Around The NHL - Back in the Saddle Again

[Mosby]

FYI it looks like the lottery will be April 28

 

[rt]

Oh, my sweet summer child. You have so much to learn about the plight of the Coyotes. The lottery is coming.

5th is not a bad spot. Hughes, Bouchard, Boqvist, Dobson, etc.

 

[rt]

FYI it looks like the lottery will be April 28

It’s always whenever I’m trying to be somewhere with my wife for her birthday or our wedding anniversary. Every year I have to beg friends to text me updates that I pretend not to look at while quaffing snooty French red. Every year I’m utterly disgusted and simultaneously attempting to be a good date and celebrate a nice anniversary. Haha.

 

[Alberta Yote]

Do we need to change the thread title?

 

[rt]

Do we need to change the thread title?

He changed it last night. There are 31 teams now, with Vegas.

 

[Alberta Yote]

He changed it last night. There are 31 teams now, with Vegas.

Sorry I'm frozen.

 

[ck26]

FWIW, catching up to BUF means something. Team still competing / improving / etc. Given the lotto odds and that there's 1 prize, not a few, I like it a lot. We're not throwing away our chances at Jack Eichel this year.

 

[rt]

FWIW, catching up to BUF means something. Team still competing / improving / etc. Given the lotto odds and that there's 1 prize, not a few, I like it a lot. We're not throwing away our chances at Jack Eichel this year.

I completely agree. I’ve been a violent pro tank radical in the past. That no longer makes any sense. Any remaining tank commanders are misguided. Tocchet is absolutely right about culture change.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

You remember that new lottery system guys like Doan and others hyped - the one that rewarded the team with the best record after being officially eliminated from playoff eligibility? We're winning that system even if it doesn't exist, and I'm totally fine with that. I'd rather let these kids figure out how to win some effing hockey games than let them become the Sabres, who are cherry picking awesome draft prospects and throwing them into a cesspool.

 

[Mosby]

As long as we get one of the Big 4, please. Dahlin, Svechnikov, Tkachuk, Zadina.

 

[rt]

I’d like to go 8-4-4 in the last 16 games, end up with 73pts and win one of the 1st two picks anyway. We have to catch a break at some point.

 

[RABBIT]

As long as we get one of the Big 4, please. Dahlin, Svechnikov, Tkachuk, Zadina.

pretty much my short list too

 

[BigDoaner]

I know Tkachuk has a lot of grit but I think Wahlstrom will be on Zadinas level

 

[BigDoaner]

My levels:
1. Dahlin
2. Svechnikov
3. Zadina & Whalstrom
4. Tkachuk, Boqvist, Hughes, Bouchard

 

[TheLegend]

Woof......

The Oilers can’t score without McDavid - Article - TSN

 

[rt]

I've got Dahlin clearly ahead of Svechnikov who is clearly ahead of Zadina who is clearly ahead of everyone else for me. It's those three and then a pile of around a half dozen guys who are totally interchangeable at this point for me.

 

[rt]

Woof......

The Oilers can’t score without McDavid - Article - TSN

Holy smokes!!!

The defencemen group sees a 44 per cent reduction and the forwards a 42 per cent reduction in goal scoring when moved away from McDavid. And it’s not as if McDavid is taking them to astronomical goal-scoring rates. The average NHL forward scores about 0.7 goals per-60 minutes; the average NHL defenceman, about 0.2 goals per-60 minutes. The above graph would suggest that both of Edmonton’s skater groups are about 17 per cent worse than the league average goal scorer at their respective position, so long as they don’t have the opportunity to play with McDavid.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Woof......

The Oilers can’t score without McDavid - Article - TSN

Every time someone tells me that the Coyotes would have been saved single-handedly by Auston Matthews, I can now show them this.

 

[moosemeister]

Every time someone tells me that the Coyotes would have been saved single-handedly by Auston Matthews, I can now show them this.

Matthews would’ve been more of a savior off ice than on it. The marketing would’ve done itself haha

 

[The Feckless Puck]

The marketing would’ve done itself haha

It would have had to given our lack of financial wherewithal.

 

[rt]

Every time someone tells me that the Coyotes would have been saved single-handedly by Auston Matthews, I can now show them this.

Not really. Our forwards and defenseman have spent 100% of their time without McDavid.

 

[Alberta Yote]

I watch a lot of Oilers games because why not. It amazes me how much professional hockey players can defer to one albeit supremely talented player. If you spend most of most games waiting for one guy to win for you I'd guess a lot of players would lose their edge.

 

[Mosby]

31 thoughts:

2. Dundon would not discuss specific names of potential replacements. He lives in Dallas, and a couple of sources indicated two people he knows well and may give him advice: Brenden Morrow and Dave Tippett. Dundon has praised his head coach, Bill Peters, so I’m not sure Tippett is a fit. He is also very close with Francis from their days in Hartford. Another one-time Star, Joe Nieuwendyk, also works for Carolina.

 

[Jakey53]

Every time someone tells me that the Coyotes would have been saved single-handedly by Auston Matthews, I can now show them this.

If we would have gotten Matthews we would have sold out immediately, but after the honeymoon, it's all about winning.

 

[Jakey53]

Matthews would’ve been more of a savior off ice than on it. The marketing would’ve done itself haha

Tell that to TO. They have lost like seven in a row without Matthews.