Around the NHL - 2014-2015 Edition

[Desert Ice 11]

To many money pushups?..Maybe he added to many stacks on his back?

 

[Matias Maccete]

Wow, there's tough and then there's so tough it's dumb. What a dumbadass.

 

[mouser]

Many years we're still talking about three consensus top tier guys. I don't see how a top three draw solves the problem of tanking in that situation, if teams are still rewarded with better odds for losses.

Really, it has to be embarrassing to the league to have so many teams openly talking about losing and the draft this year.

Bad teams are usually bad for a reason. For example the Oilers aren't interntionally trying to be a bad team, they just have an utterly incompetent management group.

The changes to the draft next year will mean that the absolutely worst team in the league has an approximately 50% chance to draft 4th, and the other 50% somewhere from 1st to 3rd. I don't think it's perfect, but still a huge step up from the current situation where the worst team is guaranteed to draft no lower then 2nd.

 

[XX]

Don't remember Klink doing that here...

 

[0point1]

Klink gave him the hammer


sorry

 

[Matias Maccete]

He did early on when he first got called up. Then he got chipitis and thought he was a scorer.

 

[Rink Rage]

Edmonton won again last night. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Coyotes can still catch Edmonton.

 

[Etch]

Edmonton won again last night. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Coyotes can still catch Edmonton.

Agreed, but we really have to take care of our end of the bargain. DM getting off his couch and finally dumping the FAs would be a great start.

 

[Mosby]

Edmonton won again last night. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Coyotes can still catch Edmonton.

Well, we could have an all ex-Oilers line now too:

Rieder - Arcobello - Gagner

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Well, we could have an all ex-Oilers line now too:

Rieder - Arcobello - Gagner

If we only played them one more time. But we'd win and all the _____ fans would be

 

[0point1]

Well, we could have an all ex-Oilers line now too:

Rieder - Arcobello - Gagner

Oilers are our farm team.

 

[Rink Rage]

Derek Roy just tied it up for Edmonton. The Oilers are looking solid again.

 

[Rink Rage]

Looking at the Oilers possession stats now

Corsi in 2013-14 44.6% 2014-15 49.9%
Fenwick in 2013-14 44.3% 2014-15 49.1%

The Oilers better not get McDavid or Eichel.

 

[XX]

Corsi is blind to many things. It doesn't do you a lot of good to direct shots at the net if they're crappy, or if guys can just breeze on through your defense. It's useful to measure a players impact relative to his usage, but it is not the be-all, end-all stat people want it to be.

It loses a lot of context when you're talking about a bad team versus a good team, as an example.

 

[Rink Rage]

It does still do a good job of measuring how well the team carries the play.

 

[Rink Rage]

Viktor Fasth is still not very good at this goalie thing.

 

[Rink Rage]

Mark Fayne gets Edmonton back in it.

 

[Rink Rage]

Well, this **** is over.

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

A Mike Smith impression.

 

[MIGs Dog]

A Mike Smith impression.

Goalie interference...the refs suck.

 

[Desert Ice 11]

Nashville, Tenn. (February 15, 2015) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Sunday that the team has acquired defenseman Cody Franson and forward Mike Santorelli from the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Nashville’s first-round selection in the 2015 Draft, and forwards Brendan Leipsic and Olli Jokinen.

http://predators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=753452

 

[rt]

Vermette+Michalek is a slightly better package than Franson+Santo

So we can expect a 1st, a decent prospect, and a dump.

Not bad.

 

[XX]

I think it's interesting because it doesn't make a ton of sense for the Preds to sign Franson, so he'll hit the open market, giving Maloney a run at him. They'll probably sign Santorelli.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

 

[Desert Ice 11]

I guess Leafs needed to take him back... Did the Leafs retain Olli J's salary when he went to the Preds?