You act like this isn’t seen in like 50% of hockey fights where they want to keep going. Zadorov was also shoving reinhart head into the ice just several minutes before this.
For the reinhart goal review? Obviously swayman didn’t haven’t it and it got poked in and he was saved by a whistle that wasn’t that long at all before the puck goes in. We just saw a continuation goal called last night or the night before. A goal wasnt out of the question there. I agree with the refs whistle who likely didn’t see the puck and assumed it was covered but it quite obviously wasn’t.
Puck was under the goalie, you don’t get to slash the goalie, can’t score that way. Also the whistle had clearly blown before the puck eventually crossed.
The puck was obviously visible to Reinhart who very easily poked it in. It might have been on swaymans pad, not under it. It was close enough to the whistle to review they called it right but it was closer than you are making it sound.
This isn't the rule anymore. If the puck is in motion prior to the whistle, continuation can be called to award a goal. I agree with the no goal call because the puck was in Swayman's pads and give the benefit of the doubt to the goalie, but it clearly was visible enough to Reinhart to poke it free and go into the net. Refs imo got it right but the explanation was dumb and wrong because it was pretty clear the puck was moving before the whistle.
We had no view of the puck in motion after the initial save and before the whistle (since Swayman was on top of it). Reinhart is slashing the goalie there regardless of if he sees the puck.
Imo that’s a cop out explanation because we know Reinhart hit the puck. Say the puck was covered and move on.
Clarkson averaged 175 SOG per season in his career and only shot like 3% above his career average in his 30 goal season. Olivier has struggled to get above a shot per game in his career. Not on my watch with this lazy comparison pal
It was more of a troll than laziness. but yeah, the shooting bender he is on is absolutely hilarious.
It looked like Hellebuyck was going to run away with another Vezina but Vasy has actually made it a race the last couple months
even with how many good rookies there are this year, Wolf has to run away with the Calder, right? would love to see how is odds have progressed from preseason to now.
He should win it but won't imo. Calgary's GM was obviously pandering when he said it, but I also think it's true: When it comes to awards, something like "rookie skaters are compared to other rookie skaters. Rookie goaltenders get compared to the best goalies in the league."
So you guys that follow this way more and are way more knowledgeable about it. Is there anything with the Preds currently to give me hope that we won’t be shit for years to come? Cause everything I’ve seen so far with my limited knowledge says “lol nope”. Much like the titans right now.
Trotz really fucked them but they do have 3 1sts this year (this site is also almost identical to capfriendly btw) https://capwages.com/teams/nashville_predators
pray that this season was an abberation and that all of the FA signings that look washed find the fountain of youth over the summer.
The average age of their top 6 is like 33 lol. They could do well at the TDL next year though if they commit to a rebuild.
The Preds are playing better as of late than how they started the season. I’d be worried about Saros though
I know we've talked about some teams needing the playoffs to be in the black for the year, (Though some would argue with the way franchise valuations have gone in the last decade, that's not exactly true) but I think the downside of trying to compete with a flawed team is often worse. Like, how much are those 3 home games in a first round exit/delaying actually competing for anything really worth compared to potentially making deep playoff runs in the future with a proper rebuild?
Maybe the two of them came to an agreement that working in the same organization was a bad situation for their relationship?