2019-20 General Lightning Discussion - Part 3: Uncharted

[These Are The Days]

I never saw anything about Palat getting hurt, where'd you see that?

Palat is just always hurt all the time anyway

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[Felonious Python]

The NHL will allow 51 or 52 total team members to their hub (they can take the extra if they're a security person).

It's surprisingly easy to fill the 20 or so slots. I do wonder about what the hub will provide. Probably mostly on the non-emergency medical end. Dentists come to mind as teeth aren't a state secret, and hopefully they'll be there for a few months, so that sort of work needs to be done up there. What about chiropractors and massage therapists?

Does JBB go to the hub? Very likely. Does AGM Al Murray? Probably not necessary. Do they bring pro scouts? Can they send them to Edmonton? Does the video coaching staff stay in TB, or go to Toronto? Probably stay, right?

I figure that in the conference final/SCF, they'll allow more people into Edmonton, as the hotel rooms would have opened back up. It'd be pretty crazy to win the cup and not have people like Mr. Vinik there.

 

[The Gongshow]

Guess we gotta go all in on the Point-Kucherov line to carry the offence with Stammer out. Cirelli - Killorn - Palat as well. Hoping Johnson can get going at least.

Defence will be fully healthy, thank god

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[The Macho King]

Guess we gotta go all in on the Point-Kucherov line to carry the offence with Stammer out. Cirelli - Killorn - Palat as well. Hoping Johnson can get going at least.

Defence will be fully healthy, thank god

Meh Stamkos would be useless anyway. It's the playoffs so it's time for him to disappear.

 

[DFC]

Doesn't sound like anything major anyway. Will probably get up to full speed during camp.

 

[These Are The Days]

Meh Stamkos would be useless anyway. It's the playoffs so it's time for him to disappear.

Probably will take Kucherov with him too


#SaveusBraydenPoint #lolKillornofallpeopleisbetterthanStamkosintheplayoffs

 

[The Gongshow]

Killorn has actually been one of our more consistent playoff guys and I'm looking forward to watching him. Its one of the reason I want to keep him around

 

[Todd1a]

Well can we get through the playoffs and award the Stanley cup without shutting it down again ?

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Here's the career playoff stats for the forwards who have scored the most post season points for us.

	gp	goals	assists	pts	gwg
Kucherov	65	29	32	61	6
Stamkos	70	23	30	53	2
Johnson	68	24	27	51	7
Palat	67	21	21	42	4
Killorn	68	21	20	41	5

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Hedman could be thrown in there with the forwards too. He has 48 points in 84 games.

We got everything we need. Just need enough of it to show & come together on time.

 

[Todd1a]

Here's the career playoff stats for the forwards who have scored the most post season points for us.

	gp	goals	assists	pts	gwg
Kucherov	65	29	32	61	6
Stamkos	70	23	30	53	2
Johnson	68	24	27	51	7
Palat	67	21	21	42	4
Killorn	68	21	20	41	5

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Hedman could be thrown in there with the forwards too. He has 48 points in 84 games.

We got everything we need. Just need enough of it to show & come together on time.

if we lose all our games do the sharks get our draft pick if it’s 1st overall?

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

if we lose all our games do the sharks get our draft pick if it’s 1st overall?

The 1st overall pick will be awarded after the qualifying/seeding round and before the 1st round begins. So since we will still be playing, there’s no way for our 1st rounder to become the 1st overall pick

The pick we got from Vancouver and traded to New Jersey on the other hand is the big question mark since Vancouver may get knocked out before the lottery.

 

[Todd1a]

The 1st overall pick will be awarded after the qualifying/seeding round and before the 1st round begins. So since we will still be playing, there’s no way for our 1st rounder to become the 1st overall pick

The pick we got from Vancouver and traded to New Jersey on the other hand is the big question mark since Vancouver may get knocked out before the lottery.

na remember if the Canucks miss the playoffs then the pick moves to a 2021 first rounder for the devils

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

na remember if the Canucks miss the playoffs then the pick moves to a 2021 first rounder for the devils

The qualifying round counts as the post season so they’ve technically made the playoffs even if they don’t make it to the first round. That’s my understanding unless there’s something else to it. Originally the deal was made to give Vancouver “lottery protection” but the rules have kinda changed now.

 

[Todd1a]

The qualifying round counts as the post season so they’ve technically made the playoffs even if they don’t make it to the first round. That’s my understanding unless there’s something else to it. Originally the deal was made to give Vancouver “lottery protection” but the rules have kinda changed now.

no idea the conditions were if they missed the playoffs in 2020 then the pick auto moves to 2021. I didn’t know if this actually counts as making the playoffs?

 

[Felonious Python]

The NHL chose specifically the term 'qualifying' round.

I understand collecting the stats as playoffs, but if you lose in the qualifying round, you haven't qualified for the playoffs. Right? What's it qualifying for?

There's even more stakes in it working like that then just considering everyone to have made it. The spirit of the play-in is to come to sort of conclusion for a prematurely ended regular season for the teams on the bubble.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[The Macho King]

Where is MLS bubbling?

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Where is MLS bubbling?

I think the Swan and Dolphin Resorts at Disney.

 

[Felonious Python]

I had a thought that Disney World is connecting their re-opening with the data they have for the NBA and MLS bubbles (which I think is faulty logic). Presumably, the regular workers are getting tested as well. Chefs, cleaning crews, etc., and they'd be representative of the local population.

A 'cast member' in the parks is probably way more likely to get infected with all the COVID warriors out there. They do check temps at the entry, but you can carry it and not have symptoms (or symptoms without a fever)

 

[The Macho King]

NHL going to Canada was smart.

 

[Felonious Python]

NHL going to Canada was smart.

Going to Canada was smart because of lower COVID numbers, and because of the x-factor of police protests. The NHL is a very white league, and they wouldn't want a police incident outside an arena 'protecting' them. At the very least they have to travel from the arena to the hotel at night when the violence largely happens.

It's the Kobayashi Maru. If they let the cops have a presence, then they're endorsing them. They won't allow players to protest, which many protestors may not initially understand, so the league has to take the criticism for not allowing them, etc. If a player does show up at a protest, then punishing them would be criticized, etc.

If an arena worker gets arrested/detained because they're going home at night, after curfew, then that opens up a slew of issues.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

MLS has 2 more games today but they’re not scheduled until tonight at 8 and 10:30pm et.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

I haven’t been following MLS but it looks like today was not the first time a player has tested positive inside their bubble.

from a few days ago -



SKC arrived in Orlando on the evening of July 5th.