2017-2018 NHL Thread

[TimKerr]

Presented without comment:

sneak peek at the pie charts for our research into the background of your favourite team's general manager.  Where do these guys come from?

Former pro players are in demand for NHL executive jobs; more so than their sister leagues.  more to come.#NHL #NBA #MLB pic.twitter.com/gL4kbxlQRP

— Jason Paul 💜 (@WaveIntel) February 6, 2018

So you're saying, the Oilers hiring Craig MacTavish and Kevin Lowe to run their front office is a much better move than the Sox and then Cubs hiring Theo Epstein. Got it.

[CarltonTheBear]

In regards to that chart, they defined playing in the "pros" as NHL only. If you expand that to include any notable minor/non-NHL hockey there's really only a handful of GMs in the league that it wouldn't include.

[disco]

Marc-Andre Fleury fighting back tears as he receives a massive ovation in his return to Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/KviGjSet7m

— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) February 7, 2018

You can tell his well-liked and respected. A humble risk to make the move to expansion Vegas and it's paid of in spades for Flower.
Full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8NUMXMg8Y

[Bender]

More teams have adopted a higher pace of play this season compared to last, i.e. a general uptick in shot attempts.
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Follow-up with something easier to parse:

Interesting trend that @draglikepull pointed out - shot rates have gone way up in the NHL this season. Teams appear to be pushing the pace, playing more high-event hockey. pic.twitter.com/8WYVQm87HA

— Ian Tulloch📊 (@IanGraph) February 5, 2018

I had a feeling this was the case. I mean just logically if SV% is high and SH% is only slightly higher then the only thing accounting for such high point totals by players is increased number of shots and/or attempts. I wonder if overall shots against by goalies per 60 are up as well. Would fit nicely

[CarltonTheBear]

Alex Burrows is, unsurprisingly, a piece of human garbage:

Alex Burrows knees Taylor Hall repeatedly in the back of the head during a scrum mid-game.

Suspension incoming? pic.twitter.com/O7ZCERX4Az

— HD365 (@HockeyDaily365) February 7, 2018

Closer look at the knee pic.twitter.com/836fZAeoxY

— Here's Your Replay ⬇️ (@HeresYourReplay) February 7, 2018

Hall lays a clean hit on an Ottawa player (edit: it was actually Burrows who he originally hit). Play continues and Burrows chases Hall around a little bit. Play is called dead and Burrows tackles Hall to the ice and starts kneeing him in the head multiple times.

20 games please.

[L K]

Alex Burrows is, unsurprisingly, a piece of human garbage:

Hall lays a clean hit on an Ottawa player. Play continues and Burrows chases Hall around a little bit. Play is called dead and Burrows tackles Hall to the ice and starts kneeing him in the head multiple times.

20 games please.

Not just jumping him after the play....he waits until the linesman/refs are tied up with other scrums to jump him.

[CarltonTheBear]

George Parros this past September:

"I've always thought that they could have been a bit harsher on certain plays that I felt where clearly someone intended to do something that was away from the play, had nothing to do with the game and no benefit other than to disable or hurt a person," Parros said. "Just trying to go a little bit harder on those, because I felt it's been soft in some instances."

Anything less than 10 games would be a complete failure on his part. Burrows was offered (and declined) an in-person hearing so it will likely be at least 6 games.

[hockeyfan1]

Couldn't quite believe what Burrows was doing.  Kneeing someone (Hall) in the head.  Is this a newfound form of 'headshots'? 

The guy should be suspended at least ten games minimum, twenty games maximum.  This type of garbage needs to be buried from the game.

[Bullfrog]

He gets 10 games. $134k

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/ottawa-forward-alexandre-burrows-suspended-10-games-013708947--nhl.html

[AvroArrow]

Should have been more.  Very disappointing.
There's NO reason to be kneeing in this game, and this little **** has a rap sheet.

[CarltonTheBear]

Well they did the bare minimum of what was acceptable to me, but still not really something to celebrate.

Hall not being injured in any way probably saved Burrows' ass, which is dumb.

[Nik Bethune]

Any other sport on the planet and that's, at minimum, a quarter of the season.

[CarltonTheBear]

NHL waivers today: Brendan Smith (NYR), Marcus Kruger (Car) and Josh Jooris (Car)

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 8, 2018

Smith and Kruger are pretty surprising names to see on the waiver wire.

Smith was a guy I really liked in the playoffs and thought the Leafs should look into him when he was an UFA this summer, but the contract he signed is too big for me (4 years, $4.35mil AAV). Very weird that he's on waivers. It doesn't seem like he's having a great season but it hasn't been awful either.

[CarltonTheBear]

I didn't realize just how bad the Rangers have been from a possession standpoint. They're last in the league in CF% at 45.8%. They have just a single player over 50% and it's Zibanejad at 50.5%. Their 6 regular defencemen all range from 46.7%-45%. They are still technically in the playoff race thanks entirely to Lundqvist but even that is fading fast.

[herman]

NHL waivers today: Brendan Smith (NYR), Marcus Kruger (Car) and Josh Jooris (Car)

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 8, 2018

Smith and Kruger are pretty surprising names to see on the waiver wire.

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Kruger could be intriguing, but we're at 50