Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCII: A buyer's or seller's market?

[DancingPanther]

If I was GM, this wouldn't be an issue for the Flyers. Hart would have been the first one out the door as the most valuable trade chip. And neither would drafting 7-10.

 

[Lara Emily]

Team was built around Sullivan, Rutherford cleared out a bunch of players and they brought up Sullivan's AHL players to fill out the bottom six.

Pittsburgh's offense has always been top heavy, Crosby, Malkin and Letang, a few other skilled players, and then scrubs like Sheary who Crosby elevated.

That 2015-16 team only had 5 forwards with 30+ ES points, Crosby (26-35), Kessel (22-20), Malkin (16-15 in 57g), Hornqvist (13-23), Kunitz (15-19). Bonino and Hagelin stepped up in the playoffs. The rest of the forwards were guys like Rust, Sheary, Cullen, Kuhnhackl, Fehr.

Another good point.

Pena got unreal stepping up from guys young and old who had never been that clutch before and wouldn't be after.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

At what point does Jack Edwards get put out to pasture? Even for him this is over the top.

He’s a f***ing clown in a suit.

 

[Lara Emily]

no... grinding and chasing hits away from the puck is the way..

oh wait..

Infuriating to watch. Drives me nuts.

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Gorgeous

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

He should break the Coyotes all time single season point total record (Tkachuk with 86).

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

It’s crazy how “underpaid” top players in the league still are. Matthews is having a “down” for his recent standards & still is giving $5M in surplus value this year according to this model. Even Hamilton as the only UFA contract is giving out considerable surplus value according to this.

 

[Starat327]

Infuriating to watch. Drives me nuts.

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Gorgeous

Gorgeous as long as you don't read the comments.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

It's really bad this year - extremely noticeable that he's slowing down and it's impacting the broadcast.

Was watching a Flyers game a couple weeks ago and thought to myself, I wonder if they fudge the audio feed to make the call sync up to the play quicker. Because JJ was calling goals literally as they happened. At times I don't even know if the puck was in the net yet. I asked my buddy who was watching if I was crazy, and he said he noticed it too. I'm curious if anyone knows if this is actually a thing?

 

[Deadpool8812]

Those jerseys are fugly lol

 

[deadhead]

He should break the Coyotes all time single season point total record (Tkachuk with 86).

He's ruining their tank.

 

[Rebels57]

Gorgeous as long as you don't read the comments.

Provophobe approved. What a legacy he'll leave behind.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

What a weird punishment for the innocent players on that team.

 

[kimochem]

Provophobe approved. What a legacy he'll leave behind.

Probably a guy that doesn't want to wear ugly jerseys.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Was watching a Flyers game a couple weeks ago and thought to myself, I wonder if they fudge the audio feed to make the call sync up to the play quicker. Because JJ was calling goals literally as they happened. At times I don't even know if the puck was in the net yet. I asked my buddy how was watching if I was crazy, and he said he noticed it too. I'm curious if anyone knows if this is actually a thing?

It's definitely a thing, and doesn't seem to be just Flyers broadcasts. It's a good idea in theory, but the timing has been shit.

 

[BigToe]

MTL already up 1-0

It’s tied

 

[Magua]

These artist designed pride warm-ups are consistently pretty great. I think the Kings one was the best.

The irony about the Flyers jersey controversy is they were bare minimum effort jerseys. Practice ones with rainbow numbers. They curiously didn't even touch the logo.

He should break the Coyotes all time single season point total record (Tkachuk with 86).

@Young Sandwich

 

[Young Sandwich]

@Young Sandwich

Sco Sexpos

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

These artist designed pride warm-ups are consistently pretty great. I think the Kings one was the best.

The irony about the Flyers jersey controversy is they were bare minimum effort jerseys. Practice ones with rainbow numbers. They curiously didn't even touch the logo.



@Young Sandwich

The effort that the Flyers put into warmup jerseys is LOL worthy time and time again.

Just getting rid of extra practice jersey stock.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Brady Tkachuk always is at the top of the league in expected goals but not really there in actual goals.

 

[BigToe]

MTL W. Tiger Williams celly for the shootout winner

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

MTL W. Tiger Williams celly for the shootout winner

Torts is rolling in his grave

 

[Rebels57]

Marty St. Louis sent out 2 defensemen and Pezzetta, a 4th liner grinder, for the shootout and Montreal still won lol

 

[chadateit]

Was watching a Flyers game a couple weeks ago and thought to myself, I wonder if they fudge the audio feed to make the call sync up to the play quicker. Because JJ was calling goals literally as they happened. At times I don't even know if the puck was in the net yet. I asked my buddy who was watching if I was crazy, and he said he noticed it too. I'm curious if anyone knows if this is actually a thing?

It's been like this all season, and I think last season as well. It's annoying as hell.

 

[deadhead]

Brady Tkachuk always is at the top of the league in expected goals but not really there in actual goals.

That defensive rating is pretty bad, not TDA bad, but given his contract, you'd like to see a tad more effort, obviously he's talented enough to be at least "average" in that department.

 

[DancingPanther]

140 pts for the GOAT