News from Around the AHL/NHL/KHL 2023-24
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Throttle
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Definitely, unexpected. They are Trotz year 1.
However, if coaching matters? He was the same coach that coached them to lottoland. In PHI’s situation, seems more like a management change, player changes, and getting out from underneath crappy Fletcher as their GM.
The thing with PHI, is this can happen only if all the players buy in. That usually only lasts one season. Good for them for making the best of it considering Fletcher was a train wreck. Funny how all the flyers fans were up in arms about all the organizational nepotism over the summer…
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Totally agree and solid point. Seems like these coaches have short shelve lives and go back into the recycled heap. Lavy is another with the Rags. Seems like organizations and the coaching market is setup for short term bursts, not longer sustain coaches developing as a team does.
You bring up a good point about Trotz year 1. The Isles were disrespected by JT and written off. The team played with a chip on their shoulder and was a pain to play against. They also shaved off 100 GA from the previous year. Torts has them playing the same way and Gauthier deal helps that narrative as well. This is also tough to sustain for the long haul.
Not saying Tortorella doesn't deserve credit, but having a healthy Couturier has made an enormous impact on that team. He's as good a 2-way center as .. there is? At least when healthy. And while it may hurt in the long run, the Drysdale deal is going to help them right away.
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Getting back to this, this article says his father is named Michael and says he's a teacher. I suspect this is that guy.
Meet James Hagens, the 2025 NHL Draft's top prospect and hockey's next American star
Hagens, a 17-year-old from Long Island, is the front-runner to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
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Getting back to this, this article says his father is named Michael and says he's a teacher. I suspect this is that guy.
Meet James Hagens, the 2025 NHL Draft's top prospect and hockey's next American star
Hagens, a 17-year-old from Long Island, is the front-runner to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
We Merokians rule the hockey and lacrosse world!
Traced the Dad to Merrick Avenue Middle School
Another former teacher in the Merrick-Bellmore district that went on to some fame in Lacrosse is John Danowski
Getting back to this, this article says his father is named Michael and says he's a teacher. I suspect this is that guy.
Meet James Hagens, the 2025 NHL Draft's top prospect and hockey's next American star
Hagens, a 17-year-old from Long Island, is the front-runner to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
I always get such a mercurial feeling of sadness whenever we mention promising kids that can be drafted in the first round.
Now, Hagens is a topic for the 2025 draft, but when thinking about the next draft, it's like I'm already certain that we won't be drafting in the first round.
It's like, well, it's so clear at this point that the first rounder will be used for the intents and purpose of going for it all again this season.
I mean, a total collapse could lead to Lou doing some remodeling and actually keeping the pick. There's no recent history of it, but it could happen.
Alas, we know this team. We know they're going to find ways to remain in the thick of things, knocking on the door of those wild card spots wild having phases like the current one that drive us crazy. And we know that something will be done to bring in another guy for an uncertain playoff push. That's the MO. That's how Lou rolls.
This season already has all the earmarks of seeing that 1st moved by the trade deadline.
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Getting back to this, this article says his father is named Michael and says he's a teacher. I suspect this is that guy.
Meet James Hagens, the 2025 NHL Draft's top prospect and hockey's next American star
Hagens, a 17-year-old from Long Island, is the front-runner to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
Has to be I just checked the BMCCP page and yep the father Michael is still there! Has to be him that's f***ing wild man lol
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Here's the strategy. Lou trades the '24 first round pick but uses a later pick to select Hagen's older brother Michael. Then James makes it known he will only play for the Isles. This is assuming he's not a NYR or Bruins fan or something.
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I seriously hope not. It depends on the assets in the trade, I guess.
While I lament the lack of recent 1st rounders, I feel like some of our middling prospects are doing pretty good.
DuFour, Jeffries, Maggio, Nelson, Finley, Berg, George, Lennox. No game changers that I can see, but solid kids.
Not that I am an expert in prospects, it's just that I think our prospects are a lot like our parent team.
Low on skill, but high on character.
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I really don't want to trade our #1. I'm jealous, and I want a Jewish offensive defenseman too, damnit (Zeev Buium). Don't want to be the only NY metro team without one.
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He’s said a bunch of times he’s an Isles fan.Here's the strategy. Lou trades the '24 first round pick but uses a later pick to select Hagen's older brother Michael. Then James makes it known he will only play for the Isles. This is assuming he's not a NYR or Bruins fan or something.
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Funny how it took TSN SIX YEARS to confirm what we told Leafs fans . . .
Always found it interesting in the summer of ‘who is gonna be captain’ with JT there and the emerged Matthews (and no Lou), that whole mooning the cop by Matthews was perfectly timed to come out, when the incident happened months earlier.
With the whole way JTs UFA was orchestrated by his agent (and was eventually canned by the league/PA), it’s all very interesting.
leeroggy
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The Real JT
The crowd called out for more
This truly is worthy of their old column
“This week’s sign that the apocalypse is upon us”
I’m not here to say that the 2024 version of SI was a bastion of journalism but their demise is another sign that thoughtful and critical, unbiased analysis is fast becoming a relic of the past.
Soon we’ll be left with nothing but blowhards like Biz and homers like the Rags crew.
leeroggy
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It's a tossup between Biz and Jack Edwards . . . Edwards blows the Rags crew out of the water on homerism
Edwards would call the Boston Tea Party for the Brits and probably has wet dreams to this day for Stan Jonathan's KO of Pierre Bouchard
idk. i don't remember when sports reporting had those things. not like i remember reliable local news, which doesn't exist anymore at all.
crashthenet
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The end of times.
Sports now are a tale told by idiots. Full of sound and fury - signifying nothing.
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leeroggy
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I know you're kidding but I don't think Lambert ever gets another shot at a HC gig. He was worse than Cappy.
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I get what you are saying. As a prospects purveyor i could see how this must be less exciting than 95-05 was for you. I still prefer being in the thick of things and having a GM who makes a splash at the trade deadline, again that's just me though. I'm sure there are rough times ahead with no prospect pool to speak of.
leeroggy
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He'll get another shot
He was a hot commodity when hired
Roy has only had one NHL stint and that was 10 years ago
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