NHL offseason thread

[Jake from State Farm]

Sedins, Daniel Alfredsson, Roberto Luongo, Riikka Sallinen, Herb Carnegie elected to Hockey Hall of Fame

 

[UPChip]

Swedish twins.



(They should have inducted the Sedins for this commercial alone.)

 

[MTM]

Kings get Kevin Fiala from Minnesota for a No. 1 and prospect, sign him to a seven-year, $8 mil AAV contract

Los Angeles Kings Minnesota Wild Kevin Fiala Brock Faber - TSN.ca

 

[Tighthead]

Don’t know if people south of the border are aware, but Hockey Canada is in an absolutely epic ****storm.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/scotiabank-sponsorship-hockey-canada-1.6504003

They settled a lawsuit for $3 million where the plaintiff claimed that she was assaulted by 8 members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior squad.

In the lawsuit, the players were identified as John Does. From what I understand, and I’m happy to be corrected, the plaintiff doesn’t want to deal with the other extra attention/backlash that might come with identifying the players.

London (Ont) police investigated and nobody was arrested or charged.

Rick Westhead and Katie Strang are covering it closely, and now Hockey Canada officials have been dragged into Parliament. Sponsors are jumping ship - in some cases redirecting their money to the girls/womens programs.

 

[matt_garth]

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[Jake from State Farm]

There’s talk Jeff Blashill will take Lalonde’s job in Tampa

 

[Della9250]

 

[Jake from State Farm]

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Lalonde even admits he looks like Uncle Fester

 

[The Big Ragu]

Nazem Kadri with the "too many men" shirt for the parade.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[dixiehack]

Close enough for government work.

Stanley Cup accidentally delivered to Gabriel Landeskog's neighbors after Avalanche championship win

 

[Roscablo]

Nazem Kadri with the "too many men" shirt for the parade.

That's awesome.

 

[Huggy]

Don’t know if people south of the border are aware, but Hockey Canada is in an absolutely epic ****storm.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/scotiabank-sponsorship-hockey-canada-1.6504003

They settled a lawsuit for $3 million where the plaintiff claimed that she was assaulted by 8 members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior squad.

In the lawsuit, the players were identified as John Does. From what I understand, and I’m happy to be corrected, the plaintiff doesn’t want to deal with the other extra attention/backlash that might come with identifying the players.

London (Ont) police investigated and nobody was arrested or charged.

Rick Westhead and Katie Strang are covering it closely, and now Hockey Canada officials have been dragged into Parliament. Sponsors are jumping ship - in some cases redirecting their money to the girls/womens programs.

TSN must love seeing their biggest property napalmed. Some guys I know in junior hockey wonder if various Hockey Canada events will even take place after the government froze their funding.

 

[HanSenSE]

Local media confirms Elliotte's story. All coaches gone except Ricci and Nabokov. Prepping to write off another season here.

 

[UPChip]

Don’t know if people south of the border are aware, but Hockey Canada is in an absolutely epic ****storm.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/scotiabank-sponsorship-hockey-canada-1.6504003

They settled a lawsuit for $3 million where the plaintiff claimed that she was assaulted by 8 members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior squad.

In the lawsuit, the players were identified as John Does. From what I understand, and I’m happy to be corrected, the plaintiff doesn’t want to deal with the other extra attention/backlash that might come with identifying the players.

London (Ont) police investigated and nobody was arrested or charged.

Rick Westhead and Katie Strang are covering it closely, and now Hockey Canada officials have been dragged into Parliament. Sponsors are jumping ship - in some cases redirecting their money to the girls/womens programs.

As someone who was raised on NCAA hockey and whose career has been largely guided by it, I admit to being biased, but so much of the Major Junior industrial complex seems to be a giant cesspool. I mean, these are the guys in the spotlight. I can only imagine the kind of **** that goes on in the CHL's backwaters like Chicoutimi, Sudbury and Medicine Hat when given a bunch of entitled horny teenagers, not much to do and a little notoriety. (Though I suppose the same thing could happen in Durham, N.H.; Big Rapids or Colorado Springs.)

Local media confirms Elliotte's story. All coaches gone except Ricci and Nabokov. Prepping to write off another season here.

Speaking of Major Junior and cesspools, Boughner was running the Windsor Spitfires around the time a kid from my coverage area was accused and later convicted of sexual assault, so I certainly have some opinions here. That said, I'm kind of shocked that the Sharks fired their coaching staff and they don't even have a permanent GM? And as far as I know the Sharks aren't owned by Howard Ballard's ghost, so there's all kinds of levels of weird going on here.

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I kind of thought Yzerman might hire a European here, but I think the jury's mostly out on this one. The Red Wings have talent now, but not enough of it to make a serious dent in what has been to this point a nearly impenetrable top half of the Atlantic Division. As evidenced by these playoffs, Tampa remains impossible to kill, but Florida and Toronto are still loaded even if Boston is declining. And at some point you have to figure the dozens of top-five draft picks accumulated by Ottawa and Buffalo will have to turn into something.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I kind of thought Yzerman might hire a European here, but I think the jury's mostly out on this one. The Red Wings have talent now, but not enough of it to make a serious dent in what has been to this point a nearly impenetrable top half of the Atlantic Division. As evidenced by these playoffs, Tampa remains impossible to kill, but Florida and Toronto are still loaded even if Boston is declining. And at some point you have to figure the dozens of top-five draft picks accumulated by Ottawa and Buffalo will have to turn into something.

Yzerman knows he needs to accelerate the rebuild, which he discovered was going to take him longer than he thought
His draft picks have been 4, 6 and 6
Raymond and Seider were 4 and 6 but it helps if you get 1s and 2s
He’s at 8 next week
He turned Anthony Mantha into Jakub Vrana and the goalie of the future
He needs another move like that, likely with Tyler Bertuzzi
As for Lalonde, I’m sure he has some Victor Hedman stories for Simon Edvinsson, next season’s big Swedish rookie

 

[HanSenSE]

That unemployment period did not last long.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Guess Lightning are keeping Palat
As for Preds and Forsberg, who knows

Lightning clear cap space by trading McDonagh to Predators

 

[The Big Ragu]

History

Reports: Grier to Sharks as NHL's 1st Black GM