League News: NHL Talk - (News n' Scores n' Stuff) Vol. 6

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Over/under 24 hours before a Hall trade is announced?

HMM he would be fun on the Avs

 

[notDkristich]

Stephenson scored again...how long does his post-trade boost last?

 

[Calicaps]

Stephenson scored again...how long does his post-trade boost last?

hopefully just until Vegas gives him a preposterous extension.

meanwhile... what a boring-ass night of hockey!

 

[IafrateOvie34]

HMM he would be fun on the Avs

Yep, scary if he stays healthy.

 

[Melkor]

I think Buffalo needs him more. That team desperately needs another star to make some noise. Rumor has it Eichel's back already needs some treatment from carrying that whole team .

 

[trick9]

I hope Hall goes back West. There are enough star players in the Metro (and East) already.

 

[trick9]

Panthers have mostly such a well built team but they may have ruined their future with some of those bad contracts. Bobrovsky for 7 more years with NMC? Why the hell they drafted Knight that high? Part of me thinks they were already hoping that they get a compliance buy-out on Bob few years down the road and then have Knight step in. Goalies without much NHL experience don't hold that much value so otherwise that choice is just mind-boggling. Mike Matheson is on his 2nd year of that 8-year contract at slightly below 5m AAV and he was a healthy scratch on their last game.

Yikes.

 

[Corby78]

Stephenson scored again...how long does his post-trade boost last?

He will probably continue to have better numbers if they keep him centering the second line between Pacioretty and Stone. Good opportunity for him to play with more skill then he would get here.

 

[Raikkonen]

a trade this early in the season? will be a complete over payment

Strategic move for contender though if it's actually the Avs.

 

[trick9]

''7. There are reports out of Russia that CSKA Moscow is trying to extend Islanders goalie prospect Ilya Sorokin. Tough to say if this is legit or a negotiating tactic, but he will be 25 in August. If the extension is at least three years, he becomes an unrestricted free agent in North America.'' per Friedman.

Tough blow for the Islanders if that happens.

 

[Melkor]

Panthers have mostly such a well built team but they may have ruined their future with some of those bad contracts. Bobrovsky for 7 more years with NMC? Why the hell they drafted Knight that high? Part of me thinks they were already hoping that they get a compliance buy-out on Bob few years down the road and then have Knight step in. Goalies without much NHL experience don't hold that much value so otherwise that choice is just mind-boggling. Mike Matheson is on his 2nd year of that 8-year contract at slightly below 5m AAV and he was a healthy scratch on their last game.

Yikes.

They don't have a well built team. They need more quality defensemen and it's been like that since forever. That is probably the main reason why Tallon had a brain fart and protected every scrub they had on D for the expansion draft instead of Marchessault and Smith.

 

[trick9]

They don't have a well built team. They need more quality defensemen and it's been like that since forever. That is probably the main reason why Tallon had a brain fart and protected every scrub they had on D for the expansion draft instead of Marchessault and Smith.

I said mostly. Defense is the issue but propably slightly less so now that Ekblad is actually playing like a #1D. Yandle is a quality offensive top-4 D and Stralman can still play top-4 minutes with a right partner. They propably thought Matheson would be that 4th guy on their top-4 but he's been a disappointment. Bottom-pairing is an issue. But that's why it was mind-boggling as to why they did both sign Bobrovsky and use that 12th overall pick on Knight, when they could have used either that pick or the cap space to get that missing top-4 D. Their forward core is pretty well built and they have several good prospects knocking on the door.

 

[Sam Spade]

Florida’s defense is really bad. Bobrovsky’s people either didn’t care because of the money he was offered or didn’t do their research.

 

[895]

Blues and Avs don't make sense for Hall.

Yotes make a lot of sense...but I'm not sure if their ownership would allow them to make such a huge move. I pretty much treat the Coyotes as the AI on beginner setting in a video game.

 

[Melkor]

If Hall wants the paycheck he deserves Arizona would be one of the worst places for him to end up in this season. Good team but even Crosby would be a sub PPG guy down there.

 

[Melkor]

Damn Eichel has to be a Hart winner if Sabres somehow make it to the postseason.

 

[Sam Spade]

Damn Eichel has to be a Hart winner if Sabres somehow make it to the postseason.

Agree 100%. He has single-handedly gotten the Sabres so many points.

Eichel
MacKinnon
Pastrnak
Carlson
McDavid
Draisaitl
Marchand

All front runners as of today but Eichel is number one for me.

 

[Melkor]

Agree 100%. He has single-handedly gotten the Sabres so many points.

Literally carried those idiots to OT. Sabres looked miserable for the whole 3rd period.

 

[trick9]

I don't really get how there can be 2 Hart -contenders on a same team but maybe that's just me. If you aren't the most valuable player on your team, you aren't the most valuable player in the league, either.

 

[Melkor]

 

[trick9]

Damn, good for the Coyotes if true.

 

[txpd]

The Islanders.

 

[Calicaps]

Kind of funny. It's like this same tweet will appear for every city NJ plays in until Hall is traded.

 

[trick9]

Barkov, Kucherov and Barrie all injured tonight, whereas all Metro teams pick up points apart from Philly.

 

[trick9]

Coincidence that the Panthers are sitting their top prospects the same time Hall is sitting?