The NHL Thread
For the 5 of us who post NHL stuff, here you go. Officially the season starts Tuesday October 11, although there were tw
Orlov signing with Sharks
Ehlers to Canes.
UFA market now ded
Poor Hammerhands, Tarheels can hook you up with a Ehlers Carolina Jersey. 😀
He wanted somewhere warmer and out of spotlight more, kinda ala Marner.
When the Wild finally get out from under the Parise and Suter contracts they can't sign anyone. $10 mil in cap space wasted.
This sucks.
And Brind'Amour is going to hate him.
How does that get him out of the spotlight?
He'll be a superstar [or super-hated] soon.
Brent Burns is the only active pre-2005 lockout player remaining in the NHL. He'll be the last player in NHL history to have played with no salary cap.
Ahhh the memories.
Was going to say you guys are cheering Phil Ivey on final table right? :p
Ooops not looking good.
Ehlers is hurt a lot isn’t he? I don’t think this really clears up any of what’s keeping them from winning the cup. He seems like a similar type guy to what they already have.
I think Ehlers has been relatively healthy, recently.
69, 82, 45, 62, 47 games played. Has only played 82 games 3 times.
He's free-flowing, pass-first and loves a no-look pass.
He can score from anywhere, one man break-out, is a playmaker, really great speed and elusive skating.
He really hasn't been used with other highly talented players in a while, he's been generating most of that by himself and on the PP.
How are Habs not top 8 in East odds when they already playoff'd last year after a horrible start and return the youngest playoff team ever + added a top 30 defenseman?
They basically add Demidov too since he wasn't really a factor in the reg. season.
Decent chance they're a 100 pt. team.
How are Habs not top 8 in East odds when they already playoff'd last year after a horrible start and return the youngest playoff team ever + added a top 30 defenseman?
They basically add Demidov too since he wasn't really a factor in the reg. season.
Decent chance they're a 100 pt. team.
Because people aren’t betting them enough to put them there.
Relatively healthy means he’s missed half the season 2 out of the last 3 years?
somehow i totally forgot that the kangz hired lol kenny holland, it all makes sense now. anyway, this is vicious and totally accurate:
The Los Angeles Kings entered free agency with one mission: to build a team better than the Oilers, who've eliminated them in the first round in each of the last four postseasons. Enter new GM Ken Holland, who in his post–Red Wings career has a pathological fetish for signing veterans and depth guys and then expecting too much from them in a cursed chimera of a lineup. Seriously, this guy hasn't met a roster he couldn't make older. He's testing the limits of how much he can pay a third defensive pairing and still find employment. He hasn't changed his opinion of what makes a useful NHL player since the Bush administration. He acts as if the salary cap is just a phase, and the league will toss it out any day now. He recoils from the word "rebuild" like a rabies patient from water.
So it was with both glee and trepidation that the world watched the Kings head into free agency with a whopping $23.5 million in cap space, and mostly bare shelves to spend it on, after nearly all the top available guys found homes before the store opened. True to form, their Day 1 spending spree proved to be extremely funny.
Dumoulin 3 years, $12M
Perry 1 year $2M (+$2M bonuses)
Ceci 4 years $18M
Forsberg 2 years $4.5M
A veteran backup goalie, two veteran third-pairing blueliners who will probably be asked to be a second pairing, a 40-year-old fourth-line winger who the fans have spent more than a decade despising, and a relatively spry 32-year-old fourth-line winger. Oh, and they extended Andrei Kuzmenko for one year.
I am not trying to be mean to any of these players, who are what they are and are capable of making NHL contributions (in Ceci's case, his talents are two: eating minutes and convincing GMs to pay him). I am just observing that there's probably not as much added value in all these guys combined as there is in Vladislav Gavrikov, the defenseman the Kings let walk on an entirely reasonable deal. But this is classic Ken Holland
i wonder how many more teams he'll get to ruin... (out b4 canucks)
only thing the article got wrong is this being the post-wangz holland reality; he's always been like this
from 2017:
wangz are almost out from under all that; the last year of abdelkaeder's buyout is the final piece of that mess. unfortunately, yzerman doesn't seem to be much better. gods bless the 200 good hockey men
Kangz need new ownership. Anshutz doesn't give a **** anymore
