I don't know enough about the Blues to have a real opinion about Yeo as a coach, but I'm going to go ahead and assume Jake Allen's .895 save percentage through 14 games would have gotten a few guys fired.
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Coco-puffs
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CarltonTheBear said:
Also: Getting shut-out twice in a row, including to the worst team in the NHL last night.
louisstamos
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https://twitter.com/KathrynTappen/status/1064906022043697152
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edit: sounds like a shoulder injury and 4 weeks, same as Matthews. If it was out for several months, considering their D injuries, I'd wonder if the Bruins would make the playoffs.
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edit: sounds like a shoulder injury and 4 weeks, same as Matthews. If it was out for several months, considering their D injuries, I'd wonder if the Bruins would make the playoffs.
Kin
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https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1064910304746717184
I think there's a certain extent to which people don't really understand the way the market has shifted in recent years. People seem to be working under the impression that if the top tier players have their money limited, that second tier guys will sort of fall in line proportionally.
But as we've seen in the NBA for years and years, top tier guys being limited really just diverts money to second tier guys.
I think there's a certain extent to which people don't really understand the way the market has shifted in recent years. People seem to be working under the impression that if the top tier players have their money limited, that second tier guys will sort of fall in line proportionally.
But as we've seen in the NBA for years and years, top tier guys being limited really just diverts money to second tier guys.
Panarin is 7th in the league in scoring since he entered the NHL 4 seasons ago. I don't think $10mil is really out of line at all.
Arn
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Fair play to the Nashville Predators (and PK Subban) and ECHL Atlanta Gladiators for making this little Belfast Giants fan have probably one of the most enjoyable weeks of his life. A very pleasant story
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/25328180/nhl-nashville-predators-atlanta-gladiators-pull-red-carpet-young-fan-northern-ireland
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/25328180/nhl-nashville-predators-atlanta-gladiators-pull-red-carpet-young-fan-northern-ireland
Kin
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Tough read. I think we've sort of known that stuff like this goes on in junior but the media has always given it the whole "Boys being boys" nonsense. Hopefully that sort of thing no longer goes on but there have certainly been more recent stories that suggest that there's still some real issues there.
One of the things I always really respected about Brian Burke's time here was the way that he put a stop to the way rookies sometimes were mistreated, specifically with regards to the "hilarious" tradition of sticking young guys with massive restaurant bills.
One of the things I always really respected about Brian Burke's time here was the way that he put a stop to the way rookies sometimes were mistreated, specifically with regards to the "hilarious" tradition of sticking young guys with massive restaurant bills.
bustaheims
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Nik the Trik said:
Agreed. The ones where they're in on the joke are fine - like having the new guy skate alone in the pre-game or when the rookies all come to the arena in costumes - but the ones Carcillo describes or the massive restaurant bills, etc. need to go.
Heroic Shrimp
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bustaheims said:
Sean McIndoe/Down Goes Brown has related the story of how the first NHL training camp that Gordie Howe attended was actually with the Rangers. He faced a lot of bullying there and chose to move on from the Rangers to a more welcoming team.
Kin
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bustaheims said:
I think it was Joe Madden in MLB who decided that rather than do the Rookies wear embarrassing costumes thing they'd do a road trip where everyone, coaching staff included, wore goofy costume. The reasoning being that rather than do something where rookies were singled out, it was something that could foster team unity. Basically it was the same line of thinking Burke put forth, that older guys on the team should be looking out for and teaching positive lessons to younger guys rather than the opposite. I know there are other people who think that teams doing anything that isn't professional probably shouldn't go down.
I don't know where I fall on that divide exactly but I think with specific regards to Carcillo there's a larger problem there with the structure of junior hockey and a bunch of largely unsupervised high school and college age kids being put in what is a quasi-professional environment without the tools to deal with that. To me that issue is really tied to the larger dilemma of Junior hockey looking more and more out of place these days.
Guilt Trip
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So we would have Stamkos, McDavid, Marner, Tavares, maybe Doughty seeing the 1st 4 were hoping to get drafted by the Leafs.Nik the Trik said:
And technically they can pick their team. Didn't Burke try to get Hall and Seguin to retire before the draft so they could be signed as UFA's?
Nik the Trik said:
Especially if there's still a salary cap.
bustaheims
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Guilt Trip said:
Baseless speculation from some talking heads that didn?t think things through. The league would put a stop to that blatant an attempt to circumvent the draft. Hall and Seguin would have ended up in the draft either way.
