This just confirms to me that Columbus doesn't know what they're doing. Even if that ended up being a good top 4 the age curve is hitting by the time they fix their forward depth. They're staggering their window.
Also I do think Severson is a very good player and I think NJ knew that, but with 3 D signed long term and Hughes and Nemec coming up they were doing the right thing letting him go imo.
i want him to go to whatever team wash fans hate the most. It will be funny seeing them turn on him after defending his dirtiness for so long
Ovie and Sid in awkward situations with both already having a cup(s) and their teams half a decade away from contending again. What are the odds either are with their current teams in 2-3 years?
Getting him for next year makes a ton of sense. Paying him 9+ mil to stick around long term would probably end up a poor idea.
I wanted to check something. Contract Signings - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps There have been 13 goalie signings with at least a 5m AAV in the last 3 years. I would say those GM's would probably want mulligans on all but 3, maybe 4 of them. Don't pay goalies.
TNT having Gretzky, Lundquist, Biz with Liam holding down the fort is pretty damn impressive. Huge improvement compared to Brian Boucher and Keith Jones.
This is a decade old, this says they peak at 23. And in their conclusion they say that 27-32 are a goalies roughest years, which it’s own data doesn’t support. It’s shit.
https://hockeyviz.com/txt/age22 2022. Goalies peak in their mid 20’s. Where on earth is any data that goalies peak in their 30’s?
It’s nice to see all these die hard miami fans in the stands, after supporting their franchise for so long they deserve the success. I wonder how many of them wonder why the ref blows the whistle sometimes
But I will admit that I thought marshessault ran a pretty obvious interfering on barkov on the Vegas pp
Go back and watch it. Ref in the zone let go the slash on stone so he was going to let go the trip on Staal. far ref only saw the trip and called it. Both were obvious penalties. Only one was called.