Roster Moves & Training Camp Discussion

[Del Preston]

Out of everything you can possibly complain about Puljujarvi, it has to be his number? Seriously? Who cares.

98 is a truly awful number, to be fair.

13 would be dope. He wore that for Finland as a junior one year.

 

[belair]

I'm sure you can figure out why JP wants to wear 98.

Doesn't make him look ridiculous at all.

It's his birth year. It doesn't make it any less of an eyesore.

 

[LTIR]

McDavid is the best player in the world. He can wear whatever number he wants. 98 is a unique number that makes him standout and when he's a player that hasn't established himself in this league, it makes him look ridiculous.

Ho-Sang wanting to wear 66 follows the same logic. It just draws attention to yourself in a bad way.

How does 98 draw attention. It's not like he is wearing 99.
98 stands out in a bad way as in AHL callups or training camp players get those. It is nothing like wearing 66 or 99

 

[McAsuno]

I would think people would care and focus more about how Puljujarvi plays after returning from the Finnish League rather than a number that isn't 99. Might as well change it to 69 if you're going to focus on that. Who gives a damn. If you're distracted by 98, that says more about you than anything else, really.

 

[t0nedeff]

McDavid is the best player in the world. He can wear whatever number he wants. 98 is a unique number that makes him standout and when he's a player that hasn't established himself in this league, it makes him look ridiculous.

Ho-Sang wanting to wear 66 follows the same logic. It just draws attention to yourself in a bad way.

Lmao at a number drawing attention. Posts like these show posters absurd bias towards certain players.

 

[belair]

Lmao at a number drawing attention. Posts like these show posters absurd bias towards certain players.

No, posts like these show that I personally believe his number looks ridiculous. If you want to decipher any sort of 'bias' toward this player from me, look to my post history. There's plenty there. I'm not sure how his player number would have any impact on how I evaluate his play on the ice. I could save you the time though--it doesn't.

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

McDavid is the best player in the world. He can wear whatever number he wants. 98 is a unique number that makes him standout and when he's a player that hasn't established himself in this league, it makes him look ridiculous.

Ho-Sang wanting to wear 66 follows the same logic. It just draws attention to yourself in a bad way.

I wonder what the points cutoff is to being considered a player worthy of wearing a number that is close to 99.

 

[Smartguy]

Lmao at a number drawing attention. Posts like these show posters absurd bias towards certain players.

Ah Hockey must be back, people on here are going after each other on here over something stupid.

 

[LTIR]

I wonder what the points cutoff is to being considered a player worthy of wearing a number that is close to 99.

Close to 99 is a thing now?
98 is as uncommon as 56.
Sergachev and Puljujarvi were atleast born in 98 so they have a good enough reason. Yama wearing 56 is stranger.

 

[Fourier]

Quine is a guy I have my eye on heading into camp. A lot of Flames fans were disappointed he was moving on, and he's one of those tweeners who has always put up great numbers in the AHL. Haas was okay last year, but didn't do anything huge to stand out and he'll have some competition this year to keep a roster spot.

I feel the same way.

 

[GMofOilers]

Training Camp Roster:

Forwards (23)
8 Kyle Turris - 10 Joakim Nygard - 14 Devin Shore (PTO) - 15 Josh Archibald - 16 Jujhar Khaira - 18 James Neal
21 Dominik Kahun - 23 Seth Griffith - 26 Alan Quine - 27 Adam Cracknell - 29 Leon Draisaitl - 39 Alex Chiasson
44 Zack Kassian - 49 Tyler Benson - 52 Patrick Russell - 56 Kailer Yamamoto - 63 Tyler Ennis - 65 Cooper Marody
70 Ryan McLeod - 91 Gaetan Haas - 93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - 97 Connor McDavid - 98 Jesse Puljujarvi

Defensemen (12)
4 Kris Russell - 5 Ryan Stanton (PTO) - 6 Adam Larsson - 20 Slater Koekkoek - 22 Tyson Barrie - 25 Darnell Nurse
74 Ethan Bear - 75 Evan Bouchard - 80 Markus Niemelainen - 81 Theodor Lennstrom - 82 Caleb Jones - 84 William Lagesson

Goalies (5)
19 Mikko Koskinen - 30 Dylan Wells - 33 Anton Forsberg - 41 Mike Smith - 50 Stuart Skinner

Watched all the interviews today, Players just seem giddy to get this thing going, they know they are going to be a good team this year, and thats exciting to watch.

 

[t0nedeff]

No, posts like these show that I personally believe his number looks ridiculous. If you want to decipher any sort of 'bias' toward this player from me, look to my post history. There's plenty there. I'm not sure how his player number would have any impact on how I evaluate his play on the ice. I could save you the time though--it doesn't.

The fact that you did that while simultaneously saying its alright for Mcdavid because he's the best player in the game shows the stupidity in your post. FYI I didn't say his number influenced your evaluation of his on ice talent so reach more clearly I was referring to your opinion as a player influencing how you react to his number which is highlighted by the fact you think skill of said player somehow makes wearing said numebers okay in your eyes.

 

[Cloned]

No, posts like these show that I personally believe his number looks ridiculous. If you want to decipher any sort of 'bias' toward this player from me, look to my post history. There's plenty there. I'm not sure how his player number would have any impact on how I evaluate his play on the ice. I could save you the time though--it doesn't.

I'm changing my EASHL player number to 98 tonight just for you.

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

Close to 99 is a thing now?
98 is as uncommon as 56.
Sergachev and Puljujarvi were atleast born in 98 so they have a good enough reason. Yama wearing 56 is stranger.

Apparently it is. I don't really care though.

 

[belair]

I'm changing my EASHL player number to 98 tonight just for you.

My entire club is either 7 or 77. It's very confusing.

 

[belair]

The fact that you did that while simultaneously saying its alright for Mcdavid because he's the best player in the game shows the stupidity in your post. FYI I didn't say his number influenced your evaluation of his on ice talent so reach more clearly I was referring to your opinion as a player influencing how you react to his number which is highlighted by the fact you think skill of said player somehow makes wearing said numebers okay in your eyes.

Shut up, dude. I said his number looks dumb and nothing else. Stop trying turn this into something else. You don't like my opinion? Fine. That has no correlation to any sort of 'bias'.

 

[Messrules11]

Shut up, dude. I said his number looks dumb and nothing else. Stop trying turn this into something else. You don't like my opinion? Fine. That has no correlation to any sort of 'bias'.

I can see your point. Hockey numbers are a bit of a strange animal, I mean you rarely see a forward with #5 or 3 for instance. Seeing 98 is strange as their are so few, also numbers in the 90’s seem more suited to smaller skill guys... imo

 

[Cloned]

My entire club is either 7 or 77. It's very confusing.

Do you all get injured every game too?

 

[LTIR]

I can see your point. Hockey numbers are a bit of a strange animal, I mean you rarely see a forward with #5 or 3 for instance. Seeing 98 is strange as their are so few, also numbers in the 90’s seem more suited to smaller skill guys... imo

Or kids born in the 90s?

 

[Messrules11]

Or kids born in the 90s?

Oh for sure there’s that but I guess I’m referring to the first wave of guys, guys like Fedorov and Gilmour.

 

[brentashton]

I went onto Twitter after 2 days and I am seeing a lot of people sh***** on McDavid for his NYE picture lol. I seen Gregor said that they all live together right now. His parents, brother, and their gf's

His parents look different from last time I saw them on tv.

 

[Snipes45]

That pic will always be hilarious. Talk about invading a guys personal space lol. Geez.

 

[t0nedeff]

Shut up, dude. I said his number looks dumb and nothing else. Stop trying turn this into something else. You don't like my opinion? Fine. That has no correlation to any sort of 'bias'.

Lol. Literally your exact response was it was okay for Mcdavid because he's the best player in the world. How do you expect people to take a response like that? Oh and it wasn't just that the number was dumb stop trying to skirt what you said. The number drawing attention is a quote from your original post like that matters or something to the game of hockey.

 

[Paralyzer008]

Tippett has a bit of a ways to get back into my good books.

Special teams were fantastic but starting Mike Smith in game 1 set a tone for me - it was an awful decision. Very interested to see how the goalies are handled this season and I wish we could see how they're looking in camp - Smith's bubble camp was notoriously rough.

 

[BobRossColton]

Someone in my fantasy proposed a mcdavid - draisatl swap and it's confusing me. Is there something I should know or did this person just like mcd more then drai?