2024-2025 NHL season

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Oups.....TORTO fired as coach...not really a surprise....a t-il toujours sa place dans le hockey moderne???.....time will tell.

Pas sûr qu’il soit ré-embauché, il avait fait une déclaration assez nébuleuse à propos de la saison des Flyers.

« Quand tu te retrouves dans une telle situation, que tu perds tout le temps et qu’il n’y a pas de lumière au bout du tunnel, il va assurément y avoir de la frustration, a émis Tortorella. C’est ma responsabilité. Je ne suis pas vraiment intéressé à apprendre comment diriger dans ce type de saison, dans notre position actuelle"

 

[Womaniser]

WOW.....DRAISAITL et McDAVID sur la touche....heureusement sont 2ème de leur division et les KINGS les talonnent avec 2 games en main...mais vont faire les playoffs.....meilleure nouvelle pour OVECHKIN à maintenant seulement 8 buts de culbuter GRETZKY.

I lost much respect for GRETZKY knowing that he is a good friend of Trump. He is even recycling the ex-wife of Trump's oldest son if I'm not wrong !

 

[EagerBeaver]

Oups.....TORTO fired as coach...not really a surprise....a t-il toujours sa place dans le hockey moderne???.....time will tell.

Fired by Briere due to "differences of opinion".....not surprising since Torts is a highly opinionated man. I am sure they had fights over player personnel, in fact Briere hinted at it in the article below. What is interesting is that they chose to go with Shaw, a Tortorella confidante, soldier and loyalist:

Flyers GM: Fired Tortorella a 'complicated man'

Flyers GM Daniel Briere said differences of opinion with John Tortorella led to the coach's firing on Thursday, calling him a "complicated man."

www.espn.com

I sometimes have differences of opinion with my boss, but so far he has not fired me over them. Of course, my firm is not in last place in the Metropolitan Division. Do you guys have differences of opinion with your bosses?

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Do you guys have differences of opinion with your bosses?

All the time! And I am my own boss!!!

 

[gaby]

Same here....lolllll

 

[gaby]

WOW.....that's leadership....OVECHKIN malgré une défaite de 4-2 a rappelé ses joueurs qui avaient quitté à revenir pour saluer et souligner le départ de FLEURY......beau geste....impressionnant.
Tenue moins impressionnante des OILERS avec une défaite de 6-1 contre SEA.....vivement le retour de LEON et de CONNOR....dure soirée aussi pour les LEAFS avec une défaite de 6-5 en s/o contre SJS.

 

[gaby]

OVECHKIN NOW 5 FROM PASSING GRETZKY....WIL DO IT....GO OVI......it seems VAN and CGY will not b in.....at 6 and 7 pts from St-Louis and WILD.....not looking good at all.....dommage.

 

[EagerBeaver]

OVECHKIN NOW 5 FROM PASSING GRETZKY....WIL DO IT....GO OVI.......

This year or next year?

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

This year or next year?

I say this year! All the team is pushing for it, even the NHL is pushing.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I say this year! All the team is pushing for it, even the NHL is pushing.

He has to score 5 goals in 9 games. Doable, but not sure if I would bet on it.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

He has to score 5 goals in 9 games. Doable, but not sure if I would bet on it.

Well, Ovi has a few multi goals games under his belt.

 

[gaby]

..et il est très bon dans les filets déserts/empty net aident beaucoup....lollll

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

4 goals to go in 8 games, très faisable pour Ovi!

 

[EagerBeaver]

Tell us how you really feel, Patrick baby, LOL:

Roy: Duclair 'god-awful' during Isles' 4-1 loss

In the heat of the Eastern Conference playoff race, and with his team struggling, New York Islanders coach Patrick Roy said Anthony Duclair was "god-awful" in a loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, and that the veteran is failing to meet expectations.

www.espn.com

 

[gaby]

Is ROY meeting expectatons??????.......meanwhile OVI still on tonight....agree will do it....lol

 

[EagerBeaver]

You guys thought maybe you wouldn't see Tkachuk again this year? Think again!!!!'

Panthers optimistic Tkachuk back for 1st round

Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk skated before practice Monday for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury during last month's 4 Nations Face-Off.

www.espn.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

Is ROY meeting expectatons??????.......

Good question. I honestly do not think the Islanders are that good and even when Barry Trotz had them overachieving a few years back I did not think they were all that good. However Roy has a team with .500 talent playing .500 hockey. So
is he meeting expectations? Probably not. Is he "God awful", like he said Duclair is? I don't think so.

His comments were a bit harsh, and now that Roy has coached in NY for a while I feel like he has been emboldened by the fans' lack of toleration for poor play and poor effort. Whereas in Montreal there may be a tendency for fans to give passes to players who have poor performances and poor effort nights, NY fans are uniformly unforgiving. It's true of the NY hockey fans and the NY baseball fans. So I think Roy maybe feels emboldened to dress down a player publicly and win points with the NY fans and media, which deflects the attention off of his less than stellar coaching efforts. In the past, NY fans and media have embraced coaches like this.

 

[EagerBeaver]

4 goals to go in 8 games, très faisable pour Ovi!

It's now 3 more in 7 games....he is feasting on the power plays.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

It's now 3 more in 7 games....he is feasting on the power plays.

And he will get all empty nets opportunities.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Roy Comments on Duclair Stimulate Story in The Athletic

Patrick Roy’s ‘god-awful’ jab at Anthony Duclair a sign of worsening times for the Islanders

"He was god-awful. He had a bad game. ... And he’s lucky to be in the lineup," Roy said of Duclair after the 4-1 loss to the Lightning.

www.nytimes.com