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2022-2023 NHL Misc. Thread

Sad news out of Ottawa. Assistant coach Bob Jones has been diagnosed with ALS. He’s only 53 and in his 4th year as an assistant after more than 20 years as an assistant and head coach in the OHL and 1 year as an assistant with AHL Texas.

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Ottawa Senators assistant coach Bob Jones diagnosed with ALS | Ottawa Senators

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators issued a statement today regarding the health of assistant coach Bob Jones.
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Sorry NHLPA...we thought the cap would go up by at least $5 million in 24-25 now that the NHLPA has fully paid back the COVID revenue shortfall but Bally's blew up and we lost massive TV revenues. The cap as a result will need to be flat in 24-25.

IF THAT happens, well, I don't know exactly how it plays out, but it won't be pretty.
 
It only took two games for new Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet to call his team soft!!!

"That's a good team right there," Tocchet said. "I thought the anxiety caught up with some of the guys, with the emotion of last week, but that was bad. That was bad. … Soft. You hate to call your team soft, but it was soft tonight. We didn't participate in the wall battles, we didn't get a rim out. We knew what they were going to do. This is a good team. … Old habits came."
 
CanadaCanes said:
It only took two games for new Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet to call his team soft!!!

"That's a good team right there," Tocchet said. "I thought the anxiety caught up with some of the guys, with the emotion of last week, but that was bad. That was bad. … Soft. You hate to call your team soft, but it was soft tonight. We didn't participate in the wall battles, we didn't get a rim out. We knew what they were going to do. This is a good team. … Old habits came."
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To be honest, even as much as I hate that old crutch ... he's not wrong. I'm not sure I've ever seen a softer effort from an NHL team than we saw from the Canucks in the first period at PNC on the 15th. They responded with a much more professional effort from there, but that first period? Woof. Charmin Ultra Soft.
 
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Bally goes boom. (they are just restructuring. for now)
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I mean, that's been 100% inevitable for a long while. And immediately assuming that revenue payments will shut off is kind of Chicken Little thinking. Bankruptcy doesn't really work that way, which I suspect Gerry Smith knows. Presenting it that way is not so much click bait as it is "panic fishing"
 
Jackets forward Gustav Nyquist is out indefinitely with an upper body injury. That potentially takes another trade deadline player (though not necessarily for the Canes) off the table.
 
Lane Pederson is on the move again. He was claimed off of waivers by Columbus today.

Since being traded by the Canes to Vancouver along with Ethan Bear, Pederson had 1 Goal and 2 Assists in 11 games for the Canucks. He tore it up though at the Canucks AHL affiliate Abbotsford with 17 goals and 7 Assists in just 18 games before the Canucks called him up.
 
The Oilers had a goalie emergency tonight and had to sign Matthew Berlin to an ATO. He is typically the Oilers EBUG. He last played for the University of Alberta but also spent 3 seasons in the WHL prior to college. Tonight, with the Oilers leading the Blackhawks 7-3 with 2:26 left in the game, Jay Woodcroft put him in the game. He saved the only shot Chicago took. As an EBUG, he dressed for the Avs in 2022 and sat on the bench for 2 periods.
 
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The Oilers had a goalie emergency tonight and had to sign Matthew Berlin to an ATO. He is typically the Oilers EBUG. He last played for the University of Alberta but also spent 3 seasons in the WHL prior to college. Tonight, with the Oilers leading the Blackhawks 7-3 with 2:26 left in the game, Jay Woodcroft put him in the game. He saved the only shot Chicago took. As an EBUG, he dressed for the Avs in 2022 and sat on the bench for 2 periods.
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The Berlin Wall!!!
 
Hearing Bo Horvat to the Islanders… scratch him off the wish list. Beauvillier, Raty and a protected first rounder to Vancouver.
 
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That wasn't much of a return for Vancouver. A 30 point winger in Beauvillier, a somewhat iffy center prospect in Raty, and a conditional (I assume meaning lottery protected or only if Horvat signs) 1st round pick.

I'm definitely torn on what the Canes should and should not do to try to add goal scoring.
 
cmaleski2 said:
That wasn't much of a return for Vancouver. A 30 point winger in Beauvillier, a somewhat iffy center prospect in Raty, and a conditional (I assume meaning lottery protected or only if Horvat signs) 1st round pick.

I'm definitely torn on what the Canes should and should not do to try to add goal scoring.
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The pick is top 12 protected.
 
cmaleski2 said:
That wasn't much of a return for Vancouver. A 30 point winger in Beauvillier, a somewhat iffy center prospect in Raty, and a conditional (I assume meaning lottery protected or only if Horvat signs) 1st round pick.

I'm definitely torn on what the Canes should and should not do to try to add goal scoring.
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OK, so if you project that out in Carolina terms, Horvat cost NYI a protected first rounder, Teravainen (we don't really have a Beauvillier equivalent, but his usage for the Isles was close to Turbo's and the money is similar) and a middling center prospect ... let's say Rees or Suzuki. Yeah, that's not exactly a gold rush but it's not terrible either. If I'm Waddell I'd have only been in that conversation if I was convinced on being able to sign Horvat to an extension.

Keep in mind ... this draft is DEEP. Like, so deep you're likely to get what's normally 10-15 talent late in the 1st round.
 
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