NHL discussion thread

**Adar** · October 20, 2014, 12:25 AM

This is one of the things I will never understand with NHL right now. Seems like some people believe you should start a fight every time your star get tackled.

But kind of funny that Richardson lose badly to an anonymous rookie when he instigates the fight

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Originally Posted by I WUB PUGS

............getting closer now...........everyday just another day closer.........

And we are done....

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**Adar** · November 06, 2014, 07:25 AM

Swedish media today:

Attempting a crossover as Swedish football player put a hockey style tackle on Yaya Toure from Manchester City.

But there is a certain resemblence.

**Adar** · November 14, 2014, 12:06 AM

Who was it that called the trade of Filip Forsberg from Capitals to Nashville a really shortsighted move?

You have earned a digital cookie for that assessment

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**Jakethe_Snake15** · December 15, 2014, 11:08 AM

As per Darren Dreger, Eakins is out in Edmonton. MacTavish is stepping in as interim head coach.

ing hell.

I'm done with the Oilers for now. I just can't stand this team's management anymore. Even if MacT brings them success in the rest of the season.

**Adar** · January 30, 2015, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by Jakethe_Snake15

As per Darren Dreger, Eakins is out in Edmonton. MacTavish is stepping in as interim head coach.

ing hell.

I'm done with the Oilers for now. I just can't stand this team's management anymore. Even if MacT brings them success in the rest of the season.

There are two teams I really struggle to understand, Edmonton and Toronto. Two teams with great histories but which seem to have gotten stuck on an endless road of disasters.

I watched the highlights reel of Arizona vs Toronto yesterday and I must say that Torontos first two concessions were amazing. Apparently Bernier was great up until the first goal but... Just wow.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=2014020714-490-h

But apparently it isn't even the longest conceded goal from a Toronto goalkeeper

**Jakethe_Snake15** · February 02, 2015, 11:44 PM

The Oilers are, as is par for the course, following their pattern of the last few seasons - play terribly until it doesn't matter anymore, and then play just well enough to make everyone begin to wonder what could have been.

At least the odds are overwhelmingly against the odds of the Oilers ruining Connor McDavid's career. Jack Eichel on the other hand...

**Adar** · April 16, 2015, 01:28 AM

So 5 out of 7 Canadian got into the playoffs but not the two teams most popular among the TWCenter membership. Is this why this thread is so silent right now

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Anyway, as usual I kind of support the NY Rangers because of Swedish journalist coverage and Detroit Red Wings due to the high number of Swedish players. As a bonus i also hope that the Montreal Canadiens get slashed out of the playoffs.

**Ulyaoth** · April 16, 2015, 10:03 AM

I want the isles to at least go to the conference final, mainly because rag bandwagon will be insufferable if the islanders do any less than win a round, and if the rags beat the islanders. I doubt the penguins will win this series but in the highly unlikely chance that happens I'd be pissed if the islanders were to lose to them either since the pens are such a garbage team this year but at least i won't have to listen to morons about it in person.

I haven't really bothered to think of the other divisions match ups but outside the islanders I'm rooting for Tampa. Montreal wouldn't be bad i guess.

**Ulyaoth** · April 16, 2015, 10:04 AM

Stupid phone, double post

**Jakethe_Snake15** · April 18, 2015, 10:28 PM

I'll be honest. I'm pumped. McDavid.

But. Its still been 9 calendar years since the last playoff appearance. 4 1st overalls in 6 years. That's nothing to be proud of.

McDavid will be great to see in an Oilers uniform, but I still want to see the Oilers actually make the playoffs here before I'm finished my bachelor's degree (halfway through, but I'm taking a year...so they got 3 more years).

**Achea** · April 19, 2015, 02:24 AM

So stoked for McDavid it's unreal......McD Drai Nuge Lander Gordon is some nice looking centre depth going forward (and Roy for next year if they resign him)!

**Adar** · June 22, 2015, 03:29 PM

Wow, no one could be bothered about the NHL playoffs

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Anyway, the draft is coming up and I am wondering about this article: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=771541

It is a re-draft of the draft in 2000 and I am a bit surprised that so few first round selections were successful. Only 2 out of the 20 first choices were selected in the first round and I got two questions.

1) Was this an especially weak draft?

2) What is your general opinion of the draft, is it a good indicator of long term talent or fairly random?

**Jakethe_Snake15** · July 02, 2015, 12:50 PM

The draft can be incredibly random. After all, there is nothing consistent about how a person will develop.

That being said, I think its something like 40% of 1st round picks will play at least 100 games in the NHL, after that 1st round, the percentages just drop. 2003 was also an incredible draft year. Shea Weber was a 40th overall pick that year, wasn't he? Out of 30 players in the 1st round that year, only 2 played fewer than 100 games (Hugh Jessiman, NYR, 2 games played; Shawn Belle, St. Louis, 20 games played) and a third (...Marc Antoine-Pouliot ...my "wonderful" Oilers could've picked Parise twice that year, but traded down in the draft both times to get Pouliot, when Corey Perry was still available as was Mike Richards) who hadn't played more than 200 games.

That being said, 2003 was an exceptional year. Patrice Bergeron, Shea Weber, Corey Crawford and David Backes were all second round picks that year. So was Maxim Lapierre.

Some of the best players of the last 2 or 3 decades were 4th round or later picks - I think Dominik Hasek was a 7th round pick by Buffalo, and Lundqvist, Zetterburg and Datsyuk were all late picks too.

Then there are the teams who just suck consistently at picking. Year after year. That may be a developmental problem more than anything else though.