2018-2019 NHL Season Thread Hockey • Page 111

yo...the flyers.

 

yea i'd say that when this has become the face of your franchise



you probably wanna go out and make an opening statement so that ppl talk about something else haha

 

Simmonds better re-sign.

 

flyers going to be 1-0 in the gritty era

 

Well the only part of tonight that I didn't enjoy was the part where Zac Rinaldo is still a Predator and got time on the ice. Other than that, great first full night of hockey!

 

I just wanna see my team play a game already! This waiting around til Saturday night blows.

 

I am on the "sign Nylander" side of the fence. Mainly because I got a Potvin player Tee for my birthday from a dodgy Asian site, and they sent me a Nylander instead (I assume they saw Leafs 29 and grabbed whatever).

 

Funny timing for Holtby (less funny for Caps fans) - he wore a new, customized chest protector tonight:



Much of the feedback in the goalie gear group was "goalies hate change, he's going to let in a bunch". And, welp...

1) Yeah, this means nothing in the grand scheme - playing the Pens doesn't help

2) Less important to most people but needs to be said - Kenesky is an long-running but small company, and makes bomb-proof stuff. The fact that he is wearing their stuff instead of the ubiquitous big company C/As, he became even cooler in my book.

 

you are NOT going to like the contract he gets, let me tell you

 

fuck us

it begins already

 

This is a suggestion that the Leafs trade William Nylander for Chris Tanev. lol

 

So Canes still can’t score. 40+ shots and 1 goal.

 

I took him early in fantasy

 

Same.

I picked last. First 4 picks were Karlsson, Malkin, Kuznetsov, and Hellebuyck.

 

that looks good to me. I picked last too. mine were

1. (12) John Tavares (Tor - C)
2. (13) Connor Hellebuyck (Wpg - G)
3. (36) Phil Kessel (Pit - RW)
4. (37) Jonathan Quick (LA - G)

 

Getting the goalies out of the way quick, eh? How does your scoring system work for goalies?

Dubnyk is my backup but I got Talbot as well. I may have been the only one in the league to get 3 starting goalies TBH.

 

I don't know how exactly the scoring works but I get a shit load of points for goalies that win a lot. This was from last night.

 

You lucked out because word on the street is potvin sucks

 

Don't be impatient, you'd be wanting the most money you could receive if you went to a contract negotiation as well. I don't think this is really a big deal at all. I want to point back to this Ian Tulloch article on The Athletic (if you're a subscriber) that notes (with comparable) that the longer negotiations go into October, the less leverage Nylander will have: As an RFA, William Nylander's going to be underpaid. But the...

Then again, there's this article today (yesterday?) from Tyler Dellow: Dellow: With every passing day, leverage shifts away from...

Holdouts like Nylander's aren't that uncommon league-wide though. I bet that this is more than a two-way street than most holdouts as well, since Leafs brass want to set a precedent for Matthews and Marner with this contract.

 

Good to see the Bruins won their first game of the season!

 

Nylander is getting paid to play hockey, not to build a winning team. If his future salary affects their ability to sign and re-sign players, that's a Maple Leafs problem, not a Nylander problem.

 

Huh

 

If you designate Cal Clutterbuck an alternate captain you know your team is going places.

 

give barzal the captaincy

also leafs suck and nylander should get all the money