NHL 2021-2022 Thread
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The situation is going on in other sports as well, I already mentioned college basketball but last night in the NBA Kevin Durant was pulled out of the game in the 3rd quarter due to contact tracing protocols, after the NBA allowed him to start the game after being pulled out of pregame warmups. This due to an associate of Durant testing positive, leading to this frustrated tweet from Durant, whose Nets when on to lose to the Tampa Raptors:10 games on schedule tomorrow and 4 are already PPD....
The way this was handled really makes the NBA look incompetent. The guy doesn't start the due to possible exposure earlier in the day due to someone testing positive, then he's allowed to enter the game, then in the third quarter he's pulled out of the game again for the same reasons?? I mean, WTF? By allowing him to enter the game he's already possibly infected other players on the court by the time he's pulled out of the game for good. Bad optics. They might as well have let him play & deal with the matter later. Very bad look for the NBA!
In other news Sam Bennett of the Calgary Flames has asked for a trade and several teams are interested, including Toronto and the Rangers. Calgary needs to win now and wants a player or players in return. The Rangers would dearly love to ship them DeAngelo, but he's like kryptonite right now for any other NHL team plus he'd have to go in quarantine for a couple of weeks if traded to a Canadian team. That's why a trade with any other American team may not be the best solution for the Flames. As for the Leafs they don't have the cap space to accomodate Bennett's contract and all their lower paid players (Thornton, Spezza, Vecci, Petan, etc) all have more points than Bennett has. As for the habs they are saying they have no interest in Bennett. But that could be a ploy since one thing Marc Bergevin has shown is that he's a shrewd negotiator and many of his trades in the past for lesser names have turned out very well for him & the habs.
It would be nice if Rangers can unload DeAngelo for Bennett. May just be an issue on how much of DeAngelo's contract will the Rangers eat. They will probably need to eat all of it except the minimum salary for the Flames to agree. They will take something for nothing.
^^^^^^^ Yeah, they got pounded. We need a goalie coach who will not turn them into knee goalies, need ones who will play the puck. Early Oliers, real early they could afford to let in 4 goals because they could score 5 at will, that was decades ago.
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Early Oilers had Grant Fuhr in goal who was a Hall of Fame goaltender in an era of hockey when lots of goals were being scored. They did not win 5 Stanley Cups with him in net because he gave them suck-ass goaltending. I do think not Fuhr's stats are as good as some goalies in HOF, but only because he was staked to quick 5-0 leads and he/his defensemen could relax and allow some cheap goals. But he came through in tight games. Remember this guy?
en.wikipedia.org
Early Oilers had Grant Fuhr in goal who was a Hall of Fame goaltender in an era of hockey when lots of goals were being scored. They did not win 5 Stanley Cups with him in net because he gave them suck-ass goaltending. I do think not Fuhr's stats are as good as some goalies in HOF, but only because he was staked to quick 5-0 leads and he/his defensemen could relax and allow some cheap goals. But he came through in tight games. Remember this guy?
Grant Fuhr - Wikipedia
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I lived in Edmonton during those days and went to most home games ( fuck of a lot cheaper then ). Even on bad goalie nights the Oilers did not have to worry as they would outscore the opponent.
Remember the rest of the great goalies?
Grant Fuhr Stats and News | NHL.com
Bill Ranford Stats and News | NHL.com
Tommy Salo Stats and News | NHL.com
Andy Moog Stats and News | NHL.com
Remember the rest of the great goalies?
Grant Fuhr Stats and News | NHL.com
Bill Ranford Stats and News | NHL.com
Tommy Salo Stats and News | NHL.com
Andy Moog Stats and News | NHL.com
I remember Moog being a pretty good goalie. The thing is if you look at Fuhr and Moog's career save %, they absolutely suck by modern standards. Fuhr had a career .888% and Moog .891%. In today's NHL you are on the bench with such save %s. What has changed is all the equipment and the assorted rules changes. Right now there are 36 goalies in the NHL with better than 90% save %:
I actually preferred the high scoring hockey of the 1980s when goalies like Fuhr and his very capable backup Moog were under constant fire and could not make as many saves. For a long time, I believed that net sizes in the NHL should be increased. Players are bigger and have more equipment now. But to pull off a rule change of widening the nets by like 3-6" and increasing the height by 3-6", you would have to do the same with all nets uniformly throughout all levels of pro and junior hockey. I think it should be discussed. The best hockey I ever saw was the young Oilers teams of the 1980s. I naively believed that the Islanders would win 5 Stanley Cups in a row against the Oilers because they had beaten them the year before, but they were two teams going in different directions. The Islanders were aging and breaking down, while the Oilers were growing and developing at that time. I can remember watching that series and being in awe of Mark Messier. He was greatly overshadowed by Gretzky, and his true value as a leader and a player was never appreciated by most hockey fans until he led Edmonton to a 5th Stanley Cup without Gretzky. Then a few years later he joined the New York Rangers team and in 1994 led them to their only Stanley Cup in the last 81 years. But Messier was never better than he was when Edmonton beat the NYI in 1984.
Picked up Kevin Lankinen very late in my hockey draft ( 5 games in ), he is steller in net so far.
Gaby, Edmonton actually won last night, 3-2 over Ottawa.
Tampa Bay continues to look like the best team in the league and a possible repeat Stanley Cup champion.
The national TV game isn't Leafs-Habs. It's Bruins-Rangers, 7 pm, NBCSN.
Tampa Bay continues to look like the best team in the league and a possible repeat Stanley Cup champion.
The national TV game isn't Leafs-Habs. It's Bruins-Rangers, 7 pm, NBCSN.
Agree T.BAY--even without KUCHEROV--is very impressive....again in serious business....solid team offensivement , défensivement and VASILEVSKIY is great in the net,
Here in Québec tonight we are lucky we have--in french on TVA and RDS- both games....will zap a lot ....2 good games.
Here in Québec tonight we are lucky we have--in french on TVA and RDS- both games....will zap a lot ....2 good games.
The Power Rankings are out. TB #1, Montreal dropped to #5 due to the loss to lowly Ottawa:
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NHL Power Rankings: What we love about each team in 2021
There's a major shake-up in the top three of our rankings this week. Plus, who or what has been great about each team this season?
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Toronto Maple Leafs are now #1 in the Power Rankings, followed by Boston, Vegas, Tampa & Montreal. Go Leafs Go!
