the NHL Thread

[BearDownUofA]

 

[silverwheels]

Duchene or Wheeler would fit nicely in Edmonton's top 6. Prolly too expensive though.

Holland giving out bad contracts continues to hamstring his ability to find good players without trading away all his draft picks or getting nothing in return for players. Fuckin dinosaur. They need a young, savvy GM before 97 and 29 leave.

 

[silverwheels]

Quick to the Rags? @Irishman

 

[Irishman]

Good for him if that's where he signs.

 

[Rutgers Mike]

Isn’t Quick washed, as the kids say?

 

[silverwheels]

Quick and Wheeler to the Rags
Ekman-Larsson to the Panthers
O'Reilly and Schenn to SMASHVILLE
Reaves to Toronto
JVR to Boston

Oilers signed someone named Lane Pederson, who was apparently injured for most of last year.

Edit: not injured, in the AHL, haha

 

[Rutgers Mike]

Garnet Hathaway to the Flyers!

LFG

 

[silverwheels]

DeBrincat is a TWINK but he can score and Detroit is on the upswing so he might do well there. Ottawa is purgatory.

 

[goblue96]

Detroit should not be allowed to have nice things.

 

[Irishman]

The fuck, Ottawa?

 

[silverwheels]

DeBrincat wasn't going to re-sign so they had to deal him. They definitely did not get an equal return, though.

 

[CJ_24]

Should have traded him for Harden @goblue96

 

[Karl Hungus]

The NHL is so awesome. No other league would dare do this.

 

[goblue96]

 

[silverwheels]

Patrice Bergeron is retiring.

 

[Irishman]

Wilson signs 7-year, $45.5 million contract with Capitals through 2030-31 | NHL.com

Forward had 22 points, led Washington in penalty minutes last season

www.nhl.com

Caps, what is you doing, babby?

@kella, let's talk about how awful this contract is.

 

[kella]

Forward had 22 points, led Washington in penalty minutes last season

incredible

 

[kella]

How is 78 penalty minutes the leader? This team has no GRIT

 

[Irishman]

HARD NOSED

 

[silverwheels]

I'm actually kind of amazed that he managed to score 22 points. Also feel like 78 penalty minutes is too few.

 

[Irishman]

Well he was injured for a while.

 

[BearDownUofA]

HARD NOSED

BLUE COLLAR

 

[silverwheels]

Fuck, PISSBURGH got Karlsson from San Jose in a three team deal. That has to put them in the top tier of the East for next year if they can stay healthy.

 

[Irishman]

I don't expect Karlsson to make that much difference. It does nothing to change the fact that their core is old. I guess we'll see, but they really lack identity and I'm not sure this solves that.

 

[silverwheels]

True. And the current cap makes it harder for teams with aging cores to really have a true transition to a new generation. Probably going to happen to Tampa Bay soon.

 

[Irishman]

Yeah, I totally get that. They're really mortgaging their future - both of these teams. At least they're trying to complete, unlike the BUMS.

 

[silverwheels]

If Philly can get Michkov out of his KHL contract and over here soon they'll at least be FUN.

 

[Irishman]

Dumba signs with the Yotes. Lol

 

[goblue96]

 

[silverwheels]

Babcock resigned in Columbus already LMAO

 

[goblue96]

Get fucked Grabcock

 

[Skeeter]

Contract that franchise. They're an embarrassment

 

[goblue96]

Just launch Columbus into the sun.

 

[goblue96]

BUMS ARE BACK

 

[silverwheels]

 

[Irishman]

Oof. I don't know about the faux leather breezers and gloves.

 

[silverwheels]

Yeah the gloves look better in low light but the pants are prolly irredeemable. Will have to see how they look in action but woof.

 

[Irishman]

Still better than whatever changes the Flyers made this year. Oh, a slightly different orange shade and they removed the outline of the sleeve numbers. So wow. Much gritty.

 

[goblue96]

Still better than whatever changes the Flyers made this year. Oh, a slightly different orange shade and they removed the outline of the sleeve numbers. So wow. Much gritty.

They made up for shitty uniform change by going to back to the original Centre ice logo.

 

[silverwheels]

Vasilevskiy out 8-10 weeks. I wouldn't hate it if Tampa missed the playoffs.

 

[ZackMills]

 

[Karl Hungus]

 

[silverwheels]

LOL the defense is going to cost them again.

 

[silverwheels]

Bedard was pissed that his first preseason goal was an empty netter, LOL

 

[Karl Hungus]

ESPN is going to debut an NHL version of RedZone in October. It sounds like they'll only do it on nights when the whole league is in action, but it could be cool. We'll see.

 

[CJ_24]

It's ESPN. They'll fuck it up

 

[CJ_24]

Is this fucking thing real?!

 

[goblue96]

Sign Gritty up to do the job.

 

[silverwheels]

Prediction time

Atlantic: Toronto, Florida, Tampa Bay, Buffalo, Boston, Ottawa, Detroit, Montreal
Metro: New Jersey, Carolina, Rangers, Pittsburgh, Islanders, Washington, Philadelphia, Columbus

Central: Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, Nashville, Winnipeg, Arizona, St. Louis, Chicago
Pacific: Edmonton, Vegas, Los Angeles, Calgary, Seattle, Vancouver, Anaheim, San Jose

Colorado over Carolina for the Cup

 

[Karl Hungus]

What the fuck? Not just getting rid of Pride nights but out & out banning even voluntary player displays?