General Hockey Talk - Injuries, signings, factoids + other news from around the league

Here's a good indicator of Clouston's line-juggling -- take a look at Spezza's even-strength linemates:

Frequency Strength Line Combination
25.61% EV 27 KOVALEV,ALEX - 13 REGIN,PETER - 19 SPEZZA,JASON
14.06% EV 11 ALFREDSSON,DANIEL - 13 REGIN,PETER - 19 SPEZZA,JASON
13.79% EV 11 ALFREDSSON,DANIEL - 9 MICHALEK,MILAN - 19 SPEZZA,JASON
13.05% EV 27 KOVALEV,ALEX - 9 MICHALEK,MILAN - 19 SPEZZA,JASON

That's our top-line center. You'd figure the top line, at least, would have at least one 40%+ combination.

Datsyuk to miss at least 4 weeks -- broken bone in his wrist after he tripped over Mikael Samuelsson in Thursday night's OT win against the Canucks.

wprager wrote:For the record, that link is:
http://www.dobberhockey.com/frozenpool_linecombo.php

According to that app Pronger's regular partner is Matt Carle (over 83% of his EV time). But on the special teams Pronger is usually teamed up with Timonen (over 86% on the PK and over 88% on the PP).

Cool stats.


It may be only a recent development (last 5-6 games?) but Karlsson's been playing with Phillips almost as much as Kuba (23.68% versus 24.83%). Did not know that.

Nice site.

Lucic to have a meeting with Mike Murphy regarding his "sucker" punch to Meyer:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=346774

That was not very nice of him....

Note - Mike Murphy is working this one due to Campbell's son being a part of the B's org.

No suspension for Lucic...

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=346873

$3500 fine though.

As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

Either way, get well Jordan.

Speaking on New Jersey, it's not just PMDs they're lacking:

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2010/12/jacques_lemaire_doesnt_blame_j.html

Two games after replacing John MacLean as head coach, Jacques Lemaire doesn't like what he sees.
As unlikely as it may seem 35 games into the season, the Devils are out of shape.
"It's not only practices. The thing is, you stop pushing," Lemaire explained today after a practice which included skating at the end. "As a player in practice you have to push until it hurts. If you don't do that, you're not in the best shape possible. It's got to hurt.
"If you stop pushing, what does it do? You get out of shape."

Hoags wrote:Speaking on New Jersey, it's not just PMDs they're lacking:

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2010/12/jacques_lemaire_doesnt_blame_j.html

Two games after replacing John MacLean as head coach, Jacques Lemaire doesn't like what he sees.
As unlikely as it may seem 35 games into the season, the Devils are out of shape.
"It's not only practices. The thing is, you stop pushing," Lemaire explained today after a practice which included skating at the end. "As a player in practice you have to push until it hurts. If you don't do that, you're not in the best shape possible. It's got to hurt.
"If you stop pushing, what does it do? You get out of shape."

Sounds familiar. That was what Clouston's first impression of the Sens when he took the job.

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

Then why post it?

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/12/27/16684031.html

hemlock wrote:

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

Then why post it?

I posted it because I was on this site at the time of the phone call, because I trust the relationship I have with the caller and because my friend would know before the media would anyway.

Big Ev wrote:

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/12/27/16684031.html

CR beat TS by 13 minutes with his post. Maybe someone's cyber-stalking him.

wprager wrote:

Big Ev wrote:

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/2010/12/27/16684031.html

CR beat TS by 13 minutes with his post. Maybe someone's cyber-stalking him.

For the record, I wasn't trying to "beat" anybody.

hemlock wrote:

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

Then why post it?

To add the my earlier response:

Who cares why I posted it anyway? The amount of rumors, speculation, predictions and forecasting that comes out of nowhere on this site, I or anybody should be able to post anything I/we want without being questioned.

My tidbit of info - from someone I trust - turned out to be accurate; I can't say the same for 99% of the specualtion on this site - which has actually kept me away from this site for a 2 week period earlier this month (well that and visiting friends, haha). Too much unsubstantiated rumor talk IMO.

Not my cup of tea is all. It is what it is; I just always try to actually talk hockey IQ and on-ice situations. To each their own.

Is this considered a rant? Haha.

CockRoche wrote:

hemlock wrote:

CockRoche wrote:As I sit here chatting with SeawaySensFan and asq2, a friend of mine called me and tells me that Jordan Tootoo has entered in the NHL's substance and behavioral health program/rehab facility.

I believe him, but haven't read it anywhere in the media yet, but I'm not a big internet surfer anyway. Maybe it is not public yet and I shouldn't have said anything.

Then why post it?

To add the my earlier response:

Who cares why I posted it anyway? The amount of rumors, speculation, predictions and forecasting that comes out of nowhere on this site, I or anybody should be able to post anything I/we want without being questioned.

My tidbit of info - from someone I trust - turned out to be accurate; I can't say the same for 99% of the specualtion on this site - which has actually kept me away from this site for a 2 week period earlier this month (well that and visiting friends, haha). Too much unsubstantiated rumor talk IMO.

Not my cup of tea is all. It is what it is; I just always try to actually talk hockey IQ and on-ice situations. To each their own.

Is this considered a rant? Haha.

A rant? I'd say so. You yourself wondered aloud whether to post this or not, so I simply asked in jest, why.

If you can't handle the speculation and unsubstantiated rumour talk, then this probably isn't the best site for you.