Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season

[Chainshot]

Fans turned on Chuck Fletcher. They wanted more results at the trade deadline. They thought he could have traded JVR.

Similar in production to when KA only traded Hagg last year and got a 6th rounder. However, Sabres were further along in collecting top prospects so Adams leash was longer.

Adams also didn’t waste a shit ton of draft prospects on broken players like Ellis or incomplete players like Risto and TDA or give NTCs to plugs like Deslaurier. This is way deeper than just JVR.

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

Adams also didn’t waste a shit ton of draft prospects on broken players like Ellis or incomplete players like Risto and TDA or give NTCs to plugs like Deslaurier. This is way deeper than just JVR.

Fletcher did get Risto to take 300k less on his new contract though

 

[Chainshot]

Fletcher did get Risto to take 300k less on his new contract though

He gave Risto a new contract after spending a f*** ton on getting him. Even after witnessing first hand the mess he is in his own zone... he extended the guy.

 

[ForsbergMoDo21]

This team is going nowhere until someone in f***ing management understands the value of competent veteran players.

 

[Chainshot]

This team is going nowhere until someone in f***ing management understands the value of competent veteran players.

The Sabres have to stop self-limiting over "windows" and player age.

 

[Fezzy126]

Fletcher did get Risto to take 300k less on his new contract though

Risto's charts aren't what you might think they are...

 

[Fearnot]

Miss Rhino in front of the net.

 

[Chainshot]

Risto's charts aren't what you might think they are...

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Key is this year, though they aren't using him in any offensive situations this year either.

 

[Jacob582]

Adams also didn’t waste a shit ton of draft prospects on broken players like Ellis or incomplete players like Risto and TDA or give NTCs to plugs like Deslaurier. This is way deeper than just JVR.

Very good point. JVR was only the final straw.

 

[Thorton02]

I'd say that's the last of Fletcher as a GM......but we all know someone will hire him again.

Also, well done for Danny. Hope he does moderately well.

Really hope Fletch lands on his feet and gets another chance, preferably in the Eastern Conference. If the stars align, maybe we get a Leafs first round exit, Dubas gets canned and Fletch is named the new GM in Toronto.

 

[Chainshot]

One of these things is not like the other...

And they have not been healthy.

 

[Zman5778]

One of these things is not like the other...

And they have not been healthy.

I'm not sure I entirely get this. None of the top 4 are particularly surprising to me. They've all got PP1s that are loaded with talent.

 

[Chainshot]

I'm not sure I entirely get this. None of the top 4 are particularly surprising to me. They've all got PP1s that are loaded with talent.

The Sens. It's the Sens.

 

[Zman5778]

The Sens. It's the Sens.

With a top PP1 of Chabot-Giroux-DeBrincat-Tkachuk-(Stutzle/Batherson)?

That they get a ton of chances isn't really a surprise to me.

 

[Chainshot]

Bruins set a new record for fastest team to 50 wins in a season, getting their in their 64th game of the year.

 

[joshjull]

 

[Chainshot]

 

[Chainshot]

32 Thoughts intermission edition, the Flyers apparently are going to try a legit rebuild. I'll believe it when I see it since there are too many generals in the "special advisor" group who are ex-GM's than there are privates scouting out talent.

 

[Zman5778]

32 Thoughts intermission edition, the Flyers apparently are going to try a legit rebuild. I'll believe it when I see it since there are too many generals in the "special advisor" group who are ex-GM's than there are privates scouting out talent.

Legit rebuild, eh? I'll take one Carter Hart, please and thank you.

 

[Chainshot]

Legit rebuild, eh? I'll take one Carter Hart, please and thank you.

He may be on the move since he's struggled and Ersson has emerged.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Legit rebuild, eh? I'll take one Carter Hart, please and thank you.

TK too.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

That clickbaity sounding headline tho…

 

[ForsbergMoDo21]

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That clickbaity sounding headline tho…

Total clickbait. His accent got in the way. He was just saying they’d like to draft Bedard.

 

[Jim Bob]

What happens when a top NHL coach takes the helm of a Pee Wee team?

Rod Brind'Amour says you'd be surprised how similar coaching kids is to coaching NHL players: "Hockey is hockey."

theathletic.com

Brind’Amour may be the most decorated assistant coach for a youth hockey team in the country. And the guy next to him in flip flops and a black Hurricanes jumpsuit, retired Kings and Hurricanes center Justin Williams, might be a close second.

But on days like this, Williams says, “we’re just dads.”

Brind’Amour, 52, has just returned from the NHL All-Star Game in South Florida. One day, he was offering instruction to superstars Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. A couple of days later, he is teaching hockey fundamentals to a team that includes Brooks, Jagger and Williams’ 11-year-old daughter, Jade.

“They don’t have any clue I’m the coach of the Hurricanes,” Brind’Amour says. “It’s funny. I’m just Brooks’ dad.”

And like dads everywhere, oftentimes when he tells the kids something, “I’ll get a little roll of the eyes,” he says. “I don’t get that from my (NHL) guys. I get it from the 11-year-olds, like, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

Squirt and Pee Wee were the two best age groups to coach, IMO.

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

32 Thoughts intermission edition, the Flyers apparently are going to try a legit rebuild. I'll believe it when I see it since there are too many generals in the "special advisor" group who are ex-GM's than there are privates scouting out talent.

With the allusion to more changes coming, it seems like a lot of Flyers fans believe their "Special Advisors" will be shown the door also. Though you have to wonder why that hasn't happened yet given that removing an advisor wouldn't seem to have any major impact, unless those advisors were the men behind the curtain.