Curt

Some are, and some aren’t.

Yeah, I’m sure most are. I’m saying that living through a pandemic at age 15-25 might make some young people come to realizations about such things sooner than they otherwise would.

I very think that this is all something that will change a lot of people. It may change the way that a lot of young people view the world. With invincibility, comes responsibility!

That’s bananas! He turned down a guaranteed $700k, for a deal where he could make anywhere between $70k-$700k. Jebus.

So many experiences are being diminished. Turns out that life during a pandemic just isn’t as much fun. Who knew?!

Hickey is 24 years old and hasn’t even shown to be a good AHL player yet. The odds of him becoming anything in the NHL are almost zero. Borgen has a huge scar on his neck from a skate blade accident when he was a teenager. That’s what you are seeing there.

I believe that the Islanders did in fact still hold his rights.

I think the real deal was that it spread all over the world during WWI, wherever it originated from. Most major countries were involved in the war and suppressed their newspapers from writing about how bad the pandemic was there. They didn’t want to expose national weaknesses in the midst of the largest war in the history of the world. Spain on the other hand was not involved in the war and their papers were publishing everything about it when no one else was. The pandemic became permanently linked to the country putting out the most information about it.

I could read the first paragraph and a half...... Anyway, everyone has choices to make. If the local government and university decide it is safe enough to hold in person classes, and this guy chooses to teach in person, as long as everyone adheres to all safety guidelines, there is no problem.

Kiss of death. Boeser will be traded within a month.

I’m sure the teams are pitching in a fair share of bubble expenses. I’m sure it is expensive, but how much more expensive could it possibly be than chartering private jets and the countless other things that NHL teams would normally do?

In 54 games. That’s a 60-65 point pace over a full season. Still I think you may be right. He would probably be 3-3.5 on a bridge, and 4+ on a long term deal.

The best way to get Boeser out of Vancouver would be for someone to take on Loui Erickson in the deal (2 years remaining and the Canucks desperate to unload his contract). I doubt we do any deals like that though given the whole cost cutting thing they seem to be doing. How is Buffalo going to afford to take on Erickson’s salary? I don’t think there is any way to make that work. Eichel-10 Skinner-9 Reinhart-6.5??? Okposo-6 Erickson-6 Boeser-5.8 Olofsson-4.5??? Kahun-3??? Dahlin-7??? Risto-5.4 Montour-4??? Jokiharju-3??? Total- 70.2 for 12 players, that’s tough.

That trade seems bad. One year of 36 year old Eric Staal and a young bottom 6 winger for Mittelstadt, one year of Johansson, and two years of Miller???

Well, there some things going on right now that are more important than a hockey player draft, so I don’t really see what choice they had this year. I know this virtual draft is going to be REALLY TOUGH on everyone but hopefully we’ll all be able to get through it.

I mean, yeah, that’s pretty much the reason for hope though. You just described the situation that they are in. They are going to be desperate for cap space and they have very limited options of players that can be moved. If they weren’t desperate, why would they move him? But it’s very probable that they will be desperate, so maybe they will.

I wanted to ask LGR4GM, and anyone else, about Sam Colangelo. It seems to me that he may be a good target to take in the 2nd round at #38. He had good but not amazing numbers for a very good Chicago Steel team of the USHL. If you dig into the numbers a bit, they look even more impressive though. Overall, he had 28-30-58 in 44 games. That’s good but not incredible for the USHL, it’s a weaker league than CHL. However, 47 of those 58 came at ES and 49 of those 58 were Primary Points. Also he wasn’t getting incredibly high ice time for his team, about 17:30. That’s less than most top draft prospects in junior leagues. They routinely get 20+. I think that combined, these numbers point to someone who could be a little undervalued. As a player, he is a big (6’2” 205+), physical right wing, with good skating agility and acceleration, but only average speed. He is good at winning board battles and fighting through checks. He is a good shooter who goes to the dirty areas to score. Not a great playmaker but can control the puck and make good passes. He forechecks aggressively and back checks well, with a good motor. Basically a power forward RW who works hard in all 3 zones. I suppose there could be questions about how well the offense will translate against bigger, stronger competition. Anyone have insights on him? (Side Note: Seth Jarvis also only got about 17:30 TOI, if he had been getting 22 like some top draft prospects, his numbers would probably be crazy high and he might be a consensus top-10 pick)

Like I said, it’s the NHL, things don’t need to make sense.

But Kevy has never drafted a bust!

I hear the logic of where you are coming from, but I bet that in the end, the 8 teams who lose in the play-in round, do not end up being classified as playoff teams. Otherwise, why call it a play-in round, as opposed to round 1? And teams who have conditional draft picks made the trades based on a 16 team playoff, not 24. I the end, I think only the remaining 16 teams will be considered playoff teams. It’s the NHL and it’s a pandemic. It doesn’t need to make perfect sense.

But does it count as making the playoffs for the purposes of conditional draft picks?

Skinner has a NTC. He would have to want to go across the continent from where he wanted to live 12 months ago.

Right. It said that a players stats in the play-in games would count towards their career playoff stats, as opposed to regular season. That’s all. It does not say that all 24 teams are officially counted as making the playoffs.

Where did you see that all 24 are officially considered as having made the playoffs? This is important because there are trade conditions that depend upon this. I didn’t think there had been an official ruling.

Could Montour not be considered cost controlled as a RFA? Are they looking only for guys on their ELCs? The top-pair thing is relative. Benning apparently thought Myers could be, so...........