Around the League 2018-2019

[Raccoon Jesus]

So Coach Q was there for 10 years. Did he forget how to coach? Should he go, or should players no longer be given contracts with ridiculous term which makes it impossible to hold them accountable.

The players I cited are not producing on a consistent basis. Toews is finally earning a portion of his money this season. What about last season and the season before that, and the one prior to that? You want to pay a player $10.5M in cap hit to produce sub-60 point seasons? That contract is dog ****. Seabrook is a shell of his former self defensively and not worth the money or the term. It's no big deal when these players decide to have a decent year every other year or every third year of these deals. Still not worth the contract they signed.

Holy non sequitur, batman.

I'm only pointing out that a decade long coaching tenure is massive and that if the team situation changes the coach going isn't surprising or ridiculous. Q isn't exactly known as a rebuilder coach and as you point out they aren't changing all the players so gotta start enacting change somewhere.

 

[deeshamrock]

I get that the owners wanted a change, but Bowman's made some questionable decisions the last few years too. How short is the leash on him?

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

Blackhawks have fired Quenneville.

Surprised he lasted to the start of this season. There was a lot of rumblings out of Chicago in the middle of last season that the players had tuned him out. If that was true then why did Bowman think anything was going to change this season? It's obviously not all Quenneville's fault Chicago is closer to the bottom of the league than the top like the Kings (well, the Kings are at the bottom lol) but you can't move the gigantic ugly contracts so the easy solution is moving on from the coach. Once the players quit on the coach, it's time to move on no matter who the coach is.

As for the Ottawa thing, when will athletes and people in general realize that everyone has a camera that's ready to upload videos and pictures in an instant? When will people realize that every single thing you upload to the internet will be available for everyone to see and you can't delete these things? Bad breach in privacy by the driver or the company but you've got to be smarter if you're a celebrity.

 

[johnjm22]

If you want some chaotic fun, read the Pens board after this loss to the Leafs. They have a top 5 record right now, the Kings are on a horrible pace as they sit in 31st place, and if you put the posts here and there side by side, you almost couldn't tell the difference. Coach sucks, need multiple trades, comfortable players, the system sucks, old, the next generation isn't pulling their weight. It's interesting.

With few exceptions every fanbase complains about the same thing. The coach, the PP, their drafting and their star players.

 

[Reclamation Project]

 

[DoktorJeep]

He looks like an extra from Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[kingsfan28]

Not a good look. Straight up creepy like.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

He looks like an extra from Bohemian Rhapsody

Or a long lost member of the Village People.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Lucic being Lucic. Stupid f***ing oaf.

 

[tny760]

Lucic being Lucic. Stupid ****ing oaf.

stupid penalty to take given the situation but i like guys forcing players to answer for their shit

really not a fan of watching mcdavid try and tear his own shoulder apart in the pile though.. what a great way to hurt yourself

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

stupid penalty to take given the situation but i like guys forcing players to answer for their ****

really not a fan of watching mcdavid try and tear his own shoulder apart in the pile though.. what a great way to hurt yourself

Bolded the part, I didn't see anything on the clip that the Tampa did, did something happen prior in the game? Either way, not the smartest play in the world by Lucic....

 

[SFKingshomer]

Bolded the part, I didn't see anything on the clip that the Tampa did, did something happen prior in the game? Either way, not the smartest play in the world by Lucic....

Joseph apparently got Russel with a questionable hit.

 

[KINGS17]

Getzlaf has a future as a Batman villain when he retires from hockey.

 

[kovacro]

Should probably be partnering up with Walter White to cook meth.

 

[Fishhead]

I don't really blame Lucic there. First, there were no penalties called on a couple questionable hits. If those would have taken place a couple years ago when protecting the players by the boards was all the rage, they would have been majors. Now they aren't even called. Let's see what we've been through recently. Crackdowns on: interference, boarding, slashing, any stick even near the hands. None of which are really called now.

Secondly, he tapped Johnson to try to get him to answer for his actions and he skated off. I'm not going to say he deserved all of that, but if you are going to lay questionable hits and not answer the bell, you really did earn a good bitchslap.

 

[BigKing]

Zero issues with what Lucic did. You want to take questionable runs at guys? Be prepared to answer the bell.

Today's pansies just want to hide behind the rule book and the DOPS. Well, guys like Lucic are on their way out but, until they are, rats still need to keep their heads up.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

So f***ing sick of rat hockey.

While I "should" have a problem with what Looch did, I 100% agree that if the refs aren't going to take care of business, treat it like the 1960s.

 

[KINGS17]

I don't have a problem with what Lucic did in this case. He bitch slapped the guy and embarrassed him.

 

[KINGS17]

Cheap shot by Malkin on Oshie, and Malkin gets the 5-minute major and the game misconduct.

Eddie O. says Malkin was just frustrated, and him doing something like that was uncharacteristic of him. Bull****!!

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

Cheap shot by Malkin on Oshie, and Malkin gets the 5-minute major and the game misconduct.

Eddie O. says Malkin was just frustrated, and him doing something like that was uncharacteristic of him. Bull****!!

Shouldn't even have been a penalty. Oshie ducks while skating at Malkin and Malkin barely raises his arm to protect himself from a hit but hits a ducking Oshie instead. Oshie sold it and caused it himself.

Eddie O hates Malkin so that's surprising to hear that from him.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Shouldn't even have been a penalty. Oshie ducks while skating at Malkin and Malkin barely raises his arm to protect himself from a hit but hits a ducking Oshie instead. Oshie sold it and caused it himself.

Eddie O hates Malkin so that's surprising to hear that from him.

No Malkin completely saw him coming and shouldered him in the head it was the right call.

 

[KINGS17]

Shouldn't even have been a penalty. Oshie ducks while skating at Malkin and Malkin barely raises his arm to protect himself from a hit but hits a ducking Oshie instead. Oshie sold it and caused it himself.

Eddie O hates Malkin so that's surprising to hear that from him.

Yeah, I don't think Malkin raised his arm to protect himself. He saw Oshie coming and gave him a cheap shot.

 

[kingsfan28]

Yeah, I don't think Malkin raised his arm to protect himself. He saw Oshie coming and gave him a cheap shot.

Exactly! Just like when he saw Brown's coming at him and speared in the nuts last year.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Yeah, I don't think Malkin raised his arm to protect himself. He saw Oshie coming and gave him a cheap shot.

Absolutely, it was one of those 20 years ago, everyone's going holy crap, great cold shoulder, good job....today....it's a major....

 

[kingsfan28]

Cheap shot by Malkin on Oshie, and Malkin gets the 5-minute major and the game misconduct.

Eddie O. says Malkin was just frustrated, and him doing something like that was uncharacteristic of him. Bull****!!

Totally agree. He came off like an ass defending that hit. It was dirty, he knows it, but towed the NBC line about superstar players and dirty plays.