Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[Mickey107]

Kadri gets four games for crosscheck

[vic]

Rangers or Wings is my guess.

Are we guessing where Stamkos ends up if not back with the Lightning or Canucks

I'll throw Dallas in as a dark horse to land him.

[Meds]

The injury to Stamkos could definitely make potential suitors think twice about the dollar figures that his agent will be looking for.

These kind of medical conditions will make a player's contract more expensive to insure, and even that insurance doesn't help a team replace the player if he is lost for months at a time to deal with his condition. This is even more of a problem when the player is your franchise centre.

[Hockey Widow]

Kadri gets four games for crosscheck

So Kadri gets four and Keith six. Hmmmmm

[Puck]

Kadri gets four games for crosscheck

So Kadri gets four and Keith six. Hmmmmm

The argument is that Kadri is already on his third suspension in a young career; thus the four. Perhaps that makes some sense.

However, the six is f*ing appalling. It's the guy's third major suspension for intent to injure. He should have got about 10. If Keith didn't have an impressive hockey IQ, he'd have no IQ at all, but it's the NHL that comes off even more ridiculous than ever.

[Mickey107]

Kadri gets four games for crosscheck

So Kadri gets four and Keith six. Hmmmmm

The argument is that Kadri is already on his third suspension in a young career; thus the four. Perhaps that makes some sense.

However, the six is f*ing appalling. It's the guy's third major suspension for intent to injure. He should have got about 10. If Keith didn't have an impressive hockey IQ, he'd have no IQ at all, but it's the NHL that comes off even more ridiculous than ever.

Kids are going to think they have swords in they're hands, it's bullshit.
I swear, should be 10+ and mental evaluation..

[Arachnid]

Kadri gets four games for crosscheck

So Kadri gets four and Keith six. Hmmmmm

The argument is that Kadri is already on his third suspension in a young career; thus the four. Perhaps that makes some sense.

However, the six is f*ing appalling. It's the guy's third major suspension for intent to injure. He should have got about 10. If Keith didn't have an impressive hockey IQ, he'd have no IQ at all, but it's the NHL that comes off even more ridiculous than ever.

Kids are going to think they have swords in they're hands, it's bullshit.
I swear, should be 10+ and mental evaluation..

Yep, 2,4 & 6....great spectrum there...for the young kids to gauge there hockey sensibility....

[Puck]

Yeah.. no kidding. A late, but otherwise legal hit, to a retaliatory cross-check to the head, to a retaliatory slash to the face - this progression is apparently linear in its development, based on the games given. It sure seems exponential to me. Maybe the league has trouble with math and didn't realise the third number in the sequence was supposed to be 8?

[Arachnid]

Yeah.. no kidding. A late, but otherwise legal hit, to a retaliatory cross-check to the head, to a retaliatory slash to the face - this progression is apparently linear in its development, based on the games given. It sure seems exponential to me. Maybe the league has trouble with math and didn't realise the third number in the sequence was supposed to be 8?

Maybe more integers like 1, 5, 10...

[Strangelove]

The injury to Stamkos could definitely make potential suitors think twice about the dollar figures that his agent will be looking for.

These kind of medical conditions will make a player's contract more expensive to insure, and even that insurance doesn't help a team replace the player if he is lost for months at a time to deal with his condition. This is even more of a problem when the player is your franchise centre.

I don't think insurance/re-occurrence is much of a concern....


https://twitter.com/ShawnMcKenzieSN/sta ... 6896207872

@ShawnMcKenzieSN
I asked Vascular Surgeon Dr. Graham Roche-Nagle if the type of blood clot that Stamkos has will keep coming back.




Definitely (along with the Stralman injury) hurts the Lightning's playoff chances though.

But who knows, maybe the team rallies together to win one for the Stammer.

Maybe young punkass Drouin thrives on the opportunity to prove himself.

[Meds]

The injury to Stamkos could definitely make potential suitors think twice about the dollar figures that his agent will be looking for.

These kind of medical conditions will make a player's contract more expensive to insure, and even that insurance doesn't help a team replace the player if he is lost for months at a time to deal with his condition. This is even more of a problem when the player is your franchise centre.

I don't think insurance/re-occurrence is much of a concern....


https://twitter.com/ShawnMcKenzieSN/sta ... 6896207872

@ShawnMcKenzieSN
I asked Vascular Surgeon Dr. Graham Roche-Nagle if the type of blood clot that Stamkos has will keep coming back.




Definitely (along with the Stralman injury) hurts the Lightning's playoff chances though.

But who knows, maybe the team rallies together to win one for the Stammer.

Maybe young punkass Drouin thrives on the opportunity to prove himself.

Ahhh, I see.

Ultimately the team rallying and winning one for Stamkos would be the best possible thing to happen for Yzerman, and the worst thing for Stamkos. That would mean that any team negotiating with Stammer could argue that his value was not as great as people assumed as well as state concern (regardless of what a doctor says) that this condition could reoccur.

[Mickey107]

It's hard to believe but high level hockey players don't spend enough time on the ice, on their own.
Play the games and practice with the team under the coach's instruction.
It's only in the offseason they can do what they want.
That's why the ridiculous amount of gym and weight training, it's all they have and most overdo it.
The best way to be in the best shape for hockey is to have ice available for your own practice time but that can't happen so we see strange types of injuries.
Sounds weird but it is true.

[Hockey Widow]

Exactly why I stopped going to the gym. It'll kill ya I say, just kill ya!

[SKYO]

Exactly why I stopped going to the gym. It'll kill ya I say, just kill ya!

good call hw.
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Stamkos will be fine & he will still get a contract similar to this..all about the bonus pay.

[Blob Mckenzie]

I hope to fuck he signs it in Toronto or somewhere else. Anywhere else.