TurdBurglar

If drafts were more of a guarantee, picks would be worth more.

Best case scenario, 10-20 game mark. Reality, sometime next season or the season after, his development depending. It really comes down to how much the kid steps up and adjusts to NHL hockey. if this kid is to be the player he is projected to be, he shouldn’t be rushed.

If he didn’t make the Oilers I doubt anyone else would take him. As good as the Oilers seem to be, their bottom 6 forward group is pretty weak.

What happens if they aren’t cap compliant? Just cap penalties? What happens if they don’t have enough skaters? Do they have to forfeit until they do? I've never seen a situation like this in the NHL before. So many questions.

So I assuming this is the correct thread to talk about other teams. Anyone know what Tampa is going to do? With Kucherov on LTIR, Schenn and Johnson waived, they are still about 500k (quick math, probably wrong) I’ve the cap and only have 11 forward, 5 defence and 2 goalies. They can’t even afford to activate Kucherov when he his healthily. Plus don’t they need to have a minimum roster of 18 or 20 to be eligible to play?

Juulsen claimed by Florida. Just saw it already in another thread

I know it's just a scrimmage. Toffoli looked good, so did Romanov and Allen looked ok. Didn't really notice Anderson. Again, it's just a scrimmage.

I wonder why they didn’t mix lines instead of stacking one team. Even putting team reds forwards on team white would of been better. At least the NHL forward group would be facing the NHL defensive core and Price. Looks more like seal clubbing than a scrimmage.

I think the Weal waiver is more about getting cap compliant.

It came from Elliot Freedman, so it's much more credible than than an Eklund.

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Read that the Habs were in on Hoffman but couldn’t work out a number that fit under the cap. Sounded it it was around the time of the Toffoli deal, so Toffoli may of been the backup plan to that.

Anyone know if there are any televised or streams intra-squad games for training camp?

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/stats/overall-goalie.php Goalie stats from the NCAA. Go to whatever year you want, or them all if you want. Sort by any and all criteria you want. There's a column showing whether the goalie is a freshman, sophomore and seniors. Pay attention to that column because as you sort you'll notice the is ZERO correlation between statistics and their age. There's a mixed bag of freshman, sophomores and seniors no matter how you sort it, unless your sort it by year. There is nothing at all supporting your claim "At 22 vs 18... it does mean better." I respect your opinion, it's one of the reasons I actually took the time to look into it. Unfortunately it's just wrong in this case.

Older does not mean better, David Ayers isn’t better than Thatcher Demko, ironically enough one of the few goalies to take the college route to the NHL. Only 2 of the top 10 NCAA goalies are drafted, unless the NCAA statistics website is missing information.

I've been looking into your theory of college goalies are better. Honestly, there's not much out there about it. I did find 1 and I posted a link below on a study of the goalies drafted between 2000-2010 and where they ended up. I understand this is a snapshot period and doesn't encompass everything, but it's the best I could find. To pluck numbers out of the article, out of the goalies that were drafted and played at least 1 NHL game, 16 clear starters came via pro hockey, 3 via college hockey. On average the pro hockey goalies(97) played more NHL games than college goalies(57). Pro goalies took less time from their first NHL game to become a start, 4 years for pro vs 7 for college. Only 23 of the 104 goalies that played 1 game in the NHL were college goalies. Nearly all goalies in the WJC were from the OHL or a pro-league in or around their country, with the exception of 2-3, biggest exception being Knight from the USA. With all of this I would reiterate, Caufield faced better goalies in the WJC because college goalies aren't better. https://www.rawcharge.com/2013/8/26/4657570/normal-goaltender-development-pt-2-juniors-vs-ncaa-vs-professional

I would point out the world juniors picks out the top 2-3 goalies available under 20 for each country, many of which from professional leagues at some level, and college hockey primarily consists of goalies that will never go pro.

I’ll start by saying I’m not on the Caufield bandwagon. What I did see from him this year and last year in this tournament is that he definitely became more noticeable. He really does have a good shot, possibly the best in the world juniors this year. He didn’t score as much as anticipated, that could be a number of reasons, but it wasn’t because of lack of opportunity in usage or shots. Commandant points out unfamiliarity with line mates and chemistry, which is a fair point, but as a shooter, he had the opportunities where that wasn’t a factor and didn’t bury them consistent enough. it was a short tournament and the goaltending he faced was better than what he faces at college. I hope I am wrong about him and I hope he adapts to whatever it was that kept him from living up to the hype. Montreal could really use an annual 30-40 goal threat, and the kid has the potential to do that. I’ll hold off of the hype train until he gets a couple of seasons in some from of pro league to show everyone what he really is.

Gonna take Canada digging real deep to win this one. I was worried that in the face of a real solid opponent, Canada would have problems.

Watch Caufield come alive in the gold medal game and bury everything.

I didn’t see an angle that clearly showed it off the ice either. The ones that were broadcasted all looked like the toe of his skate may of touched the line. From what I saw it looked very inconclusive.

If the habs would put a lefty willing to shoot on the right wall, the PP would be so much more dangerous. I understand wanting to get Weber and Petry the puck on the PP, but they were smothered so easy last year because the PP was so predictable. Have a lefty willing to one-time it would open the Weber and Petry shot on the left.

I can see the Tortorella Treatment being a factor. You would thing, if anything, adding a young guy with some scoring punch would make PLD stay instead of want out. Especially since Domi was primarily a winger before Montreal.

Not that it would of changed the outcome of the game, but that disallowed Russian goal should of counted. It really appeared as if the Russian player's skate was touching the blue line before the puck crossed, possession wasn't even a question as I believe the rule states the player himself has to be the player in possession, not his team, which he clearly was not. Too close to call for such an important game. You know the Russins are gonna be screaming official bias with a call like that. I'm going by the angles showed in the replay, I didn't see an ice-level shot of it.

That’s interesting if it’s true. I would take PLD as 1C almost any day over Domi. Domi was demoted down the lineup with a rookie, a sophomore who spent the season in the AHL and let’s face it, Danault is a good 2nd line center.