Around the NHL - 2014-2015 Edition

[0point1]

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

Please please please make this happen.

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

r.i.p.

 

[Jamieh]

Methot signs for 4 years in Ottawa, just under $5 million Avg.

 

[Mosby]

Methot signs for 4 years in Ottawa, just under $5 million Avg.

Damn, wanted him in Arizona.

The good news here is that it's one more defenseman off the trade board.

 

[IPreferPi]

Pretty good resign by Ottawa. And another defenseman off the market.

 

[Jamieh]

Yandle is really going to get paid with his next contract!!!

 

[letowskie]

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

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

Not bad.

May have to take a 1st in 2016, since many top teams no longer have a 2015 1st.

That would probably be fine with me, since creating more chances and paths to Matthews should be a high priority for this organization going forward.

 

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That would probably be fine with me, since creating more chances and paths to Matthews should be a high priority for this organization going forward.

>Acquire 3 non playoff first round picks in 2016
>All three are drawn for the first three picks in 2016
>Uncle Gary's double finger salute to sunbelt haters is real
>Coyotes take Matthews, Day, Puljujärvi
>The salute lasts the next decade, chapping many Canadian *****
>All is right in the world.

 

[letowskie]

>Acquire 3 non playoff first round picks in 2016
>All three are drawn for the first three picks in 2016
>Uncle Gary's double finger salute to sunbelt haters is real
>Coyotes take Matthews, Day, Puljujärvi
>The salute lasts the next decade, chapping many Canadian *****
>All is right in the world.

Let's hope that there is some mechanism in the league that allows a better chance for a local boy to be selected by the appropriate team. It's like way back when Montreal had the first dibs in all of the QMJHL prospects as opposed to the other original 6 teams.

 

[jacobhockey13]

Buffalo vs. New Jersey game tonight is on NBCSN starting at seven. Intriguing for obvious reasons.

Edit: Already started, midway through the second 1-0 NJ

 

[jacobhockey13]

Buffalo loses in the shootout

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

 

[Mosby]

I hope the Pens and Caps meet in the playoffs, and even more so after watching the above clips.

This could be a really great first round for the NHL. I'm hoping for:

- Pittsburgh vs. Washington
- Islanders vs. Rangers
- Detroit vs. Tampa (Yzerman)
- Montreal vs. Boston

Lightning vs. Panthers could be really fun too, if the Panthers sneak in.

A lot of great battles in the West too: Chi/Stl is one. Preds/Kings could be another.

 

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Stadium series episode 3 is here: https://vid.me/Tqvn

Pavelski taking over the room in the 1st intermission makes his hattrick and the Sharks comeback against the Coyotes a lot sweeter for me. Kinda odd to see Thornton just chilling in the corner while that was going on.

 

[Desert Ice 11]

Ovi didn't mean to hurt the guy..it was a missed call for a slash but I don't think Ovi would have done it if he knew that was going to happen. It was funny to see Kunitz and Perron trying to start something but Ovi just laughed in their faces...then laid a nice hit on Kunitz.

It's unfortunate that it happened but I don't fault Ovechkin for Letang's injury.

 

[Etch]

CRAZY Boston Edmonton game, Oilers pull it out in a 12 round shootout!

Chara slapshot from the hashmarks was pretty funny. Good work Oilers. Good work.

 

[Sinurgy]

Ovi didn't mean to hurt the guy..it was a missed call for a slash but I don't think Ovi would have done it if he knew that was going to happen. It was funny to see Kunitz and Perron trying to start something but Ovi just laughed in their faces...then laid a nice hit on Kunitz.

It's unfortunate that it happened but I don't fault Ovechkin for Letang's injury.

Agreed, it was just one of those plays that can happen in hockey. I have no problem if they call slashing there but I do think it was incidental and not Ovechkin's intent. Penguins blew it way out of proportion and it cost them the came. I hope this is the year the Caps make a serious run. Ovy in the Stanley Cup finals, yes please!!!

 

[Thor Savage]

What we have all known for a long time, fun to see it in writing:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...--winnipeg-according-to-agents-182227244.html

The main excuse for Arizona is now off the table. If I were a player I'd love to spend my winter, spring and fall in AZ. Heck, as a fan I love to spend my winter, spring and fall in AZ!

As for Canadian cities I'd go with Vancouver, but I imagine players don't like the whole celebrity status which comes with living in a Canadian city. I remember an article about Sam Gagner when he first moved here and how he could go to grocery store in Scottsdale without being hounded by fans.

 

[0point1]

As for Canadian cities I'd go with Vancouver

Vancouver is amazing, I'm surprised they don't get more interest from players. It would be one of my top 5 destinations as a player.

 

[Jamieh]

Most of the winter it rains there, and rains a lot. Having lived in both Calgary and Vancouver, if I was choosing where to live in the winter it would be Calgary. It might get snow and be colder but the sun shines almost everyday. If you have ever lived somewhere like Vancouver where the sun rarely shines for about 4 months in a row you would appreciate being bright everyday. Add in congestion and Vancouver for me is not that desirable.

Edit: I should add that Vancouver is a beautiful city but dark rainy winters are not desirable to me.

Vancouver is amazing, I'm surprised they don't get more interest from players. It would be one of my top 5 destinations as a player.

 

[Jamieh]

If I was a young guy starting a career in the NHL I would want to play on a team where hockey is everything. As I became an adult with a family and such I would want to play on a team that gives a better life/work balance that is in a place where winter really doesn't exist. I'm surprised that anyone would ever leave the Coyotes if the team gives them a chance to stay. It's a dream city to live and play in. And they get to leave for summer which seems to be the least desirable time to be there.

 

[Sciamachy]

What we have all known for a long time, fun to see it in writing:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...--winnipeg-according-to-agents-182227244.html

The main excuse for Arizona is now off the table. If I were a player I'd love to spend my winter, spring and fall in AZ. Heck, as a fan I love to spend my winter, spring and fall in AZ!

As for Canadian cities I'd go with Vancouver, but I imagine players don't like the whole celebrity status which comes with living in a Canadian city. I remember an article about Sam Gagner when he first moved here and how he could go to grocery store in Scottsdale without being hounded by fans.

According to Custance, the runners-up are: New Jersey, Florida (“Guys don’t like going to a place where the building is empty and they can’t winâ€), Arizona (“Phoenix has been somewhat common, partially because of the instability of ownership the last few yearsâ€).

Still pretty high on the NTC list so I wouldn't go thinking we're in the clear as a 'destination spot' as Nash so loves to spout.

 

[mouser]

2 points for the Oilers last night in possibly the worst shootout I've ever seen. Both teams were awful, half the shots weren't even on net, a bunch of stickhandling failures. Took 12 rounds for someone to actually score a goal, and even that goal looked like the skater lost the puck and it dribbled through Rask's 5 hole.

 

[Thor Savage]

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/12345679/nhl-even-nhl-washington-capitals-fathers-just-hockey-dads

Would love to see the Coyotes do this . . . . especially with all of the dads that are former NHL players.

Have they done this in the past? I've only been routing for the team since 2010 since I moved to the valley. I saw the Bruins do this when I lived back east.

 

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Every team does a fathers trip, as far as I know. The running joke was that, due to Maloney's insistence on bloodline picks, he was actually attempting to assemble the GOAT fathers trip.