[NHL] Game of Thrones on Ice (aka the NHL Hockey Thread)

jwhouk · Jul 18, 2015

Yes, true - but for some reason it still seems like a significant number of NHL'ers don't want to play there.

My suspicion resides in the Connie Mack-like figure who's the head of hockey ops.

HCGLNS · Jul 23, 2015

The Leafs just acquired Lou Lamoriello from NJ.

jwhouk · Jul 23, 2015

That increases the number of people in their front office to have their name on the Cup to what... three?

DarkAudit · Aug 14, 2015

The Phil...

jwhouk · Aug 14, 2015

Uhm, he's worn black and gold before...

DarkAudit · Sep 7, 2015

Vitaly Anikeyenko
Mikhail Balandin
Gennady Churilov
Pavol Demitra
Robert Dietrich
Alexander Galimov
Marat Kalimulin
Alexander Kalyanin
Andrei Kiryukhin
Nikita Klyukin
Stefan Liv
Jan Marek
Sergei Ostapchuk
Karel Rachůnek
Ruslan Salei
Maxim Shuvalov
Kārlis Skrastiņš
Pavel Snurnitsyn
Daniil Sobchenko
Ivan Tkachenko
Pavel Trakhanov
Yuri Urychev
Josef Vašíček
Alexander Vasyunov
Alexander Vyukhin
Artem Yarchuk

Yuri Bakhvalov
Aleksandr Belyaev
Alexander Karpovtsev
Igor Korolev
Nikolai Krivonosov
Yevgeni Kunnov
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Brad McCrimmon
Vladimir Piskunov
Yevgeni Sidorov
Andrei Zimin

Nadezhda Maksumova
Vladimir Matyushin
Elena Sarmatova
Elena Shavina
Andrei Solomentsev
Igor Zhivelov
Sergei Zhuravlev

blotsfan · Sep 7, 2015

Man, that was the most depressing. I remember after it happened I was googling Galimov hourly just to see how he was doing. I don't know why, but it really upset me when he died.

jwhouk · Sep 7, 2015

Still miss him.

blotsfan · Sep 10, 2015

@jwhouk what do you think about Cody franson? Is he good for 2 years 6.6 million?

jwhouk · Sep 10, 2015

Oh, I think he could be a real solid NHL defensAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

Sorry, I was trying to say that with a straight face.

blotsfan · Sep 10, 2015

:/ the general consensus seems to be that he's a good player for the price. Why do you think he's so awful?

jwhouk · Sep 10, 2015

The "general consensus" was concentrated in a town a few hundred miles to the north of your location on the shores of Lake Ontario.

He's not going to make anyone in Smashville forget Weber or Josi. And I think he suffered from a severe case of Thomas Wolfe-itis ("You can't go home again.").

Vrii · Sep 10, 2015

blotsfan said:
:/ the general consensus seems to be that he's a good player for the price.

He is. Less than $4m/season, should be good for 30+ points, and a short term - there's no risk and potentially pretty high reward. Expecting to get a Shea Weber-calibre player in free agency, let alone at that price tag, is so absurd it's not even worth bringing up.

jwhouk · Sep 11, 2015

Shea... WEBER?

If he was a Shea-Weber-type player, he'd still be with the Predators.