Around The League 2019-20 VI (Mod note in OP)

[haak84]

This board is so sad that it is so invested in seeing a player fail. Meanwhile, the Devils goaltenders haven’t been any better than Kinkaid. Just sad stuff for a player who did nothing but give this team his all.

Here’s my prediction: Blackwood won’t amount to anything more than a quality backup. Now I will spend the rest of his career reveling in his lack of success. I’m joking of course, I want to see any goalie who plays for the Devils succeed. Just not sure how some people can be so obsessed with the career of an indifference-maker.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

This board is so sad that it is so invested in seeing a player fail. Meanwhile, the Devils goaltenders haven’t been any better than Kinkaid. Just sad stuff for a player who did nothing but give this team his all.

Here’s my prediction: Blackwood won’t amount to anything more than a quality backup. Now I will spend the rest of his career reveling in his lack of success. I’m joking of course, I want to see any goalie who plays for the Devils succeed. Just not sure how some people can be so obsessed with the career of an indifference-maker.

You can just admit you were wrong and that Kinkaid isn't good and move on.

 

[haak84]

You can just admit you were wrong and that Kinkaid isn't good and move on.

Lol exactly what I’m talking about. I’ve stated Kinkaid is not good multiple times. He’s no worse than any of the goalies we’ve had since the start of the 2017 season and is sadly the best goalie we had during that time. Very sad I know.

But you can keep hate-following him to get off when something disappointing happens and never move on.

 

[Spoiled Bratt]

Sens win, I’m happy!

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Lol exactly what I’m talking about. I’ve stated Kinkaid is not good multiple times. He’s no worse than any of the goalies we’ve had since the start of the 2017 season and is sadly the best goalie we had during that time. Very sad I know.

But you can keep hate-following him to get off when something disappointing happens and never move on.

I legitimately didn't talk about him or watch him for 1 second this year aside from when we played him (and lit him up)

you are just making things up that did not happen.

You clearly felt like you had to respond or else you would have just let it go

 

[TrufleShufle]

Why are you two so obsessed with Kinkaid? I mean, I enjoyed his tweets as well, but he is never coming back, just let him go.

 

[Davegarri]

f*** Keith Kinkaid. Dude sucks anyway., get over it. He flops around like a fish out of water half the time he's out there.

 

[johnny pierogi]

He flops around like a fish out of water half the time he's out there.

Yeah, or pulls his face mask off

 

[Ripshot 43]

Why are you two so obsessed with Kinkaid? I mean, I enjoyed his tweets as well, but he is never coming back, just let him go.

His emoji filled tweets after any one of our 3 wins this season would’ve been received so warmly by our fans on hfboards if PK isn’t allowed on social media and the team can’t go out for dinners

 

[johnny pierogi]

Do we really only have 3 wins? I'd believe it

 

[Emperoreddy]

What is sad is rooting for our young goaltender to fail because he isn’t Kinkaid.

 

[Bleedred]

Keith Kinkaid's save percentage since the start of that 2018 playoff series is .886%. That's over a span of his last 49 games played. Do you know how bad that is? Even Cory Schneider's last 49 games played (including 4 in the playoffs) he's an .892%.

His run in February-April of 2018 was more of an Andrew Hammond run than anything. Even I thought as of the last year that he'd probably last another year or two in the NHL after this one, before becoming a tweener, but it looks like he's already at AHL/NHL tweener status. He's gonna have to decide this offseason if he would rather continue to be a tweener or if he wants to go to Europe and play.

So much for getting that starters job, but I guess he might have finally found himself one.... In Laval of the AHL....

 

[mtnet]

Cory cost us Kinkaid

 

[Bleedred]

I legitimately didn't talk about him or watch him for 1 second this year aside from when we played him (and lit him up)

you are just making things up that did not happen.

You clearly felt like you had to respond or else you would have just let it go

And he stunk in that game against us too, which was his only game over or better than a .900% save percentage this season. It was actually his only game better than an .886% this season.

The Hischier goal sucked and the Palmieri OT winner was awful.

He was like the only goalie we scored more than 2 goals on for like an 8 game stretch or something.

 

[Bleedred]

Cory cost us Kinkaid

If you're in the Binghamton area, you might be able to catch them face off against each other on January 25th in the AHL! Or possibly March 13th or 14th in Montreal/Laval!

 

[Blackjack]

Keith Kinkaid's save percentage since the start of that 2018 playoff series is .886%. That's over a span of his last 49 games played. Do you know how bad that is? Even Cory Schneider's last 49 games played (including 4 in the playoffs) he's an .892%.

His run in February-April of 2018 was more of an Andrew Hammond run than anything. Even I thought as of the last year that he'd probably last another year or two in the NHL after this one, before becoming a tweener, but it looks like he's already at AHL/NHL tweener status. He's gonna have to decide this offseason if he would rather continue to be a tweener or if he wants to go to Europe and play.

So much for getting that starters job, but I guess he might have finally found himself one.... In Laval of the AHL....

I thought it was weird that MTL signed him at all. He was terrible last year.

 

[mtnet]

If you're in the Binghamton area, you might be able to catch them face off against each other on January 25th in the AHL! Or possibly March 13th or 14th in Montreal/Laval!

Cory belongs there but that's a travesty and grave disservice to bonafide NHL starter Keith Kinkaid

Just wait, you'll see

Few goaltenders are so skilled that they have signature moves found only in the animal kingdom

 

[Bleedred]

I thought it was weird that MTL signed him at all. He was terrible last year.

I thought he’d get one more chance, based off last year being a very down year for him and what he did in late 17-18 and he did.

Now this is it for him, unless he can put together some kind of nice string if he gets called back up again. If he doesn’t, then he’ll be one of those tweener guys next year that gets signed to play in the AHL, but is used as a third stringer and call up for NHL teams.

 

[JrFischer54]

Ovechkin hints he'll retire immediately upon beating Gretzky's goal record

i've said it for about 10 years now i am 100000% convinced he breaks the record

 

[MartyOwns]

Ovechkin hints he'll retire immediately upon beating Gretzky's goal record

i've said it for about 10 years now i am 100000% convinced he breaks the record

he could. he reminds me a lot of marty- immensely talented, generally healthy, and also found himself on the perfect team. that’s how you break a seemingly unbreakable record

 

[BenedictGomez]

Ovechkin hints he'll retire immediately upon beating Gretzky's goal record

i've said it for about 10 years now i am 100000% convinced he breaks the record

And every time it comes us I say he wont break #99's record.

 

[Devils731]

Hockey Taka: How the Maple Leafs new 'possession' style of...

good article on some of the philosophical changes the Maple Leafs have had under the new coach. Some of them are generally good ideas that all teams should be looking at implementing.

 

[TrufleShufle]

 

[Devils731]

Think this came out from the GM meetings on repercussions if a team knows an employee is abusive and does nothing?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Are they getting ahead of something that hasn’t come out yet?

Four coaches fired, only two for on ice performance.