NHL Transactions, Injuries & Rumours

[Lee]

We're in 2nd. Fuck it, Edmonton is going to get Matthews anyways. Bunch of cunts

WIN AWAY BOYS

[bills09]

With the leafs win still technically in first need the oilers to keep winning though

[Shoalzie]

7 teams within 5 points, 6 teams within 3 points and 3 teams within 2 points...that whole thing could go a lot of different directions.

Realistically, there's 9 teams alive in each conference going for the 8 spots...teams like Arizona, Carolina and New Jersey are screwing themselves. They overachieved but they're still not playoff good.

[kyuss]

7 teams within 5 points, 6 teams within 3 points and 3 teams within 2 points...that whole thing could go a lot of different directions.

Realistically, there's 9 teams alive in each conference going for the 8 spots...teams like Arizona, Carolina and New Jersey are screwing themselves. They overachieved but they're still not playoff good.

with the new lottery is a bit early to say they screwed themselves, theoretically they could select 1st, 2nd and 3rd after winning the lotteries

[Shoalzie]

You're looking at 3.5% or worse odds for slots 10-14. Yeah, you have odds to pick higher but they're long odds if you just miss out on the playoffs.

[Lee]

Vesey's agent confirmed today that he will be going to free agency. This is why I would always be hesitant to draft a college bound player in the NHL.

[kyuss]

I find unacceptable the NHL jerks didn't bother to fix this loophole with the new CBA. They just care about the money, gross (see concussions saga for the ultimate proof)

I hope Vesey will fail a la Schultz, and he has become overrated, so that's a possibility.

[Lee]

Valeri nicushkin, step on down
you are the next contestant on "entitled douchebag kids"

[thom54]

Russian interviews don't translate well generally I find

[kyuss]

Werenski signs pro deal and leaves college, good

http://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2 ... leaves.php

[Shoalzie]

He had an okay freshman year but wasn't pro ready like Larkin. He showed progress in his sophomore year and I'm not shocked he's making the jump now.

[Arian The Insider]

There needs to be a special rule in terms of length of NHL rights for NCAA players. These guys can basically spend 4 years to play hockey and get a university education for free, then pick whatever team that shows interest in them that they want, screwing the team that spent a draft pick on them.

[kyuss]

exactly, it's pure BS, and it was well known from the previous CBA already..

[Mike]

I've wasted far too much time this morning reading through the unsealed NHL front office e-mails.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/h ... e29419071/

(document cache under article)

Lots of good stuff in there. Colin Campbell is such a goon.

[thom54]

shanny is coming out looking good

[kyuss]

ok, I need to understand how to search through that glorious shit

[Mike]

It's not chronological unfortunately. I got through the first half of it today.

I suggest skipping all the memoranda, it's a bit dry compared to the e-mails.

[kyuss]

I mean, searching through the search tool I obviously only get links to other articles of that same website, none of this https://www.documentcloud.org/documents shit

basically, I don't know what does '(document cache under article)' mean

[kyuss]

also, why is shep now in light-blue ahah

[Mike]

Oh, yeah I meant the repository of documents is all located at the bottom of the article. I just navigated through that page.

Shep gets special treatment.