other 2 times.

His secret is accelerating using crossovers around turns. He explodes on change of direction. No one in the camp could do it, even the bigger, stronger kids like Cole Sillinger. Their brains aren’t as tightly wired to do it.

How did Sillinger look? My longer term projection is Columbus slotting with NJD as the Metro rivals to Buffalo/Ottawa. Fantilli-Johnson-Sillinger is obviously a big part of that; and Sillinger has the biggest range of outcomes right now imo. The other two are more likely to have Cozens+ level impacts.

 

[Der Jaeger]

How did Sillinger look? My longer term projection is Columbus slotting with NJD as the Metro rivals to Buffalo/Ottawa. Fantilli-Johnson-Sillinger is obviously a big part of that; and Sillinger has the biggest range of outcomes right now imo. The other two are more likely to have Cozens+ level impacts.

He was pretty good. Big, strong, skilled. He’s not as skilled as some of the smaller kids. And he wasn’t able to keep up with a lot of the tighter turning drills. He almost wiped out a few times, and fell over a PEP once.

That said, he’s probably more skilled than a lot of big guys. The drills are hard. And he went hard every rep.

 

[joshjull]

https://x.com/nhlbruins/status/1691072204207714305?s=4

Krejci is retiring

https://x.com/nhl/status/1691076040825692160?s=46

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Gabrielor]

It's time for them to fall for a while.

No King rules forever.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Oh darn! What a shame! Poor Bruins

 

[sabresfan129103]

Its crazy that with all the good teams Boston has had over the years they only managed to win the cup once. I mean, that's still good success, I'm just surprised they could only get over the hump once.

 

[brian_griffin]

Its crazy that with all the good teams Boston has had over the years they only managed to win the cup once. I mean, that's still good success, I'm just surprised they could only get over the hump once.

Three Finals appearances. A 4-3 win, and 4-3 loss, a 4-2 loss. In the free agent salary cap era, The Hump involves a lot of luck and injuries. The Habs, Isles, Oilers dynasties won't be repeated.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Its crazy that with all the good teams Boston has had over the years they only managed to win the cup once. I mean, that's still good success, I'm just surprised they could only get over the hump once.

And to think SOME people don't believe in curses. My Bruins voodoo doll has only failed once!

 

[sufferer]

And to think SOME people don't believe in curses. My Bruins voodoo doll has only failed once!

That Canucks team had a lot of bad karma working against them.

 

[Dingo44]

That Canucks team had a lot of bad karma working against them.

As bad as it is I was actually rooting for the Canucks to lose to the Bruins myself.

 

[Fjordy]

RIP Rodion

 

[Gabrielor]

Terrible news on Amirov.

Big fan in the 2020 draft. Sucks.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Three Finals appearances. A 4-3 win, and 4-3 loss, a 4-2 loss. In the free agent salary cap era, The Hump involves a lot of luck and injuries. The Habs, Isles, Oilers dynasties won't be repeated.

Still significantly better than all those great Sharks teams, with 1 losing Cup Final appearance to show for it.

Everything has to go right to lift the Cup.

RIP Rodion

As always, cancer sucks. RIP.

 

[Chainshot]

Seeing Bedard practice in person, here’s what I think:

He’s small. My son is 12 and I got a great picture of them together. There isn’t much of a height difference. I’d say 5-9. If he measured in at 5-8 I wouldn’t be surprised.

His shot is elite by NHL standards right now. Almost no load up and his release is violent.

He’s not an elite skater. He’s really good but he’s not blowing by anyone regularly. His edge work is good.

The other dangerous part of his game is stickhandling in high traffic areas. He can maintain control among defenders.

Here’s my best comparison for him: a mini-Stamkos. I think he’s going to be a big goal scorer nearly immediately, then round out his game.

I haven't seen a junior age player shoot the puck with the authority he did at his tier in years - since Ovi when he was 16 - and that's going to be how he menaces more than just about anything else.