Non-Minnesota NHL News XIV - Seattle Expansion(?)

[Wabit]

Laine with 5 goals tonight against STL. 13 mins left in the 3rd.

 

[Bazeek]

Laine with 5 goals tonight against STL. 13 mins left in the 3rd.

He's not even trying to score, he's still just doing his damnedest to break that stick.

 

[NHL1674]

Brings back memories of Gabby's 5-goal game. Damn that was an awesome night. The arena chanting "we want six!"......so damn loud.

 

[FVM]

Since Laine entered the league no one has scored more goals than him. Ovechkin and Laine both have 99 goals in that time span, but Patrik has done it in 10 fewer games.

Stealing from the main boards. This is an incredible stat.

 

[2Pair]

No one anymore doubts superiority of the Finnish race.

Your post makes me doubt it quite a bit.

 

[FVM]

No one anymore doubts superiority of the Finnish race.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[Bazeek]

Seems like the Wild's record this season with Fletcher's roster still largely intact would cast him in a pretty good light right now.

 

[Goose312]

They could do worse than Fletcher. He's not the best GM, but he's not the worst and I would think he learned a lot of lessons here.

 

[Wild11MN]

They could do worse than Fletcher. He's not the best GM, but he's not the worst and I would think he learned a lot of lessons here.

Plus he might over value some of our players so maybe we could steal someone from Philly.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Plus he might over value some of our players so maybe we could steal someone from Philly.

Can we hope for a overpayment for Coyle Vol. 2?

 

[TaLoN]

Can we hope for a overpayment for Coyle Vol. 2?

Get overpayment for Ek.

I think Chuck is a better than avg GM, who may improve after some lessons learned here.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Get overpayment for Ek.

I think Chuck is a better than avg GM, who may improve after some lessons learned here.

Something involving Konecny would be nice.

 

[StealthClobber]

Buffalo took over 1st place in the entire league tonight. Unreal streak they're on.

 

[Wabit]

Buffalo took over 1st place in the entire league tonight. Unreal streak they're on.

If they play just .500 hockey the rest of the season they are a 93p team. They are fun to watch too.

 

[TaLoN]

Austin Matthews back tonight, looks like he never missed any time. Toronto leading 2-1 halfway through the first, Mathews with a goal and an assist both on the pp... one of which he drew.

 

[TaLoN]

Congrats to the Isles and their fans on getting back into a REAL hockey arena!

 

[Wild11MN]

Nylander signing reported with <5 minutes before the deadline. 6x$6.9M.

 

[Wabit]

Nylander signing reported with <5 minutes before the deadline. 6x$6.9M.

So we'll have about 10 mins of Leafs fans rejoicing and then the next batch of trade proposals centering around him starts, right?

 

[Digitalbooya]

Fenton didn’t think Nylander was worth $6.9m? Hmmmm.

 

[Wabit]

Fenton didn’t think Nylander was worth $6.9m? Hmmmm.

Well he's like a ~$10m cap hit this year, and to get him to take the $6.9m (after this year) it had to go right to the deadline. GMPF would be out of a job if he had traded (Dumba, Spurgeon+, Zucker+, Nino+, etc) for Nylander's rights and then couldn't get him signed.

Tor will be in a cap bind next year, so Nylander rumors to everywhere will start back up soon enough.

 

[TaLoN]

A lot of angst over a reasonable deal.

 

[Bazeek]

Sounds like this hiring was about like Fenton's, with Fletcher the presumptive choice from the beginning.

I wouldn't bet on anything actually happening, but I'll be curious to see if any trade rumors pop up between the Wild and Flyers. We should have a number of guys at least semi-available that Fletcher's very familiar with.

 

[nt3005]

Sounds like this hiring was about like Fenton's, with Fletcher the presumptive choice from the beginning.

I wouldn't bet on anything actually happening, but I'll be curious to see if any trade rumors pop up between the Wild and Flyers. We should have a number of guys at least semi-available that Fletcher's very familiar with.

Im guessing him and Fenton will have more than 1 conversation. I think there's a trade to be made, both teams need a spark.

 

[Wabit]

Sounds like this hiring was about like Fenton's, with Fletcher the presumptive choice from the beginning.

I wouldn't bet on anything actually happening, but I'll be curious to see if any trade rumors pop up between the Wild and Flyers. We should have a number of guys at least semi-available that Fletcher's very familiar with.

It's a good hire by Philly, GMCF should do well there.

If there is any trades I think it'll be prospects more than NHL players. He can ship off prospects he doesn't like in Philly for his guys in MN that GMPF doesn't like.