TurdBurglar

Roy instilled a culture in the team in the 3 years he was there. To be a fair comparison you'd have to believe Babcock instilled the same level of culture to be equally disrupted by the change. I agree Larsen would be a better comparison, but the discussion was about Babcock's nearly non-existant tenure somehow sabotaging Vincent.

Soccer also has an aggregate system too, where they play 2 games in an elimination series and total the scores of both games. Highest total score wins, first tie breaker of that being most road goals scored win. I believe if road goals are equal as that point, it goes to penalty kicks. The championship itself is a single game elimination with penalty kicks after regulation. This is for league play and I don't believe it applies to international play in most cases.

I would welcome the change. I don't mind the shootout, but I'm an advocate that OT should be 2 points for a win, 1 for a loss and the shootout should be 1 for a win and 0 or 0.5 for a loss. It's no longer a team game in the shootout, so incentivize winning without it. An OT loss is equal to a shootout win, so just go for it in OT.

Roy had 3 season coaching Colorado, not just 2 months in the off-season, massive difference. Also saying CBJ were bad the year before, then bad the year after, therefore Vincent was sabotaged? Fairly certain the Babcock hiring didn't signal CBJ were a massively better team. Not quite sure the whole point of your post to be entirely honest.

Roy had 3 season coaching Colorado, not just 2 months in the off-seasonr, massive difference. Also saying CBJ were bad the year before, then bad the year after, therefore Vincent was sabotaged? Fairly certain the Babcock hiring didn't signal CBJ were a massively better team. Not quite sure the whole point of your post to be entirely honest.

The Babcock situation happened before the season started and was very short lived. If that's all it took to "poison the well" in CBJ, they have way bigger issues that nobody knows about. Can't use a two month offseason stint by a coach, who management supported right to the end, as an excuse for an entire sub-par season.

I believe he is talking about Laine, not McGroarty. If I were to venture a guess, purely a guess, I would say either; A combination of Harris/Struble/Barron/non-NHL prospect and a 2nd or later pick or 2 OR One of Harris/Struble/Barron/non-NHL prospect with a 2nd-5th next year that gets upgraded to a 1st if Laine meets a games played threshold of something like 50-60 games next season. I'm not sure if these conditional picks could span multiple years or not by the CBA, like a 2026 1st if he plays 120 games in the last 2 years of his contract. I'm sure someone with better CBA knowledge could clarify that. I believe a contending team would require CBJ to retain salary on Laine. It would be difficult to justify using $8.7m cap space on a player they don't know if they can get a full season out of, or if you're Vegas it might be what you're looking for. With retention, CBJ could get a lot more, but I haven't read anything so far that says they have an appetite to do so. The above guesses are assuming there's no retention and doesn't rule out someone like Beck being added, even though I think Beck would be an over-payment.

With his contract and injury history, I’d imagine he would be cheaper than what we think or will have a heavy conditional pick attachment for games played. i read the expected return is picks and prospects, but that was from a CBJ reporter on TSN radio.

In that case there's not a whole lot Edmonton can do. They can't match, as it's over the allowable cap overage, so the only other option is to panic trade about $4m of cap just to match and still have to deal with clearing about $2m more just to be cap compliant without Holloway signed.

Would seem really early to give up on Mesar, especially with the Slafkovsky connection, unless the return was good.

I missed the live scrimmage from development camp that @Prime Minister Koivu posted the lines from above. Posting a link if anyone wanted to watch it.

This could be countered by a MLB Rule-5 style draft. Using a standardized late round draft pick instead of cash. it's not perfect, but it's an idea.

The rumors point to Kane being the one on the move. I've read reports of his being asked to waive his NMC and reports of him not being asked. Either way the Oilers need to clear about $2.5m in cap to be compliant, with Holloway and Broberg to sign.

Rule changes for the 24-25 season; Rule 38.2 (Situations Subject to Coach’s Challenge) A coach’s challenge now will be permitted to take down a penalty for puck out of play. This only will apply to delay of game penalties when the puck is determined to have deflected off a player, stick, glass or boards, and not on a judgment call on how the puck left the defensive zone (e.g., batted pucks or if the puck was shot out from the defensive zone). In the event of a failed challenge, another two-minute minor penalty will be assessed (in addition to the existing delay of game penalty). Rule 63.8 (Line Change Following Dislodged Net) There will be an adjustment to Rule 63.8 so that the defensive team cannot make a line change in the event its goaltender accidentally dislodges the net (old language applied just to skater). Rule 76.4 (Face-Off Procedure – Centers) Following an icing, the offensive center also now will receive one warning (same as the defensive player) for a face-off violation. Rule 75.3 (Unsportsmanlike Conduct – Player Sitting on Boards) The referee now will provide the offending team (coach and players) with one warning regarding players sitting on the boards (and will so advise the other team). After one warning in a game, the team precipitating the warning will be issued a bench minor penalty for future violations. https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-announces-rule-changes-for-next-season

Not sure if was discussed already, but Oilers asked Kane to waive his NMC. I could see a fit in Montreal for the last year of his deal. With the Jeff Skinner signing, they are at the cap with Holloway and Broberg to sign still. They should be extra motivated to move him. This is assuming Kane waives his NMC to goto Montreal.

I think the thought process for Geuntzel over Stamkos is age. 28 vs 34.

With Gentzel out of the picture, they may opt to resign him.

Look like Marchessault to Nashville. 5 x $5.5m.

Tampa and Guentzel closing in on a 7 year deal.

That's fair, any proof it came from a source, other than an assumption?

I was assuming Harris is probably playing RD alongside Guhle, leaving the bottom pair RD for Barron. Reinbacher/Mailloux/Hutson are probably AHL bound unless they pleasantly surprise at camp. Barron is 22, will be signing a new contract, and has everything to prove on this deal.

So you agree, no source was ever cited, so the only other place it could of come from is Seravalli himself. It came from him, it wasn't true, so he fabricated it. I'm all ears if there's proof it came from a source, other than speculation of where he got it.

You would have to assume this is to give Barron more NHL ice-time.

He said it, the player, agent and team said it wasn't true, and he's never cited it coming from a source.

It probably depends on the source. The last time I saw a Stamkos rumor was pre-draft, so anything could of changed.