2020-2021 NHL Thread
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Guilt Trip
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Yeah you started late. Stastny was awesome and started in 80/81 I believe. First player in NHL history to score 100 points in his rookie season.Bender said:
Heroic Shrimp
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The NHL made such weird contortions that Gretzky was neither deemed an NHL rookie in 1979, nor was he ever draft eligible.Guilt Trip said:
bustaheims
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Heroic Shrimp said:
The draft thing was sort of understandable, considering the agreement made when the NHL absorbed the WHA. The idea that Gretzky wasn't a rookie, even though he was only 18 when his first NHL seasons started was absurd.
bustaheims said:
Especially since Stastny spent 5 years in a professional league (but not one considered a "major" league by the NHL) before winning the Calder at the age of 23 immediately after.
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
Or Makarov winning it at 31 a decade later, after a lengthy playing career in Russia - which, at least, caused a change to the eligibility requirements.
https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1362447243798851587
https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1362450345016913923
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OldTimeHockey
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CarltonTheBear said:
I bet he's feeling super confident in his abilities.
OldTimeHockey said:
I mean on the one hand it must be nice to know Winnipeg keeps wanting to bring him back. But yeah must be frustrating to know he can't break out of a #3 goalie spot. Especially since the teams that keep claiming him aren't even really giving him playing time.
I turn the SJ-STL game on to catch the end of OT. St. Louis is about to go on the powerplay and I guess a timeout was called so both coaches were on video talking to their players, both took their masks off.
Kin
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From the "potentially worst contract in the league/my fantasy team is hot spicy garbage" department...what in the world is going on with Matt Duchene? 50 points in 82 games since coming to Nashville, playing with Forsberg and getting tons of PP time...and he's got 5 years left after this one at 8 million aav.
OldTimeHockey
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CarltonTheBear said:
I get that for appearance sake, the coaches should be wearing their masks, but I don't see what it's doing to protect anyone in this instance.
If anything, the 23 guys, sitting shoulder to shoulder, spitting all over the place is what will cause a team outbreak. I've been shocked at how much the players have been spitting on the ice and bench. I know it's not more than normal, but after the past year, you certainly do notice it more.
bustaheims
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Nik said:
He's never really been able to consistently be more than a ~60 pt guy, and playing on a team without much offensive support in Nashville certainly isn't helping him there.
Kin
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bustaheims said:
In a way though, the idea that Nashville doesn't have much offensive support is my point. For some reason talented offensive players there struggle to keep it going. Johansen went there looking like he'd be a perennial 30 goal, 65+ point guy and has struggled to score 20 with regularity. Forsberg seems to have stalled out. Arvidsson had three straight years of looking like a dangerous goal scorer before sputtering. And then with Josi/Ellis on the backend they should have enough talent to form two pretty solid offensive lines and a PP.
But I don't know if it's a system thing or what but even Subban went there and within a couple years went from being one of the more dynamic offensive players in the league to struggling to stay in the game.
Nashville seems pretty long overdue for a GM/culture change.
