2022/2023 NHL/Wild Offseason-Season-Postseason Thread

All tied up

Going to OT!

What a win by the Panthers. Stunning series win.

Insane

Every year I get jaded when the Wild make their early exit. Some years I stop watching hockey all together. This year I am enjoying seeing FLA bounce BOS and hoping SEA wins tonight as well.

Holy cow…biggest playoff upset in league history?

Thanks Florida, the Wild just got closer to 1 pick better in the draft…

Boston mortgaged EVERYTHING this season to win the cup, could this be the end of their run? (spent tons of draft picks on rentals, huge veteran salary bonus overage rolls into next seasons cap, one of the worst prospect pools in the NHL, etc, etc)

COL is just shelling SEA so far.

Kraken up 2-0

Grubauer standing on his head, can he maintain it for 30 more minutes??

lindyrig79 wrote:

COL is just getting shelled by SEA so far.

Fixed that for you.

Grubauer to Avs: How you like me now?

LOL, yeah the Kraken weathered the initial storm and now have control.

Listened to the Boston game on Boston radio. Pretty decent announcers. No complaining, just announced the game.

Listening to the Colorado game on Colorado radio. They like complaining about the ref’s so much wondering they are related to Deano?

2 to 1 now.

basseyes wrote:

Listening to the Colorado game on Colorado radio. They like complaining about the ref’s so much wondering they are related to Deano?

Gonna be plenty of whining in Colorado today after that goal was called back as offsides. Which it clearly was by a mile.

Avs in 3! LOL Boston having 3 chances to put a team away and failing is really something though.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Holy cow…biggest playoff upset in league history?

Yep, and my bracket is now officially busted.

Boston fans feel like MN fans this morning.

No, no one feels anywhere remotely close to what a Boston fan feels like today. Bad day to be a Boston ceiling fan.

Panthers are a scary team right now, they underachived all season and now they are hot and their goalie has been reborn in the 1st round…Toronto thinks they won the lottery not facing Boston..we’ll see…

ganderpike wrote:

No, no one feels anywhere remotely close to what a Boston fan feels like today. Bad day to be a Boston ceiling fan.

yeah, if only the Boston fanbase ever had something to cheer about…

From a Wild draft pick perspective, we should be cheering for the Panthers and Kraken to make the Conf finals (Our 1st round pick slot improves) and for Vegas to lose to the Oilers (Their 2nd round pick slot we got for Greenway improves)…Right now we have 3 picks in the first 61, we could add to that IF Addison/Gustafson/Foligno/Hartman gets traded before the draft (I don’t see any other current Wild players with possible 1st or 2nd round value as trade options)

After that, enjoy some great hockey!

What’s worse the 2023 Bruins losing R1 in game 7 or the 2019 Lightning getting outright swept in R1 by Columbus? Either way that’s pretty brutal.

Avalanche out too?? Is Grubauer finally back after 2 seasons of being the worst goalie in the world? Cool for the Kraken, that’s any easy team to root for. IDK about the radio crew for the Avs but the TV crew is paid by the team and they are absolute brutal homers.

This post-season is pretty nuts – I think my bracket might already be 100%… wrong.

tswoboda wrote:

What’s worse the 2023 Bruins losing R1 in game 7 or the 2019 Lightning getting outright swept in R1 by Columbus?

I thought about that too. When the Bolts got swept by Columbus back in 2019, I believe their overall record tied for the best season in league history. The Bruins beat that this year, so I would say even with losing in 7 games in OT, this is worse. I bet the Boston players will remember their first round loss more than achieving the best regular season in league history.

so Russo mentioned Ek had surgery last week for a broken Fibula…

*updated the correct cracked bone*

I think the Bruins loss is worse. Yeah, TB getting swept is bad, but the Bruins had 3 chances to clinch the series and failed. TB was never in that series.

3 picks in the top 61 you say Joe in one of the most stacked drafts in years? Judd do your thing.

If you think back to Tampa getting swept everyone was calling to blow that team up and that they were too soft and skilled to win in the playoffs.

Big difference is that Tampa was able to and did bring the same team back the next year. Most of the Boston roster is pending free agents and likely losing Krejci and Bergeron to retirement – Bergeron alone has been their leader and identity for 10+ years.

CaptainMusky wrote:

3 picks in the top 61 you say Joe in one of the most stacked drafts in years? Judd do your thing.

I’m slowing down on the Judd Brackett praise. He wins every draft on paper, but he’s had 5 first round picks and not a single NHL goal yet.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

so Russo mentioned Ek had surgery last week for a cracked tibia I beleive…

If that happened when he tried coming back 2 weeks too early then team doctors who cleared him should be fired directly into the sun

tswoboda wrote:

I’m slowing down on the Judd Brackett praise. He wins every draft on paper, but he’s had 5 first round picks and not a single NHL goal yet.

True, but it takes time for these kids to develop. Heck most of those picks arent even in the US yet and wont be for the foreseeable future.

tswoboda wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
3 picks in the top 61 you say Joe in one of the most stacked drafts in years? Judd do your thing.

I’m slowing down on the Judd Brackett praise. He wins every draft on paper, but he’s had 5 first round picks and not a single NHL goal yet.

That’s fair, I think there’s now a development philiosophy difference with how they are “cooking” players longer in the minor vs previous Wild regimes. Getting rid of Tim Army was the last move removing the old way of doing things…Next season is a big one for the Bracket era as his 1st draft class should start seeing NHL playing time either making the team (Rossi) or being injury callups (Hunt & O’Rourke) This 1st draft group also had some terribly bad health luck with Rossi getting Myocarditis and Pavel Novak getting cancer, both “injuries” have a much longer no hockey recovery timelines vs a typical hockey injury…so they were robbed of some key development time…its still tbd if Marat K cooking in the KHL for 3 years was the best path for him, but it was out of their control and he’s looked fantastic this past season and should come over after next year ready to go…

his 2nd draft class had HUGE seasons (Lambos maybe stayed the same)

his 3rd class is stacked mostly european and should be coming to the USA after next season…

I think the 3 picks to watch this next season for the biggest development jumps will be Yurov hopefully getting a regualr shift and then last years 2nd rounders Lorenz and Haight. Lorenz is completely off the Wild fans radar, he had a typical 1st year College Hockey season as an 18 year old playing for a powerhouse Denver University program that prefers to let freshman cook a year, but he’s built like a tank and has Power Forward written all over him. The hope is he has a Boldy like jump his sophmore season…

Haight has elite skill written all over his game, he finally got traded to a good Junior team with other talent to play with and took off…

It will be interesting to see if either or both get invited to Canada’s WJC tryout camp (they should)

Haigt was invited last year so assume he will be at Canada’s tryout camp again

Just think fans need to take a step back on anointing Judd Brackett the almighty franchise builder until we see some results at the NHL level. We saw NHL results from Fenton’s 2 drafts by this point – the biggest obviously coming from Boldy… who Brackett ironically passed on for Podkolzin and then BG tried to trade for Askarov