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2024-25 NHL Misc. Thread

HurryCanes said:
Rantanen picked up where he left off with the canes, basically not being effective.
could be a short one unless he gets his big money body going.
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I had Rantanen on my fantasy hockey team for a couple of years. I had big expectations and found him to be an average player. However, once MacKinnon got going, Rantanen took off. My impression was that he needed a strong supporting cast as his “brilliance” was tied to others. Given his struggles in Carolina and his average numbers in Dallas, I’m back to thinking he is going to need a good supporting cast or he’ll have work a lot harder than he’s used to for that contract.
 
SlapShots said:
I had Rantanen on my fantasy hockey team for a couple of years. I had big expectations and found him to be an average player. However, once MacKinnon got going, Rantanen took off. My impression was that he needed a strong supporting cast as his “brilliance” was tied to others. Given his struggles in Carolina and his average numbers in Dallas, I’m back to thinking he is going to need a good supporting cast or he’ll have work a lot harder than he’s used to for that contract.
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After his trade to Dallas, he had 18 points in 20 games.

Not as bad as his Canes stay, but not exactly chopped liver
 
perfectstormhits said:
After his trade to Dallas, he had 18 points in 20 games.

Not as bad as his Canes stay, but not exactly chopped liver
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Make no mistake regardless of his lackluster Canes play, he is an elite player in the league, McKinnon or not. I follow the Aves a lot as they used to be my team…. being a Patrick Roy fanboy- tattoo and all. So I’ve watched him play for years. He’ll be just fine in Dallas. Sucks it couldn’t work out here.
 
perfectstormhits said:
After his trade to Dallas, he had 18 points in 20 games.

Not as bad as his Canes stay, but not exactly chopped liver
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Yes, when you look at purely counting stats. But his underlying numbers were pretty bad, especially at 5v5, and 5 goals in 20 games is hardly the stuff of $10+ million contracts. So, not chopped liver but a 20-ish goal pace ain't even close to good enough for that caliber of player.

Thing of it is, Dallas is maybe the most rush happy team in the whole league, so his big excuse about the Hurricanes' style of play kind of rings hollow. Now I hearing his apologists talking about how he never even got to play with Dallas' best player because Heiskanen has been out, but that didn't stop Robertson and Johnston from absolutely shredding the last 25 games or so. Honestly, I think his head is broken. You can see that he knows where he's supposed to be and what he's supposed to be doing but he looks like he's on autopilot and has since he left the Avs. He'll eventually get his mess together again, but thank Christmas the Canes didn't end up keeping him as a rental if his plan really is to just half ass his way to summer.
 
TheBigKahuna said:
Avalanche will bury the stars in 5.
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I think it will end up being closer that game one would indicate, but they do look like teams on different arcs. That Colorado team has a desperate, hungry look. Dallas always just looks a bit lost without Robertson, or when he's in a slump. Plus I'm pretty sure they've gone past Pete DeBoer's sell-by date. He's turned into a guy like Laviolette ... always does his best work early.
 
Elliotte Friedman tweeted that he’s hearing that the Kraken are making a coaching change. Dan Bylsma was in his first year there after coaching their AHL affiliate to consecutive finals appearances.

Maybe the problem is the personnel?
 
andyt said:
Elliotte Friedman tweeted that he’s hearing that the Kraken are making a coaching change. Dan Bylsma was in his first year there after coaching their AHL affiliate to consecutive finals appearances.

Maybe the problem is the personnel?
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Maybe the problem is the guy making the final personnel decisions? I mean, it is. Bylsma was a bad idea, but defense-able. I've yet to imagine a world where signing Chandler Stevenson to a mx term contract at $6.5 million AAV is defense-able.

And to be fair to Ronnie, they made some pretty shrewd in-season moves to add guys like Kakko and Eyssimont, they finally found a competent goalie in Daccord and their investment in Montour didn't blow up in their face even if his goal share numbers took a hit from what he was putting up on a much better Florida team. Overall, they got better even if they didn't move up in the standings. But the potential to take a big jump from here is hamstrung by past decisions that are hard to get over. They've got just over $21 million in cap room right now, but it could be a lot more without really sacrificing their short term quality.
 
The 3rd period in the Montreal v Warshington game was a tale of two teams giving a rat's ass v the one that didn't. Montreal completely outworked the Caps and scored two goals to get the game into OT. And seeing Wilson get dumped on his ass right in front of a ref was hilarious.
 
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