Miscellaneous NHL Discussion CIX: Processing a Tremendous Amount of Insane Information

[BringBackHakstol]

Are @BiggE and @Chinatown88 in the 70%?

Of course not

 

[kudymen]

How about signing a former 1st overall pick center, captain of the Lightning, and cup champ in his mid 30s?

Haha this starts to feel like a glitch in the matrix, eh

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@JojoTheWhale

 

[Beef Invictus]

I honestly don’t think Tampa is a major threat to win anymore. Their prospect pool is barren, they’re aging, they overpaid a lot of depth guys. Could you imagine them even making playoffs if Kucherov sat a year again?

If I’m Guentzel, I think Carolina has a better chance to be the next up and coming Cup team. Their core is younger, they’re loaded on prospects and picks. Always competing for the ECF. I don’t really get it. Unless Carolina wasn’t interested at the price or some behind the scenes reasons.

Guentzel has Cup. Maybe he's looking to maximize earnings as he coasts to retirement for 6 years

 

[Magua]

The Flyers signing Brannstrom -- a road kill sized 5'10 -- after passing up a 6' defender, who won't even be on the roster next year, with historically good college production, is the funniest of all possible outcomes. It won't happen because Emil Andrae (!) might be blocked. But I'd laugh heartily.

 

[GKJ]

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Yamamoto didn't get a QO either.

 

[Appleyard]

The list of guys not qualified this year is the craziest post-lockout. So many players who have already proven selves as middle sixers or #4-5 guys.

And yeh, mainly smaller guys.

What is going on...

 

[Appleyard]

Nils Lundkvist being apparently 6'1 is the craziest thing I have learnt during this whole day though....

since I have stood next to him and he is 5'11 or so.

Now, dont get me wrong, having been in the vicinity of quite a lot of NHLers a lot are probably listed 1 inch taller than they are... (aside from Michael Raffl who somehow is like 2 inches bigger than listed, listed 6'0 most of career and probably 6'2)... but Lundkvist? Man if you are 6'1 so am I.

 

[renberg]

The list of guys not qualified this year is the craziest post-lockout. So many players who have already proven selves as middle sixers or #4-5 guys.

And yeh, mainly smaller guys.

What is going on...

After the LV and FLA wins, size is seen as the winning edge. Copy Cat league. Maybe speed will beat it but until then big is king

 

[Appleyard]

After the LV and FLA wins, size is seen as the winning edge. Copy Cat league. Maybe speed will beat it but until then big is king

Hilarious considering the FLA top pair are both like 5'11-6'0...

 

[trostol]

oh what could be if we had cap space

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

They do have Bojangles and Hardee's going for them. I'd def look like Alejandro Kirk if I lived there.

I am literally in a bojangles right now

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I’m not entirely sure there’s many GM’s in the NHL that would be qualified to manage a McDonald’s if they actually had to enter the workforce.

 

[Beef Invictus]

After the LV and FLA wins, size is seen as the winning edge. Copy Cat league. Maybe speed will beat it but until then big is king

This would be a shockingly bad analysis even for the NHL.

Well managed teams will feast

 

[FLYguy3911]

I like how the league totally skipped over Colorado having a top 4 of Makar, Toews, Girard, and Byram the year they won the Cup.

 

[Magua]

I like how the league totally skipped over Colorado having a top 4 of Makar, Toews, Girard, and Byram the year they won the Cup.

This is Erik Johnson erasure. The Flyers would never.

 

[Appleyard]

Should just sign Joseph, Lundkvist and Brannstrom...

one of the three probably ends up better than Drysdale. All three are better than who will make up the bottom pairing next year. And young too.

 

[Appleyard]

Like...

Forsling AND Montour were both palmed off by multiple teams because they were smaller and did not have the best physical skill-sets.

They just won a cup as a top pairing. Both because they have great IQs and "skill"...

and teams are going "f*** these young smaller guys, we need size!!"

 

[Magua]

one of the three probably ends up better than Drysdale

 

[wankstifier]

Drysdale is more of a rover than a defender. Tough comparison

 

[BiggE]

Are @BiggE and @Chinatown88 in the 70%?

Only 25% are mutants, however at least another 40% are dementia patients.

Seeing hot women wearing very little clothing pretty much year round helps make up for it though. Oh and the no state taxes thing is pretty cool too.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Was is last year or the year before that Washington picked up Strome & Milano off the scrap heap despite their teams walking away from them at the QO stage? Meanwhile most analytical models suggested these guys shouldn’t be discarded like this.

 

[BiggE]

Rumor has it the Flyers are trying to get Chara, Byfuglien and Keith Tkachuk to come out of retirement and have made inquiries to see if Mark “the Undertaker” Callaway knows how to skate.

 

[Appleyard]

Was is last year or the year before that Washington picked up Strome & Milano off the scrap heap despite their teams walking away from them at the QO stage? Meanwhile most analytical models suggested these guys shouldn’t be discarded like this.

If Messi was a hockey player he would have never even been drafted... people might scoff but see Martin St. Louis... then imagine if Martin St. Louis was twice as skilled. He probably still does not get picked. Guy was putting up almost 3 P/GP in the NCAA in his last draft eligible year and still teams were picking 6'5 guys who could barely skate and got 5 points in the OHL.

soccer actually used to be more like this too. Especially in the Northern hemisphere. Obsessed with size, strength and physical attributes. But that stopped in like the 80s when they realised that size meant nothing.

You think hockey would have realised that with Gretzky and Orr being the best 2 players in history...