The NHL Thread

On the brink.

**** me

The difference in talent between these playoff teams is a very FIN line

Fun fact:

Rantanen or Granlund or a combination thereof have assisted or scored on the last 19 of 20 goals for the Stars this postseason.

Neither of these players were on the roster when the season started. Jim Nill has won General Manager of the year the last 2 seasons and probably deserves it again this year.

And Pete DeBoer has put together the FIN it to WIN it line of Rantanen, Granlund and Hintz.

GO STARS!!

I’m not sure how much credit he should get for Rantenan lol. That kind of fell into his lap. But I’m still bitter.

I agree and you look how setup they are moving forward. Solid team for years. Though signing players in Texas and Florida and Nevada is so much easier based on the taxes, cost of living and climate

We'll see how he does dealing with Benn and Seguin exits

Granlund UFA too

There have been whispers that Benn wants to stay in Dallas and knows he'll have to take a pretty big hair cut to do so. Seguin is recently married and just had a kid, no clue what he wants to do. But he'd have to resign for less as well.

I see little to no chance the Stars are able to resign him for what he'll likely command on the open market.

He's 33. Some team will overpay him for 5 years

I agree. And I'm certainly no hockey expert, just things I read or heard about the trade, was that Rrantanen style of play didn't really fit with the way Carolina likes to play.

Instead of losing him for nothing, you got Stankoven who's a nice young player.

For sure. Ultimately I think it worked out for us and you, but it sucked watching Rantanen tank our team for a few weeks because he was unhappy. It seemed like a combo of style of play, the area, etc., but supposedly him and Aho are pretty close since they're both Finnish. The Avs probably got the shortest end of the stick.

We turned Necas, Drury, a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round pick into Hall, Stankoven, two conditional 1sts, and two 3rds. I've really liked watching Stankoven play and hope we can sign him long term. Hall has been nice too.

Players are getting smart though. Lets say he can command 11 million on the open market and only gets 9 million in Dallas he may still be getting paid more if he signed in LA or Canada or NY

Holland to Kangz official

Quinn Hughes appoints Adam Foote as new Canucks Head Coach

Grrrrrr, Yup, Matthews does not want to be playing, he wants to be at his mansion.

dallas stars score & venue adjusted 5v5 xg 2024-25 season:

seguin 58%
heiskanen 54%
harley 54%
stankoven 53%
robertson 52%
duchene 52%
steel 52%
[...]
benn 49%
lindell 49%
bishsel 49%
smith 49%
rantanen 47%
ceci 45%
granlund 42%

hmm...

sick deflection, laughton

Alright, can plan no hockey now, I guess, keep eye on Free agency now and how they blow this team up.

Lmao Domi

we want 10, we want 10, we want 10...

Holland will destroy another team

switched to the basketball game for a minute and missed another goal lol

On unimportant matters regarding jersey colours, there is a fine line between "gold" and "monkey-puke yellow." Nashville has a similar problem but one of the recent retro Jerseys that the Boston Bruins had were the nut low.

In fairness, though, the Vegas road jerseys look slightly better live than on TV.

I hate the golden shower VGK home jerseys. The original ones were way better.