LuncheonMeat
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I hope Ottawa moves to Seattle. I'll pick Karlsson up at the airport when he gets here.
2015-2016 NHL Thread
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Bill_Berg said:
Yeah, the ballots for all awards (except Conn Smythe obviously) are submitted before the playoffs so nothing that happens there will effect the results.
Heroic Shrimp
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Stralman is going to be out for a while with a fractured tibia. Kind of uncomfortable to watch, looks like a slew-foot to me. Out indefinitely.
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Eesh. Awful break for Stralman and the Lightning. I don't think that Islander player was doing anything intentionally there though. They just got tangled up and bad things happened.
Heroic Shrimp
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CarltonTheBear said:
I guess I couldn't understand what the Islander player is otherwise doing with his right foot, why he gets it up in the air. But looking at it again, you're right, I think the legs just get incidentally tangled.
L K
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CarltonTheBear said:
I don't know. I mean he gets his leg in behind Stralman and then crosscheck/pushes him back. That to me is a slewfoot.
Regardless, he's done for at least 4-6 weeks (best case scenario) before he gets back to doing any sort of training. Realistically he's probably out considerably longer.
It's been revealed that Yakupov asked for a trade out of Edmonton earlier this season, and that a number of teams were interested: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/nail-yakupov-demanded-trade-from-edmonton-oilers-232945318.html
That's not exactly surprising, I'm sure the feeling there is mutual. What is interesting though is what Mark Spector revealed today about how Edmonton decided on drafting Yak:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/oilers-got-wrong-yakupov-start/
That's not exactly surprising, I'm sure the feeling there is mutual. What is interesting though is what Mark Spector revealed today about how Edmonton decided on drafting Yak:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/oilers-got-wrong-yakupov-start/
Also it's pretty weird that the Oilers didn't know who they were drafting 1st overall until like 7 hours before the draft.
GhostofPotvin29
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Burke's claim of having Rielly at #1 looks more believable now.
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That's Virtanen on Polak. First Nurse now this, what's with rookies hating Polak so much?
Apparently Virtanen was upset because Polak knocked his stick out of his hands just prior. Sounds about right. Thanks again, Vancouver.
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That's Virtanen on Polak. First Nurse now this, what's with rookies hating Polak so much?
Apparently Virtanen was upset because Polak knocked his stick out of his hands just prior. Sounds about right. Thanks again, Vancouver.
dappleganger
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Potvin29 said:
He wasn't too far off. :-\
Kin
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BrownRolo said:
I wouldn't. The one thing the Leafs don't really need right now is talent on the wings. What they very much need is some high end talent on defense or in net. Given that it looks unlikely that there's going to be a defenseman of that sort near the top of the draft ideally the Pittsburgh pick will be in a range to draft a mid-first round defensive prospect.
bustaheims
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BrownRolo said:
I don't think Yakupov has anywhere near that value anymore.
bustaheims said:
I don't remember if it was Dreger or someone else but in the last day or two someone said they were having problems getting a 2nd rounder for him at the deadline.
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
Doesn't surprise me. I mean, how much do you expect to get in return for a guy who has basically been a defensively questionable 30-35 point player for the last 3 seasons. He's supposedly improved his defensive game, but he just hasn't shown a consistent ability to produce at the NHL level.
