did they flatten the lottery odds again or nah?

just looking at it today, and best case scenario for the Canucks is an u44% chance they land a top-3 pick as the 2nd worst team, which is ... not great, Bob

haven't really thought about the Red Wings in-depth lately, but...


http://deadspin.com/the-dynasty-that...elf-1794385282


...yikes!

lol Ken Holland.

Wings really need to try to get Vegas to take Abdelkader or Helm off the books by offering the one of their 3rd round picks.

Would be nice to LTIR Kronwall too which seems like there is a decent chance of that

Would this work for a Sheep quiz?

Name the 8th best forward, 4th best defenceman, 2nd best goaltender and 9th best skater on each team.

Seems like Eichel isn't happy with coach Bylsma. How long until the Sabres fire Bylsma?


http://www.tsn.ca/report-eichel-won-...coach-1.728316

Welcome Flames fans.
If only there were a fake Canadian Musical Legend to sum up their season and pending off-season.

Bylsma and Murray fired today. Good job Buffalo.

http://www.tsn.ca/sabres-fire-gm-mur...ylsma-1.729345

Tryamkinamorph movin' on
Benning on empty
Runnin' on, runnin' blind


http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/04/20/...khl-departure/

hey, hockey newbie here.

Looking at players career stats. Next to Ovechkin this year, its says: 'AS-2, AS-7' in his awards area. In another year, the higher number is written first - 'AS-9, AS-1'

I know he's an all-star, but what do these two numbers signify? Does the order mean something?


Thanks!

welp, Bergevin has to go

dude inherited, 5 years ago, a team with 3 elite players entering their prime (price at goalie, subban at d-man, pacioretty at forward), the #3 pick, useful young players like eller and gallagher and solid veterans like markov and plekanec. after 5 years of "rebuilding" (aka acquiring GRIT all over the lineup and not much else) and botched development with awful coaches in both the NHL and AHL, the team is aging, in a bad cap situation, treading water and just awful to watch.

cant wait for him to trade galchenyuk and beaulieu this summer for guys with CHARACTER and GRIT and having to endure 5 more TRANSITION years where the habs are 1st round fodder.

Settle down El rata

just facts

Points taken now. Was not ready to take them in the off-season thread with 10 mins left

In the official Habs forum lots of the veteran posters are on the same train now. There are now excuses left for MB why it didn't work out this season.

UFAs this summer:
Radulov
Markov

UFAs next summer:
Price
Plekanec
Emelin

UFAs in 2022:
Shaw

UFAs in 2026:
Weber

Apparently Kovalchuk may be coming back. I'll take a hell no on that thx.

Maybe the Habs can retread another moody Russian.

rumour i just made up: Caps trade for him to replace Oshie, who leaves in free agency

It will be interesting to see what other KHL stars jump to the NHL.

Shipashev maybe?

I'd bet there'd be plenty of teams lining up to sign him, though he might want to say in the KHL for the Olympics.

Tampa also could get lucky if Gusev wants to come to the NHL.

I heard someone say the Kings are just a retool away from being good again.

How close are they to blowing it up?

Can we have Pearson?

keep your godamn grubby paws off tanner.
if they get rid of any of our young guys I'll lose my mind.

I have no idea what the thought process was behind making Blake the GM (him n zhitnik were my fav pairing growing up but not sure that was taken into consideration seeing as no one asked me) but I really hope hes somehow a savant and not like most former players who get hired purely out of nostalgia.

So painfully true. Honestly amazing to take a team in that situation and manage it into a team so completely unable to score. Price alone has bailed Bergevin out so many times in so many ways it isn't even funny. Really hoping Habs ownership will finally figure out he is an actively awful GM. He has a couple of "stopped clock is right twice a day" moments like Radulov that will give him more excuses this summer probably.

You can have JQuick, because he's what you need.
And Sutter. That would be a good fit too.

Kings have too many long contracts to really blow it up. See Brown, Dustin.

Rob Blake wore #4
Luc wore #20

Team 4/20

guess the good news is that Big Nicky only signed there for 1 year, so the Canucks can take another run at bringing him back next summer. hopefully there'll be a new management team by then and thus he'll be more receptive.

aspect of that move i failed to consider until i read about it was the Olympics. i guess the KHL is letting their players go? he might have had a chance anyway, but without NHL players he probably stands a decent shot at making the Russian team for that, if the KHL players will be there.

and i wonder if that will affect other players coming and going from there this summer...