Miscellaneous NHL Talk XLIII - April showers

[MacDonald4MVP]

Works out as good as it could for the Flyers. Get to play 4 games that mean nothing. Vigneault's teams have usually had issues starting seasons, which is essentially what this is, and get 4 games to hopefully straighten this out. Or they don't straighten it out and at least their season ends on the ice and we're not left wondering.

Not only that but refs are gonna be rusty as f*** and make even more egregious calls than usual. Goalies are gonna be all over the place before settling in and stupid habs who always seems to have a hot start to the season are facing the forces of evil pens team.
Also doesn't Tampa usually have some crazy steaks to start the year? What matchup are we getting?

 

[FLYguy3911]

Amidst all the mistakes of sens past couple of seasons, their failure to resign karlsson is a huge feather in their cap. Probably means their gonna end up f***ing up again.

Meh more of a Sharks blunder than an Ottawa heist. That pick should have been lottery protected if not excluded all together. Why do teams insist on putting conditions on pending UFAs? Better yet why do teams agree to them? Every year!

Hockey is easily the worst sport when it comes to condition on picks. 'Here. I'll give you a bunch of assets for your expiring contract. I'll pay him market rate plus I'll give you more good stuff if the player wants to re-sign with us.' And let's not talk about how it hurts the player's market.

Guess they are even after the Duchene fiasco.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Do we have any dates?

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Meh more of a Sharks blunder than an Ottawa heist. That pick should have been lottery protected if not excluded all together. Why do teams insist on putting conditions on pending UFAs. Better yet why do teams agree to them? Every year!

Hockey is easily the worst sport when it comes to condition on picks. 'Here. I'll give you a bunch of assets for your expiring contract. I'll pay him market rate plus I'll give you more good stuff if the player wants to re-sign with us.' And let's not talk about how it hurts the players market.

Guess they are even after the Duchene fiasco.

Speaking of, those Duchene and Turris contracts must give preds fans a lot of joy. Also Jets Flames series is definitely gonna be defense optional.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Do we have any dates?

Lottery #1 - June 26th.

Training Camps won't start until at least July.

Probably going to be an early August start.

 

[trostol]

Anything said about next season...which this PO thing is gonna push into

 

[FLYguy3911]

Anything said about next season...which this PO thing is gonna push into

Just speculation about a January 1 start. Nothing beyond that. Probably hoping to get (some) fans by then.

 

[FlyerFaithful17]

Anything said about next season...which this PO thing is gonna push into

“Maybe start with the Winter Classic”

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

“Maybe start with the Winter Classic”

Someplace new like Chicago.

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Lottery #1 - June 26th.

Training Camps won't start until at least July.

Probably going to be an early August start.

That’s a big yikes from me...

 

[GKJ]

Meh more of a Sharks blunder than an Ottawa heist. That pick should have been lottery protected if not excluded all together. Why do teams insist on putting conditions on pending UFAs? Better yet why do teams agree to them? Every year!

Hockey is easily the worst sport when it comes to condition on picks. 'Here. I'll give you a bunch of assets for your expiring contract. I'll pay him market rate plus I'll give you more good stuff if the player wants to re-sign with us.' And let's not talk about how it hurts the player's market.

Guess they are even after the Duchene fiasco.

they probably couldn’t to make that deal. They were already without a 1st the year they made the deal.

 

[Adtar02]

Some teams I hope lose in the play in round that shouldn’t be allowed the lottery picks. Looking at you Edmonton, Toronto, and Pittsburg.

 

[TCTC]

I really like that the matchups of this years playoffs are so unpredictable. We could play literally any of the 11 teams in the East in the 2nd round.

 

[Deadpool8812]

I mean, whatever. It's a fair as it can be. People need to stop complaining and just accept it

 

[FlyerFaithful17]

I mean, whatever. It's a fair as it can be. People need to stop complaining and just accept it

I’m thrilled just to have a distraction in the form of my favorite sports league.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

How can they extend the contracts of players? Don't they end 6/30/20? Or I'm assuming the player's association agreed to extend all contracts as part of negotiations?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Sorry if I missed it, but what about players currently sent down? Are they still going to have a working waiver wire in place or what's going to happen?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Sorry if I missed it, but what about players currently sent down? Are they still going to have a working waiver wire in place or what's going to happen?

Nah. It’s shifted to playoff rosters. So no waiver wires/no roster limits/no capspace. No AHL either so you’re probably going to see some large rosters.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

So... is Couts winning the Selke or are writers going to take the lazy route because they haven’t watched a game in months?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Who’s going to write the first “28 Skaters gives enough room for specialists like Chris Stewart” article?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Who’s going to write the first “28 Skaters gives enough room for specialists like Chris Stewart” article?

Need that shootout specialist for the seeding games.

 

[Cody Webster]

At least we get away from division series matchups and go back to the entire conference seedings

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

I've seen friends post that they won't watch these playoffs, including the biggest Leafs fan I know.

I guarantee if they make it through the Blue Jackets, he'll be watching like a hawk. There are pretty good odds he'll be watching from the start.

I am dying for a Flyers Cup. I'll take it in any form, so bring these playoffs on... as long as it's safe to do so.

 

[Striiker]

Winning a cup in a quiet empty arena would take away a lot of the enjoyment for me. The playoff atmosphere is a big part of the experience.

This years playoffs is going to feel like just another Panthers home game...

 

[FLYguy3911]

they probably couldn’t to make that deal. They were already without a 1st the year they made the deal.

For some reason I thought the first going to Ottawa was a condition of Karlsson re-signing like the Evander Kane trade was structured. They ended up in this position because of the Kane trade though. They included the other half of the first round condition from the Evander Kane trade. They made the playoffs last year so that pick went to Buffalo and an unprotected 2020 1st rounder went to Ottawa.

The bubble was bound to burst with the way Wilson was running that ship, but not putting some protection on that pick was negligence. Not a chance Ottawa thought the pick would be this high so I don't see that holding up a trade with how late in the process that trade happened (and Ottawa limited their partners to the West only).

San Jose misses the 24 team playoff and the lottery. That's a tough look.