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2017-2018 NHL Thread

I reeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyy like this idea:

What Bowman suggested was every team continue to be allowed an in-game roster of 18 skaters and two goalies. However, coaches could insert their ?healthy scratches? during a game. Like baseball, once someone is taken out, they cannot return.

Someone gets injured? Substitute. Down 2?0 heading into the third period, with an offensive player not dressed? Hey bud, suit up. Up 2?0 heading into the third period, with a good defensive player relaxing in a La-Z-Boy? Get dressed!

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-stan-bowman-stanley-cup-runs/
 
CarltonTheBear said:
I reeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyy like this idea:

What Bowman suggested was every team continue to be allowed an in-game roster of 18 skaters and two goalies. However, coaches could insert their ?healthy scratches? during a game. Like baseball, once someone is taken out, they cannot return.

Someone gets injured? Substitute. Down 2?0 heading into the third period, with an offensive player not dressed? Hey bud, suit up. Up 2?0 heading into the third period, with a good defensive player relaxing in a La-Z-Boy? Get dressed!

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-stan-bowman-stanley-cup-runs/
I foresee a potential meatball going into the game with the sole purpose of murdering someone. Our guy get's run, Kapi out, Martin in, fetch.
 
cabber24 said:
I foresee a potential meatball going into the game with the sole purpose of murdering someone. Our guy get's run, Kapi out, Martin in, fetch.

Friedman talked about that a little bit. Fact is, there's very few guys left in the league who would do things like that. Even Martin really isn't one to run after guys. But if something like that does happen after a player is inserted into a game then extra supplementary discipline would be involved.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
cabber24 said:
I foresee a potential meatball going into the game with the sole purpose of murdering someone. Our guy get's run, Kapi out, Martin in, fetch.

Friedman talked about that a little bit. Fact is, there's very few guys left in the league who would do things like that. Even Martin really isn't one to run after guys. But if something like that does happen after a player is inserted into a game then extra supplementary discipline would be involved.
It's such a massive change that I'm apprehensive about it. No subs, thems the breaks.
 
cabber24 said:
He won the Kessel trade, that's a fact.

Fact: Kessel was the best and most valuable player of the 3 involved in the trade during the Seguin/Hamilton era of the Bruins. Seguin averaged 48 points a season as a Bruin and Hamilton was a bottom-pair defenceman for 2 of his 3 years there.

Chiarelli could have easily won that trade if he kept both or even just 1 of those guys before they reached their peak value, but he didn't.
 
herman said:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-stan-bowman-stanley-cup-runs/

The opening anecdote is about Chicago's President of Hockey Ops, John McDonough, throwing out the suggestion at the GM meeting of in-game substitutions, a la baseball and soccer/football. I am intrigued.

Also fun: Ken Holland appears to be headed towards a 3 year extension. On the heels of Benning's extension, this... this is fun for us.

So, what? You just don't even read my posts is that it?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
I reeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyy like this idea:

What Bowman suggested was every team continue to be allowed an in-game roster of 18 skaters and two goalies. However, coaches could insert their ?healthy scratches? during a game. Like baseball, once someone is taken out, they cannot return.

Someone gets injured? Substitute. Down 2?0 heading into the third period, with an offensive player not dressed? Hey bud, suit up. Up 2?0 heading into the third period, with a good defensive player relaxing in a La-Z-Boy? Get dressed!

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-stan-bowman-stanley-cup-runs/

#FreeFrankie
 
CarltonTheBear said:
So, what? You just don't even read my posts is that it?

I apologize. I had the window open for a bit on the previous page when I wandered off to work on a puzzle. Yours is now the post of record. I love reading your posts.
 
Hey, has anyone heard about this new idea to insert healthy scratches into the line-up in between periods? Have to say, it's something to consider.
 
herman said:
CarltonTheBear said:
So, what? You just don't even read my posts is that it?

I apologize. I had the window open for a bit on the previous page when I wandered off to work on a puzzle. Yours is now the post of record. I love reading your posts.

Sorry. I'm just upset that nobody laughed at my Chara/height joke :(
 
17. One of the oddest stories of the year was the early-season visor crackdown and what happened to it. Toronto?s Leo Komarov was practically incarcerated. Things changed when Detroit?s Niklas Kronwall returned from injury a week into the season, and, suddenly realizing what was up, objected. Rather than battling a grievance, the league gave exemptions to Komarov, Kronwall and Arizona?s Niklas Hjalmarsson. (All three could have refused to wear one, since they were in the NHL prior to 2013?14.)

So if Komarov complains, it's box time; if Kronwall complains it's... I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you. Please accept this voucher for your troubles, sir?
 
Subbing in scratches between periods sounds like an excellent idea.
Instead of roster slots dedicated to fighting specialists (already on the decline), you can wield defensive/offensive specialists (Leo Komarov, Sam Gagner, Thomas Vanek, etc.) situationally, as well as giving try out time for the highly motivated tweeners (Leivo, Corrado) in blow-outs.

I think it'd lead to higher quality rosters in general, and certainly more entertaining games and coaching strategies to talk about.
 
herman said:
Subbing in scratches between periods sounds like an excellent idea.
Instead of roster slots dedicated to fighting specialists (already on the decline), you can wield defensive/offensive specialists (Leo Komarov, Sam Gagner, Thomas Vanek, etc.) situationally, as well as giving try out time for the highly motivated tweeners (Leivo, Corrado) in blow-outs.

I think it'd lead to higher quality rosters in general, and certainly more entertaining games and coaching strategies to talk about.

I also think it'd be good for the league to move away from having press box regulars.
 
I actually heard that idea a couple years ago (can't remember where - Mirtle, maybe?), and still think it's a great idea.  You can only sub players in/out at intermission, and once a player comes out, they can't go back in.

It helps for injuries too - if a D-Man goes down in the 2nd period, they can insert a healthy d-man for the 3rd, so they don't have to necessarily play with 5 D the rest of the way.  If your team is down 2 goals going into the 3rd - maybe you take out a "all-around" player and throw in an offense first guy.

I actually think in this scenario, more teams will carry 2 D subs, and only 1 F sub.
 
louisstamos said:
It helps for injuries too - if a D-Man goes down in the 2nd period, they can insert a healthy d-man for the 3rd, so they don't have to necessarily play with 5 D the rest of the way.

This would be the most appealing aspect of the proposal to me. It's always felt weird that a D can get injured on his very 1st shift and a team has to play with 5 defencemen for the rest of the game. This also probably prevents some players from playing injured knowing that they aren't burdening the rest of their team by leaving the game.
 
https://twitter.com/davehodge20/status/979026490993111041

Man, the Pearson/Lindsay award really deserves to get more respect than it does. More people would probably name the Lady Byng before it if they were asked to list all the awards the NHL gives out.
 

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