2022-2023 NHL Regular Season Thread

[slaps]

Getting to see him play is such a treat. I can't wait for him to break the record.

[ToddM]

This DBD article is worth it for the Youtube Clip Breakdown at the end.

https://theathletic.com/4125335/2023/01 ... -deadline/

[Troy McClure]

The amateur lip readers believe Zegras pointed up and said, "Your dad is watching," to a guy whose dad died two years ago.

[Troy McClure]

Decades later, the divorce is getting finalized.

[Math]

Doesn't Gaglardi own the Moral Victory Green color?

More seriously, the full article mentions that one of the options is to have their RR full-time as their third alternate jersey, which I think is the most plausible thing. The Wild already changed their jersey layout like 5-6 years ago, I don't think Minny is gonna go with another major change and turn into Sabres 2.0 and their identity crisis. And still, not the same team.

[Knives Out]

The amateur lip readers believe Zegras pointed up and said, "Your dad is watching," to a guy whose dad died two years ago.

[The Frugal Gourmet]

Who among us hasn't made fun of a person for having a dead dad?

[Math]

Who among us hasn't made fun of a person for having a dead dad?

Brett Hull is next. Let's flood his twitter account.

[Eskimo Spy]

Eskimo approves of dead father jokes.

[ScubaSteve]

Who among us hasn't made fun of a person for having a dead dad?

Brett Hull is next. Let's flood his twitter account.

This is the first time Bobby Hull hands haven't shaken after going 15 minutes without a drink.

[slaps]

I did Nazi see that coming today.

[Knives Out]

??? LOL

[Knives Out]

Don’t look now but the Jets have basically fallen apart these last 10 games and now Bowness is throwing all of his players under the bus before tonight’s Blues game LOL.

A tale as old as time.

[Troy McClure]

I guess it’s a decent return for the Canucks. Beauvillier is a dud, but I bet they could retain half his contract and trade him at some point.

But why did the Islanders make this move? That’s a lot to give up all to chase a wild card spot.

[Knives Out]

Lou did literally nothing (other than unfairly give Trotz the axe) this past off-season, so good to get confirmation that he’s actually still alive and making up for lost time LOL.

[Math]

Be ready for daily shaving, Bo.

[slaps]

I guess it’s a decent return for the Canucks. Beauvillier is a dud, but I bet they could retain half his contract and trade him at some point.

But why did the Islanders make this move? That’s a lot to give up all to chase a wild card spot.

https://theathletic.com/4140335/2023/01 ... lose-deal/

It’s not often that we see a lose-lose trade in this league but the Canucks and Islanders may have pulled it off here.

For the Islanders, it’s a move that reeks of desperation for a team that’s farther out from the playoff race than meets the eye. On the surface, the Islanders are two points back, but in reality, they’re playing at a pace that puts them six points back of the Sabres. That’s difficult ground to make up, especially with a much stronger Panthers team nipping at their heels. The Islanders’ chances of making the playoffs were 14 percent before the trade. They’re 19 percent now.

That’s not a big difference, but that doesn’t mean Horvat isn’t a big difference-maker — just that the Islanders are in a precarious position where it will take more than Horvat for them to get where they need to go. Horvat is a first-line talent with a penchant for scoring goals and eating big minutes. That’s something this team desperately needs and his biggest asset being on the power play is a major plus. The Islanders rank 31st there.

The fit makes sense, it just doesn’t feel like a move a team in New York’s position should make. Yes, the first-round pick is protected, but there’s a very real chance the Islanders end up missing the playoffs and surrendering a mid-first. They’re in that mushy middle where the chance of that pick landing from 13th to 16th is 45 percent. In a deep draft for an ageing team outside its window, it’s a move that likely just prolongs the inevitable. A perhaps even more daunting scenario is that the pick isn’t protected if it slides to 2024 — a very risky proposition for this team.

[slaps]

Be ready for daily shaving, Bo.

Horvat should just tell Lou to *f-bomb* off and file an NHLPA grievance.

[Troy McClure]

I don’t get the low grades for the Canucks. What do people expect? Horvat is having a massive outlier season in a year when more teams are cap strapped than ever before. This is not a seller’s market.

[Math]

Be ready for daily shaving, Bo.

Horvat should just tell Lou to *f-bomb* off and file an NHLPA grievance.

And I'm still astonished that every Islander shuts up and walks perfectly right in the rank. Burns should have been traded there just to blow this medieval *poo poo*.

[slaps]

I don’t get the low grades for the Canucks. What do people expect? Horvat is having a massive outlier season in a year when more teams are cap strapped than ever before. This is not a seller’s market.

I think it was the demand for a good player in his 20’s given the state of the Canucks’ roster and competitive prospects.

[slaps]

Also apparently the Canucks’ offer to Horvat was 8 years at $5.1MM per year - a pay cut. Lol. What a joke of a team.

[slaps]

lol Walsh is ride or die:

[Troy McClure]

I saw the Kraken asked another player if he wanted to go and the player declined.

[Math]

I agree with him. On that one I'm an old grumpy fart and I'm all along with Tortorella: this All-Star week-end is just a useless shitshow - more precisely it turned into a deepfake circus that has no interest. Ok maybe the trick part is ok with the skating, fastest shot, etc. competition but the divisional 3-3 games are an abomination, so is the selection procedure with one guy per team and that stupid fan vote. At least you should have the best players there; if Ovie, McDavid, Draisaitl, Vasilevsky, Robertson, Matthews would play in the same team, send them all and screw the other teams who doesn't have top players.

Al least before you had a real game between the West and the East with a real competition with all the best players competing to know which side is the best. Now it's just an training exhibition scrap where no one (with reason) wants to get injured.

[Troy McClure]

The Vegas window is closed.

[slaps]

[slaps]

Marchand is a good follow:

[slaps]

The Islanders are bad, and haven't selected in the first round in four straight years. Why does Lou still have a job?

[Troy McClure]

If they can make goalie pads look like cracked marble, then there's no excuse for the boring pads every goalie has in the NHL.