I was going to ask ya what is happening in Vancouver.

yeah i only know whats out there in the public, here's a good run down of the situation:

https://defector.com/vancouvers-favo...ker-room-beefs


this seems to be the latest:


and here is the obviously correct conclusion:


so yeah i'm praying for a miller trade, but a pettersson trade would be hilarious, so i'd take that too i guess. of course the clowns who run the team will probably just continue to do nothing because they're completely useless

you know they weren't fighting when jay beagle, the locker room sheriff was in town

lol beagle, but it's a rare situation where you actually could use some strong veteran leadership. someone willing to make miller stfu. i think luke schenn might have been doing that when he was around, and the team had some good times then. tocchet should also be doing this, i thought that was literally the entire point of hiring a knuckle-dragging cte meathead like him, but he's probably miller's coke buddy/dealer, so yeah glgl there


aside for the fact that miller is literally the last person who should be criticizing anyone, if you're going to have an ******* like jimothy timothy on your team, you absolutely need another guy around to keep him in line and beat his ass when required. they don't have anyone like that rn, this is the culture they've build, along with a shoddy defense, a gimp goalie and ~no prospects. gjge

Jimothy Timothy saving the NACKZ again

wow, only a truly hypermegaelite world class champion could light up the habs. don't waste time looking to see who won the game or anything, hurry up and trade for him now!


unfortunately the canucks are one of the few donk ass teams who would be fooled by one game and change their entire organizational plan over it, so expect a pettersson trade tomorrow i guess.

and along those lines, one of the rumours had them interested in necas:

would be peak canucks to sell low on a superstar, swapping him for a dude on the heater of his life. though i see that necas is now down to 1.18 points/game, so the canes might have missed their window there. please let it still happen, i might never stop laughing, and heals deserves it

problem with selling petey is he's a potential franchise player who they drafted and can lead them to greatness

problem with selling millsy is that perhaps he was right and by jettisoning him, you're giving the greenlight to all those on the fence about being lazy and disinterested that this is just a team to go out on the ice and collect a paycheck with

yeah trading pettersson would obviously be idiotic, but no, miller isn't right, he's just a stupid *******

5v5 xg% this season:
1. hronek
2. hughes
3. miller
4. garland
5. pettersson

i didn't realize that miller is apparently playing that well, only slightly better than pettersson, so yeah he should probably shut the **** up about whatever his problem is there. the only guys playing poorly are mostly the ones you'd expect: hoglander, myers, heinen, bluegar, raty, joshua, juulsen. if you want to bitch at anyone, bitch at them. or the gm for building this team. or better yet, request a trade

Nucks are in a pretty tough spot beyond the Miller/Pettersson deal. The D beyond Hughes and I guess Hronek is an abomination (these guys didn't manage a real breakout after their tying goal yesterday) and Hughes may well bolt in 2027. Are they good enough to go for it in those two seasons? They'll need two legit top 4 D (preferably including one top pairing one, though Hughes is good enough to to have a guy like Hronek fake it on the top pair). 7 million in cap space as it stands won't get you far, Boeser's 6.5 is coming off the books but if he walks they'll need some sort of replacement as well. Even with a big cap raise, it's tight. UFA appears to offer some guys with question marks like Orlov, Provorov, Chycrun and Pettersson the D, but no real prizes. Trade assets are apparently not all that.

Of all the (poor) options out there I'd say trying to get rid of Miller, invest the cap saving in D, hedge for potential post-Hughes years in the process and hope some dudes like Höglander can pick up the slack seems like the best. Probably more realistic than standing pat and hoping your D magically gains the ability to push the puck in the right direction.

How about them Leafs? Found a way to win again.

All the CDN teams are doing great . Oilers another win

**** the caps, what a stupid greaseball team

My team getting a Stadium Series game next year. Already signed up for a chance at tickets.

Just saw that the Winter Classic will be Rags vs Panthers in Miami. I know this thing jumped the shark a decade ago, but really? You can't even make a contrived connection between these teams.

Stadium series if fine since it's only meant for local fans anyway, I just wish the Bruins didn't have to be involved.

was about to clown on worthless ape tom wilson, but i look and he's having a career best season rn??? literally who the **** learns how to play at age 30

They sure went after Hughes last night. Old school disgusting hockey, and somehow the best team in the league.

seeing washington at the top and nyr at the bottom shows to me that there's either an insane amount of luck in this game or i was be an utterly terrible gm

Brady Tkachuk is a POS

Also lol Wes McCauley's announcements

Yup noticed Edmonton every time check standings.

rag$ were fraudulent last season; 20th in 5v5 xg%, a bad playoff team. this season they dropped to 23rd, also shesterkin has been bad, and injured. no idea if the poor performance is related to the injuries or not.


but yeah, the caps are wild. last season they were pretty bad, 25th in xg, one of the worst playoff teams ever. this season they're 9th. decent turnaround

• dylan strome: 45pts, 49%xg. not playing too well at evens, but killing it on the powerplay with 15 assists there. the caps signed him as a free agent after the hawks just didn't qualify him gjge
• aliaksei protas: 36pts, 50%xg. their 2nd leading scorer is this 6'6" belorussian who they drafted in the 3rd round a few years back. he's obviously on a heater shooting 24%, but on the other hand, he has 0 points on the powerplay.
• pierre-luc dubois: 33pts, 59%xg. he's always been solid, and now bouncing back here after a rough last 2 seasons in winnipeg and los angeles. acquired in a cap dump type trade for darcy kuemper, which has been kinda win-win so far as he's been good in net for the kings.
• tom wilson: 32pts, 56%xg. as i said yesterday, he's literally having a career best season at age 30, wild stuff. he's Actually Good, and leading the team with 8 goals on the powerplay.
• connor mcmichael: 32pts, 54%xg. their 1st round pick in 2019 has arrived, very solid possession and production numbers.
• alex ovechkin: 19g/30pts in 25gp, 46%xg. weak possession numbers, but good players tend to overcome that. and just 8 of his points have come on the powerplay. what a world
• jakob chychrun: 28pts in 36gp, 47%xg. the former top prospect is their worst dman by xg, but he's certainly producing offense. was acquired from the sens for nick jensen and a 3rd, another win-win looking trade so far.
• john carlson: 26pts, 56%xg. turns 35 tomorrow, the old guy is still gettin it done.
• taylor raddysh: 17pts, 55%xg. another guy the caps signed for free after the hawks decided against qualifying lmao, crushing it at evens with all his points coming there. sick
• rasmus sandin: 17pts, 56%xg. they paid a price to get him in erik gustafsson, but he seems to be delivering on the promise that the laffs saw in him.
• andrew mangiapane: 16pts, 54%xg. shipped out of calgary for a 2nd round pick, getting the job done so far with all but 1 point coming at evens.
• nick dowd: 15pts, 55%xg. 10 of those points are goals, and all the offense has come at evens.
• logan thompson: 2.32 gaa, .919 sv%: acquired from vegas for two 3rd rounders, thompson has been very good in goal, which is a lucky thing because their alternate charlie lindgren has not.

no clue how much is coaching and how much is their front office nerds being on fire, but they've really hit on a lot of moves. even the ones where they too a risk or shipped out a useful player. very funny that they got their leading scorer and 3rd best xg forward for free because chicago decided they were worthless, that always helps.

the main negatives on the roster are lars eller and jakub vrana looking pretty washed, and hendrix lapierre, who might suck or simply be an innocent of having to play on a line with those two, not sure. the caps team pdo is high, but not unreasonably so, though their league-leading 11% shooting luck at evens will likely regress a bit. but there's also room for improvement at the bottom of the roster, will be interesting to see what kind of swings they take at the trade deadline. i sure wouldn't bet against them hitting at this point

yup

it's a mess, and pretty unlikely that the clowns running the team can find a way out of it the way they mash the buttons

Speaking of Vancouver, guess who they are playing tomorrow!

but first, losing to the canes tonight...

Welcome to the losing to the Canes club! The Leafs skated circles around them to start the game and were up 2-0 then I have no idea what happened to the Leafs. LOL

Caps are also at PDO of 102.2, which is a pretty big #. A lot of seasons, no team ends up over 102.

Bruins 2 years ago somehow ended up with 103, which is an astronomical # and pretty insane luck, and of course they went out R1 to Florida.

Habs good at bringing the conference leaders back down to Earth, and at their place no less. First VGK, now the Caps.

Habs only won Corsi in 11 of the first 28 games, but have won it in 10 of the last 12, and that's with a pretty tough schedule over that stretch, so they're definitely playing some great hockey right now.