Look at standings in July. 2/3 are out of contention. But the teams that spend money, the teams in the top 10 of payroll, are always still in the race.
Pushing a stick to interfere with a play anywhere in the defensive zone is a penalty shot? What the fuck
Throwing your stick in the defensive zone is a penalty shot (in USAH at least, probably NHL) so I fail to see the difference.
Thinking all night how Burakovsky sucks and we need to trade him and of course he scores late in the 3rd. He does still kinda suck.
While playing almost the whole year with one of Connor or Ehlers on his line, who had 60 goals combined last year/19 so far this year. He's such an amazing shooter he's still so valuable, and if there's one dimension you want a guy to have it's shooting, but he has to be one of the most completely one-dimensional players in recent memory.
And why do the Canucks, Bruins, Penguins, Rangers and Kings suck too? Wait a couple of years and the Lightning and Jets are going to be bad as well.
Lightning blew out the Avs 7-1, could’ve been worse than that too. Looked like the Avs couldn’t wait to end their road trip when it was 3-1.
Avs are shit defensively, but this year it’s hard to find a team that plays good defense. Maybe nashville?
It was legal. Bailey took a run at Kronwall later in the game which ended in Larkin (no, god no) fighting Bailey.
Pettersson (1 g, 3 a) & Boeser (2 g) have 3 goals, 3 assists, and 6 points between through 2 periods.
#New York Rangers I saw that K'Andre Miller is having a really good season at Wisconsin so far, wish the Canucks would've traded up to get him. Also read rumors that Adam Fox isn't going to sign with the Hurricanes and wants to become an UFA to sign with the Rangers.
Supposedly the reason the flames threw fox in with the Hanifin/Lindholm/Hamilton/Ferland trade was because Calgary didn't think they could sign him. He's ready to play now, but I think if he's played 3 years he's probably going to wait it out 1 more and have his pick. Almost at 2 PPG at Harvard as a DMan which is ridiculous.
Speaking of college prospects, what's the scouting on Evan Barratt? I thought he was probably just padding stats against bad opponents at Penn State in the early season but they just shitstomped Notre Dame 9-1 and is leading the country in points as a 19 yo. og543ss Sean Connery have anything on him?
He's been struggling in the A. Also I dont know if you want to subject him to the defensive effort the blues have been giving this year. Edit - they actually called up Binnington, who has been out playing Husso a little bit. Much lower ceiling though.
Yeah I just looked at his stats and it’s not great but he had a good year last year. At some point you have to give a guy his shot
Yeah, Lindholm with Gaudreau has been nasty and Hanifin is a real nice second pairing guy. In hindsight maybe making a trade with your last season's head coach and his new team wasn't the best idea.
Didn’t realize this had never been done before. Can’t wait until they play their 1500th game together still as Blackhawks