Around the NHL: 2021-22 Who makes the playoffs??? (Not Vegas, that's who)

[old kummelweck]

If they win the lottery, they move up 10 slots. So yeah, they'll pick 16 or 6, and cannot pick anywhere in between.

And any movement is protected. So if they move, they keep the pick.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

So Johnson is the other NHLer who has that disc replacement surgery... and he looked like he was shot out of a cannon most of the night. Jack? Not so much.

Maybe is not very good.

 

[Chainshot]

Maybe is not very good.

I do expect we'll hear move about whatever is wrong with Jack's hand/wrist in the coming days both from a human interest POV and also PR about why this all happened. He did have a game where he took a shot off his hand and didn't return, then was back. I suspect he wasn't fully right and tried to play through it, leading to the softball shot attempts in SO's and such, but it just didn't work out. He's also getting pilloried for things beyond his control - Vegas management made their cap bed and now they should be held accountable for their maneuvering which had a roster that could never actually be health and cap compliant at the same time.

 

[Djp]

i think if vancouver goes 2-0 in regulation they will have the RW tiebreaker on vegas so since vegas is up 3 they can lose in OT/SO to STL and vancouver will still overtake them.

if Vancouver goes intoOT on either game vegas has second tie breaker in order If they get 1 pt.

Vsncover 4 vegas 0 is absolute.

Van 3 Vegas 0 16 is vegas
Van 4 vegas 1 van is 16 only if both areRW otherwise 16 is vegas

 

[TheMistyStranger]

I'm just ecstatic that the pick is 99.5% going to be 16th overall instead of what most of us predicted with a range of 29-32. To put it differently, what would you have to add to the 30th pick to move up to 16? Two seconds and a player? Another 1st+? It really is like getting a bonus asset or two from the deal.

 

[KiwiGriff]

 

[Diaspora]

This is the funniest thing I've seen since COVID started.

 

[Reddawg]

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This is my favorite Eff Vegas meme yet.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Been to Vegas quite a few times for work and a couple of times for a little entertainment. It always struck me as a (tinsel) town that embraces the new and novel and exciting (meaning successful). But always needed a booster injection of creativity and life. The same old show just doesn't play endlessly to a full house.

So once Bettman's (Batman's?) glory baby in the desert becomes ordinary and mundane, what happens to the crowds when the enthusiasm wears off?

Rhetorical question. But when its all said and done, it does indeed appear that Gerard Gallant is one hell of a coach......

 

[Jacob582]

I'm just ecstatic that the pick is 99.5% going to be 16th overall instead of what most of us predicted with a range of 29-32. To put it differently, what would you have to add to the 30th pick to move up to 16? Two seconds and a player? Another 1st+? It really is like getting a bonus asset or two from the deal.

At last year's draft Detroit moved up from 23 to 15 for an additional 2nd (47th) and a 5th.

So value-wise it would probably be 30th plus the Florida 1st (let's say 32) to move up to 16.

 

[Buffaloed]

lol they could have picked literally anything for the accompanying photo

Jack's the scapegoat. Kelly McCrimmon is the goat.

 

[Jacob582]

Interesting with Dallas trading down to 23.

Selected Wyatt Johnston - ranked #40 by Bob McKenzie, so they knew they could trade down to get their guy.

124 points in 68 OHL games this season. Dallas has signed him to his ELC.

 

[Jacob582]

Been to Vegas quite a few times for work and a couple of times for a little entertainment. It always struck me as a (tinsel) town that embraces the new and novel and exciting (meaning successful). But always needed a booster injection of creativity and life. The same old show just doesn't play endlessly to a full house.

So once Bettman's (Batman's?) glory baby in the desert becomes ordinary and mundane, what happens to the crowds when the enthusiasm wears off?

Rhetorical question. But when its all said and done, it does indeed appear that Gerard Gallant is one hell of a coach......

Super VGK fan Daniel Negreanu (poker fame) was on WGR the other night. He was all fired up and pissed off at the VGK management.

His list of grievances were long: treatment of MAF, firing Gallant, treatment of Lehner and the way they traded other players over the years.

 

[beerme1]

Nyet

Correct!

 

[KiwiGriff]

Jack's the scapegoat. Kelly McCrimmon is the goat.

Smoke and mirrors

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Super VGK fan Daniel Negreanu (poker fame) was on WGR the other night. He was all fired up and pissed off at the VGK management.

His list of grievances were long: treatment of MAF, firing Gallant, treatment of Lehner and the way they traded other players over the years.

That’s a name I haven’t seen in awhile

 

[Chainshot]

I remember watching him and Paille on the same Guelph team in the OHL.

 

[Chainshot]

And more upheaval out there -



I like Beyak's calls.

 

[Reddawg]

That’s a name I haven’t seen in awhile

I remember when the team was in the process of founding he was trying very hard to be a minority owner of the team, but it obviously didn't work out for one reason or another.

 

[Jacob582]

I remember when the team was in the process of founding he was trying very hard to be a minority owner of the team, but it obviously didn't work out for one reason or another.

Daniel Negreanu was on After the Whistle earlier in the season. Worth a listen.

 

[joshjull]

Been to Vegas quite a few times for work and a couple of times for a little entertainment. It always struck me as a (tinsel) town that embraces the new and novel and exciting (meaning successful). But always needed a booster injection of creativity and life. The same old show just doesn't play endlessly to a full house.

So once Bettman's (Batman's?) glory baby in the desert becomes ordinary and mundane, what happens to the crowds when the enthusiasm wears off?

Rhetorical question. But when its all said and done, it does indeed appear that Gerard Gallant is one hell of a coach......

Firing Gallant was such a weird move.

 

[joshjull]

I hope he was ok after this. I flinched watching his head snap back

The Preds already lost Saros

 

[Zach716]

I hope he was ok after this. I flinched watching his head snap back

The Preds already lost Saros

I had to look up a little more context because that was bizarre

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

I had to look up a little more context because that was bizarre

1st star. He was awesome tonight. Would like to see him in a Sabres uni.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

Vancouver wins!

A VAN win against EDM and a Vegas loss (hopefully in regulation) tomorrow please.