League News: 2018-19 NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) Vol. 2

[Hivemind]

To be fair, and one might say "actually", that kind of thing happens in EVERY discussion of player value involving Leafs fans. Hell, they show up even in discussions where their player is not even mentioned. LOL

To be fair to the Leafs, I had name dropped Zaitsev in that thread (something along the lines of "$5.1M for Orlov is sensible in a world where Zaitsev gets $4.5M")

 

[Silky mitts]

A week into the season and Alzner has been a healthy scratch and Shattenkirk is about to be

 

[trick9]

Shattenkirk being a healthy scratch for the Rangers just slightly after we win the Cup without him is just an icing on the cake.

Hilarious that he turned down a 7-year deal to sign there.

 

[BiPolar Caps]

Alzner and Shattenkirk healthy scratches, Nate Schmidt serving a 20 game suspension and Mike Green out with a fatigue illness (disease attacking his liver). It wasn't long ago where we would have been pleased to have all four of them in the line up for the Caps.

 

[kicksavedave]

Alzner and Shattenkirk healthy scratches, Nate Schmidt serving a 20 game suspension and Mike Green out with a fatigue illness (disease attacking his liver). It wasn't long ago where we would have been pleased to have all four of them in the line up for the Caps.

Man we dodged some bullets there, but more specifically, all hail GMBM!

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Pretty wild how successful the Caps have been when it comes to moving on from players of their own....

 

[Foots]

I have no problem with Schmidt. It was not his decision to leave the team.

 

[Raikkonen]

We better not laugh much... we have our own long term concerns too.

 

[Carlzner]

So amusing reading the NYR Corsi Crew try to defend him as a top defenseman with all kinds of stats and graphs and whatever. Even after being scratched on a bottom feeder, they’re convinced.

 

[Hivemind]

A bottom-feeding Flyers team scratched Gostibehere multiple times. Coaches do dumb things sometimes (some more than others). I'm not reading a ton into this scratching until we know more of the backstory. Is Shattenkirk pissed that they decided to blow it up 6 months after he signed there? Is Shattenkirk out of shape? Is a rookie head coach trying to catch his teams attention by sending a message? There's a lot more to this than "LMAO SHATTY SUX"

 

[Sam Spade]

Sorry but the biggest free agent signee of two seasons ago is a big deal to me.

 

[Hivemind]

FWIW, David Quinn and Kevin Shattenkirk actually have a fair bit of history together. Quinn was Shatty's coach at BU for 3 seasons, and then coached him in short AHL stints in the two seasons after that.

 

[Carlzner]

Might have something to do with the fact he gave up 3 high scoring chances in 7 minutes of play against the Hurricanes.

The guy is brutal

 

[AtNightWeFly]

Gritty's fat ass was just swinging from the sky at WFC to some Miley Cyrus. I love him so.

 

[AtNightWeFly]

As for Shatt: people forget he had a pretty bad knee injury and missed a lot of time. So that combined with them not having McD anymore...

 

[Calicaps]

Man we dodged some bullets there, but more specifically, all hail GMBM!

AMEN!

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[Sam Spade]

Yeah, he is getting zero help. He's making the first save but his D is not helping him on the rebounds.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

I imagine Shattenkirk isn’t fully healthy yet. He’s not terrific but he’s not healthy scratch bad either.

 

[Marshall]

I dunno if it's the Kabletown influence or what, but there always seems to be a higher off/early-season regard for the Flyers.

Their goatlending is still Flyers-like until Hart gets there. Their defense has a player I'd love to have on the Caps (Provorov), an elite offenseman (Ghostisbehereehreb), and...?

They have some young talent, and more on the way, but they ain't there.

 

[AtNightWeFly]

Flyers need to get rid of that serial killer behind the bench. You can tell none of the players like him.

 

[Marshall]

Wait - Shattenkirk is a healthy scratch for the Rongos tonight?

 

[marcel snapshot]

Finding both the Canes and the Avalanche to be pretty interesting. Even the Canucks look like they have some promising pieces. Flyers though, looking pretty head-shaking. Beyond never addressing their issue in net, they don't seem able to play the 5 man unit cohesive attack thingy you need in today's NHL

 

[Calicaps]

Wait - Shattenkirk is a healthy scratch for the Rongos tonight?

Are they playing tonight?

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Flyers are getting boatraced. They have a good top 6 forward group and 2-3 good defensemen. Depth + goaltending is suspect, at best.