Around the League Thread | Playoffs 🏒

[credulous]

i'm not a huge arizona defender but slc is like the worst possible (reasonably feasible) place to put an nhl franchise. i spend a lot of time in utah and no one there knows or cares about hockey at all and the slc metro is sprawling and a traffic nightmare. they're gonna have attendance problems from day one. i feel like the nhl is enamored with ryan smith for some reason but he's another fake billionaire whose money is all tech bubble

 

[Peen]

 

[CanucksSayEh]

Kuzmenko's killer instict around the net is insane. The guy is built like a tank, and has the puck skills to actually choose his shot when driving the crease. Exactly what the team is missing now, not at all surprising the PP and overall offense has gone straight down since the trade.

We needed to add a scoring winger, and instead subtracted. So much good work, all likely to be undone by a fumbled deadline deal.

Both Elias' need to step up, and step up now to salvage this upcoming run.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

f*** me that’s a return and a half for Mereulo.

 

[canuckking1]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

He has more goals than Lindholm has points

 

[LordBacon]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

Yeah we can really use Kuz right now but I honestly don’t think he’s gonna work with Tocchet.
Such a shame because I love the Pepsi banana man.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

As usual
He produces under zero pressure to win

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Breaking news!

I just met Oilers sports case announcer (Gene Principe). I got a pic with him and tricked him into saying Go Canucks Go!

Oilers fans must be fuming! Lmao!

Best night ever!

 

[EpochLink]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

and no playoffs for him, garbage time points.

 

[arttk]

Kuzmenko's killer instict around the net is insane. The guy is built like a tank, and has the puck skills to actually choose his shot when driving the crease. Exactly what the team is missing now, not at all surprising the PP and overall offense has gone straight down since the trade.

We needed to add a scoring winger, and instead subtracted. So much good work, all likely to be undone by a fumbled deadline deal.

Both Elias' need to step up, and step up now to salvage this upcoming run.

Problem is he didn’t work with Tocchet and it wasn’t like he didn’t try to adapt to Tocchet, he just seemed incapable of doing it.

 

[GranvilleIsland]

and no playoffs for him, garbage time points.

By gawd that's Brandon Sutter's music.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Oilers' PBP notes that it's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' 31st birthday and my brain melts at the realization that people born in 1993 (my brother's age) are north of 30 now

as of this past week, there are thirty year olds who have never lived in a world with kurt cobain in it, which to me is bonkers

Basically cancels out our horrible loss in OT as well.

One last gift from the Yotes.

this actually is a really good deal for both sides, assuming that the BOG doesn’t give a shit about overexpanding and diluting the league, which obviously it doesn’t

and on that note, what about the salt lake city punx, after this corny movie from my adolescence?

and unrelated, anyone know a good free adblocker for safari on ios? this site is borderline unuseable on mobile rn

 

[Jack Tripper]

Kuzmenko was never going to be effective under Tocchet, it’s been great to see him regain confidence in Calgary, Lindholm has provided zero upgrade from Suter and Blueger, and the Canucks blew their assets on the wrong deadline target.

Unfortunately all can be simultaneously true.

 

[EpochLink]

Kuzmenko was never going to be effective under Tocchet, it’s been great to see him regain confidence in Calgary, Lindholm has provided zero upgrade from Suter and Blueger, and the Canucks blew their assets on the wrong deadline target.

Unfortunately all can be simultaneously true.

That 5.5 cap space will be spent wisely in the offseason.

 

[DFAC]

Should've gone after Toffoli +Walker. Duhaime too.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Oilers' PBP notes that it's Ryan Nugent-Hopkins' 31st birthday and my brain melts at the realization that people born in 1993 (my brother's age) are north of 30 now

Yup.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

We knew Kuzy could score in garbage time, he did it last year too.

On a team playing with structure he couldn't be trusted and was a liability.

I'm not writing off his career, he has a lot of skill. But him getting a hattrick against an actively tanking team in game 80, for a team playing for nothing tells us exactly zilch.

 

[Hoglander]

Lol, Oilers fans talked shit when the coyotes won in ot the other night... and then the same happens to them. Suck it, coilers

 

[andora]

As usual
He produces under zero pressure to win

and no playoffs for him, garbage time points.

Doesnt matter here but matters for other teams

 

[Diversification]

As usual
He produces under zero pressure to win

Classic case of a great player but only when playing on a bad team where defensive structure is not a factor.

 

[archangel2]

I do not believe that Arizona owner can be trusted

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Kuzy hat trick, 22 pts in 26 games with Cgy

Too bad Canucks had no patience with him

We did. Unless you wanna argue 43 games isn't patience. He's producing now when the games don't matter and both teams aren't playing structured hockey.

 

[EpochLink]

We did. Unless you wanna argue 43 games isn't patience. He's producing now when the games don't matter and both teams aren't playing structured hockey.

Thank you, some people actually get it.
Garbage time points is just garbage time points.

We had tons of patience with him

 

[Diversification]

I do not believe that Arizona owner can be trusted

I agree. He extracted this concession in the hopes that he can sell it to a new ownership group. A motivated group could see the value in buying into the NHL with lower expansion fee.

 

[archangel2]

I agree. He extracted this concession in the hopes that he can sell it to a new ownership group. A motivated group could see the value in buying into the NHL with lower expansion fee.

expansion fee is reportedly 1 bill