Around The League 40: As we barrel towards 40 teams

[HisIceness]

Colorado had the worst record, picked 4th, and ended up with the best player anyway. Or 2nd best if you think Miro is better.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Colorado had the worst record, picked 4th, and ended up with the best player anyway. Or 2nd best if you think Miro is better.

Elias Pettersson could be considered the best when all is said and done.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Elias Pettersson could be considered the best when all is said and done.

I mean, sure, long career ahead. But Makar is in rarified air territory already. HOF territory. It’s not close so far.

 

[DaveG]

Dang. That sucks.

Ex-No. 2 pick Patrick retires at 25 years old

Nolan Patrick, the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NHL draft, appears to have ended his playing career at age 25.

www.espn.com

EDIT: 6.5 years later, this is an absolute bonkers top 5

#	Player	Nationality	NHL team	College/junior/club team
1	Nico Hischier (C)	Switzerland	New Jersey Devils	Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)
2	Nolan Patrick (C)	Canada	Philadelphia Flyers	Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL)
3	Miro Heiskanen (D)	Finland	Dallas Stars	HIFK (Liiga)
4	Cale Makar (D)	Canada	Colorado Avalanche	Brooks Bandits (AJHL)
5	Elias Pettersson (C)	Sweden	Vancouver Canucks	Timra IK (HockeyAllsvenskan)

Man, even admittedly being sour on Patrick heading into that draft due to his injury history this hurts to see. Unfortunately I can also very much relate to his reasoning for retiring.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I mean, sure, long career ahead. But Makar is in rarified air territory already. HOF territory. It’s not close so far.

Thus the "When all is said and done". Certainly Makar has been much better than anyone else in his draft to this point.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Tkachuk is seen as the what if, but Eichel hurts more, imo. If you were to craft the missing piece in this era, it’s arguably him. Elite skill. A right hand shot that would take full possession of the half wall opposite Aho. Not as big of a deal in my mind as others, but a center that would have created a dynamic 1-2 punch down the middle.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I think Tkachuk is brought up because it was literally between us and St. Louis until the final minute, and we were apparently the favorites. And then Florida came out of apparently nowhere with an over-the-top offer compared to what we and St. Louis were offering.

I don't think Eichel was ever close to anything but an inquiry.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I think Tkachuk is brought up because it was literally between us and St. Louis until the final minute, and we were apparently the favorites. And then Florida came out of apparently nowhere with an over-the-top offer compared to what we and St. Louis were offering.

I don't think Eichel was ever close to anything but an inquiry.

Without us including Necas, Buffalo was never that interested

 

[DaveG]

I think Tkachuk is brought up because it was literally between us and St. Louis until the final minute, and we were apparently the favorites. And then Florida came out of apparently nowhere with an over-the-top offer compared to what we and St. Louis were offering.

I don't think Eichel was ever close to anything but an inquiry.

Yep. I know we were the late favorites on that one and know the package was built around Necas and futures (no idea what, probably Nikishin included but eff it) then Florida came in out of nowhere and offered up Huberdeau after a literal record setting year, and that was that.

 

[Wolfpuck]

The Sabres scored 9 goals the game after giving up 9.

LOLeafs

 

[CandyCanes]

You sure about that Auston

 

[sabremike]

The Sabres scored 9 goals the game after giving up 9.

LOLeafs

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

You sure about that Auston

Ayres game has been wiped from Leafs and their fans' memories MIB style

 

[Bub]

Curious if anyone can give any highlights to this article, which sounds interesting. Also I wonder if he talks about the increasing use of three tenders around the league, and how the Canes were roundly LOLed at when they went with the Andersen-Rantaa-Kooch trio to start one season.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Curious if anyone can give any highlights to this article, which sounds interesting. Also I wonder if he talks about the increasing use of three tenders around the league, and how the Canes were roundly LOLed at when they went with the Andersen-Rantaa-Kooch trio to start one season.

The article was contradictory. They write about the increase of tandems but say the numbers don’t suggest that is any correlation between using tandems and winning.

Its a copycat league and vegas won the cup with a 3 goalie tandem.

Hellebuyck didn’t get moved because his trade market was cold

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

The article was contradictory. They write about the increase of tandems but say the numbers don’t suggest that is any correlation between using tandems and winning.

Its a copycat league and vegas won the cup with a 3 goalie tandem.

Hellebuyck didn’t get moved because his trade market was cold

Hey, I mean, no correlation would still be a significant finding.

It means you don’t have to go out and sell the farm for Hellebuyck when you’ve got a perfectly good Logan Thompson and Adin Hill at home.

 

[A Star is Burns]

This Wings/Flyers game is getting silly. Flyers come back from 5-1 down to go ahead 6-5 and then immediately give up the tying goal 6-6. Sadly, they'll probably end up in OT even though there's a few left in regulation.

 

[Canes]

This Wings/Flyers game is getting silly. Flyers come back from 5-1 down to go ahead 6-5 and then immediately give up the tying goal 6-6. Sadly, they'll probably end up in OT even though there's a few left in regulation.

A shame the game was decided by a skills competition after all of that. Or is it? Might be fitting in a game of pond hockey like this.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

This Wings/Flyers game is getting silly. Flyers come back from 5-1 down to go ahead 6-5 and then immediately give up the tying goal 6-6. Sadly, they'll probably end up in OT even though there's a few left in regulation.

I was hoping they'd come away pointless after being down 5-1, but can't trust anyone else to do their job out there, I guess.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Good night for us, flyers got a point but still lost and rags lost and bruins getting smoked

 

[A Star is Burns]

A shame the game was decided by a skills competition after all of that. Or is it? Might be fitting in a game of pond hockey like this.

I like shootouts more than ties but I'm with the folks that would like 10 minutes of 3 on 3. Especially in a game like this that was already pond hockey as you say but then also had a pretty fun OT going.

 

[Derailed75]

I like shootouts more than ties but I'm with the folks that would like 10 minutes of 3 on 3. Especially in a game like this that was already pond hockey as you say but then also had a pretty fun OT going.

But tge flip side is you would have 10 minutes of Caps OT

 

[VaCaps Fan]

I’m a five on five guy myself. I didn’t like 3 on 3.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

But tge flip side is you would have 10 minutes of Caps OT

I'm of the opinion that we should remove the extra points unless it's decided in OT.

1. Give each team a point for reaching OT
2. 5-10 minutes OT with the additional point on the line.
3. If no one scores in that OT, no additional points are awarded.
4. A shootout decides the game winner, and shootout wins are treated as one of the tiebreakers are the end of the year.

Solves almost everything. Teams will be more incentivized to end the game in regulation/OT, the game still ends with a winner and not a tie, and the shootout is put in a less important role than it is now.

 

[A Star is Burns]

But tge flip side is you would have 10 minutes of Caps OT

Well, either way they should probably consider rules to stop that stupidity.