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NHL March 2013 |OT| Black History Forever
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95% Chara
Reporter said 25 teams have inquired about him, does he have any ties to NY?
KernelPanic
Member
He was at one of their development/training camps I believe.
No, he just attended their camp last year, he also went to Tampa's as well.
He said hes making a descion by the end of the week.
Our selling point would be, we developed Chara and a bunch of other D.
His agent will probably tell him to just pick a team that has crappy D and can guarantee ice time this season or next. Kind of like Schultz.
KernelPanic
Member
We developed a bunch of guys actually, we got a pretty good track record with prospect development period. One reason why we're still in a playoff spot when we were expected to be a lottery team after all the injuries.
If he just goes wherever he can get icetime that might be a bad thing for him if he isn't ready, it's a huge jump from NCAA to NHL. Few people sucessfully make the jump in less than 1 year.
He went to our development camp a year or so ago. He also went to Tampa Bay's dev camp this past year. Tons of teams are interested in him, but the rumor seems to be that the Rangers are among the frontrunners.
Of course the "problem" for us is that if he did sign he would be our 50th man under contract.
KernelPanic
Member
No idea why anyone would want to start his NHL career getting screamed at by Tortorella on an nightly basis.
I hope he can come here and learn under Terry Murray.
Seems to have worked out just fine for Ryan McDonagh.
Talking about undrafted
SuperSonic1305
Member
PRAISE ALLAH, BUDDHA, ZEUS, KESSEL, YAHWEH
I WILL RAGE
YOU FORGOT JAH
just called up (accord to bobmac)
BTW this is it
3 more games and gardiner is waiver eligible
he's up foreverrrrrrrr
bonesmccoy
Banned
With Gardiner in the team fans will be much more patient with Carlyle.
Unless he starts trolling and sitting Gardiner a few games.
BigJonsson
Member
EXPRESSWAY
What if Gardiner plays like shit and deserves to be benched? Didn't think that through.
How's that possible, hes the next Brian Leetch.
Even his one bad game where he had a horrible turnover thanks in part to a horrible pass from phaneuf which stopped a comeback... I'm not sure if its in his capacity to be worse than the hilarious D corps we have now
I mean... Holzer didn't get scratched and it took being -10 in 6 games for someone to hit the eject button
We have 2 defensemen who are +28 combined and the rest are -24 combined -liles, gunnarsson and komisarek are the only positives in that "rest"... Holzer, kostka and phaneuf are -29
bonesmccoy
Banned
As long as his 'replacement' isn't just as bad...
Where does Gardiner slot in now?
Phaneuf - Gardiner
Liles- Gunnar
Fraser - Franson
Phaneuf - Franson
Liles- Gunnar
Fraser - Gardiner
Phaneuf - Gunnar
Gardiner - Franson
Liles - Fraser
However I guess Kostka might slip back in as Randy likes people playing on there stick side. I think first set is the best one as it spreads out our puck moving d plus coming back to be #2 D would be hilarious.
Phaneuf - Gardiner
Liles- Gunnar
Fraser - Franson
Phaneuf - Franson
Liles- Gunnar
Fraser - Gardiner
Phaneuf - Gunnar
Gardiner - Franson
Liles - Fraser
However I guess Kostka might slip back in as Randy likes people playing on there stick side. I think first set is the best one as it spreads out our puck moving d plus coming back to be #2 D would be hilarious.
I'm hoping he puts him with Phaneuf. They will both make each other better, and Phaneuf is most experienced, and frankly the best on our team, to help him out of jams.
His only negative this season is his poor plus/minus (which is the stupidest stat in hockey), and it's more to do with Holzer and Kostka than Dion.
Leafs need to stabilize phaneuf
He's currently the epicenter of disaster
I wouldn't disrupt Fraser/franson as they are solid
^^ and I'd say there's merit to +/- right now. Look at how the leafs D control the puck in D zone and its been horrrrrrrid, especially the top line... Throwing the puck around the boards which results in an offensive play... Constantly bringing the puck deeper when the action should be getting the puck out. Phaneuf/holzer/kostka blow possession like half the time in their own zone, its sad
Part of the reason for Phaneuf's poor inzone puck possesion is Holzer/Kostka. They give him poor passes and are poor outlet options. Phaneuf and Gardiner would make the most sense but it would be so unlike Carlyle.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Carlyle is liable to start Gardiner as one of Kadri's wingers.
HOOOLY SHIT! Did you guys see this Datsyuk video NHL.com put up???
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=0&id=222808&cmpid=embed-share-video
This is amaaaazing.
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=0&id=222808&cmpid=embed-share-video
This is amaaaazing.
Umm bud thats Morgan Rielly.
Haha, I watched with no audio but it was still awesome. Were there any funny sound effects? =p
Yeah all the sound was replaced
No, Morgan Rielly is suppose to be the greatest defenseman to ever grace the NHL.. he's above these so-called superstars.
wsoxfan1214
Banned
Wtf. :lol
apocalidiot
Banned
That's fucking great
I'm going to post this a couple of times because I am legitimately interested in doing something with it - does anyone know where I can find games that don't have any commentary on them? Just crowd/rink noise?
wsoxfan1214
Banned
The United Center would be a good place to start for the Hawks.