The Official 2018-19 NHL hockey thread

[EagerBeaver]

Uber Bans Driver Who Exposed Senators Players Dissing Coaches

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.st...febb3b4f-cedd-59ca-813a-8a34ba617275.amp.html

 

[jalimon]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.st...febb3b4f-cedd-59ca-813a-8a34ba617275.amp.html

That really was the right thing to do! It's a complete invasion of privacy. Really unbelievable someone can be so idiot!

Cheers,

 

[Doc Holliday]

My money's on the Ottawa Senators to end up with Jack Hughes. Don't ask me why or how but i just know it.

 

[gaby]

WOW....BRUINS 5 LEAFS 1.....what a performance by PASTRNAK with a hat trick :yo:....and again a 9 pts night with BERGERON--MARCHAND.....toujours aussi impressionnant.

 

[EagerBeaver]

WOW....BRUINS 5 LEAFS 1.....what a performance by PASTRNAK with a hat trick :yo:....and again a 9 pts night with BERGERON--MARCHAND.....toujours aussi impressionnant.

It's really incredible what that line has been doing. Pastrnak has 15 goals in 16 games!!!!!!!!! That is a crazy 80 goal pace. Meanwhile Bergeron has tied Rantanen for the NHL points lead.

Meanwhile the Rangers are 5-0-1 in their last 6 and now are over .500 with their record. Dave Quinn's mantra is "rebuilding is for losers."

 

[EagerBeaver]

Rangers are now tied for 1st place in the Metropolitan Division! 6-0-1 in last 7. Quinn Power!

 

[gaby]

Hawks lost their eighth straight.....not going well at all.....incredible.

 

[gaby]

Gretzky sees some of himself in Canucks rookie PETTERSSON.....he said,,,,,he has a great deal of passion and energy,,,,it's exactly what thr people in Vancouver needed to sort of move on the Sedin era. ...wow.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Hawks lost their eighth straight.....not going well at all.....incredible.

Not hard to understand why- they have given up more goals (67) than any NHL team other than Ottawa. Their defense quite simply sucks monkey balls. Ottawa has given up 4.22 goals per game, Chicago 3.72.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Pittsburgh is also 'sucking donkey balls' so far this season. And after seeing the Leafs destroy LA last night i realize that John Stevens wasn't the problem prior to his firing. That team really sucks donkey balls!

Maybe it's a sign that the better teams of the past have seen their better days pass them by & it's time for a reset in those organizations. Boston may have seen this coming a couple of years ago & fired Claude Julien. They got criticized severely for it but once Bruce Cassidy took over they've been very successful and haven't looked back. They're currently one of the top teams in the East and have been since Cassidy took over.

Toronto decided to clean house & rebuild from scratch a few years ago. They hired the likes of Brendan Shanahan, Lou Lamoriello, Mike Babcock, Kyle Dubas & Mark Hunter & revamped the entire organization from the scouting department to analytics. The 'hurt' which was supposed to last up to 5 years actually lasted only 1 year which gave them the opportunity to draft generational franchise player Auston Matthews & the team has been on a tear since. Prior to the start of this season the Vegas oddsmakers had them slotted as favorites to win the Cup this season.

And take the Detroit Red Wings. They really are the 'dead things' this season, being among the worse teams in the league. But to their credit it appears that they saw the signs last season or so and have started rebuilding. One of the top teams over the past two decades, the Red Wings remind me of how bad their were throughout the 1970's. Has the owner's passing had a negative effect on the team? Possibly. But this is a team which has relied heavily on its European stars over the years (Lidstrom, Datsyiuk, Zetterberg) and it was only natural that they'd struggle once those players either retired or moved back to Europe.

And then you have the Habs. They were expected to struggle badly this season but so far have been surprising & to their credit extremely entertaining to watch. They're one of the league's quickest teams & have shown the ability to win although their defence is very average at best. Their franchise player has struggled badly so far and shockingly appears to be holding the team's progress back. Everyone close to the habs are hoping that he'll soon regain his form & once again retain his status as one of the game's top goalkeepers. But something isn't right with him. He himself mentioned the other day that his problems are mental in nature. What did he mean by this? He's 31 years old and in the first year of an incredibly lucrative 8-year contract which made him the top-paid goaltender in the history of the game. Now is not the time to appear washed-up!!!

By the way i know it's early but it's starting to appear that San Jose acquisition of Erik Karlsson might not have been such a good move, after all. Karlsson has struggled badly throughout the first couple of months of the season. But the team itself has been very successful so far which has helped hide Karlsson's struggles.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Goalies Shots Faced Leaders

Have you wondered which goalies are likely to get worn out by battle fatigue from too many shots faced? Last year Freddie Anderson led all NHL goalies in shots faced by an extremely wide margin. This year Freddie is still in the top 4 in the NHL in shots faced, but the goalie most abused and abandoned by his defense is the beleaguered Craig Anderson of Ottawa:

https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/stats...sort=6&time=0&pos=5&team=0&qual=1&sortOrder=0

13 games, 475 shots faced, 36.5 shots faced per game. Can someone give this guy a rest?

 

[gaby]

SJS 5 NSH 4.....i watched it......oufff Sharks were leading 3-0 after one BUT Preds--as often--came back strongly and took the lead 4-3.....big thanks to Big Joe with the winning one--his 400th NHL goal......very exciting game.

 

[Doc Holliday]

the goalie most abused and abandoned by his defense is the beleaguered Craig Anderson of Ottawa:

13 games, 475 shots faced, 36.5 shots faced per game. Can someone give this guy a rest?

No wonder he's asked to be traded since before the season started.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Trade!!!!!

The Pittsburgh Penguins just acquired Tanner Pearson from the LA Kings for Carl Hagelin.

Pearson currently has zero goals an one assist. Hagelin has one goal and two assists. Both have had tough starts to the season. Pearson has two more years left on his contract while Hagelin is currently serving the final year of his.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Pearson currently has zero goals an one assist. Hagelin has one goal and two assists. Both have had tough starts to the season. Pearson has two more years left on his contract while Hagelin is currently serving the final year of his.

This trade appears to be nothing for nothing rather than something for something or something for nothing. I just don’t understand why the Penguins agreed to take on 2 more years for a guy who isn’t doing anything in exchange for another whose contract will end this year. I have to surmise the Penguins believe a change of scenery and/or system will serve to rejuvenate Pearson, otherwise the trade doesn’t make much sense from the Pittsburgh standpoint. I don’t like trades like this when a team is going badly. It’s like squeezing a tiny zit on your nose but not doing anything about the 104 degree fever you are running.

 

[gaby]

WPG 3 WASH 1....good and tight game.....HELLEBUYCK did some great stops.......HOLTBY--KUZY upper-body injuries and OSHIE really shaken after being slammed to the ice late in third period.....does not look good for the Caps....could b big big losts.

COL 6 BOS 3....wow...what a comeback by the AVS....5 straight goals to win......RANTANEN again 1 goal 2 assists.:yo:

 

[Doc Holliday]

Tampa Bay goalie Vasilevsky is out for a while with a broken foot. He's among the best goalies in the league & this will likely hurt Tampa.

 

[EagerBeaver]

NHL Leading Predators Lose Two Big Stars

The Preds have been hit with injuries as well:

http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/25285430/predators-pk-subban-ir-viktor-arvidsson-6-8-weeks

You have to construct a deep roster to win in this NHL league.

 

[gaby]

Holtby--Kuznetsov--Oshie....all out with upper-body injury......la liste s'allonge.

TBL 4--PIT 3......POINT...hat trick in 91 seconds...wow....:yo:....he is on fire....

 

[gaby]

SABRES 2 JETS 1..big win.....fourth straight win for Buffalo.....on their way for a season 100 pts plus.....vraiment une belle surprise....

TOR 2 ANA 1.....after winning over Sharks and Kings.....they complete California sweep....:yo: