Around the League Part 11: When in doubt, blame Fortnite

[Negan4Coach]

Wilson has lost all benefit of doubt. He deserves none. He’s so goon-y that it is cartoonish at this point.

Charge a guy from behind and then blindside him long after reasonable by NHL standards. Maybe he was trying to adjust to lessen the blow. Maybe he shouldn’t be charging defenseless players from behind. Whether it’s legal or not, I don’t think it has a place in the NHL. Leagues are better off putting common sense measures in place to weed this behavior out. Similarly I’d rather see a WR go up and make a nice catch (along with a DB technician trying to break up the play) without being decapitated by a headhunter when the ball bounces out of his hands. I just don’t enjoy watching these guys writhe around on the ground in pain. We know too much now about the long-term effects of this old-school violent/punishing mentality in sports.

I agree. I'm all for violence and I think pro sports is going soft, but that was a bullshit hit from a repeat offender.

I'm having a hard time understanding why the Caps suffer no retribution from other teams for this sort of play.

 

[Lempo]

It gonna cost $212.500 to Dundo, and he's gonna sour on Aho like he did on Hanifin.

 

[CandyCanes]

Dang it would be nice to have a good goalie prospect.

Ilya Sorokin just went 6-0 in November. Gave up 2 goals the entire month. Sporting a .940 sv%, 1.20 GAA, in 21 games. Though it’s the KHL. Still crazy impressive.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Dang it would be nice to have a good goalie prospect.

Ilya Sorokin just went 6-0 in November. Gave up 2 goals the entire month. Sporting a .940 sv%, 1.20 GAA, in 21 games. Though it’s the KHL. Still crazy impressive.

When is he going to come over, though?

 

[emptyNedder]

Dang it would be nice to have a good goalie prospect.

Ilya Sorokin just went 6-0 in November. Gave up 2 goals the entire month. Sporting a .940 sv%, 1.20 GAA, in 21 games. Though it’s the KHL. Still crazy impressive.

The Finnish goalie for Minnesota in the AHL (Kahkonen) is just as impressive. Through 10 games he has 1.45 GAA, .950 sv% and three shutouts, which were in three consecutive games.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I hear we have a hot goalie prospect in Charlotte that's got a 1.66 with a .935 and has won two thirds of his games (this should be an obvious joke, but some people get a bit triggered around here)

 

[CandyCanes]

I hear we have a hot goalie prospect in Charlotte that's got a 1.66 with a .935 and has won two thirds of his games (this should be an obvious joke, but some people get a bit triggered around here)

He’s got a cute dog named Mouse too

 

[FreshSeabass]

Hopefully us We need a shake up even if he is not that great.

 

[Chrispy]

Hopefully us We need a shake up even if he is not that great.

To Vancouver for Michael Carcone, undrafted minor leaguer whose contract is up in July.

So, Waddell couldn't beat nothing??

 

[WreckingCrew]

Hopefully us We need a shake up even if he is not that great.

I'd rather not, I've seen nothing to indicate he's any better than a Zykov or something internal, and I don't see him having any real value...7th round pick?

 

[The Faulker 27]

Yeah at this point I'm not interested in trades for trades sake. We need big pieces in here or nothing.

 

[Chrispy]

Yeah at this point I'm not interested in trades for trades sake. We need big pieces in here or nothing.

At this point, the forward corp needs big pieces AND small pieces.

 

[The Faulker 27]

At this point, the forward corp needs big pieces AND small pieces.

I actually believe we have the small pieces, but we're trying to force them to be the large ones, and that's not working. That goes for Staal, and Williams too. We have plenty of supporting actors, and no leads.

 

[WreckingCrew]

To Vancouver for Michael Carcone, undrafted minor leaguer whose contract is up in July.

So, Waddell couldn't beat nothing??

Anyone else remember when Leafs fans were throwing him into trade proposals as a huge sweetener because he was so underrated and would be a steal and swing a trade the other direction? Apparently only Pepperidge Farm remembers because nobody else in the league agreed with their assessment lol

 

[A Star is Burns]

For a player of that caliber, I'd much rather bring up Kuokkanen, Saarela, etc instead.

 

[DougieSmash]

Feeling like we miss on Koskinen. Big fan of him, was dominant in KHL.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

RiP darling

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Gritty can hoop

Holy shit!

 

[A Star is Burns]

 

[WreckingCrew]

Holy ****!

Gritty can hit a 3-pointer from a mile away, we can't hit an open net from 3 feet out...SIGN GRITTY

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Sprong for the other Pettersson.

 

[bleedgreen]

That one hurts a little.

 

[WreckingCrew]

That one hurts a little.

Meh, he couldn't beat out a 6 point Rust for 3rd line duties...

 

[A Star is Burns]

I wouldn't have minded giving up a mediocre young dman for him to see if he could break out here. But for all we know, they were more interested in Anaheim's dman, or just wanted him out of conference if he was going to break out. Friedman has been mentioning Pittsburgh and Anaheim talking trade for weeks, and that he thinks their GM's work well together as old school guys. Sometimes, it's as easy as connections and relationships. See Arizona and Chicago, or us and Chicago before. Not to mention, even though it would be great to take a flyer on a very talented young player for relatively cheap, we do need a bigger, more proven commodity, and maybe GM Voltron realizes that.

 

[CandyCanes]

These are incredible