Gotta coach hockey practice tonight or I'd be all over making a pot of chili. It's definitely hockey and chili season!Apparently we all had the same idea. I'm making chili tonight, too. And I've seen a few people on other social sites say they're making chili, too!
Sounds plausible to me based on the first two games but I missed last night's.
It’s likely the NMC is already in effect. When a player signs an extension with trade protection in the first year, the trade protection can be retroactively applied to the final year of the current contract (unless it’s an RFA year). I can’t imagine any agent who gets a NMC not asking for this.
Found this. Doesn’t look like the NMC kicks in until the extension does.
Thing is it was done to try and get the 2nd line going. They sent Parssinen down last season to get work at center so all he had to do was plug Parssinen in with Stamkos, move Sissons to the 4th, sit McCarron and see how it looks. If it didn't go well you bump Sissons back up and finish the night.
It's clear that they're not sure about the second line. As soon as the first game they were juggling between Novak and Sissons. They had McCarron and Jankowski already in the lineup who can play center. And they have Parssinen.
The Novak move in the first game made sense as Novak wasn't playing his game, instead deferring to the other two. I kind of got the sense based on his comments that it wasn't the first time Brunette and Novak has had that conversation.
That's the part that blows my mind is camp. Its like Brunette had his mind made up coming into camp what his lines were going to be and he didn't seem to really try anything else. Thing is if that was the case then why the heck were we messing with these other guys in preseason? Could have been using that time to work on chemistry and to deal with issues that he is now needing to deal with on the fly.
I get the reasoning to move Novak but he’s pretty clearly the second best center on the team so I think we need to give it more time to make it work. Im sure like you said it was something that had come up in camp but Novak got like 10 shifts with Stamkos and Marchessault in real game action before we gave up on it. I think just a bit more patience would be beneficial for everyone instead of constantly shifting linemates and roles.
Honestly, even Marchessault appears to be playing at times with some star struck awe of his superstar line mate. So, yeah, it's self-defeating to assume it'll just snap together as quickly and easily as 3 Lego bricks, whichever ones you pull out of the box.
Not going to disagree with that, but if you were Brunette it seemed like a pretty smart move at the time because Novak came alive in that game after the shift. I mean frankly before that the 3rd was just kind of mediocre itself. It really came alive when he move Novak and Sissons. So that I kind of get and don't really have an issue.
I didn't feel that in the last game, but I get guys having that initial issue a bit.
