Claimed off Waivers: [OTT] Senators claim G Magnus Hellberg off waivers from the Kraken

[MMC]

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

Insurance for Talbot who is injured right now?

 

[MMC]

Dansk, Hellberg, Hutchinson, Tokarski, Subban, and Fucale were all on waivers yesterday, apparently the Sens think higher of Hellberg than the rest of them.

 

[Korpse]

Dansk, Hellberg, Hutchinson, Tokarski, Subban, and Fucale were all on waivers yesterday, apparently the Sens think higher of Hellberg than the rest of them.

He is the only one that is 6'6" and Swedish. We have a type.

 

[rt]

I guess Sogaard is part of the Chychrun package.

 

[Xirik]

He is the only one that is 6'6" and Swedish. We have a type.

So weird, the senators seem to only draft big NA forwards and defensemen but go Swedish for goalies.

 

[Brodeur]

 

[Altimus]

Shit. I was looking forward to having talbot, now he's out til American Thanksgiving

 

[OmniSens]

And the injury bug begins..

 

[Fig]

Wasn't Hellberg Sens property at one point in the past or am I mixing him up with someone else?

EDIT: It was Hogberg that was Sens property.

 

[Tufted Titmouse]

Shit. I was looking forward to having talbot, now he's out til American Thanksgiving

He's not too good, it might be a blessing in disguise.

 

[benjiv1]

Wondering if it’s collarbone related.
Initially he said he would play if it was Reg season, maybe he thought it was just a stinger and they eventually did an X-Ray.

 

[Brodeur]

For your fantasy hockey needs, ballpark NHL duos:

ANA: Gibson | Stolarz
CGY: Markstrom | Vladar
EDM: Campbell | Skinner | Smith*
LAK: Quick | Petersen
SEA: Grubauer | Jones | Driedger*
SJS: Reimer | Kahkonen
VAN: Demko | Martin | Delia
VGK: Lehner* | Broissoit* | Thompson | Hill

ARZ: Vejmelka | Johansson
CHI: Mrazek | Stalock
COL: Georgiev | Francouz
DAL: Oettinger | Wedgewood | Khudobin?
MIN: Fleury | Gustavsson
NSH: Saros | Lankinen
STL: Binnington | Greiss
WPG: Hellebucyk | Rittich

BOS: Ullmark | Swayman
BUF: Comrie | Anderson
DET: Husso | Nedeljkovic
FLO: Bobrovsky | Knight
MON: Price* | Allen | Montembeault
OTT: Talbot* | Forsberg | Hellberg
TBL: Vasilevskiy | Elliott
TOR: Murray | Samsonov

CAR: Andersen | Raanta
CLB: Merzlikins | Korpisalo
NJD: Vanecek | Blackwood | Bernier*
NYI: Sorokin | Varlamov
NYR: Shesterkin | Halak
PHI: Hart | Sandstrom | Grosenick
PIT: Jarry | DeSmith
WSH: Kuemper | Lindgren

 

[GermanSpitfire]

It’s neat how Ottawa’s #1 and #2 goalies to start the season are waiver claims.

 

[SensFactor]

Hellberg is part of the Hellfire club

 

[MicronMega]

Wasn't Hellberg Sens property at one point in the past or am I mixing him up with someone else?

EDIT: It was Hogberg that was Sens property.

You could be thinking of Anders Nilsson too?

 

[banks]

Great name.

 

[McDrailers]

Nooo.

Hellbergs Kraken setup was ELITE.

 

[Fig]

You could be thinking of Anders Nilsson too?

Probably not him. I seemed to recall the Sens had some goalie with "berg" in the last name and he was super tall. Hogberg was who I was thinking of. Hogberg 6'5" vs Hellberg at 6'6".

In the past, I was poking around some names as to someone that might be a good student to Markstrom and that's how I landed on Hogberg.

 

[uncleben]

For those interested, this cost Ottawa $15,000, paid to Seattle and not counted against the cap.

 

[SpezDispenser]

Son of a gun, 2 months for Talbot.

 

[NYR94]

Bummer his new Kraken equipment looked awesome.

 

[yogibear]

Son of a gun, 2 months for Talbot.

 

[A55P2]

Bummer his new Kraken equipment looked awesome.

It looked so great

 

[biturbo19]

For your fantasy hockey needs, ballpark NHL duos:

ANA: Gibson | Stolarz
CGY: Markstrom | Vladar
EDM: Campbell | Skinner | Smith*
LAK: Quick | Petersen
SEA: Grubauer | Jones | Driedger*
SJS: Reimer | Kahkonen
VAN: Demko | Martin | Delia
VGK: Lehner* | Broissoit* | Thompson | Hill

ARZ: Vejmelka | Johansson
CHI: Mrazek | Stalock
COL: Georgiev | Francouz
DAL: Oettinger | Wedgewood | Khudobin?
MIN: Fleury | Gustavsson
NSH: Saros | Lankinen
STL: Binnington | Greiss
WPG: Hellebucyk | Rittich

BOS: Ullmark | Swayman
BUF: Comrie | Anderson
DET: Husso | Nedeljkovic
FLO: Bobrovsky | Knight
MON: Price* | Allen | Montembeault
OTT: Talbot* | Forsberg | Hellberg
TBL: Vasilevskiy | Elliott
TOR: Murray | Samsonov

CAR: Andersen | Raanta
CLB: Merzlikins | Korpisalo
NJD: Vanecek | Blackwood | Bernier*
NYI: Sorokin | Varlamov
NYR: Shesterkin | Halak
PHI: Hart | Sandstrom | Grosenick
PIT: Jarry | DeSmith
WSH: Kuemper | Lindgren

Scanning down the right side column of this list, it strikes me just how many bad backup goalies are floating around the league right now.

Like yeah, injuries to some key guys plays a part in that, but how many teams are honestly feeling pretty good about their backup goaltender right now? There's gotta only be a handful at this point. And half of that small handful, better have a good backup because they probably aren't feeling great about their starter.

It really is a weird age of interchangeable bodies in net. Particularly when it comes to backups i guess. Hard to tell how much is just that interchangeable factor...vs the talent pool just shrinking though.