Around the NHL 2017-18: Stanley Cup Playoffs

[RempireStateBuilding]

Yamamoto has 1G 1A in 1GP in preseason.
Chytil has 0G 0A in 0GP in preseason.

Unbelievable. Gordie Clark failing again at the draft.

And to think, we could have taken Yamamoto at #7. What a colossal failure.

 

[Cassano]

Yamamoto has 1G 1A in 1GP in preseason.
Chytil has 0G 0A in 0GP in preseason.

Unbelievable. Gordie Clark failing again at the draft.

Gaudreau/McDavid-esque finish tbh.

 

[mike14]

Gaudreau/McDavid-esque finish tbh.

Sweet goal, nice play by Draisitl as well.
The Oilers new uniforms look great

 

[Levitate]

holy lol that giveaway

 

[nyr2k2]

Sorry no dudes named Kailer allowed on my team.

 

[Machinehead]

Sorry no dudes named Kailer allowed on my team.

+10000000000000000

Get a real name

 

[Mikos87]

Holy hell does COL suck.

Damn that has to be one of the worst structured teams I've ever seen.

 

[Kane One]

These Vegas jerseys look nicer on ice but the colors look a bit like Pittsburgh.

 

[aufheben]

These Vegas jerseys look nicer on ice but the colors look a bit like Pittsburgh.

I figured they'd be a lot nicer on the eyes from a distance. Very similar to the early 90's Canucks. Logo still looks like an AntiVirus app, but in all fairness, creating a knights logo that's both original and nice-looking for a sports team in 2017 would be pretty difficult.

 

[Kane One]

I figured they'd be a lot nicer on the eyes from a distance. Very similar to the early 90's Canucks. Logo still looks like an AntiVirus app, but in all fairness, creating a knights logo that's both original and nice-looking for a sports team in 2017 would be pretty difficult.

How about a knight on a horse but instead of the jousting weapon (wtf is that called), have a hockey stick.

 

[aufheben]

How about a knight on a horse but instead of the jousting weapon (wtf is that called), have a hockey stick.

Hah, that'd basically be polo. Lance.

 

[darko]

What's worse: Thinking you need to trade for Ceci, or that Ceci is a building block for your team and don't want to trade him.

Hard to say lol

 

[Tob]

No way any trade beats the value of the would-have-been deals in the summer and at the last deadline. Duchene doesn't compartmentalize well and doesn't handle the off ice and media pressure well. It's a bad gamble for Sakic is he thinks Duchene will play at a 60-70 point pace to boost his value.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Kailer Yamamoto also had 1g, 1a last night vs the Flames. We picked Chytil 1 pick before him.

Chytil turned 18, 2 weeks ago.
Yamamoto turns 19 next week.

Chytil has pro hockey experience

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Hah, that'd basically be polo. Lance.

 

[Edge]

Have to be honest, I liked some of the concept jersey designs people made better.

 

[Fugazy]

I figured they'd be a lot nicer on the eyes from a distance. Very similar to the early 90's Canucks. Logo still looks like an AntiVirus app, but in all fairness, creating a knights logo that's both original and nice-looking for a sports team in 2017 would be pretty difficult.

I'm actually a big fan of the logo they came up with

AntiVirus app made me

 

[Cassano]

A hot take: I'm glad the NHL is calling more penalties so far on those slashes. Just need to remove more of the interference come playoff time and it'll be even better.

The league needs to do a better job at protecting the star players. It's the one league that lags far behind the others in that regard.

 

[Levitate]

A hot take: I'm glad the NHL is calling more penalties so far on those slashes. Just need to remove more of the interference come playoff time and it'll be even better.

The league needs to do a better job at protecting the star players. It's the one league that lags far behind the others in that regard.

NHL is still (still!) an old boys club and a lot of those guys played back in the day when the thought was if you couldn't fight through a bunch of slashes and hooking and a concussion or too then you were soft and not a real star. Hockey has its rep as a rough and tumble sport that somehow supersedes even that of US football. Change is slow.

While the penalties are really annoying at the moment, I think the purpose is to show teams and players the direction the league wants things to go while the games are meaningless. Might even carry over into the regular season a bit but players will adjust and penalties will go down (and I wouldn't be surprised to see refs loosen things up a bit as well).

I think interference, especially on dumpins, is here to stay though because players complained long and hard about that one when it came to defensemen getting lit up while trying to retrieve pucks

 

[Machinehead]

Rofl, his expression.

"Why is this thing on my team?"

 

[nyr2k2]

I'm okay with the slashing penalties. Those break bones and lead to lots of injuries. I'm not so concerned about the stick-on-stick stuff, but obviously that can lead to misses that hit hands. Anything close to the hand area needs to be called though.

The face-off stuff is obnoxious. Guys will adjust, but it will be frustrating when it's called in a big spot in an important game. I understand why they want to enforce the rules but I hope they're a little more judicious in when they call it. Warning guys would also be good instead of going straight to the penalty call.

And just to clarify the face-off thing. People keep calling it a new rule. It's not a new rule. It's just the League making a concerted effort to enforce existing rules.

 

[Irishguy42]

The problem with the way they've been calling penalties now is that even basic stick checking is penalized as slashing.

 

[Tawnos]

I'm okay with the slashing penalties. Those break bones and lead to lots of injuries. I'm not so concerned about the stick-on-stick stuff, but obviously that can lead to misses that hit hands. Anything close to the hand area needs to be called though.

The face-off stuff is obnoxious. Guys will adjust, but it will be frustrating when it's called in a big spot in an important game. I understand why they want to enforce the rules but I hope they're a little more judicious in when they call it. Warning guys would also be good instead of going straight to the penalty call.

And just to clarify the face-off thing. People keep calling it a new rule. It's not a new rule. It's just the League making a concerted effort to enforce existing rules.

Everyone complains about how long it takes to drop the puck. The only reason it takes so long is because the linesmen are waiting for the centers to stop cheating. Enforcing this rule by the book will hopefully do that.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Everyone complains about how long it takes to drop the puck. The only reason it takes so long is because the linesmen are waiting for the centers to stop cheating. Enforcing this rule by the book will hopefully do that.

Exactly. It might be frustrating now, because the players keep infringing, but once they adjust to it, it will improve the face off process as a whole.

I still have 0 issues with the refs enforcing this rule (FINALLY). Why else have the face- off circles?

 

[Edge]

Chytil turned 18, 2 weeks ago.
Yamamoto turns 19 next week.

Chytil has pro hockey experience

Also worth noting that Chytil is also almost a full year younger than Andersson.