Tidbits: Around the League: NHL News

[grN1g]

Big Binnington was feeling feisty before he left the ice. Muffed a player by the bench. Jabed his blocker at a shark in the middle ice and then threw a shove on Dubs. Who says "get off the ice you're 165 pounds."

Lol oh boy

 

[AKL]

Blichfield catches MacKinnon in the head on an attempted hit, gets match penalty, MacKinnon is out of the game. Colorado scores :14 into the 5 minute PP.

 

[Minnesnota]

Blichfield catches MacKinnon in the head on an attempted hit, gets match penalty, MacKinnon is out of the game. Colorado scores :14 into the 5 minute PP.

My fantasy team didn't need that.

 

[AKL]

My fantasy team didn't need that.

I know most of this board hate the Avs, but I really hope MacKinnon is fine and returns next game. Sucks to lose your top players to injuries like that long term.

 

[HotDish]

I know most of this board hate the Avs, but I really hope MacKinnon is fine and returns next game. Sucks to lose your top players to injuries like that long term.

I think most here agree, you cheer against the team. not for injuries.

 

[57special]

Johansen just got his 1st goal of the season, to go along with his 5 assists. 8M doesn't buy a lot these days.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

When can Guerin pull an injury out of mid-air to get out of Parise’s contract?


Congrats on a great career though, Seabs

 

[HotDish]

When can Guerin pull an injury out of mid-air to get out of Parise’s contract?


Congrats on a great career though, Seabs

 

[Bazeek]

When can Guerin pull an injury out of mid-air to get out of Parise’s contract?


Congrats on a great career though, Seabs

One weekend of helping someone move or doing some spring landscaping is probably all it'll take for Parise. His lower back's had a rough life.

 

[tyratoku]

Obviously sounds like crazy conspiracy theory ramblings and I'm sure these guys really do deserve the benefit of the doubt, they have serious medical conditions, and it's all verified the way they need to be, but the fact that the Chicago Blackhawks, who for years were at the top, how they became one of the top revenue generators in the NHL, and there were so many questions about how they could possibly deal with so many albatross contracts and were facing Salary Cap hell...somehow managed to:

1. Get cap relief from the 5.275m/year cap hit of Marian Hossa
2. Win a draft lottery to get in the top-3 of what is likely to end up being one of the top draft classes of the last few years
3. Get cap relief from the 6.875/year cap hit of Brent Seabrook
4. Currently looking at a cap relief of 10.5m/year cap hit of Jon Toews
5. Are now likely going to be starting a run of being a top team yet again, meaning their "rebuild" has been a grand total of...two years?

Like, come on.

 

[57special]

Stan Bowman really has the pandemic hair thing going on there.

 

[AKL]

Obviously sounds like crazy conspiracy theory ramblings and I'm sure these guys really do deserve the benefit of the doubt, they have serious medical conditions, and it's all verified the way they need to be, but the fact that the Chicago Blackhawks, who for years were at the top, how they became one of the top revenue generators in the NHL, and there were so many questions about how they could possibly deal with so many albatross contracts and were facing Salary Cap hell...somehow managed to:

1. Get cap relief from the 5.275m/year cap hit of Marian Hossa
2. Win a draft lottery to get in the top-3 of what is likely to end up being one of the top draft classes of the last few years
3. Get cap relief from the 6.875/year cap hit of Brent Seabrook
4. Currently looking at a cap relief of 10.5m/year cap hit of Jon Toews
5. Are now likely going to be starting a run of being a top team yet again, meaning their "rebuild" has been a grand total of...two years?

Like, come on.

Yeah, it's getting old. I'd settle just for Kirby Dach at this point, without the cap relief.

 

[57special]

I welcome this news, as it makes it a virtual certainty that Parise, with his back, will be able to get LTIR'ed at some point in the future. You can't allow Hossa's and Seabrook's LTIR, and not Parise's. I don't think he will be ready to go for quite a while, and who knows, he might have a resurgence, but he has a history of back problems going back years. At some point those around him might have to convince him that it's better to walk off into the sunset, rather than wheel off into the sunset.

 

[2Pair]

Obviously sounds like crazy conspiracy theory ramblings and I'm sure these guys really do deserve the benefit of the doubt, they have serious medical conditions, and it's all verified the way they need to be, but the fact that the Chicago Blackhawks, who for years were at the top, how they became one of the top revenue generators in the NHL, and there were so many questions about how they could possibly deal with so many albatross contracts and were facing Salary Cap hell...somehow managed to:

1. Get cap relief from the 5.275m/year cap hit of Marian Hossa
2. Win a draft lottery to get in the top-3 of what is likely to end up being one of the top draft classes of the last few years
3. Get cap relief from the 6.875/year cap hit of Brent Seabrook
4. Currently looking at a cap relief of 10.5m/year cap hit of Jon Toews
5. Are now likely going to be starting a run of being a top team yet again, meaning their "rebuild" has been a grand total of...two years?

Like, come on.

The talk about Chicago being back might be premature. They are 7-11 against teams that aren’t the Red Wings

 

[BagHead]

Obviously sounds like crazy conspiracy theory ramblings and I'm sure these guys really do deserve the benefit of the doubt, they have serious medical conditions, and it's all verified the way they need to be, but the fact that the Chicago Blackhawks, who for years were at the top, how they became one of the top revenue generators in the NHL, and there were so many questions about how they could possibly deal with so many albatross contracts and were facing Salary Cap hell...somehow managed to:

1. Get cap relief from the 5.275m/year cap hit of Marian Hossa
2. Win a draft lottery to get in the top-3 of what is likely to end up being one of the top draft classes of the last few years
3. Get cap relief from the 6.875/year cap hit of Brent Seabrook
4. Currently looking at a cap relief of 10.5m/year cap hit of Jon Toews
5. Are now likely going to be starting a run of being a top team yet again, meaning their "rebuild" has been a grand total of...two years?

Like, come on.

I kind of agree, though I'm not sure this rebuild is over. Still, I've given them a lot of benefit of the doubt, but they seem to be uncommonly lucky (the franchise, not the players). As these things keep adding up, you can't help but wonder.

 

[AKL]

Mark Pavelich passed away sometime late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning.

 

[TaLoN]

He's the hit in question

 

[Victorious Secret]

Wilson was looking for something that entire shift

 

[57special]

WTH is Vrana doing afterwards? What a jerk(s). If Blichfield got two games for his open ice, borderline hit, then Wilson should get one million games.

 

[BagHead]

WTH is Vrana doing afterwards? What a jerk(s). If Blichfield got two games for his open ice, borderline hit, then Wilson should get one million games.

Wilson checks a guy in the head. Vrana cross-checks said guy multiple times as he goes down. Ovechkin spears a guy in the nads. What a bunch of goons!

 

[keppel146]

Barzal with crazy goal

 

[Al Lagoon]

Was surprised to see Kurtis Gabriel's name back in the NHL, now with the Sharks. 5 hits and a fight last night. Sounds about right.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Trocheck on pace for 46 goals and 78 points through the start of the year. You’ve gotta give that Carolina staff a ton of credit for what they’ve done for that organization. They’ve drafted extremely well of late, made savvy moves like Trocheck for spare parts, aquiring Hamilton, and turning Rask into Nino. I hope a few years from now I feel like Guerin and his staff have made a lot of the right moves at the right times.

 

[57special]

Was surprised to see Kurtis Gabriel's name back in the NHL, now with the Sharks. 5 hits and a fight last night. Sounds about right.

He fought Reaves and didn't get destroyed, which counts as a win.

 

[Wild11MN]

ESPN signed a 7-year deal for partial broadcast rights to the NHL. They have the rights to four Stanley Cup Finals through 2028.