He has a really close relationship with tochet. Phil has been super tight lipped about the teams he has down that he'd allow a trade To. Amusingly enough he has teams like Toronto / Boston on there because he knows either of those teams would never trade for him to limit the potential destinations the pens could trade him to further.

pretty sure this same kind of thing has happened a few times too
like when they lied about Roussel's summer concussion for whatever reason

this Seattle team can't come fast enough...

(pretty sure that includes significant time playing w/ McBust)




only 4.5 years to go...

Gritty is the hero we need

blatant blind-side head-pick
2 minute penalty
no suspension
no fine

some 24yo AHLer with 6 career NHL games to his name, can't risk giving him a major or a game or 2 to say hey don't do this kind of ****
meanwhile the guy he hit will probably be out a week or two at least

this has already happened to Canucks players like 3-5 times this year
Sven Baertschi has been out like 2 months now after a similar play where literally nothing was called


holy ****, lol (this is true btw)


league really cares about headshots this year, what a joke

game on soon. 3 things to watch in tonights habs v avs...the puck, skating, and your manners.

rare power play goal...we're the worst with chicago. no more i guess. 1 for 1 helps 11% sick price saves early 1-0...

outplayed them. got beat by that sick one line. oh well.

The best is the John Shannon, a hockey writer and talking head, trying to defend him on hockey shows by saying that he's tries hard and is working hard. Umm you can pay me 1/10th of what he's getting and I'll try hard and you'll only be a goal short. Chia-pet killed the Oil

Interesting question that showed I'm a stupid head on twitter:

You have two teams that will play each other.

Team A will score exactly 1 goal per game. Never more, never less.

Team B will get exactly 20 shots on goal per game. Never more, never less. In the long run, team B has a shooting percentage of 5.5%.

Which team would you rather be?

Firmly in the "I don't want to do math now" vote.

Sounds like they need more tough guys to protect their skill players.

yeah they tried that the other day

strangely enough, beating a guy up after he cheapshots someone doesn't un-ring that bell

weird

and in other news, Pierre makes a complete jackass of himself, yet again

pretty much everyone uses analytics to some extent these days
(including successful teams like LA, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, etc)

Florida tried it for like 1 year then gave up (resulting in them giving away Marchessault for nothing), and they've been horrible the entire time

Arizona might not even really be using analytics, nobody seems to know
they say they are, but it doesn't really seem like it

also not convinced Edmonton ever really tried
they brought in Dellow on the coach's advice, doesn't mean the GM listened to anything he had to say (though Dellow has brought up Pouliot in the past, who had some nice years there, so it seems like they did on that at least)
and again, that lasted like 1 year until Eakins got canned

did Buffalo stop? i don't really get that feeling


meanwhile, not analytics traded Subban for Weber
not analytics traded Hall, Eberle, Barzal, etc for Larsson, Spooner, Lucic, Russell, etc
not analytics turned the Canucks from the best team in the league to the never-ending rebuild
etc, etc, etc


also super weird how rocket surgeon Pierre has been ass begging for a hockey job for like 15 years but can't get a sniff from anyone lololol

wow Anaheim is incredibly boring

Ehlers scored a hat-trick on two shots and none of [or only one of] the goals had to get past a goalie.

The HoltBeast cannot be contained:

got last game v ARI on. missed it. habs v vegas in 30min live. i just started this one though.

Watched the Bs game with my brother and dad, the latter's reaction to how yanks do sport (commercial breaks etc) being more entertaining than the game itself. THEYRE STOPPING THE GAME?!

and how did they feel about Jack Edwards?

also, gonna be kinda weird if Patrice Bergeron is just really good like forever

wouldn't put it past him though

Not sure he understood much but did find the screaming a bit puzzling

we are getting healthy. still a buzzsaw.

got the win @ari, watched with my dad. nice. tomorrow hope to same with vegas.