HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024-2025 season

[red devil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850646820617343122

 

[Whitesnake]

Kovalenko scores...my god am I old....

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

McDavid is now 8 points away from 1000, at 27 years old. He has two games to tie Bossy for 3rd quickest (656 games), but Bossy did it at 29 years old, so this will make McDavid the 3rd youngest to reach 1000 points, behind only Lemieux and Gretzky.

In terms of ajusted points, he's already quicker (number of games) than Bossy.

 

[nhlfan9191]

Michkov apparently has family in Brooklyn which is 1.5hr drive from Philly - and is NYC Little Russia (Brighton Beach & Sheepshead Bay)

I don’t think anybody cares about where Michkov has family. He was an 18 year old draftee acting a high profile UFA.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

I don’t think anybody cares about where Michkov has family. He was an 18 year old draftee acting a high profile UFA.

Wasn’t drafted yet so no he wasn’t a draftee. If it’s true good for him for using what little leverage he had to end up in the spot he felt was best. He’s not the first and won’t be the last.

 

[JianYang]

Kovalenko scores...my god am I old....

Any relation to Andrei?

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850646820617343122

They look like they're getting ready to head to the grade 11 high school dance.

 

[red devil]

Any relation to Andrei?

Nikolai is his son

 

[JianYang]

Nikolai is his son

It doesn't even phase me anymore.

I remember vividly skau koivu hype before his first game.... now we drafted his kid.

That was my old moment.

 

[nhlfan9191]

Wasn’t drafted yet so no he wasn’t a draftee. If it’s true good for him for using what little leverage he had to end up in the spot he felt was best. He’s not the first and won’t be the last.

There would be no point in having a draft if every prospect did that. It’s not something to applaud him over. He was regarded as the second best player in the draft and was up there with Bedard for talent. He fell to seventh. People are acting like Hughes was the only one who passed on him. Clearly teams were turned off. It wasn’t just us.

 

[red devil]

It doesn't even phase me anymore.

I remember vividly skau koivu hype before his first game.... now we drafted his kid.

That was my old moment.

Wait until we draft Saku's grandson, now that we make us feel real old lol

 

[Nogatco Rd]

There would be no point in having a draft if every prospect did that

Jagr, Lindros, Gretzky, Elway, Manning, Bo Jackson

All guys who used what means they had available to them to avoid being stuck in an undesirable professional situation via the draft… And yet the draft didn’t fall apart because of their actions.

They all went on to superstar careers and for the most part the drama surrounding the circumstances of their draft just ended up being a footnote to their legacy.