That is all I need to see for the argument to make OT 10 min long…

Sure is funny how all the haters on the tourney have shut up after that game. What a blast

Canadian fans would lose their MINDS if that happens. After the agony outpouring when they got bounced out of the World Juniors–complete with bitter recriminations and multiple rounds of finger-pointing–this 4 nations thing is the great Canadian last chance to re-acquire their sense of hockey supremacy.

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Im all here for it

I think if Helleubuyck plays well its the Americans tourney to lose. Gonna be an uphill battle for anyone else with him in net.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Can you imagine the outrage if it was Jiricek who ate $hit on the MacKinnon goal last night instead of Middleton?

X2 X2 X2

All over social media people would be going “oh that’s the questionable guy minny gave up a 1st and a solid prospect for” and the media would have eaten it up. Obviously its mack, but it would definitely be a hot topic

JoeMX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>jack klusa wrote:</div>
Anybody else notice that Fiala has 22 points in 40 games this year???? This guy is at a 45 point pace right now! And we got Faber (In hindsight, their best prospect) and Ohgren. Massive trade for Guerin.

Yeah, somebody on my twitter rotation is always showing the Faber/Fiala side by side stat comparison…but to be fair, he’s been almost a PPG guy since traded (obviously not this season sofar) in the end it probably worked out for both teams with the Wild getting the younger talented players that will likely pan out long term better, but the Kings immediately getting a PPG player…

Well I think the other thing is that LA had all of these prospects at the time that were in consideration for return, Turcotte, Kaliyev, Clarke…
Considering that Turcotte is a center, I wanted him in return . We really got their best prospect out of the bunch… kind of goes to show how much fluff is in all lot of these team prospect pool rankingss

Anybody else notice that Fiala has 22 points in 40 games this year???? This guy is at a 45 point pace right now! And we got Faber (In hindsight, their best prospect) and Ohgren. Massive trade for Guerin.

That was the worst play ive seen Faber make on the second goal. Rare

There it is. Jiricek

JoeMX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tswoboda wrote:</div>

all of those questionable Wild veteran extensions could be traded in the next 1-2 years…they were only NMC’s the first 1-2 years when we truly need them on the team with so many young players…The Wild’s most recent UFA signing (Trenin) was given no protection at all…

X2. The list of players on full NMC’s next season not named EK, zucc or Kirill:

Foligno
Middleton

The current list of players on full NMC’s after 25-26:

EK. That’s it

In the year of our Lord 2024, Alexander Ovechkin leads the league with 15 goals in 18 games… unreal

CaptainMusky wrote:

Seeing that call for penalty shot on foligno is pretty dang bad. His stick was under zegras stick and he didn’t hook him. Terrible call.

Great gap control and great play by BOGO on that breakaway.. He’s a strange player but for as experienced had he is he coughs it up on Defense a lot more than he should

IceNEyes1986 wrote:

IDK what they are going to do with Trennin.. 3.5Mil for 4 years!? WTH was GMBG seeing & thinking? No one is going to take his contract on in a trade..

I think it was a needed gamble to do something about the PK from GMBG. Kudos to him for doing something about it, but the term and how trenin is playing are not looking good right now.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

My god how bad are the Nashville Predators right now….

Yeah what on earth is going on there? Saros can’t save a beach ball right now either and the team just can’t score. I was expecting big things from them, and I have a friend who gave a prediction at the start of the season that the preds were going to be a big disappointment this year… I called him an idiot for saying that. Safe to say I won’t remind him.

Kirill just somehow puts the puck on zuccs stick sometimes. It just teleports there. That assist was unreal.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Oilers leaking again tonight, looks like they could use GusBus to STOP and SCORE goals for them… Billy’s phone gotta be ringing off the hook tonight….

If you think edm has it bad in net…. I wonder what the avs would be willing to give up for gus. Georgiev can’t stop a beach ball right now

The sh!t might be hitting the fan in Boston.. apparently Swayman is considering putting in a trade request. For a team that is lacking at center to really be a threat, paying a goalie 10mil a year is going to make it tough to bolster the team. As good as he is, paying a goalie who has played more than half a season once $10mil is demanding.

I think Neely’s comments have really muddied the water between Swayman and the organization regardless if he signs or not.

avs are missing a little seasoning without landeskog and its obvious

My gosh this is uncharted waters for basically the whole franchise for 20 years and they are absolutley dummying the defending champs with arguably the best player on the planet.

tswoboda wrote:

Is it weird that I’m kind of pulling for the Leafs now? Boston has come back on them a few teams down 3-1 so would make for one hell of a story. Maybe Toronto win the next 2 and then blow a lead in game 7 would be the perfect ending

haha I am in the same boat as you Joe. I don’t like the bruins, but I love seeing the leafs falter in the playoffs every year. The same thing happened in 2013. Bruins led 3-1 in series, blew the lead, went back home for game 7 where the infamous 3rd period leafs meltdown happened. I honestly have no idea how Toronto has blown so many chances in the playoffs. up 3-1 against MTL, took Boston to 7 games three times and lost all, up 3-2 against tampa… being a suffering MN sports fan, I enjoy watching other fanbases suffer on a level like us as well

looking back at past seasons I the 15-16 stuck out to me. This year’s team had 88 points. 15-16 team had 87 points. the 15-16 team made the playoffs. weird how he west pans out sometimes

I no joke just stared at my TV with my jaw dropped for a solid 20 seconds after that bobrovsky save. Of course he robbed dumba too

Apparently in 2021 Meruelo declined an offer from Gila River Arena for a 20 year lease. He declined and they kicked them out. I understand the glendale isn’t the best place for the team in phx (downtown or scottsdale would be much better), but dear god I didn’t think there could be anymore ridiculousness in the yotes. Cant make this stuff up.

Charlie W wrote:

I do not see how a hockey team will be successful in Utah. My opinion.

I also think it would be a bad move to have Winnipeg go back to Atlanta.

Did a little research on the relocation and it seems that smith (owner of jazz-new owner of yotes) will build a whole new building with his own wallet.

I was skeptical about Utah at first, but it seems that they have what all successful non- traditional market teams have and what the coyotes and thrashers didn’t have: ownership that actually cares about the team. Utah is a lot more hockey-like than a lot of the other markets there are even now. If any market has good ownership, it will succeed.

Will they be able to fit 17,000+ fans in the Utah Jazz arena? Or will they build a brand new arena for the team?

gim wrote:

You can’t honestly say you’d rather see your team tank and finish at or near the bottom of the league for years on end, would you? I’m not really sure where that strategy ever came from because even though it “can” work (Penguins, Blackhawks), most of the time it fails. Then you end up with a crappy team for a decade followed by an over rated team with over paid players.

Put me in the camp of being competitive on a consistent basis over being terrible for a decade with the remote chance of improving.

I completely disagree with this. Since the turn of the century lockout more teams that have tanked have succeeded than not. Tampa, chicago, Pitt, Colorado, Washington, LA, all gained their stars from being at the basement of the league for a handful of seasons that won them their cups. Being a decent team every year hasn’t got anyone anywhere in recent history.

Anyone else pick up on ben Meyers being sent to Anaheim? Obviously some people were losing their minds when they didn’t sign him thinking he was a future 1-2C. I do think it could be different in Anaheim if he is given more playing time on a non-playoff team. but he also has played 9 NHL games this year and isn’t exactly super-young anymore at 25

Most likely scenario might be coming back with the exact same goalie situation next year. Fans will riot. Lots of people wayyyy to certain on plugging Wallstedt in. He’s still 21 at the beginning of next season. Who’s the last really good 21 year old goalie? Who’s the last good 23 or 24 year old goalie? Maybe otterberger last year… don’t go look at his current season. How about Spencer Knight in Florida or Carter Hart?
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i agree. You can have one young goalie in a tandem, but 2 young goalies is dangerous.

just like tswboda said, predicting goalie production is smoke in mirrors. for example, look at the career of Carey Price. When he was a prospect, habs fans were calling him “jesus price”. He was so good for some seasons, but for a few playoff runs Halak took his spot. Price is a hero in montreal now. I mean seriously, how well can we predict the career of a guy who is willing to step in front vulcanized rubber going 90+ mph. I do like what we have with Gustavsson and Wallstedt, but I think people really need to understand that goalies are going to have bad games, months or even seasons. Goalie voodoo is puzzling.

My experience with both piscifun and kastking are generally positive. They work really well for about the first 12 months for a $40-$70 reel. But they wont last as long as a more expensive, bigger name brand reel.

i see your point but they didnt bring in jeannot to score goals. they have plenty of guys who can do that. tampa was trying to recreate their bottom 6 which just wore teams down in 20′ 21′ an 22′. teams are now willing to pay more for a guy who is just no fun to play against because of how playoff hockey works. And this isnt like greenway because the wild wanted to rid him and a playoff hopeful buffalo was willing to give up a little to give him a shot in their young core. It wont be a jeannot-like return, but its worth seeing whats out there, and like joeMX said, it might be more than you think. just my 2 cents

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Frank Seravelli mentioned today that Vancouver and a few other teams have called GMBG on Duhaime…

Lets see what GMBG can get for him… I think he’ll get alot more than most believe….

I agree with this. they could get a haul for him. we all saw what tampa gave up for jeannot last year

There’s a newer generation of pro anglers that have mastered FFS/live sonar as their primary tactic. One particular angler, Kyoyo Fujita, on the Bassmaster Elites, is a real “scoper.” In events where it shines, he mops up. In events where it doesn’t help as much, he does poorly. The outcome of his placing is solely dependent on how effective live sonar is in any single event.
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how bout them apples down in toledo bend as we speak