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The Everything NHL Thread

Better team in all 13 games the past two rounds. Pittsburgh definitely deserved to win this. Best team for a while, and they outright dominated their opposition once they beat Washington.
 
Aladyyn said:
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I think I might be insane. I really hope Ovie can win it but I really really don't like the matchups they will have to go through.

Florida should have an easy ticket to the ECF, Rangers are done.
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It appears I have won both of the leagues I was in hehe.
 
As a Ducks fan, I cannot overstate how much I HATE the Randy Carlyle re-hire. A demotion from Bruce Boudreau is bad enough, but to go to one of the worst coaches in the modern era is just woeful. I already accepted that they'd have to take a coaching downgrade, unless a first-timer ended up being the next Jon Cooper, but this is beyond me. This team is going to waste the prime years of Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, as well as the last couple years (if not the very last one) of Ryan Kesler.

And please don't give me the "he won a Cup with Anaheim" stuff. Did that with some all-time greats on defense and winning 12 one-goal games in the postseason. Even John Tortorella has a ring this millennium, and he's not exactly a great modern coach either.

Fans of the other Western Conference teams should be thrilled.
 
Texas Cloverleaf said:
Leaf fans are also thrilled that someone else is inflicted with the pain we suffered
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The Ducks have Dave Nonis too. In what world do they think that emulating the pre-Babcock Leafs would be a good idea?

Sigh.

EDIT: Also, imagine how good Chicago would be if they weren't so cap-strapped that they had to deal key players away just to manage having a core with Toews, Kane, a really underpaid Duncan Keith (by AAV), and Corey Crawford. Teravainen, Saad, Sharp, Leddy all gone in the last three offseasons alone.
 
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Aladyyn said:
"Even John Tortorella" as if Torts wasn't miles better than Carlyle.
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He is, but Torts is definitely closer to Carlyle than he is some of the above-average coaches, let alone the great ones of the modern era. Point is: neither of them having a Stanley Cup on their resume should be a primary factor in deciding to hire them to ru(i)n a team.
 
So Las Vegas is confirmed (not that there was much doubt about it, but it being announced as a real thing just sets it in stone). Not sure how competitive they'll actually be from the start (my guess: not very, but we'll see about that), and I wonder what kinds of trades we'll see teams make in the next year because of teams having to protect players with NMCs, as well as the other rules of the expansion draft. Teams like the Blue Jackets are going to have to get creative, since they already have six players with NMCs on their roster that are under contract for at least the next two seasons (Dubinsky, Clarkson, Hartnell, Foligno, Tyutin, and Bobrovsky). Might take eating salary or attaching a high draft pick/prospect with one of those deals.
 
I think it's cool Vegas was picked for the new franchise, sure there will be lots of bitching about how unviable it is, unfavorable comparisons to AZ, etc etc, but I'm sure they'll have a decent enough fan base. Will agree it's odd why Quebec City or somewhere in Canada isn't getting a team since Canada is so much more into hockey than the states.
 
Shinryu said:
I think it's cool Vegas was picked for the new franchise, sure there will be lots of bitching about how unviable it is, unfavorable comparisons to AZ, etc etc, but I'm sure they'll have a decent enough fan base. Will agree it's odd why Quebec City or somewhere in Canada isn't getting a team since Canada is so much more into hockey than the states.
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Conference imbalance (East already outnumbers West 16-14 before expansion), lack of strength of the Canadian Dollar, and the league might not be able to field competitive expansion clubs if two are introduced to the NHL at once (with one, at least there's a chance).
 
Favorite draft picks tonight, outside of the team you root for?

Mine's probably Clayton Keller for AZ: love his creativity and overall game. Understand his lack of size can hurt him, and Arizona has a glut of young forwards in its system, but I think you win with talent across the board, and they ended up with Chychrun at 16 anyway, so I don't think they're stung too badly.

The other one is Puljujarvi falling to Edmonton: they must be thrilled. Even when they don't win the lottery, they kind of win the lottery.
 
kinda dissapointed ottawa flipped a third to move up... one slot. how likely do you guys think it was that nj was gonna pick brown? not too sure what nj needed but if it was likely to happen i suppose it was justifiable. imo they didnt want brown too bad if they were willing to make the trade down in the first place (and thus miss out on him) though

winnipeg did well, laine is great and stanley adds some depth on D. laine + scheifele is gonna be a sweet combo in a few years

i also thought calgary had a nice day, matt tkachuk is a stud and a steal at 6th imo, and they finally got a goalie that's more useful than a shooter tutor

in other news edmonton once again passed over good defenseman for a hotshot forward...

favourite pick was probably gauthier for the hurricanes, hopefully they can become relevant again some day. either that or tkachuk for the flames

sidenote: jesus christ some of these kids are massive, one of them apparently has an 83 inch wingspan... thats wider than chara is tall

(sry for lack of formatting btw, on mobile)
 
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