Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCI: Bring Your Own Mustard

[Strawberry Fields]

This one might be of interest to you @Captain Dave Poulin .

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This one might be of interest to you @Captain Dave Poulin .
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Hold on to that one, buddy - that is going to be worth a fortune.

 

[Magua]

Hold on to that one, buddy - that is going to be worth a fortune.

He’ll be 34 before the Hawks make him a full time NHLer.

 

[Magua]

 

[Beef Invictus]

Must be those cursed video games

 

[DancingPanther]

Damn, hope everything is ok

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Per John Ourand, Warner Brothers Discovery is pulling out of RSNs too. This is the kind of stuff that can keep the cap from rising.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Hopefully his mental health is ok.

 

[Lindberg]

I think it is perfectly possible and acceptable to both trash him for that massive draft botch, and praise him for the recovery.

Just about any team that whiffs that disastrously would be playing the what-if game now looking back at it. With a new GM. Instead of being where Boston is now. It's bizarre and it entertains me.

I just think a lot of people crap on the GM while ignoring the whole context of the situation. I've never been an NHL GM but I'm sure they are spending far more time analyzing the NHL and AHL (even if that) landscape.

He also made trades for those picks. They didn't work out at all and they are terrible picks in hindsight but you're missing all the context on why those picks were made. It's totally possible a lot of the scouts and their analytics department were saying "These are the guys you want"... who knows.

It is easy to look at everything in vacuum. He's willing to move players for value, not sure I can say Fletcher knows anything about that.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Even beyond that draft things you expect a GM to have a better grasp on Sweeney definitely made some puzzling decisions early on in his tenure that trended on the archaic side of operating. The Rinaldo trade, the Backes signing, etc. off the top of my head. But since then in recent years he’s added Hall, Lindholm, now Orlov, etc.

 

[GKJ]

Per John Ourand, Warner Brothers Discovery is pulling out of RSNs too. This is the kind of stuff that can keep the cap from rising.

This is a serious problem, but it’s too business oriented obviously for any of the insiders to report on it. The Flyers are fortunate to not have this problem.

 

[Cody Webster]

Reading the comments, the amount of people who had know idea who the "rags" were is kind of astonishing

 

[sabremike]

Even beyond that draft things you expect a GM to have a better grasp on Sweeney definitely made some puzzling decisions early on in his tenure that trended on the archaic side of operating. The Rinaldo trade, the Backes signing, etc. off the top of my head. But since then in recent years he’s added Hall, Lindholm, now Orlov, etc.

He got Hall for Bjork and a 2nd because Hall had a NTC and said "I'll only agree to a trade to Boston".

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Pittsburgh had a Fire Hextall chant, Philly should do the same and have a Fire Fletcher chant.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

He got Hall for Bjork and a 2nd because Hall had a NTC and said "I'll only agree to a trade to Boston".

But still he’s targeting players who are actually good at hockey now. Even Lindholm & Orolov he paid more for in assets but those players are actually good.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

JvR might actually be the biggest name left on actual trade deadline day at this point.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Kane is a Ranger from all accounts.

Now we wait for official word and what garbage the Rangers unloaded on Hawks

Awful day

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Pittsburgh had a Fire Hextall chant, Philly should do the same and have a Fire Fletcher chant.

fire Hakstok...

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Edit

 

[GKJ]

Rangers got Lockwood and a 7th in 2026(!).

Every team should’ve made that trade.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Wtf is that trade?

(Still returned more than Ghost).

 

[trostol]

Meanwhile Chuck is playing Where's Waldo

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Bowers has injury history, but another shrewd move from the Bruins.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Rangers got Lockwood and a 7th in 2026(!).

Every team should’ve made that trade.

Likely teams expect he will be KHL bound at end of season