Detroit Red Wings & the NHL

[froot loops]

Yeah and he is still a jerk even with all that.

[Hannibal]

Game one of round 2 is on the same night as Game seven of round 1. Who's the idiot that thought this was a good idea?

[iam416]

The same idiot that thought it was a good idea to return to a division-based playoff bracket without bringing back the cache of the Patrick, Adams, Norris and Smythe?

fucking Adams divison

[Prime2]

We will learn by the end of June, if the League expands by 2 teams (Vegas & Quebec City) from 30 to 32. If so, there will be conference realignment and a playoff format overhaul (again) and teams will switch conferences in order to geographically make sense.

Eventually, a team in Seattle and a 2nd in Toronto/Southern Ontario makes sense, rounding the League out at 34 teams.

The Prince of Wales and Campbell Conferences and original six simplicity are gone as we knew them and for good.

Sorry I didn't buy the Wings for 6 million dollars in 1980 from the Norris family but I was in the Boy Scouts at the time and a little cash shy.

[iam416]

Should have leveraged the shit out your belongings, Prime. You could have ginned up $6M with a little moxie.

Also, isn't 32 the natural number? I mean, it is...so I assume the NHL will go to either 31 or 33.

And I say bring back the hipster division names and the old top 4 in each division make the playoffs format.

[Prime2]

Sure, owners' greed will determine how many new franchises are added at $500 million entry fee per team and they don't have to share with the players. Well-manged teams and Cup contenders will resist because they can only protect so many players on their rosters.

It's beyond idiotic and pure politics not to have a 2nd team in southern Ontario and Quebec....I sure miss John Zigler. Yes he was a boozer but a Canadian hockey loyalist.


TSN.ca - Mar 16, 2016
NHL presents potential expansion draft plans

BOCA RATON, Fla. - Let the plotting and planning begin.
After months of internal vetting, the NHL informed all 30 GMs of an outline for a potential expansion draft on Wednesday, should the league decide to expand by one or two teams this summer.
The exact details still need to be brokered with the NHLPA, but the general gist left most GMs relieved. The expansion draft process was the hot-button issue for teams heading into this week’s meetings; they all recognized a $500-million expansion fee would buy a strong inaugural roster at the expense of the current 30.
Each team will lose at least one player if the NHL expands by one. It will be two players should the league decide to expand to both Las Vegas and Quebec City.
Teams under the current plan could protect seven forwards, three defencemen and one goaltender or eight skaters (of any position) and a goaltender. That means each team would be subject to losing either a top-four defenceman or a third-line forward should the NHL expand by one team.
“You may lose a good player, but it’s only one,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said. “The details are very similar to our previous expansion drafts, except it is designed and intended to create a somewhat deeper draft so the expansion club can be more competitive early on.”
In the last expansion draft, held in 2000 to fill the rosters of the Wild and Blue Jackets, teams were permitted to protect one goaltender, five defencemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defencemen and seven forwards.
“If you do your job, I’ve got a guy in mind [to leave unprotected] right now,” Senators GM Bryan Murray said.
The most pressing question, Panthers GM Dale Tallon said, was whether teams would be allowed to protect young players and prospects.
The answer is that first- and second-year professional players - including those in the minors - will be exempt from the expansion draft. Players entering the third and final year of their entry-level contract would be eligible, though.
That will expose a lot of valuable, burgeoning prospects.
“We made a point to GMs that they are going to be forced to expose better players,” Daly said.
With the addition of the salary cap since the NHL last expanded, there are other nuances and question marks to be ironed out.
Will players with no-move clauses in contracts be eligible for the draft? Will they be able to waive their no-move clause and opt-in for a fresh start elsewhere?
“I don’t think it’s that complicated, but it’s an issue that hasn’t been resolved in terms of how we intend to treat that,” Daly said. “It’s something that we’re going to have to have a discussion with the Players’ Association.”
Will teams attempt to use the expansion draft as a de facto salary dump, exposing only players with unpalatable contracts? Teams must expose at least 25 per cent of the previous season’s salary cap.
“And in terms of drafting players, [expansion] teams would have to draft a certain threshold of salary,” Daly said, in order to reach the salary cap floor or minimum.
The other interesting factor is that this format will not allow any team to protect more than one goaltender. That will allow an expansion GM to build his new team out from the net with a solid choice. Six consecutive goaltenders were taken with the first six picks of the 2000 expansion draft.
It would create an interesting dynamic with a team like the Pittsburgh Penguins. One year from now, would the Penguins protect backbone netminder Marc-Andre Fleury or 21-year-old prospect Matt Murray? Murray is widely considered the best goaltender not currently in the NHL.
Fleury, 31, has a no-move clause in his contract which could potentially make him exempt. Then the Penguins would protect Murray.
But the NHL’s position has been that players with no-move clauses should be eligible to be picked, since it is not expressly defined in the collective bargaining agreement.
That is just one reminder of the refinement left to be done - notwithstanding the cart-before-the-horse decision of whether or not the NHL will even expand at all. In order for the puck to drop in 2017-18 with 31 or 32 teams, the NHL would need to make a decision to expand in the next three months, to allow teams a full year to prepare for the draft.
That procedural hold-up won’t stop GMs from projecting and planning until then. Their mock protection lists, as Murray hinted, were likely already being formulated on the plane ride north.

[froot loops]

The Smythe divisional playoffs were legendary. The second round was a de facto Stanley Cup Final.

[WingsFan]

This playoff format only works for the NHL, Crosby vs Ovechkin. They have only met once (2009) in the playoffs, this is the most anticipated matchup in the playoffs and there is no guarantee they would have met in the ECF.

The women of Buffalo, (Uber and Taxi) drivers should be on high alert - goat face has a lot of extra time on his hands thanks to caption kangaroo

[Prime2]

I don't know, Gretzky and Lemieux never met in a playoff game their entire careers. The Pens and the Caps have only been in the same Division since 2014 anyway.

Ovechkin is 31 years old and has never advanced past the 2nd round of the playoffs under his leadership. The Pens over the last 2 years had been bounced by the Rangers in the first round also Crosby missed almost two full seasons (164 games) injured.

Bad luck and timing diminished the opportunity for a head-to-head matchup but we have one now. This is the best Caps team since Ovie joined them, the problem is the Pens since they fired their coach became the hottest team in the League since December and no player has scored more in that span than Crosby.

As for International play, not even close, Crosby has made Ovechkin his bitch since the WJC Tournament 2005.

Crosby & Canada Gold, Ovechkin and his dislocated shoulder, Silver.

[Ghengis Jon]

We will learn by the end of June, if the League expands by 2 teams (Vegas & Quebec City) ...

Vegas? VEGAS !?! Must be a huge fan base there. All those local kids skating on ponds during the winter, dads taking them to minor league games for something to do, the high school playoffs being the hottest ticket in town, all the petitions to bring a pro team there... gosh, why did it take so long?

[WingsFan]

Ryan Getzlaf just lost another game 7 I think that's five in row for him (what a choker) making it worse, he took a stupid penalty late in the game down a goal.

Ovechkin on Ryan Getzlaf: “He’s Just Jealous Because I Have Hair.”

[Mike]

Any time Getzfucked and Pussy are bounced in Game 7, which is EVERY TIME, I'm a happy guy.

Detroit's new arena will be called Little Caesars Arena. Shocking. That will leave Madison Square Garden as the only building in the NHL without a corporate name.

[WingsFan]

I've posted before if Ryan Kesler ever wins the Cup he will bring it to my sisters, maybe next year.


Has Boudreau been fired yet? Coached teams in Game 7's — or any potential clinching game — is infamous. This was the eighth Game 7 he has coached in during his NHL career lost all but one. That was all the way back in the first round of the 2009 playoffs. All seven losses have come on home ice. Five of them have been a single goal, including one in overtime.

[WingsFan]

Detroit's new arena will be called Little Caesars Arena. Shocking. That will leave Madison Square Garden as the only building in the NHL without a corporate name.

I seen that, meh... Don't really have a problem with the name, havent ingested the product in about 10 years. My childhood buddy was visiting from Columbus (yes ohio) and picked up a couple pies on the way - like eating cardboard.

[Prime2]

According to the Detroit News, the Ilitch's back Holland.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2016/04/25/ilitch-family-absolutely-backs-wings-holland/83505864/

Corey Perry, ZERO goals over the 7-game series. Finished a -7!

Expected a little more from a guy that drives a Ferrari to work.