News & Notes XLV: Simply Having A Wonderful Canesmastime

[chaz4hockey]

We should have Burns stay in a lower role if we can get an upgrade.

I don’t see that much of a difference in him. This is almost completely the result of losing Pesce and Skjei while giving those minutes to the current top two pairs who just aren’t as good defensively.

As someone else said earlier, Nikishin isn’t likely to fix this by himself.

Burns nhl edge stats have deteriorated pretty significantly this year versus LY and in particular versus 2 years ago. He probably has met his past sale date.

Time for Canes to move on.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Reading Ken Dryden's (audio)book Scotty, about NHL legendary coach and infamous curmudgeon Scotty Bowman. It's a semi-autobiography of the man interspersed with his descriptions and explanations of his top 8 teams in NHL history.

I have a lot of thoughts, but I thought this was funny: one of the teams is the 55-56 Canadiens. Their coach, Hector "Toe" Blake would spend his Fridays at his desk, surrounded by stacks of paper. Back then the NHL didn't track stats, so Blake had it done in house. He would follow data like "who was on ice for a goal against," and if he kept noticing a guy was on ice for a lot of goals against in his stacks of paper, but he thought they were fine, he would assume he'd missed something in the eye test and bench them.

Moral of the story: stat nerds have always been here.

Also I haven't gotten there yet, but one of his teams is the 14-15 Blackhawks, which means Teuvo Teravainen is in this book, and I think that's charming

What a great goaltender he was and has had quite a multi-faceted career.

His book from the early 80’s “The Game” is a great read.

He also famously called the 1980 Miracle on Ice for ABC.

 

[Lempo]

I'm not comfortable with having to deal with Burns' ironman run going forward.

 

[Chrispy]

We should have Burns stay in a lower role if we can get an upgrade.

I don’t see that much of a difference in him. This is almost completely the result of losing Pesce and Skjei while giving those minutes to the current top two pairs who just aren’t as good defensively.

As someone else said earlier, Nikishin isn’t likely to fix this by himself.

If you can get him cheap, maybe. But then you have Nikishin-Burns and Ghost-Walker as bottom pairings which isn’t great. I don’t want to think about Ghost-Burns. And does that put Chatfield with Slavin?

If you let Burns and Orlov walk that’s about $13M that can be used in part to find a good RD and then put Nikishin with either Chatfield or Walker.

Slavin-RD
Nikishin-Walker
Ghost-Chatfield

I don’t mind the look of that with a good RD. Needs Slavin and the RD to take the tough minutes but that person doesn’t need to be a PP QB.

 

[chaz4hockey]

If you can get him cheap, maybe. But then you have Nikishin-Burns and Ghost-Walker as bottom pairings which isn’t great. I don’t want to think about Ghost-Burns. And does that put Chatfield with Slavin?

If you let Burns and Orlov walk that’s about $13M that can be used in part to find a good RD and then put Nikishin with either Chatfield or Walker.

Slavin-RD
Nikishin-Walker
Ghost-Chatfield

I don’t mind the look of that with a good RD. Needs Slavin and the RD to take the tough minutes but that person doesn’t need to be a PP QB.

Morrow might be ready too.

 

[Chrispy]

Morrow might be ready too.

If Morrow is also ready there will be a trade to make space for Morrow. I can’t see a right side of Walker, Chatfield, Morrow next year.

 

[Borsig]

If morrow is ready why didnt he get the call when Ghost went down? If its handedness, then hes not ready.

 

[Borsig]

If Morrow is also ready there will be a trade to make space for Morrow. I can’t see a right side of Walker, Chatfield, Morrow next year.

oh I can.

 

[chaz4hockey]

If morrow is ready why didnt he get the call when Ghost went down? If its handedness, then hes not ready.

Ghost=left

IMO, Canes want to give their young players full year in Chicago before considering them for the parent club. Thus, right D Morrow would only get a move up if there was a calamitous situation.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Yeah, gone are the days where we get ravaged with injuries and 21 year old Slavin, Pesce, and Carrick all get called up to be half the D.

RBA clearly has a preference toward Smith, Stillman, Ryan, and then going out and trading for Coghlan again lol.

 

[Borsig]

I mean if a guy is NHL ready, and you're down a man, you run him on his off side, no?