Tidbits: Around the League: NHL News - Part 2

[larueskee]

Soucy paying tribute to his mentor with his number selection?

 

[57special]

Adrian Peterson is Soucy's mentor?

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Sounds like Alex Stalock’s heart condition came back. Tough to hear. I hope everything works out for him. Also not encouraging with regards to Rossi

 

[HotDish]

sucks for Stalock. Covid really hurt his career. Hopefully not career ending, but at his age idk.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Adrian Peterson is Soucy's mentor?

Bring out the switch...

 

[TaLoN]

Sounds like Alex Stalock’s heart condition came back. Tough to hear. I hope everything works out for him. Also not encouraging with regards to Rossi

Not came back, never really went away is the problem.

 

[MuckOG]

Stripped of his "C"....guess it shouldn't be a surprise.

 

[DeagleJenkins]

Stripped of his "C"....guess it shouldn't be a surprise.

Friedman said it yesterday, expect him to be stripped of his c and fail his physical to be put on ir. Both happened so this isn’t as breaking as the headline wants it to be on bleacherreport.

I am curious to see who they name the captain though. Cozens for stating he wants to stay in Buffalo?

 

[thestonedkoala]

I am curious to see who they name the captain though. Cozens for stating he wants to stay in Buffalo?

Cody Eakin, Colin Miller?

 

[RussosBurner]

Pretty damning article today in The Athletic written by John Vogl. The Eichel situation is an unmitigated disaster with no end in sight. We think we have it bad here sometimes but imagine being a Sabres fan right now

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Pretty damning article today in The Athletic written by John Vogl. The Eichel situation is an unmitigated disaster with no end in sight. We think we have it bad here sometimes but imagine being a Sabres fan right now

Yeah, for sure. I’ve felt all along that the NHL would step in and try to mediate some sort of compromise. This situation has fallen perfectly into one of those contractual language voids that even the Ivy Leaguer’s didn’t account for. Bad optics all around in this one.

 

[BagHead]

Pretty damning article today in The Athletic written by John Vogl. The Eichel situation is an unmitigated disaster with no end in sight. We think we have it bad here sometimes but imagine being a Sabres fan right now

Man, Adams talking about his "plan" and "sticking to it" just made me sad; for Eichel, for their fans, and even for Adams himself, though in more of a pitying way. This is a man whose plan hasn't achieved a single thing in months, and he's refusing to acknowledge that it may need tweaking. And this is ignoring that teams shouldn't even be allowed to choose treatment for a player. The NHL has overreached in their influence here, with that part of the CBA. I can't believe the players allowed that to go through! I'm betting that gets changed in the next CBA, thanks to Eichel.

 

[57special]

Sabres are playing the classic "cut off your nose to spite your face" angle to the hilt. Nothing that they are doing with Eichel makes any sense.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Apparently Lindberg is doing well in Pittsburgh. Too bad we couldn't sign him.

 

[HotDish]

I wonder what would happen if Eichel just paid for the surgery himself? What would the ramifications would be? Would the Sabres sue for breach of CBA? Do they want the PR for being the team that didn't want a player to get a surgery? At a certain point the NHL needs to resolve this. I can't help but view the team is wrong here. At this point Eichel is never playing for you again. Just let him get his surgery so you can trade him. He will be someone else's problem if the surgery doesn't help.

 

[ThatGuy22]

I wonder what would happen if Eichel just paid for the surgery himself? What would the ramifications would be? Would the Sabres sue for breach of CBA? Do they want the PR for being the team that didn't want a player to get a surgery? At a certain point the NHL needs to resolve this. I can't help but view the team is wrong here. At this point Eichel is never playing for you again. Just let him get his surgery so you can trade him. He will be someone else's problem if the surgery doesn't help.

Options would be to do nothing, suspend him without pay until healthy, or void his contract.

 

[nickschultzfan]

Sounds like Alex Stalock’s heart condition came back. Tough to hear. I hope everything works out for him. Also not encouraging with regards to Rossi

Potentially. Data is limited, but there is a possibility the vaccines compound the heart issues. Additive spiked proteins not good for circulatory system.

 

[TaLoN]

Options would be to do nothing, suspend him without pay until healthy, or void his contract.

Eichel would rejoice if they followed through on the last option. The Sabres would never do it though.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

My guess, and it's just a guess, is that his lawyers have warned him against doing that by saying that the Sabres won't just void his deal but will also come after him for dollars paid, signing bonuses, etc. Otherwise, I agree, just do it himself.

 

[ThatGuy22]

Eichel would rejoice if they followed through on the last option. The Sabres would never do it though.

Depends what he'd get as a free agent coming off neck surgery... 50 mil guaranteed is a lot to risk.

 

[TaLoN]

Depends what he'd get as a free agent coming off neck surgery... 50 mil guaranteed is a lot to risk.

At this point? He's made a ton of money, someone will give him a phat contract anyway... he's so pissed at the organization, he'd be thrilled.

 

[thestonedkoala]

I remember a lot of fans wanted Kieffer Bellows over Luke Kunin...well - Bellows might end up on waivers. What a massive bust.

 

[57special]

Caught a bit of the MTL/Leafs game. Menell looked decent. Very comfortable with the puck on his stick.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Caught a bit of the MTL/Leafs game. Menell looked decent. Very comfortable with the puck on his stick.

Don't know why Guerin hated Menell so much.

 

[Saga of the Elk]

I remember a lot of fans wanted Kieffer Bellows over Luke Kunin...well - Bellows might end up on waivers. What a massive bust.

He's a one-dimensional player (still only 23 and might stick in a system that needs a shooter) but I don't think it makes sense to celebrate Kunin as a pick. All they could say about him at the time was how he was "future captain material" though his actual upside was a poor man's Ryan Callahan. Meanwhile a pure scoring talent like Alex Debrincat had to wait until Round 2 because of ... his lack of future captain/eyeglow I guess.

Interesting draft tidbit: since Kunin in 2016, no subsequent Wild draft pick has played an NHL game. (That should obviously change this season but good grief that's bad.)