Randall Flagg

https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1641832/raving-about-rasmus-dahlins-impact-already-extends-past-the-obvious Not sure if it was posted here but this is a fun article. Players talk about my favorite thing about Dahlin - so many times, in a tight squeeze, he gets the puck through players to his teammates. Because he fully understands where their sticks and legs are, and what they're expecting, and where they're going to move those things. Datsyuk was amazing at stuff like that too.

Pastrnak plays on the best line in hockey with arguably the best winger in hockey and the best two-way center in hockey Draisaitl is comprehensively worse than Eichel WITH McDavid and has pitiful metrics away from McD relative neither makes Jack look bad and neither would be as good as Jack on this team with its rosters over the past 4 years

Also, a 130+ straight game stretch of pacing for like 80 points makes that phrasing "true" and also incredibly misleading.

Sure. Beats not having an Eichel to "gamble" on. As soon as the complementary Draisatil took 8.5 Jack's was never not going to happen that way as the franchise piece

I will not watch them until he's off the roster. I'd happily follow the trek to 2-14 otherwise.

Eichel's contract isn't about what he's worth in November 2018. If he never grows from right here he'll be worth it once the cap raises a little and all the guys on ELCs now sign THEIR second deals. When the Nylanders of the world get ~8 mil. Jack's just one of the first of his kind to sign this deal.

Seabrook became one of the worst defensemen to skate regular minutes a couple years ago

A sh*t bird is always going to be a sh*t bird

Oh come on, whose life doesn't get better when they unplug until they have to plug back in again? It's like a vacation to a cabin in the mountains with no wifi.

She's outstanding. I've had Thanksgiving cooked by many people in my life. I've tasted the spectrum of turkey, as judged by many competent adults. It's all dry and disgusting.

Now this is good, juicy stuff. Unlike the biggest myth ever created, that turkey can be a juicy meat, and tastes good Anywho, peace out politics, until 2020!! The start of a glorious, peaceful, and quiet stretch of time

Too bad turkey is trash and the rest of the Thanksgiving meal is average at best (though the rest of the day with family, fall, football is indeed so pleasant) I poked my head into politics on the internet for the first time since the semester started really (knowledge of the Kavanaugh stuff came because it all happened when my family was here visiting and had to put it on TV lol). Tonight seems pretty par for the course, no? House switching sides in the first midterm of a president's tenure? I feel like both liberals and conservatives are fairly happy and slightly disappointed? It's quite the House gain for the dems, but they don't get any senate action when the court seems to be the topic that rules the day. Vice versa for republicans. Idk what I'm talking about tho

I think less of your character for that continued crusade

As predicted, you outrageously paint Matthews' stunning success as a 100% victory in your bizarre and phony character assassination attempt that has zero basis in reality outside of "he played his predraft season in Europe as opposed to the NCAA." And just like you would expect, it makes you look even more foolish than you did along the way.

Same, that's why I had to investigate - particularly the offensive numbers, he spent his first two or three years working solely on the defensive side of things (both his and his coaching staff's priority) which worked out quite nicely. Dahlin and our coaching staff have said the exact same things as well, and IMO things are going swimmingly. The only "red" in that chart is the red that indicates he's being sheltered in usage. Perfecto.

Yeah, looking at all these ideas, I'm just going to pass on trading with these two particular teams

And by the way, it looks like the Blues fans who said not to play Berglund and Sobotka together were bang on. Dear god

Just kidding I did look. Sobotka ain't pretty. But Reinhart and he are a better couple than they are apart. Look for the Blue 23 - that's Vlad doing quite bad without Sam. Look for the red 23: that's Sam doing better, but not quite good, without Vlad. Then the Black 23 is them being on the positive side of shot shares together. Of course, this is just some chart. On the ice, when Vlad is with, say, Thompson, or something, his penchant of "surviving" board battles doesn't get much done, because those particular teammates won't help out or do anything with the puck if he can get it to them. Sam is a fulcrum from the boards to offensive zone possession in better areas than the boards, though, which is why better things happen for Vlad when he's with Sam.

I think Sobotka does improve besides Reinhart actually. But I'm too lazy to go look. They just don't improve to "being able to produce at ES" levels, though they can play alright hockey together. Agreed on the second sentence. And the third paragraph thing makes sense with our roster structure, that's how it probably should be.

That's not Hedman's rookie season, that's 16-17. He was 3rd in Norris voting and 14th in Hart voting that season

The number on the bar (or the bar's length/color) indicate where each of those metrics falls relative to his peers, as a percentile. For example, expected-goals-against, he is in the 72nd percentile. Less than 30% of NHL defenseman have a better expected-goals-against. Broadly speaking, he is quite comfortably a legitimate NHL 3D based on that chart, being sizably better than 50% of all defensemen at many things. Which is very impressive for an 18yo at that position.

Quite.

But that would only cement their need for the excellent production they're getting from such a cheap contract, since they have so little cap flexibility.

If you had a cost-controlled player on his ELC who scored 28 goals in his rookie year and is at a point per game pace in his sophomore year, how much would it take to pry that rookie from your team? That's probably what it would take

He said Reinhart and Beaulieu for Saad/Anisimov. No mention of DeBrincat. And I would make that Kings trade, but the Kings wouldn't. That's all I was saying. I'm in general for making moves to improve the team literally 100% of the time