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2022-2023 NHL Misc. Thread

andyt said:
So what are the Habs doing? A full tank? These are the dmen listed on their CapFriendly roster, in order by cap hit: Matheson, Edmundson, Savard, Barron, Harris, Wideman.
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Well, one of them is decent. I suspect they aren't done, but if they are done then it's the classic "tank by not playing any defense and living in the penalty box" ploy.

And for the record, if I was Gorton I'd be playing anybody in the organization under 25 that's any good at all and dumping anybody on a full fat contract over that age. Grow what can be grown, prune what can't. Keep enough vets around to keep things from going completely haywire, of course. But even if you aren't properly tanking then this season SHOULD be about blooding in your kids and teaching them how to play the game Marty wants them to play. Screw everything else.
 
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The Mighty Forslund is getting a new partner in the booth. Eddie Olczyk’s contract with the Blackhawks expired and they couldn’t come to an agreement, so he’s moving to Seattle. His son Eddie is an amateur scout and his brother Rick is an assistant GM for the Kraken.
 
That's a LOT of money to spend on the TV booth for a team that's still doing the slow boil thing. No way Eddie came cheap, not after getting Chicago media market money to half ass his way through his job for over a decade.
 
jeffbear said:
Canes legend. Seriously, the guy was an absolute godsend for the two seasons he played here and as I recall he got us a first rounder when Carolina moved him at the deadline. I've always had a soft spot for the small Slovak defender.
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We got the rights to Roland McKeown and a protected first round pick that turned into Julien Gauthier, who became Joey Keane.
 
Tangentially NHL related, as it concerns the Flyers. The Philadelphia 76ers announced plans to move to a new arena for the 2031-32 season. It will be privately financed. Their lease at the Wells Fargo Center expires in 2031. They have no ownership stake there, it’s owned by Comcast Spectacor, which also owns the Flyers. There is no mention of the Flyers aside from a statement from Comcast saying they look forward to hosting the Sixers until at least 2031.

Wells Fargo Center opened in 1996. I was there for a Villanova game in February and it’s holding up pretty well for its age, 3 years older than PNC Arena. They’ve had a couple of renovations since it opened, most significantly a $265 million upgrade that started in 2019. But it will be 35 years old in 2031.
 
I doubt that Comcast is going to want to shift to being tenants in somebody else's building, especially after dumping so much into the upgrades right before pandemic. They operated the old Spectrum in addition to the current arena for a fairly long time, as you know ... so Philly can handle two venues.
 
Elliotte Friedman says the Sharks appear to be zeroing in on David Quinn as their next head coach. Mike Vellucci and Spencer Carbery we’re the other finalists.
 
I'm kind of curious what the game plan is in San Jose. Are they trying to spend the next season getting out of bad contracts and building up picks and prospects for a rebuild, or are they going to try to hang around the fringes of the playoff picture and hope they can hot goalie or PDO themselves into a solid position at the right time? Right now, their roster doesn't really give you a clue and I have zero idea what they've tasked Grier to do. The Burns trade is one thing, but that was maybe the 4th worst contract on that team. They've got some offense, but no depth. The defense is terrible, top heavy and expensive and they've got three OK goalies none of whom are likely to be ever be more than that. So what are you planning to do?

It just all seems so directionless and this hiring makes no sense to me at all.
 
jeffbear said:
I'm kind of curious what the game plan is in San Jose. Are they trying to spend the next season getting out of bad contracts and building up picks and prospects for a rebuild, or are they going to try to hang around the fringes of the playoff picture and hope they can hot goalie or PDO themselves into a solid position at the right time? Right now, their roster doesn't really give you a clue and I have zero idea what they've tasked Grier to do. The Burns trade is one thing, but that was maybe the 4th worst contract on that team. They've got some offense, but no depth. The defense is terrible, top heavy and expensive and they've got three OK goalies none of whom are likely to be ever be more than that. So what are you planning to do?

It just all seems so directionless and this hiring makes no sense to me at all.
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That Erik Karlsson contract sure has aged well, hasn’t it? And another $7 million for Marc-Eduard Vlasic?
 
andyt said:
That Erik Karlsson contract sure has aged well, hasn’t it? And another $7 million for Marc-Eduard Vlasic?
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Now that they have Burns' deal out of the way ... not coincidentally once it wound down enough not to be truly onerous ... they're saddled with a total of $26.5 million against the cap on just three players, of whom only one is even vaguely still productive (Couture). Vlasic went immediately into the tank after signing his monster deal and injuries have reduced Karlsson to a shell of his former self. Add in another long term deal for Hertl ($8 mil hit on his extension) and they have almost half the cap tied up on 2 defensemen who kind of suck and two 50-60 point forwards. Their contract management has been just idiotic.
 
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