Around the NHL: Part XX

[eco's bones]

That might just drive the Leafs season off a cliff.

if I’m Carolina, I’m overpaying for Georgiev tomorrow morning.

yeah, well we're in a playoff race with them. If they can't find a goalie and their two guys are out for a while I'm not sure I'm helping them out. The guy they have in Charlotte is a pretty good AHL goalie but....

 

[eco's bones]

Does the emergency backup have to be an amateur? Or could/would Georgiev have been our EBUG tonight, since we're carrying 3 goalies?

Pretty sure it can't be a player under contract. There's a conflict thing. Georgiev could throw the game if he was put in against his own team and who could say a thing about it--if he beat his own team his teammates certainly wouldn't be happy about it either. That puts him in a terrible position.

 

[egelband]

Send Berube to Carolina. Get our 2nds back.

 

[aufheben]

At least Florida is going to lose.

 

[ThirdEye]

Boston receiving a rare ass whooping courtesy of Vancouver

 

[EdJovanovski]

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

The 2 best teams in the league and the (supposed) 2 best goalies each got f***in smoked out west tonight.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Couldn't be more perfect

 

[Harbour Dog]

Does the emergency backup have to be an amateur? Or could/would Georgiev have been our EBUG tonight, since we're carrying 3 goalies?

I was asking too. Seems no one knows.

I watched the third period of the game, and Carolina's announcers explained the process.

Apparently, every team submits a list of guys that they can call on as an emergency goalie. The list cannot include anybody that is already an employee of the team (or else they would of put Alves in net).

I don't know anymore than that, but I would guess that some strong amateur goalies are on a bunch of team's lists.

 

[Harbour Dog]

And now, a reading from the Gospel of Button.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

@will1066
Carolina Hurricanes have managed to win a hockey game with a Zamboni driver of their opponent's minor league affiliate in the net for more than a period.

So... I MIGHT ACTUALLY THANK YOU. IF THAT LOSS MAKES THEM KEEP UP THIS LEVEL OF EFFORT IT WAS DAMN WORTH FORFEITING THOSE TWO POINTS TO YA.

Let's get in the playoffs together. I AM SURE YOU WON'T MIND GETTING RID OF ISLES, FLYERS OR JACKETS ON THE WAY, RIGHT?

 

[haohmaru]

yeah, well we're in a playoff race with them. If they can't find a goalie and their two guys are out for a while I'm not sure I'm helping them out. The guy they have in Charlotte is a pretty good AHL goalie but....

If Kreider's name, via sources, is being tied to interest from Carolina and we're entertaining these calls then there's no reason they wouldn't be listening if they called on Georgiev too.

The key word in my post was "overpayment". Say what you want, but I don't think we're winning the Cup this year and I don't think Henrik is going anywhere. Assets for Georgiev make sense as I'm sure he's not happy with this situation either.

 

[haohmaru]

Gretzky also played in an era where they could bear hug you to the ice. If he played today, all things being equal, he’d probably double up his points.

Let's be honest about that, too. Nobody touched Gretzky, for the most part, as a.) an unwritten rule and b.) Semenko, or later McSorley, would leave you in a puddle of blood if you did.

Unsure what Gretzky's production would be these days - he did play with six other Hall of Fame players on that Edmonton team.

 

[KOVALEV022473]

Let's be honest about that, too. Nobody touched Gretzky, for the most part, as a.) an unwritten rule and b.) Semenko, or later McSorley, would leave you in a puddle of blood if you did.

Unsure what Gretzky's production would be these days - he did play with six other Hall of Fame players on that Edmonton team.

Let’s be honest about it. One, they couldn’t catch him before he dished the puck, and two, it’s not even about that, it’s about the 1000 extra pp minutes he would’ve had to operate in. Gretzky is the greatest player to ever play the game, and honestly, I don’t think his points record will ever be challenged.

 

[haohmaru]

Let’s be honest about it. One, they couldn’t catch him before he dished the puck, and two, it’s not even about that, it’s about the 1000 extra pp minutes he would’ve had to operate in.

Well, it's hypothetical. We'll never know.

 

[Leetch94]

By the end of the Leafs PGT thread the theory being entertained is after they scored two quick ones on the Canes goalie the Leafs let up because they didn't want to embarrass the guy LOL.

 

[mrmovies779]

By the end of the Leafs PGT thread the theory being entertained is after they scored two quick ones on the Canes goalie the Leafs let up because they didn't want to embarrass the guy LOL.

Lol that doesnt surprise me 1 bit coming from Leaf fans lol

 

[Kakko]

What actually happened: Ayres let them have two, so he'd get the win on paper

 

[NYSPORTS]

And now, a reading from the Gospel of Button.

that’s fantastic!!!!!!

No filter!!

 

[Charlie Conway]

Anyone buying an Ayres shirt?

Canes are giving Ayres the royalties and donating part of the proceeds to a kidney foundation. Classy move.

 

[NYSPORTS]

Let’s be honest about it. One, they couldn’t catch him before he dished the puck, and two, it’s not even about that, it’s about the 1000 extra pp minutes he would’ve had to operate in. Gretzky is the greatest player to ever play the game, and honestly, I don’t think his points record will ever be challenged.

his points are way to high be be caught IMO too. I’ll always refer to Gretzky as the Greatest ever yet I could make a case for Super Mario. Although whenever I read into it I always back off the moment I’m about to anoint Mario the best.

 

[Leetch3]

so i'm starting to think that the leafs model of getting a handful of high paid elite players to build around is not the model we should be copying

 

[NYR94]

 

[will1066]

@will1066
Carolina Hurricanes have managed to win a hockey game with a Zamboni driver of their opponent's minor league affiliate in the net for more than a period.

So... I MIGHT ACTUALLY THANK YOU. IF THAT LOSS MAKES THEM KEEP UP THIS LEVEL OF EFFORT IT WAS DAMN WORTH FORFEITING THOSE TWO POINTS TO YA.

Let's get in the playoffs together. I AM SURE YOU WON'T MIND GETTING RID OF ISLES, FLYERS OR JACKETS ON THE WAY, RIGHT?

YOU'RE WELCOME. NEED A GOALIE? I HAPPEN TO HAVE AN EXTRA...

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

YOU'RE WELCOME. NEED A GOALIE? I HAPPEN TO HAVE AN EXTRA...

We will try Ned. BUT I REALLY HOPE OUR STARTING PAIR GETS WELL SOON.