Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

[zeke]

The Devils are a young team that can’t break through

in order of icetime:

Matthews 28 --- Hughes 24
Nylander 29 --- Bratt 27
Knies 23 --- Meier 29

Tavares 35 --- Hischier 27
McMann 29 --- Mercer 24
Domi 30 --- Brown 32

Roy 28 --- Glass 26
Maccelli 25 --- Gritsyuk 24
Cowan 20 --- Palat 34

Laughton 31 --- Glendening 36
Robertson 24 --- Noesen 32
Joshua 29 --- Cotter 26

Lorentz 29 --- Dadonov 36
Jarnkrok 34 --- Bjugstad 33


McCabe 32 --- Hughes 22
Rielly 31 --- Hamilton 32

OEL 34 --- Pesce 31
Tanev 36 --- Nemec 21

Carlo 29 --- Siegenthaler 28
Stecher 31 --- Dillon 35

Benoit 27 --- Kovacevic 28
Myers 29 --- Cholowski 27


Stolarz 32 --- Markstrom 36
Woll 27 --- Allen 35​

 

[hockeylover]

View: https://x.com/ADiMarco25/status/2042667306438824394?s=20

 

[MindzEye]

I don't think MLSE/Pelley will go too off the board with this pick in terms of who are the rumoured favourites. It will be interesting to see what kind of balance they strike between "doing their due diligance" and potentially missing out on someone like Mehta with Jersey rushing to get in the sweepstakes. Shanny really fucked them on the way out and it's still lingering.

With Mehta's agent in charge of the "search", Jersey snatching him before we can doesn't sound too likely.

He may choose Jersey over us with everything considered (ties to the region, previous work with the org, younger core group, etc) but it won't be because his agent was too slow in putting him in front of Pelley for a talk.

 

[Volcanologist]

 

[zeke]

gillis and lombardi made zero trades?

 

[Habsy]

With Mehta's agent in charge of the "search", Jersey snatching him before we can doesn't sound too likely.

He may choose Jersey over us with everything considered (ties to the region, previous work with the org, younger core group, etc) but it won't be because his agent was too slow in putting him in front of Pelley for a talk.

He’s also a devils fan

 

[MindzEye]

He’s also a devils fan

I'm assuming that our offer has to be more attractive financially by a fair margin here. Which is fine.

 

[worm]

I'm assuming that our offer has to be more attractive financially by a fair margin here. Which is fine.

Won't somebody think of the billionaires!

 

[Habsy]

No

 

[leafman101]

 

[MindzEye]

The motherfucking plot gets thicker.

 

[Leafin']

How would people feel if it was:

Pres - Gillis
GM - Chayka

Seeing as Mehta might be set on NJ.

 

[MindzEye]

Eh, don't want Chayka. Would prefer Dellows. I'll take the mystery box over the guy with Chayka's track record in Phoenix.

But....where have we heard anything about Mehta being set on NJ?

 

[Leafin']

said might be.

Did Chayka actually have free rein in Arizona? Poverty franchise couldn’t afford shit. Isn’t he the OG nerd? This is the guy this board would’ve been drooling for pre Coyotes.

 

[CH1]

this board would be drooling over his sister...also a data scientist

 

[zeke]

 

[Leafin']

 

[MindzEye]

said might be.

He might be set on Toronto, or CSKA Moscow.

Did Chayka actually have free rein in Arizona?

Never heard anything to the contrary.

Poverty franchise couldn’t afford shit.

It wasn't lack of money that had him pick Hayton over Quinn Hughes in '18, and Soderstrom over Boldy and Caufield in '19.

Isn’t he the OG nerd?

OG? No. He was a hockey player who got hurt, got a business degree, and started an analytics company with his data scientist sister. She created all of the analytic methods they used, he monetized them.

Zona hired him because he was cheap and something something moneyball.

This is the guy this board would’ve been drooling for pre Coyotes.

Sure, but we would have been wrong. Now we know better and wouldn't want him, we'd want his sister. Which is what Tulsky, Mehta, etc are. The actual data nerd.

 

[Hoss]

The Devils are a young team that can’t break through and Shany’s proven his MO is just be patient and surround them with toughness and they will break through. It doesn’t make a lot of sense for them.

they would kill for a scott stevens...... watch them trade for Gudas

 

[enbridge]

Gillis hired Meghan Chayka's company back in 2012 to an exclusive 3 year deal. But Gillis got fired 2 years later.