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[ZeroGravity]

Drouin officially diagnosed with a mild concussion.

Hopefully it's an actual mild concussion and not a Sidney Crosby mild concussion.

 

[Delryk]

No Leafs game for me either... company xmas party.. maybe after dinner at the bar.. lol

 

[Freyjadour]

Drouin officially diagnosed with a mild concussion.

Hopefully it's an actual mild concussion and not a Sidney Crosby mild concussion.

Erne is a piece of shit even if he is Drouin's teammate In the NHL.

Teams are gonna beg Bettman to be staying in the East. Detroit's probably gonna get the boot, which will make the quality difference even bigger.

It'll be Columbus waaay before Detroit.

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

SEGUIN HATTY

THIS LINE

BENN/SEGUIN/NICHUSHKIN

 

[Smiley90]

Erne is a piece of shit even if he is Drouin's teammate In the NHL.



It'll be Columbus waaay before Detroit.

Why? Quebec would have to join the Atlantic probably, which would mean a team from the Atlantic would be the one to move, or they'll have 9 teams. And Detroit is more west (okay, close?) than Columbus anyway.

 

[TUSR]

SEGUIN HATTY

THIS LINE

BENN/SEGUIN/NICHUSHKIN

jesus, is that his second or third this year?

 

[kingslunk]

Guys how good is Tyler Seguin? Lol

 

[Freyjadour]

Why? Quebec would have to join the Atlantic probably, which would mean a team from the Atlantic would be the one to move, or they'll have 9 teams. And Detroit is more west (okay, close?) than Columbus anyway.

Detroit is a much more profitable market than Columbus.

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

jesus, is that his second or third this year?

Yup! Natural HATTY

On the free hat day hahaha

 

[Smiley90]

Detroit is a much more profitable market than Columbus.

And that's why they can't be moved to the West? I don't follow.

Which team would move from the Atlantic to the Metropolitan then? If it's the Sabres then the Metropolitan becomes even more of a joke than it already is.

EDIT: Bruins would make the most sense from a geographical&skill-wise viewpoint.

 

[Var]

wtf Mason

 

[Freyjadour]

And that's why they can't be moved to the West? I don't follow.

Which team would move from the Atlantic to the Metropolitan then? If it's the Sabres then the Metropolitan becomes even more of a joke than it already is.

Moving the significantly more profitable Eastern timezone team to the West being a bad idea doesn't make sense you? Come on now. Detroit playing game after game starting at 8/9/10pm.

There's a lot of options, including a reshuffle of Tampa and Florida (unless the Canadian snowbirds are too valuable to these teams).

 

[kingslunk]

To think that 2/3rds of that line was assembled in one offseason.

Dat Jim nill

 

[Coldnoodle]

THANK YOU BASED DALLAS

 

[Smiley90]

ALL 5 goals in the Phi-Dallas game have happened while Dallas was on the powerplay.

Shorthanded goal for Philly
FOUR powerplay goals for Dallas


what the fuck?

EDIT: Okay NHL.com fucked up, they removed the SHG/PPG tags. That was weird.

 

[Var]

ALL 5 goals in the Phi-Dallas game have happened while Dallas was on the powerplay.

Shorthanded goal for Philly
FOUR powerplay goals for Dallas


what the fuck?

Nah, that isn't right.


Edit: I am salty as hell right now. Getting drunk on 9 dollar beer.

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

Nah, that isn't right.


Edit: I am salty as hell right now. Getting drunk on 9 dollar beer.

Lol

DAT DALLAS BEER PRICE

 

[Lone_Prodigy]

Imagine Nichushkin with the Sedins. Canucks could've drafted him.

 

[Freyjadour]

Also Smelly, there was a really really good site for expansion / relocation math and maps that I posted last year. I'll try to find it, but it explains every detail of possible moves, expansions and reshuffling of conferences in gorey detail.

 

[Smiley90]

Imagine Nichushkin with the Sedins. Canucks could've drafted him.

We got Shinkaruk and Horvat. It's really not that bad man.

 

[ActStriker]

And that's why they can't be moved to the West? I don't follow.

Which team would move from the Atlantic to the Metropolitan then? If it's the Sabres then the Metropolitan becomes even more of a joke than it already is.

EDIT: Bruins would make the most sense from a geographical&skill-wise viewpoint.

Florida teams

 

[kingslunk]

I missed being there to see the hat trick in person because of work. FAWK

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

Emery in goal.

 

[Var]

Philly top line needs to be better

 

[jaybeeze]

Imagine Nichushkin with the Sedins.

No need, we have Kassian!

...

 

[Red_Man]

Remember when Boston traded Sequin away because he partied too much and didn't take runs at people? Good times.

Imagine Nichushkin with the Sedins. Canucks could've drafted him.

Hard to tell now because Borvat is a great prospect, but Nichushkin looks so good, I was hoping Bergevin would trade up to get him.

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

SHORT HANDED !

Boom!

We suck on PP but we get shorty goals all the time!


Edit: Bullshit call on Seguin.

 

[TUSR]

i dont even care if this has been shared before.

2 gud

 

[Cake Boss]

It was dumb as shit when they did it in the summer and now it looks even more dumb, giving up on a 20 year old kid that quick because hes not one of their 20 goons they already have.

 

[Fata1moose]

There's a thread on least favorite memes from the year in off-topic and the overuse of salt has been mentioned by quite a few people.

 

[TUSR]

There's a thread on least favorite memes from the year in off-topic and the overuse of salt has been mentioned by quite a few people.

Doge
Doge
Doge

 

[Var]

Damn it Philly.

Edit; Why people gotta be so salty about the use of salt?

 

[Fata1moose]

Pretty excited to see trailers for unannounced games, Destiny, Titanfall and most of all Witcher 3 tonight. Don't care about the actual awards as there's so many video game awards it's trivial.

 

[kingslunk]

Damn it Philly.

Edit; Why people gotta be so salty about the use of salt?

Agreed. They're just salty

 

[Acid08]

Emery in goal.

Kari better watch out.

 

[Sanjuro]

Florida teams

I'd trade Florida and Tampa Bay and take Chicago and St. Louis.

 

[Red_Man]

Damn it Philly.

Edit; Why people gotta be so salty about the use of salt?

Who was the poster in here who complained about us using "salty"? I think he might have been an Oilers / Flames fan ironically enough.

 

[Socreges]

Guys how good is Tyler Seguin? Lol

I'd like Sanjuro to field this one

 

[Sanjuro]

Remember when Boston traded Sequin away because he partied too much and didn't take runs at people? Good times.

It was a combination of that and he simply wasn't productive. Never lived up to his potential.

I'd like Sanjuro to field this one

What? I liked Seguin, but I thought the trade was fair. In a perfect world he would have succeeded at the center position here.

 

[Coldnoodle]

Salty is such a shitty thing.

I'm glad its dead along with the podcast.

 

[Red_Man]

top 5 NHL players for on ice goal differential :

Crosby, Markov, Subban, Kunitz, Malkin

Via twitter: Sequin has more goals then Eriksson has points :lol

 

[Sanjuro]

Via twitter: Sequin has more goals then Eriksson has points :lol

Eriksson has roughly played up to the level of Seguin to this point, also was concussed.

 

[Red_Man]

It was a combination of that and he simply wasn't productive. Never lived up to his potential.

32 points in 48 games as a 20 year old isn't being productive?

Eriksson has roughly played up to the level of Seguin to this point, also was concussed.

30 points in 27 games compared to 14 in 23. "Roughly" playing up to his level.

Sequins on pace for 46 goals right now.

 

[Var]

I understand why Boston made the trade, but damn, Seguin is something else.

 

[Sanjuro]

32 points in 48 games as a 20 year old isn't being productive?

30 points in 27 games compared to 14 in 23. "Roughly" playing up to his level.

Sequins on pace for 46 goals right now.

Considering his performance a season prior, no, he wasn't being productive. He was completely lost in the postseason run.

To this point last year, Seguin had 7G / 8A. Eriksson has 5G / 9A. It's very comparable.

I understand why Boston made the trade, but damn, Seguin is something else.

Yup. Sucks, always knew he was something special. Just wish it worked out here.

 

[Red_Man]

Considering his performance a season prior, no, he wasn't being productive. He was completely lost in the postseason run.

To this point last year, Seguin had 7G / 8A. Eriksson has 5G / 9A. It's very comparable

Except Seguin was a 20 year old playing out of position who barely scratched his potential and Eriksson was a 27 year old who's pretty much hit his ceiling. I get why they had to move him with Krejci and Bergeron in the top 2 C spots, but they messed up on the return. They should have got a franchise player back.

 

[Sanjuro]

Except Seguin was a 20 year old playing out of position who barely scratched his potential and Eriksson was a 27 year old who's pretty much hit his ceiling. I get why they had to move him with Krejci and Bergeron in the top 2 C spots, but they messed up on the return. They should have got a franchise player back.

Define "franchise" player? There really aren't a ton of those lying around and certainly not many teams are willing to move.

Seguin is being allowed to play his natural position and flourish in Dallas. Awesome to watch. Doesn't make sense to keep him here and watch him underachieve because we should.

 

[sazabirules]

It doesn't help that Erikkson's line has been completely underwhelming or that concussion.

 

[Sanjuro]

It doesn't help that Erikkson's line has been completely underwhelming or that concussion.

My point is still valid, even if I agree with this. Eriksson is filling his role exactly in the manner expected from him. We shed cap space during the deal, able to sign Rask and have flexibility forward.

 

[Freyjadour]

I'd trade Florida and Tampa Bay and take Chicago and St. Louis.

What a fucking ridiculous division that would be.

Hockeyprospectus had some mileage based realignment maps last year that had Florida and Tampa in the Central with Quebec in Atlantic.

Works fine if Colorado moves to Pacific and we go 4 conferences (or drop conferences altogether).