Confirmed with Link: Williams is Back

[Snuggs]

Glad he's resigned with you guys honestly. Little bit of a fan of Williams, I'm a Red Wings fan, through and through, but for this year/post season I'll be rooting for the Hurricanes.

Good luck guys. Hopefully you can pull a trade or two off that'll help out near the TDL. If you deal with Detroit... Idk, hopefully we fleece you(sorry), Red Wings need it!

 

[Lempo]

Glad he's resigned with you guys honestly. Little bit of a fan of Williams, I'm a Red Wings fan, through and through, but for this year/post season I'll be rooting for the Hurricanes.

Good luck guys. Hopefully you can pull a trade or two off that'll help out near the TDL. If you deal with Detroit... Idk, hopefully we fleece you(sorry), Red Wings need it!

Red Wings giving you bull would be a novelty, I guess.

 

[mikeyfan]

He should probably replace Nino his first game

 

[NotOpie]

He looks slow.

So....the more things change.....

Glad he's resigned with you guys honestly. Little bit of a fan of Williams, I'm a Red Wings fan, through and through, but for this year/post season I'll be rooting for the Hurricanes.

Yup, he's resigned to playing with us because he re-signed with the Hurricanes...pedantic English major posting...don't @ me...

He should probably replace Nino his first game

Nobody has been playing harder than Nino and McLovin for the last 1/2 dozen games or so. One's been luckier than the other....Nino doesn't sit....although, I still contend we could see 6 or even more guys getting an occasional day off for rest and to rehab the inevitable bumps and bruises.

 

[Snuggs]

So....the more things change.....



Yup, he's resigned to playing with us because he re-signed with the Hurricanes...pedantic English major posting...don't @ me...



Nobody has been playing harder than Nino and McLovin for the last 1/2 dozen games or so. One's been luckier than the other....Nino doesn't sit....although, I still contend we could see 6 or even more guys getting an occasional day off for rest and to rehab the inevitable bumps and bruises.

Ohhh... I can tell this makes you feel way too good about yourself. Have a nice day.

 

[Lempo]

Ohhh... I can tell this makes you feel way too good about yourself. Have a nice day.

It's not you. Re-sign vs. resign happens a plenty on HF, and it's always hurts me too because it changes the meaning of a sentence pretty much to the opposite. Grammar has rules like a hockey game has rules. Anyone using the word "resign" when talking of a freshly-inked player feels like a boarding that went uncalled.

I also insist hyphen being used on Spider-Man which is the only correct form.

 

[mikeyfan]

So....the more things change.....



Yup, he's resigned to playing with us because he re-signed with the Hurricanes...pedantic English major posting...don't @ me...



Nobody has been playing harder than Nino and McLovin for the last 1/2 dozen games or so. One's been luckier than the other....Nino doesn't sit....although, I still contend we could see 6 or even more guys getting an occasional day off for rest and to rehab the inevitable bumps and bruises.

Nino. Also is taking stupid penalties. Right now, of our starters he Nino would be the logical replacement, move Svech up with Aho and Tevo and move Willians with Staal and Fogel.

 

[mikeyfan]

So....the more things change.....



Yup, he's resigned to playing with us because he re-signed with the Hurricanes...pedantic English major posting...don't @ me...



Nobody has been playing harder than Nino and McLovin for the last 1/2 dozen games or so. One's been luckier than the other....Nino doesn't sit....although, I still contend we could see 6 or even more guys getting an occasional day off for rest and to rehab the inevitable bumps and bruises.

 

[geehaad]

I’m liking Williams in a fourth-line role to start, with PP time. Once he shows he needs a promotion, go right ahead.

 

[bleedgreen]

Nino doesn’t go anywhere. In fact the next time the Staal line starts to struggle, and Williams has had a few games I could see a return try out of last years Nino-Aho-Williams with TT going with Staal and Svech.

Or Williams will be so slow he’ll just be injury fill in night to night for guys with bumps and bruises like someone else said, and otherwise be on the fourth line.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Re: Staal line struggling (not your comment bleed, someone in the GDT said it in one of the last two games)... Here are the forwards 5v5 GF numbers since Dec 1st:
5v5 GF:

Svech: 14
Staal: 13
Foegele: 13
TT: 10
Aho: 8
Nino: 8
Dzingel: 8
McGinn: 8
Haula: 7 (played 8 less games though)
Wallmark: 6
Necas: 6
Martinook: 6

xGF follow those numbers closely.

GF/60 has Svech, Haula, Foegele, Staal and McGinn on top. Also, in raw points, the three of them are on top as well with 10, 9, and 8.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

That line is also destroying the opposition in terms of possession. 68.48 HDCF% is crazy. The team is sub-50% without any of the three on the ice.

Line Stats - Natural Stat Trick

Staal and Foegele may not be the best for Svechnikov's statline, but that shouldn't be important.