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2012-2013 NHL Thread

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If there was a code Vinny would have been more guilty of it. Talbot was already laying out on the ice and Vinny was still throwing. Not a big deal with either really.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
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The influence of the Bruins Lucic on the Northeast division...

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/49860-Lucic-shaping-the-whole-of-the-Northeast.html

The most influential player in the Northeast Division is Boston Bruins left winger Milan Lucic. Montreal?s Carey Price may be more important to his team and the Bruins? Zdeno Chara may be the best player, but no other skater has changed the landscape like ?Looch.

....how the Northeast has positioned itself. Montreal?s big free agent grab in the summer was Brandon Prust, a big, fighting winger who can also take a regular shift. Buffalo brought in 6-foot-8 monster John Scott. Toronto, which has always had a cadre of enforcers, nonetheless picked up mammoth fighter Frazer McLaren off waivers from San Jose, coincidentally right before a game with Boston.

...it?s the threat of Lucic that looms large, hence his Here?s a player who has scored 30 goals in a season and broken the 60-point mark in his past two campaigns. He?s on the power play and the B?s top line. Simply put, he can?t be ignored.

Left unchecked, Lucic is going to run around for 17 minutes a game, causing havoc, upsetting apple carts and maybe scoring a dagger goal.

...and...

According to hockeyfights.com, the NHL is on pace for the most tilts per game since 2001-02, with 0.65. For years now, there has been speculation fighting would die out or be legislated out..

Speaking of fighting...evolving training industry that has enforcers working with mixed martial arts instructors in the summer (principally for balance and strength) has influenced the way guys throw punches now.
 
Tyler Myers is a healthy scratch tonight.

Sorry, Tyler "I got a $10mil signing bonus this summer while everyone else was locked out" Myers is a healthy scratch tonight.
 
Anyone agree?

Goaltending interference...

Through the first 140 games this season, there were 41 goalie interference calls made. In the same period last season, there were 34 and through 140 games of the 2010-11 season, there were 32.

The referees on the ice will always err on the side of caution when it comes to contact with goalies, but they also have to apply the rule as it?s stated in the NHL rulebook. In it, Rule 69 states, ?Incidental contact with a goalkeeper will be permitted, and resulting goals allowed, when such contact is initiated outside of the goal crease, provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact".

Increasingly...defensemen push opposing forwards into their own goalie, then getting the benefit of the goaltender interference call if a goal is scored.

There was a time when referees called a goal back if an opposing player?s DNA was in the crease, but then the league realized applying that rule in such a way didn?t make sense. It?s time it did the same thing with respect to incidental contact.

Source: THN
 
I know Myers had that one good year, but I thought the contract Buffalo gave him, both in terms of length and money, was loony.
 
bustaheims said:
In other league news, the Flames are still really bad.
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They just have to rebuild already. The team's EXACTLY like the Leafs of a few years ago, even down to some of the players (Stajan, Stempniak). They have to trade Iginla at the deadline, it'll be for the best. If Edmonton can trade Ryan Smyth then Calgary can trade Iginla.
 
In one of the least surprising news items of the season . . .

TSNBobMcKenzie: CBJ announces that GM Scott Howson has been relieved of his duties.
 
Francois Giguere, Doug Risebrough, Craig Button, Rick Dudley, and of course Brian Burke come to mind as possible candidates to replace Howson.

EDIT: John Shannon also mentions Jarmo Kekalainen as a possible replacement. Most fans know the former Blues assistant GM as the European guy who made St. Louis' 1st round pick every year. He left the team to become GM of Jokerit in 2010.
 
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