Gotta feel for Jack Johnson, but he's playing like garbage this season. Sidenote, how have the Leafs allowed 50+ shots and only 3 goals? Madness.
Freddy the GAWD, that's how.
Defense is overrated, score more, but fuuuuuuck Polak. Icing everything, smacking it off the boards all the damn time.
Also, Zaitsev, get it together bruh.
It is much better to have an EGF of 3 and EGA of 3.5 than it is to have an EGF of 2 and an EGA of 2.5. Like, by a lot. Your win percentage is significantly increased in a 7 game series. Like, from 2:1 to 1.5:1 underdog, and that situation is pretty extreme. Not even Montreal is 3.5 EGA bad.
Why on earth would Matthews get max? We've come down from candy cane forest wherein Matthews was even comparable with McDavid, and not even the McJuice got a max contract. 'Member early in the season when people would jk about that? They don't so much anymore.
And JvR's value is not higher than Max's. Not even close. Max gives a team 2 chances. JvR gives a team one. Player control is king. And let's not get crazy and start saying things like ''JvR is a perennial 30 goal scorer'' and ''Max's value is negatively affected by his season'' when Pacioretty actually is a perennial 30 goal scorer (JvR isn't), and their total offensive output this year is basically the same despite vastly different circumstances. Like, how confident are you that there's no way that Patches will make it 5 years in a row in which he's scored more goals than JvR, even with the 7 goal gap?
But here's why I asked my question: what first and what prospect? There isn't some central first and prospect reserve that can quantitatively ease firsts and prospects. There has to be an actual match. The actual names are quite important especially since you're trying to parlay them into OEL.
Lol, well, competitive. Their pipeline is looking good, they shouldn't suffer for much longer.Back?
No teams wins cups with a goal differential of 0.49 while giving up 36 shots per game. Closest facsimile is Chicago Black hawks with .67 and .69 and both times, they had... Duncan Keith , a legit number 1 dman playing Conn level hockey. Also, Toronto goal production is not significantly cut without JVR or when he plays lower mins (this 5 game stretch shows that)
There is a myriad of situations that could go down but i would say the most likely (if toronto does not get Ryan Mcdonagh) is San Jose -- and theres no reason that couldnt come with their first and Heed. Leafs could flip that (or their 1st)+ any combination of smith, leivo, mueller for a OEL.
Now Nuiverth is out for the Flyers as well as Elliott....
This blows. I really don't want Hextall to give up anything for a goalie, but he might have to now. Hopefully its just a pick and maybe Sam Morin.
I dunno, Lyon looked good last night in relief, maybe wait till the deadline to make a deal before hitting the panic button. I don't think the Flyers are quite there yet, they're really benefiting from a monster season from Couterier.