'25 NHL offseason/draft thread

[Liut]

Detroit traded Tarasenko to Minnesota for ... future considerations.
LOL!

 

[melock]

Detroit traded Tarasenko to Minnesota for ... future considerations.
LOL!

And Detroit didn't retain a penny. Good deal.

 

[Liut]

And Detroit didn't retain a penny. Good deal.

Agreed i.e. money but never should have signed him in the first place. Total bust.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Ekblad resigns with Panthers 8/$50.8M
Marner signs 8/$96M with Vegas
Leafs get Nicolas Roy
Marchand signing 6/$32M with Panthers
Zito kept all three

 

[Liut]

Ekblad could have got more elsewhere but circumstances obviously have been good, and continued nil state tax.

 

[Liut]

Ekblad resigns with Panthers 8/$50.8M
Marner signs 8/$96M with Vegas
Leafs get Nicolas Roy
Marchand signing 6/$32M with Panthers
Zito kept all three

Wow.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Bouchard 4/$42M with Oilers
Provorov 8/$59.5M with Blue Jackets

 

[Liut]

Bouchard 4/$42M with Oilers
Provorov 8/$59.5M with Blue Jackets

Was pessimistic the Jackets would keep Provorov, but glad they did.

 

[brn623cl]

Was pessimistic the Jackets would keep Provorov, but glad they did.

You're more pleased than the Athletic writer

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/64...ium=social&utm_campaign=twhq&source=twitterhq

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Patrick Kane 1/$3M + $4M in bonuses with Detroit

 

[Liut]

You're more pleased than the Athletic writer

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/64...ium=social&utm_campaign=twhq&source=twitterhq

Read that about thirty minutes ago. Interesting how the writer (whom I'm unfamliar with) extolled Provorov's virtues, then went negative. Must be an analytics guy. I'm not.
As noted, Provorov eats minutes. What was not noted IIRC was those eaten benefit Werenski, Fabbro and the other D.
As Jack McCloskey often mentioned, you have to have talent, chemistry and mix.
In the past, I've been critical here of Don Waddell. Not since his arrival in Columbus, though.
He's keeping Jarmo's nucleus intact.
Now ... get a goalie to pair with Jet Greaves.

 

[Liut]

Brock Boeser staying in Vancouver 7/50.75 million.
Elliotte reporting Corey Perry to L.A.
Glen Gulutzan headed back to Dallas.
STL trades Zack Bolduc to Montreal for a d-man whose name escapes me now.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

RIP Alex Delvecchio

 

[Liut]

RIP Alex Delvecchio

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Very sorry to learn this, though appreciate you passing the news along.
His transition from player to coach was, as you know, a fiasco. Ted Garvin mournes ... somewhere.
RIP to a Wings' great.

 

[Huggy]

Yeah, I'm watching on Sportsnet. It's on-set talent is handling the fiasco as professionally as possible.

I was in LA and that draft house thing really slowed things down.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The last big name free agent is off the board
Nikolai Ehlers 6x$51M to Carolina

 

[JC]

The LA Kings might have had the worst JuLy 1st I have ever seen. Ken Holland should have never been hired in Edmonton let alone LA. He has made Jim Benning look competent.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The LA Kings might have had the worst JuLy 1st I have ever seen. Ken Holland should have never been hired in Edmonton let alone LA. He has made Jim Benning look competent.

Detroit is still feeling the effects of bad Ken Holland signings and drafts

 

[justgladtobehere]

Lyndon Byers died on a July 4th. He was the enforcer on the '80s Bruins and a close friend of Cam Neely.
https://www.nhl.com/news/former-boston-bruins-forward-lyndon-byers-dies-at-61
He was a sidekick on a Boston radio show for a while. No cause of death and other articles made vague references to health issues in the last few years. He may have had an elbow problem.

 

[Sea Bass]

I haven’t seen the movie but I think he and Neely were briefly in Casualties of War, with Michael J. Fox (a good friend of Neely’s).