League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) | 2023-24 Regular Season Edition

[SherVaughn30]

Who doesn't think FLA gets called for the next penalty?

Panthers 1 PP and the Oilers 3 PP's...

 

[Calicaps]

Uh-oh

 

[Calicaps]

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Welp….only thing to do now is to avoid the sweep…

 

[RedRocking]

Barkov to Draisaitl

 

[SherVaughn30]

Bob, despite allowing 3 goals in this game on 35 shots, had .914 SV%. Skinner, giving up 4 goals on 23 shots, had a .826 SV%. You just can't win games when your goalie keeps having sub .900 SV%'s.

 

[stephenball]

It’s almost as if Draisaitl was suspended, barely noticed him

 

[PlushMinus]

Welp….only thing to do now is to avoid the sweep…

Then again, if the Oilers lose at home they'll at least see the Cup raised in their own barn for the first time in a long long while

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Alexander Steen Is Built To Be the Blues' Next Great GM After Surprise News — The Hockey News

If he approaches his managerial career the way he did his playing career, Alexander Steen will make a great hockey executive, says Ken Campbell.

apple.news

 

[hb12xchamps]

I think you could easily argue that Doug Armstrong stinks at his job and shouldn’t really be mentoring Steen anyway lol

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

I think you could easily argue that Doug Armstrong stinks at his job and shouldn’t really be mentoring Steen anyway lol

One could argue that Twabby could be an NHL GM.......you would look like a fool, but you can argue what you want....lol

 

[hb12xchamps]

Friedman did have a follow up on today’s podcast regarding the CF discussion. He said he never meant it to sound like ONLY 9 teams had a back up option. Those were the ones he knew off that were a definite. He also mentioned he knows some teams are strategically being vague about if they have an internal version of the site or not and he’s sure there are more than those 9 he brought up.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Why Blues GM Doug Armstrong will take a step back and how he handpicked successor Alexander Steen — The Athletic

Alexander Steen, 40, played 12 of his 15 NHL seasons with the Blues, and in two years he will take over as the team's 12th general manager.

apple.news

 

[bacchist]

I think this is probably the biggest thing. Teams were likely using CapFriendly to observe the cap situations of teams outside their own and using that instead of manually tracking (which is somewhat important for making trades and identifying trade targets that are affordable)
Not sure what's stopping teams from entering all the cap data from capfriendly into their own excel sheet or whatever and designating the data entry task to someone, unless CF had some special server-side API only teams had access to I don't think this should be more than an annoyance to opposing teams.

The big thing is tracking the data. Following every team/player and analyzing every trade, contract, roster move, etc is not trivial. Getting all the existing data is easy, but keeping up with it will require some resources.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Hard to sweep in a 7 game series...

 

[Calicaps]

Hard to sweep in a 7 game series...

Fourth game is always the hardest to win. That said, the Oilers have score 7 in the last 2 periods and change. Gotta pull it together.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Fourth game is always the hardest to win. That said, the Oilers have score 7 in the last 2 periods and change. Gotta pull it together.

They only scored 1 goal in the first 2 games. It's now at least 9 in 4. Law of goal averages just evening out a bit.

 

[stephenball]

The problem with being down 0-3 in a series is you have to do this 3 more times afterwards. The Oilers can absolutely truck the Panthers this game, then lose 1-0 game 5

 

[SherVaughn30]

I guess a $9 million dollar year blind squirrel can find a nut once in a very long while!

 

[SherVaughn30]

I'm not watching the game. Were the Oilers gifted a 2-man advantage? Calling 2 penalties on 2 different Panthers at the same time according to the scoreboard stats.

 

[hb12xchamps]

Panthers wanted to win in Miami. Miami might have a better night scene than Edmonton. Idk haven’t checked yelp reviews yet

 

[SherVaughn30]

Oilers got their scoring points fix in front of their fans. Now Oiler/Canadien fans will think the Oilers are back in the series. A reality check will settle in for Game 5.

 

[SherVaughn30]

So 8-1 win for the Oilers. One problem, there are 2 days in between this game and Game 5. It's not like the Oilers can carry a lot of momentum into Game 5. Nothing has really changed other than McDavid/Draisaitl racked up their more usual points in a game.

 

[PlushMinus]

I watched the first 2 periods and it was obvious from the beginning that the Panthers just didn't turn up for this game. The Oilers (and their moronic fans) will take heart from this but the Panthers will be back to their usual selves for game 5.

Even Paul Maurice didn't look particularly concerned when they showed him behind the bench? He knows the team collectively pooped the bed on this one.

I highly recommend watching his press conferences. After seeing a few of them in this series he is now the person I most want on the Panthers team to win a Cup. Great insight and answers to questions and just a very cool guy all around.

 

[stephenball]

I watched the first 2 periods and it was obvious from the beginning that the Panthers just didn't turn up for this game. The Oilers (and their moronic fans) will take heart from this but the Panthers will be back to their usual selves for game 5.

Even Paul Maurice didn't look particularly concerned when they showed him behind the bench? He knows the team collectively pooped the bed on this one.

I highly recommend watching his press conferences. After seeing a few of them in this series he is now the person I most want on the Panthers team to win a Cup. Great insight and answers to questions and just a very cool guy all around.

To be fair I feel like Maurice’s pulse is never over like, 50. But I agree, his pressers are phenomenal, he’s a great coach who has been at it for a long time, I’ll be happy to see him get his cup.

Honestly I just hope the Panthers win game 5. Feels like the best case scenario is the Panthers win in front of their home fans, and the Oilers fans got to see a huge smack down as the last home game.