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2018-2019 NHL Thread

herman said:
Which team will pony up for Taylor Hall at the next deadline to ensure a lottery victory?
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I'm wondering what we should offer up for him.  He's possibly the most valuable single asset in the league.
 
https://www.tsn.ca/pettersson-binnington-dahlin-up-for-calder-1.1297415
https://www.tsn.ca/mcdavid-kucherov-crosby-up-for-hart-1.1297852
 
AvroArrow said:
https://www.tsn.ca/pettersson-binnington-dahlin-up-for-calder-1.1297415
https://www.tsn.ca/mcdavid-kucherov-crosby-up-for-hart-1.1297852
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I know the writers vote on who gets in but I don't think Biddington should be there,  he only played 32 games, not even half a year. Also surprised Kane got snubbed for the MVP nomination. McDavid should win it tho. Responsible for over 50% of Oiler goals, unreal.
 
Guilt Trip said:
I know the writers vote on who gets in but I don't think Biddington should be there,  he only played 32 games, not even half a year.
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Well, it's over half a season for a goalie.  The top 5 goalies in terms of games played are between 62 and 67.
 
AvroArrow said:
Guilt Trip said:
I know the writers vote on who gets in but I don't think Biddington should be there,  he only played 32 games, not even half a year.
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Well, it's over half a season for a goalie.  The top 5 goalies in terms of games played are between 62 and 67.
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So it's half. Either way I think the vote still stands, I think St. Louis stuck behind a terrible Jake Allen for way too long and brought it someone decent. I think a league average goalie would've done well as well. I think St. Louis was a good team stuck behind awful goaltending. Good on Binnington but he's coming back down to Earth. Pettersson should get it, without question.

 
AvroArrow said:
Guilt Trip said:
I know the writers vote on who gets in but I don't think Biddington should be there,  he only played 32 games, not even half a year.
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Well, it's over half a season for a goalie.  The top 5 goalies in terms of games played are between 62 and 67.
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Yeah, and I think if he only played 32 games spread over the course of the entire season I might be less inclined to offer him a nomination, but he was their unquestionable starter for the entire second half of St. Louis' season. And if there were Hart/Vezina awards for just the 2nd half he'd be getting attention for both, so I think he definitely earned the Calder nom.

Pettersson is of course 100% going to end up as the winner though.
 
AvroArrow said:
Well, it's over half a season for a goalie.  The top 5 goalies in terms of games played are between 62 and 67.
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Especially for a rookie goalie. The impact Binnington had was more than enough for him to garner serious consideration for the Calder.
 
https://twitter.com/jaycaspiankang/status/1123030455681466368

This is a tweet about the NBA but it's really just as relevant about the NHL. The more and more that there's parity and a certain uniformity in tactics, the more and more important that a variable like refereeing becomes. I think this tremendously informs how much complaining we see about refereeing because an ill-timed penalty here or there can have a major impact in a game between two evenly matched teams.

I've made the point a lot about playoff hockey but the whole notion that playoff hockey is a "different game" than the regular season is less about grit and fortitude and more about how refereeing starts rewarding different elements of play.
 
https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1123279910137556992
https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/1123281839853060098
 
Bender said:
I would've made that trade.
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He only wanted New York, and everybody knew it, so I'm surprised they bothered to spend some of their 30 picks (in the next 3 drafts). I guess they wanted to make sure, and not waste the waiting year, because they can now ELC him earlier. Assuming he fast tracked his schooling, he can skip senior year and start playing NHL hockey this fall.
 
The Kessel Sweepstakes is back on!
https://twitter.com/RussoHockey/status/1131623419127173120

Once upon a time, I proposed a trade

Kessel + Polak <--> Zucker, Niederreiter, Vanek, 1st

and this is basically almost that
 
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