Johnny DangerFace

Even if you believe that (no arguing with those points if you seriously believe that), it actually is hard to find a goaltender who is consistently at least average.......its why there are a lot of teams that have goalie issues....Go make a list of goalies over the past 5 years who occasionally get into the top 10 of stats but never drop below average. Lol, grizzly adams did have a beard.

This is my issue with you. Here is the spectrum of reasonable-ness Enroth can't be an nhl caliber goalie Enroth Can't be a good starting NHL goalie Enroth may or may not be able to become a good nhl starting goalie. Enroth will be a good starting NHL goalie Enroth can come in and replace a franchise goalie and there is no reason to think otherwise. Sorry, but you are on an extreme end of the spectrum, and its just not reasonable. Do you also think eddie lack can simply replace luongo, they have simliar save percentages. Do you think gustavsson can replace jimmy howard? Greiss in phoenix? Raanta in Chicago. Jones in LA. Hutton in nashville. I'm not sure if you realize this, but backup goalies tend to put up pretty good stats because they get long stretches of breaks, and coaches have a strategy of when to play their backup goalie where it will cost them less. Im not saying enroth cant be better than miller, but no one knows. Being a starting goalie is very different than being a backup goalie. And for the record im in the camp that says you don't know what you have until you see it. Enroth has been great as a backup and I think he has potential to be a grat starting goalie. But it won't be easy to replace miller

I think I figured out the reasoning, but I could be wrong. It is too prevent teams from "flooding" the ahl with non-olympic waiver-exempt players that normally wouldn't get sent down to the AHL ever. So they made up this date (january 24th) and the time until that Jan.24 date and the olympic break start is roughly the same length as the actual Olympic break. So if you want to send down one of you nhl players (they qualify someone as an nhl player as someone who plays 75% of the games before jan.24), you have to do so before January 24th and can't bring them back up again (or they get an Olympic break with no ahl). Now I realize what i typed made no sense (it makes sense in my head). But let's take Nathan Mackinnon of the Avalanche. The avalanche can either leave him in the nhl, and then he gets a two week break during the Olympics OR send him down now and he misses two weeks of NHL time due to this Jan.24 date. Since the Avalanche actually want to use nathan mackinnon, they are going to keep him on the roster past this deadline meaning he has earned an olympic break from hockey. If they didn't have this rule 2 weeks out, the avalanche could use mackinnon, and then send him down right before the break, and then mackinnon could play in the AHL. The NHL doesn't want this as they view mackinnon as NHL player, and therefore he gets an Olympic break along with the rest of the nhl players Does that make sense to anyone else but me?!?! I can't express this for whatever reason haha

Ruheeeeedel can be sent down during the Olympic break while psysk wouldn't have been able too. I suspect he will play. Sulzer can sit xd Players who have been up for 3/4 of the season had to get sent down today to be ahl eligible during the Olympic break

It's so pysyk can play in The ahl during the Olympic break. He had to get sent down before 5

I want stafford to play out his deal sign a long term team friendly deal as a 3rd line scorer.

Yea he would definilty be claimed...no risk, high reward.

Hahahaha. They better not go into triple overtime

I mean I kind of get it. But those players aren't close to this core. None of them were drafted higher than pysyk. I just think scoring is what we need badly, not d. We traded a defenseman for a scoring prospect. What's annoying is people here want us to trade for young players, but don't grasp the concept we have to give up talent as well. If we trade away a player , we are going to have a three year old thread still whining about the potential of a player we gave up. If we traded away pysyk for o'reilly, then we are going to have a pysyk thread that gets updated every time he gets a point for all eternity There is such thing as a good trade for both teams.

Playoff gerbe is a feisty gerbe my friend. They wouldn't dare antagonize it

Yes. Spinning no look backhand for the clincher

I think enroth definitely has the potential to be a good starting goalie with a solid defense.

Ristolainen - AHL Zadorov - OHL McCabe - NCAA psysk - rookie That's why. No one is saying their d is strong now, but we are going through a rebuild. Young D is the only thing we have a surplus of. Scoring talent is a need. We traded a young defenseman for scoring potential. Pysyk, Myers, ristolainen, zadorov, McCabe, and Erhoff are worth more than sekera

Hey can I borrow your time machine??? I liked the trade then and I still do. You seriously look at this rebuild and think we need that defenseman instead of a scoring prospect....really? Nvm the fact we are stacked with defenseman and lack scoring prospects....

What did I or someone else forget

I'm not fully sure what you are asking. But, there is such a thing as paying your dues and earning the right to speak up and call out teammates. Let's just say one is a young backup goalie and the other is a franchise goalie who has placed in the Olympics and won the vezina trophy

The thing that irks me is enroth called out his teammates....he is the backup goalie. He has now blown three straight third period leads. IMO, he put the spotlight on himself, and he has let in some softies tonight.

again i love enroth and i think he can be an above average starting goalie. But you cant call out your team, then when they put up 3 goals, give up that type of goal in the 3rd. If im not mistaken he has had the lead in the 3rd the past few games and blew the lead

Well he is still playing on an ahl team......Ziiiiing

god sulzer and leino. No business being on an nhl team regardless of if we want to tank

insert paragraph about hodgsons goal tonight

I'm thinking psysk as well (if what I typed is true haha)

Yea but did you see danny paille before his injury in december

Why are we still talking about him? Go join a Canucks forum. He was a first round pick and is showing potential....good for him I hope he has a great career. We traded him years ago, Hodgson has been developing just fine and filled a bigger hole for us and has shown more promise. What's the deal with the obsession over kassian

I posted this in another thread but it seems relevant: There are rules on who can be sent down to the AHL during the Olympic break. Rule 1 (87-day player): If a waiver-exempt player has been on the NHL roster for 75 percent of the season (87 days) before this Friday at 5pm, and remains on the NHL roster past 5pm Friday, then they cannot play in the AHL during the olympic break. Another part of the rule is they cannot play in in their NHL team's last game before the break. So this means that they need to be sent down before 5pm on Friday and not play in the sabre's last game. Rule 2 (16/20 game player): Waiver-exempt players who play in 16 of the last 20 nhl games before the olympic break, cannot play in the AHL during the olympic break regardless. So that's confusing, but what this means is a player like Varone doesn't qualify for either of those rules, and can be sent down to play in the AHL during the break regardless of if if plays after the Jan.24 deadline. And for a player like pysyk (who I believe has been on the sabres for 87 days), they would need to send him down before this Friday at 5 if they want him to play throughout the olympic break.