NHL Transactions, Injuries & Rumours

[Scott]

Crosby to return tomorrow night! Good for the league and most importantly, good for Bryan.

Awesome news..

[bma]

Apparently Nail Yakupov missed the game against Saginaw tonight because he took a head check in the previous game. He finished that game and looked fine but he was held out for precautionary reasons. Hopefully it's not a concussion.

Abort Fail for Nail!

[bma]

Crosby to return tomorrow night! Good for the league and most importantly, good for Bryan.

about fucking time!

[bma]

sidenote: I've never seen Neel so active even during his BBKL tenure.

[Chris]

Apparently Nail Yakupov missed the game against Saginaw tonight because he took a head check in the previous game. He finished that game and looked fine but he was held out for precautionary reasons. Hopefully it's not a concussion.

Abort Fail for Nail!

Who says I want to fail for Nail?

[Lee]

Steve Mason tripped over the red line again, Allen York called up again.

Somehow that's a good thing.

[Chris]

Tyler Myers out for at least one month with a broken wrist.

[bills09]

Corey Potter out one month, High Ankle Sprain.

[MSP4LYFE]

Tyler Myers out for at least one month with a broken wrist.

I have got to be the most opportunistic trader in this league...I trade BMO and Burish for Koivu, and they go on IR the next period, I trade Myers for Keith, and he goes on IR the next period. I'm either incredibly fortunate, or psychic, I like to think its the latter.

[Chuck Norris]

Tyler Myers out for at least one month with a broken wrist.

I have got to be the most opportunistic trader in this league...I trade BMO and Burish for Koivu, and they go on IR the next period, I trade Myers for Keith, and he goes on IR the next period. I'm either incredibly fortunate, or psychic, I like to think its the latter.

Pshychic or psychotic?

[Chris]

It's hard to believe, but the Bruins are now an unstoppable force of truculence after winning their 10th straight game last night. Caught a bit of the game too -- one of the better games this year.

[Chris]

Checking the #s on NHL.com and one thing I found interesting about the Bruins' fantastic streak is that they actually managed to push their 5on5 goals for/against ratio to 1.82. Over the past four seasons, the Bruins have been at the top three times in the ESGF/GA category. It's a good measure of a team's play and the Bruins are thoroughly dominating the fuck out of the NHL right now.

1.82 seems extremely unsustainable though. St. Louis is right behind them at 1.60, while San Jose, Detroit, and Minnesota are right around the upper-normal range. Leafs stand at 1.05 -- I mentioned the Leafs ES play as a good barometer to determine Wilson's effectiveness on the organization recently on twitter. Starting with the Leafs, the team was 0.89, 0.94, 0.94, and now 1.05 this year. Not bad. The average is (obviously), 1.00, but most top-tier teams are usually around the 1.15-1.20 range.

Hopefully our ES defense continues to improve.

[MSP4LYFE]

Yeah, the Bruins are hot, luckily they started out shitty, so once this streak dissipates, the Leafs should still be in striking distance for the division crown.

[armandtanzarian]

This Bruins team is playing better than the cup winning team last season. If they got down last year they usually turned to goonery and lost. These guys don't quit. They stick to the system and are playing as a TEAM. Big test against Detroit tomorrow.

[Lee]

Blake Comeau on waivers..

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#Isles news: Blake Comeau has been placed on waivers.

[Shep]

Didn't see that one coming..

[armandtanzarian]

The list of players and the quality of players being put on waivers is blowing my mind.

[bills09]

Blake Comeau on waivers..

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#Isles news: Blake Comeau has been placed on waivers.

He'll get picked up IMO

[Lee]

Bergfors on 125 waivers.

[MSP4LYFE]

This Bruins team is playing better than the cup winning team last season. If they got down last year they usually turned to goonery and lost. These guys don't quit. They stick to the system and are playing as a TEAM. Big test against Detroit tomorrow.

Right now you guys are unbeatable, but remember...A team is never as good as it looks when it's going well and never as bad as it looks when it's going poorly.