Ongoing NHL thread - Part III

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6-4 - I wonder if that missed convert is going to cost the Bears.

 

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Claude Julien is not happy.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Patrick Kane now with 100 points on the season and poised to become the first American to win the Art Ross.

Hey, only took the country with 23 NHL teams 98 years for that to happen! I think that calls for another expansion team - You're up Billings, MT!

 

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Hey, only took the country with 23 NHL teams 98 years for that to happen! I think that calls for another expansion team - You're up Billings, MT!

Andy Moog played junior hockey in Billings with the Bighorns

 

[forty_three]

That hat trick last night for Brandon Saad was the first of his career. Also got Sonny Milano his first NHL point.

He's not bad for a fourth line scrub. Imagine how good he'd be if he could play top line hockey like Got-DAMN HERO Brandon Dubinsky.

 

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Penguins looking good again today. Justin Schultz with another assist.

 

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Kadri to have a hearing for a cross-check to the head of Luke Glendening. Scroll to about the 2:30 mark.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

So Kadri's finally made the leap to full-blown ratty dipshit.

Hope they can get a first for him. Don't need this shit.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

A lot of making fun of Steve Yzerman on the radio this morning regarding his comments about Jonathan Drouin. Funny how suddenly we're told to "Look at the stat sheet" and that "his attitude has been great" now that your team is getting decimated by injuries.

BTW, Drouin has 9 goals in his last 10 AHL games.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Patrick Roy blasts Matt Duchene for celebration, calls out Colorado core

Roy may be a quite terrible coach, and maybe a guy who once let a goal in while Statue of Liberty-ing a non-save shouldn't be spouting this so publicly, but he's right about Duchene celebrating.

Perhaps a trade to the Oilers is in the offing.

 

[BGDave]

So Kadri's finally made the leap to full-blown ratty dipshit.

Hope they can get a first for him. Don't need this shit.

Not surprised. He has been sadly immature from draft day. I wonder if he isnt already in the "move at any price in the offseason".

 

[forty_three]

So Kadri's finally made the leap to full-blown ratty dipshit.

Hope they can get a first for him. Don't need this shit.

If someone gives a first for Kadri, I want a first for Johnson.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Not surprised. He has been sadly immature from draft day. I wonder if he isnt already in the "move at any price in the offseason".

He has plenty of value. I'm just tired of the sideshow.

 

[BigKen]

Has this been discussed? If so, has it ever happened in the history of NHL?

No Canadian teams will qualify for the playoffs..........2016 is an All USA Stanley Cup Championship.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

If someone gives a first for Kadri, I want a first for Johnson.

One is a 25 year old RFA centre with good peripherals who averages about 50 points a season, the other a 29 year old defenceman who has never been a positive-possession player and is signed for two more seasons at $4.3 million per.

But yeah, totally equal value.

 

[forty_three]

But yeah, totally equal value.

You just have to look at Johnson through the same Leaf coloured "ignore the negatives that rest of the world sees" glasses and they are pretty even.

Ignore that Johnson is terrible at possession and ignore that Kadri is a whiny little shit with a temper that makes him an easy target to take out of a game and there you have it. A push.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

You just have to look at Johnson through the same Leaf coloured "ignore the negatives that rest of the world sees" glasses and they are pretty even.

Ignore that Johnson is terrible at possession and ignore that Kadri is a whiny little shit with a temper that makes him an easy target to take out of a game and there you have it. A push.

If you ignore that Johnson is terrible at possession the fact he is also generally not very good at playing defence in the NHL and has a terrible contract to boot is still rather visible. He also isn't scoring now, which doesn't help.

Kadri may have fully developed a reputation as a cheap shot artist and a crybaby but it would take a fool of the highest order to deny he is a good hockey player, not to mention one still under team control and eligible to be signed long-term at a reasonable price.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Kadri and Evander Kane play different positions but have very, very similar stat sheets. Take a look at what Buffalo had to part with to get him from Winnipeg and then tell me Kadri isn't worth a first round pick lol

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Claude Julien is not happy.

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Clod looks like he just saw a picture of Craig Stadler and is aroused by it

 

[KennyBanyeah]

So Kadri's finally made the leap to full-blown ratty dipshit.

Hope they can get a first for him. Don't need this shit.

Teams may be leery of giving up a 1st for a player who will probably miss the first dozen games of the year.