League News: 2014 Off-season Around the League Thread

[Liberati0n*]

FACT: Toews and Kane have never even played in the Channel One Cup

FACT: Bears eat beets

Toews, Kane, beets, battlestar galactica

 

[InfernalDark*]

Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger
$1mil for 1 yr. Heatley signs with Ducks.

 

[Blades of Steel]

Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger
$1mil for 1 yr. Heatley signs with Ducks.

in before everyone thinks the caps could've signed him for same deal

 

[txpd]

why? -18. 2nd worse on the team was -7.

 

[Calicaps]

...what

 

[SimplySensational]

...what

What's so hard to understand? They play for a well built team, Ovechkin is a generational talent.

Unless Mike Green gets back to his old self and Backstrom picks it up, Ovechkin is the only 5x 50 goal scorer to never have played with MULTIPLE hall of famers.

 

[Liberati0n*]

What's so hard to understand? They play for a well built team, Ovechkin is a generational talent.

Unless Mike Green gets back to his old self and Backstrom picks it up, Ovechkin is the only 5x 50 goal scorer to never have played with MULTIPLE hall of famers.

You forgot about Johansson. He's more of a lock than Ovechkin.

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

What's so hard to understand? They play for a well built team, Ovechkin is a generational talent.

Unless Mike Green gets back to his old self and Backstrom picks it up, Ovechkin is the only 5x 50 goal scorer to never have played with MULTIPLE hall of famers.

Um...Sergei Fedorov and Troy Brouwer are HHOF LOCKS

 

[discobob]

Um...Sergei Fedorov and Troy Brouwer are HHOF LOCKS

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are trying to be funny?

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are trying to be funny?

I'm as serious as anyone who would judge a player's relative worth on his ability to score 50 goals 5 times with no more than 1 future HHOF teammate.

 

[Brian23]

I'm as serious as anyone who would judge a player's relative worth on his ability to score 50 goals 5 times with no more than 1 future HHOF teammate.

HOF players playing with non-HOF players have to get an asterik, they're not getting the help teams with multiple HOFers obviously have...

 

[Acallabeth]

I understand captainship, leadership and defensiveship, but Chicago just gave a 8 year, 10.5M/year contract to a forward whose career high is 76 points Kane is basically a PPG forward as well without too much intangibles to boot

 

[ChibiPooky]

I understand captainship, leadership and defensiveship, but Chicago just gave a 8 year, 10.5M/year contract to a forward whose career high is 76 points Kane is basically a PPG forward as well without too much intangibles to boot

They were seduced by skill.

 

[Chokingdogs]

steve - who will never play in the nhl - ott.

re-ups with stl, 2 yrs 2.6 per.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Sobotka to the KHL. Tough break for St Louis after a very strong offseason.

 

[BrooklynCapsFan]

Dubinsky commits to Columbus 6 years @ $5.85 million. A sneak peek at Johansson's next contract ?

 

[SlappaDaBass]

Dubinsky commits to Columbus 6 years @ $5.85 million. A sneak peek at Johansson's next contract ?

I would definitely pay Mojo that much if he were as tall, as physical, and as good as Dubinsky.

Though that really makes me wonder how much Johansen is looking to get.

 

[Xaroc]

I understand captainship, leadership and defensiveship, but Chicago just gave a 8 year, 10.5M/year contract to a forward whose career high is 76 points Kane is basically a PPG forward as well without too much intangibles to boot

No intangibles other than scoring big goals in important games.

Also, to those talking about how those two don't hit:

http://blogs.thescore.com/nhl/2013/...session-is-important-and-nobody-told-the-cbc/

Money quote is you can't hit if you have the puck. Note, this doesn't mean that you should never hit just that your team outhitting other teams doesn't correlate well with winning. So you shouldn't place a ton of value on guys who can hit. Brouwer hits like crazy but he never gets the damned puck. Ward doesn't hit as much but gets the puck. I will take Ward over Brouwer all day.

 

[Acallabeth]

No intangibles other than scoring big goals in important games.

Pretty tangible!

Brouwer hits like crazy but he never gets the damned puck. Ward doesn't hit as much but gets the puck. I will take Ward over Brouwer all day.

Since when does Brouwer hit like crazy?

Dubinsky @ $5.85M/6 years. Laich territory IMO.

 

[Blades of Steel]

Pretty tangible!


Since when does Brouwer hit like crazy?

Dubinsky @ $5.85M/6 years. Laich territory IMO.

not sure if serious?

he had the 28th most hits in the league in a tight pack, could've been top 20 easily.

btw, for those of you who haven't looked, Orpik would lead the team in hits and logged 1200 mins on D.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/stats/bycategory?cat=Offense&conference=NHL&year=season_2013&sort=16

 

[um]

not sure if serious?

he had the 28th most hits in the league in a tight pack, could've been top 20 easily.

btw, for those of you who haven't looked, Orpik would lead the team in hits and logged 1200 mins on D.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/stats/bycategory?cat=Offense&conference=NHL&year=season_2013&sort=16

he finishes his check a lot, but he hardly runs over guys.

 

[Blades of Steel]

he finishes his check a lot, but he hardly runs over guys.

right, I was just referring to him "hitting" people. Wilson, Ovechkin and Orpik are heavier hitters I agree. we now have 4 players who are in the top 40 in hits. (League wide) In the East its top 30.

 

[Hivemind]

Using the hits "stat"

 

[Blades of Steel]

Using the hits "stat"

what about it though?

 

[Hivemind]

what about it though?

NHL "real time stats" are not worth much of anything. There's very significant scorekeeper biases, no controlling for those biases, no leaguewide standardization of definitions, and most importantly, they have little to no impact on who actually wins a hockey game.