Around the NHL: Part XVII - Season’s Greetings

[YoSoyLalo]

Prediction: Patrick Laine will score 50+ goals this year and win the Rocket Richard award this year. He's been phenomenal thus far.

One of the key strategies I utilize in my fantasy leagues is to key on players who the previous year played like **** whether due to injury or just simply under performed. Alot of my fellow competitors are gun shy about those types....not me.

3 years for example in my keeper league I stole Nathan MacKinnon after his crappy 53 point season. But you just knew he had such massive talent and eventually he would emerge which obviously has happened and I be a happy camper as I still own him for another 3 years.

Laine is a similar situation. He's only 21...he has massive talent and he's looking to make sure we all know last year was a fluke. So far so good as he's been en fuego....

Ya he looks like he really focused on rounding out his game. He looks back to that rookie level of dangerousness. Always thought the premature Laine denouncing was utterly ridiculous. He’s probably gonna be the league’s next great goal scorer.

 

[Rongomania]

Ya he looks like he really focused on rounding out his game. He looks back to that rookie level of dangerousness. Always thought the premature Laine denouncing was utterly ridiculous. He’s probably gonna be the league’s next great goal scorer.

I honestly cannot fathom that because a KID has one 'down' year, people actually wrote him off ...

He scored 50 as a teen. He's a great talent.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

I honestly cannot fathom that because a KID has one 'down' year, people actually wrote him off ...

He scored 50 as a teen. He's a great talent.

Well he scored 44 but either way that’s an insane amount for a 19 year old and writing him off because he had a 30 goal season was always insane.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

I just so often find things about them kind of random, like their overall jersey designs, having multiple Canadian patches, using the Atlanta Flames logo for their alternates but a regular "C" for the captain, having good players but always kind of sucking, having a smurf from New Jersey as their best player, etc. Maybe that's it, I'm not really sure. I don't mean that negatively at all, they're definitely a cool team.

This x 100000

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Tampa is now outside of playoffs and J.T Miller is doing great at Vancouver with 1 goal and 4 assist - maybe a mistake to move him?

J.T. Miller Stats and News

I don’t think the Rangers moved him because he wasn’t scoring enough

 

[LeetchisGod]

How do the Panthers still suck?

 

[YoSoyLalo]

How do the Panthers still suck?

There’s still time for the Devils to blow this. But it’d be better if they win so f*** it.

 

[NYR94]

4 goal against on only 17 shots against for Florida. Bad defense or has Bob sucked? Or both?

 

[Tob]

4 goal against on only 17 shots against for Florida. Bad defense or has Bob sucked? Or both?

Remember the year when Lindberg and Zucc scored the tying and winning goal in the final 2 minutes of CBJ's season and home opener? It destroyed Bob's confidence and mentality for the whole year. He might have lost it already.

 

[Edge]

The ongoing question with Laine probably won't be about ability or talent, but whether he's a core player on a winning team, or a high-octane piece that potentially puts a team over the top if they already have their core established.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Hell, it's worked for Phil Kessel for a while.

 

[bl02]

4-4 now. Didn't take too long for the Devils to lose another huge lead and Subban almost kills his goalie lol

 

[The Crypto Guy]

LoL Devils are a joke

 

[bl02]

LoL Devils are a joke

need to keep them out of the bottom 5 with their lottery luck

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Yikes the Devils are putrid

 

[bl02]

the debbies sure could use someone like Rykov

 

[NYR94]

Who gets fired first, Hynes or Boudreau?

 

[bl02]

Subban makes 9 million a year? Yikes

 

[aufheben]

5-4, Boqvist takes a double-minor with 7:23 left lol

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Subban makes 9 million a year? Yikes

Yet another reason why the Preds were willing to give him away for a song.

 

[aufheben]

Lmao the Panthers have 2 players who don’t have a shot on goal this game.

 

[LeetchisGod]

need to keep them out of the bottom 5 with their lottery luck

This is a big concern for me. All we need is Lafreniere on that team.

 

[aufheben]

“Whoops” - Subban

 

[bl02]

Man debbies tanking a bit earlier this year wouldn't you say?

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Subban makes 9 million a year? Yikes

Somehow voted as the #12 best Dman on the Poll Section

Dude isn't even in the top 50 anymore, he's been on the decline for years.

 

[bl02]

Somehow voted as the #12 best Dman on the Poll Section

Dude isn't even in the top 50 anymore, he's been on the decline for years.

David Poile is no dumb dumb. He swapped him for Duchene.