Koopa Kid posted:

Sens called up Zaitsev, which is notable to me because I didn’t realize he was actually playing in the AHL Lou doesn’t get enough poo poo for how bad that contract is.

Eric the Mauve posted:

If a team like the Caps wants to sell, they should be selling now not at the deadline if an acceptable return is to be had, to maximize their Bedard lottery tickets.

But they are not going to sell, because of Ovechkin. Just like the Penguins aren't going to sell as long as Crosby is there. Both teams will be buyers this year.

ImplicitAssembler posted:

One easy variable, though, is Mike Yeo which the management hired to 'assist' Bruce. Given that Rutherford didn't want Bruce there in the first place, it would be easy to think that Yeo is there to undermine Bruce.

stab posted:

Just woke up and Lol Habs

xzzy posted:

Regulate goalies until the league average is 0.8%. If this requires banning the butterfly, so be it. I demand pad stacks.

The Dirty Burger posted:

Poile’s been around since 97 and hasn’t drafted an elite forward in his entire tenure. His biggest achievement is a silver medal at the 2010 Olympics lol

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

RIP this summer's free agents who were hoping to get super paid:

https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/1602708808085774337

T-Bone posted:

https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1602797178472337411

feels like it's probably inevitable that they'll go to 20/32 with a 3 game play-in even if Bettman seems to be against it

Cartoon Man posted:

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/ECHL/status/1603864505020211225

Atlanta Gladiators of the ECHL bringing back the thrashers look

Pungry posted:

The most frustrating thing about this year is that Panthers' management already expected it to be a step back and all these small injuries keeping key players out of big games gives them further excuses to just run it back the next year with little change. "Oh, Barkov was out against the Bruins and it was Spencer Knight's first game back off of two weeks of sickness, of course they got thumped", "oh Duclair was out for 3 months, no wonder they had to sign Eric Staal", "oh they're putting $14.5 million against the cap for goaltending with Bob and Knight and were expecting the salary cap to go up for next year, of course they can't expect to compete" etc etc etc. Just super frustrating that you can list any number of excuses for why this year is not working anywhere near as well as last year without considering that this dumbass culture change of hiring Paul Maurice and trying to emulate the Lightning is the actual problem.

Cartoon Man posted:

Is Ron Tugnutt the hockey playing cousin of baseball legend Bobson Dugnutt?

ThinkTank posted:

McDavid should be the top of all hockey best of lists except for "interview ability." Anyone who says he is anything other than the most talented player in the post lockout world is just being a contrarian idiot like the 80s fedora guy who claimed Sergei Shepelev was better than Gretzky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-0rHnnS7U8