All the way baby, just like every year.

A player of Hirose’s size and lack of offence, didn’t have much of an NHL future. That being said, he was excellent in the Abbotsford Canucks championship run. Good on him for keeping his pro-career going in Germany. I think McWard still might have an NHL future with the Islanders. He was behind a bu ...

So Jackson Blake’s deferred money saves Carolina $525,000 on their cap space. Frank Vatrano’s deferral saves the Ducks 1.43m a year. Seth Jarvis saves Carolina $480,000. Deferrals get eliminated in the next collective agreement, but the Canucks will be trying to re-sign Hughes before that kicks in. I ...

IMO Mancini needs to cook a bit more in Abby to develop consistency and more physical play. Willander will be a top four before long, but should start in Abby. I expect if everyone stays healthy, it will be a process over the season to get the defence set with everyone in their correct place the ...

Their grit is different. Karlsson is more the stinky mitt face rub, cheap stick between the nut sack from behind kind of infuriating player. Joshua is more the, “Why I oughta” and on the rare occasion he backs it up. But most of Joshua’s scoring success ran through Garland. Perhaps if Karlsson plays ...

Basically, it will be Karlsson replacing Joshua. Karlsson plays naturally grittier than Joshua, but probably won’t fight. I don’t know if Karlsson can play as well as Joshua did two years ago, but I don’t know if Joshua can play as well as he did that season again either. They’ve spent most of their ...

The new crew have traded quite a few players within a year of signing or trading: Ilya Mikheyev Danton Heinen Anthony Beauvillier Sam Lafferty Vincent Desharnais Dakota Joshua Lazar Who am I missing? Do these cats not think things through before pulling triggers? They remind me of Pakistani parade ...

Evan Rodrigues could be worth a try but he is nothing special especially in the regular season. He has produced well in the last two playoff runs as Bennett’s winger - when Bennett heats up, but those point burst have more to do with Bennett at centre. I don’t think he is a 2C, but he might fill in j ...

Lankinen doesn’t have the upside of Silovs or the downside. But considering the clubs need for cap space for a 2C, the Lankinen contract looks like a mistake. If Demko goes down with a long term injury, I don’t have any more faith that Lankinen would be able to lead them into the playoffs than Sil ...

Not any more worried about his popliteus than any other part of his Sami Salo cloned body.

Or, more likely, it turns out management made a mistake. It may turn out that Demko won’t stay healthy, the Canucks miss the playoffs by a couple points and the kid is solid in Pittsburg. Even if Silovs never becomes a starter, the Canucks could have carried three goalies, held on to their current t ...

For that return, I would’ve waited to see how Demko did.
Then again, I wouldn’t have signed Lankinen to the contract he got.
Oh well, Silovs is gone. He had a nice run in Abby.
Management made their bet on Demko’s health.
It’s on them if he can’t stay healthy and they miss the playoffs.

Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:26 am I thought the categories were like this

Top line
Second line
Top 6
Third line
Top 9
Middle 6
Bottom 6
4th line

I’ve never heard of middle 9

Bottom 12?

Agree, whatever his value is now, it will only go up as the season goes along. If the return is only a draft pick or prospect that won’t play next season, hold on to him and carry three goalies - at least until Demko has shown he can stay healthy for a while. They should trade him early if he is p ...

Next year’s draft looks awesome. Having an off-season is going to pay off for some club, unless it’s Ottawa, poor bastards: “The Ottawa Senators are forced to forfeit their 2026 first round pick. This is due to a penalty imposed by the NHL for a "botched deal" involving forward Evgenii Dadonov. The p ...