bustaheims
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The back to backs are nice. I wonder if the league will try to include more home-and-home sets for divisional matchups moving forward, when (if?) they can get back to a more traditional schedule.
2020-2021 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion
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Arn
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We have it quite a lot in the British league which is an 8 team league playing 56 games so similar set up to this year's Canadian division. We get it even more so in Belfast as we're the only "overseas" team so we tend to get quite a few home or away double header weekends. They work out great here as it means away fans are more likely to come over to Belfast for 2 games which boosts the atmosphere and equally it's a good excuse for us to hop across the water for a weekend in Cardiff or Glasgow or wherever.
It also definitely adds to the rivalry and you can have niggly little confrontations build up over the couple of games (as we saw with Muzzin and Tkachuk last night I feel ;D )
It also definitely adds to the rivalry and you can have niggly little confrontations build up over the couple of games (as we saw with Muzzin and Tkachuk last night I feel ;D )
Arn
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Yes - that's actually probably the main reason for the Belfast double headers, one set of flights to and from Belfast rather than two and a hotel stay you'd be having anyway so I'd say it's bound to.
If the divisions go back to the original alignment maybe they'll juggle the number of games in and out of division as well going forward?
If the divisions go back to the original alignment maybe they'll juggle the number of games in and out of division as well going forward?
Nik said:
The Athletic did a mock schedule for something like this a couple years ago, at the time dubbed the Toews Schedule. Under their version they said NHL teams would fly 291,020 fewer miles.
Nik said:
That did seem to be the main pushback from teams and the league in that article I mentioned. And teams want games against the McDavid/Matthews/Crosby's of the league more spread out in their schedule. I'm not sure that makes sense but the NHL's popularity does have the momentum of a runaway freight train so who are we to question their marketing geniuses.
Highlander
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Campbell out for weeks, are these weeks on earth, like how many or are these weeks on Jupiter or Neptune? It's like they want us to be ignorant that this could end up like 6 weeks or 8 weeks instead of 2 months.
Yes we know Hutch is our backup. And we know how to hold our breath for 2 1/2 hours at time.
Yes we know Hutch is our backup. And we know how to hold our breath for 2 1/2 hours at time.
Bender said:
He's fallen into the Grabner/Kapanen archetype of speedy players who get lots of chances but don't finish. His last season numbers suggest he can put up points so hopefully he starts getting some breaks.
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CarltonTheBear said:
He did have a stretch last year from Oct 29 - December 12: 20GP 0G 7A Still getting assists but his goal scoring dried up pretty hard.
I think he has been somewhat unlucky a little bit with a few really good saves and just missing the top corner on shots but he seems to do the same move when he gets his breakaways so the book might be out on him a little bit in terms of how to defend a Mikheyev breakaway.
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
That, and he hasn't been playing on a line that's expected to shoulder a significant amount of the offensive load. His speed has made him a tremendously effective penalty killer, and the offence will come. He's getting too many opportunities for some of them to not eventually find the back of the net. He's also less of a straight line player than Kapanen, which also suggests he'll be more successful as the season progresses.
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Has anyone said how bad Hyman's been because he has the same amount of even strength points? Hyman is the worst player, that has a point, on the team for ES Points/60 mins and keep in mind he was getting shifts with the top 2 lines, Mikheyev wasn't until last night.Bender said:
Oh and add in JT because he has 2 ESPs, both assists. Willy has 3 ESPs and hasn't scored in 7 games.
Mikheyev brings a lot more to the table defensively then Vesey and this year I think he's actually our best defensive player. The points will come because he's getting chances.