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spader wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yost wrote an article on how trading RNH makes sense for the entire NHL, including the Oilers, and I would agree. Do something.

Link? I can't find such an article.

I had it through Twitter and now can't find it at all. Dang.

Gudas will have a hearing today. Flyers don't play until Friday, what's the hurry? Unless it's because a suspension is likely and the Flyers already have a callup on D, so I don't think they have a 7th on the roster right now.

I wonder how Gudas will try to defend his actions. The puck is on the ice and the hit is almost 6' above the ice. There was no body contact, it was all arm to face. There was literally nothing about that hit that was anything to do with a hockey play.

And yet every member of the officiating crew *missed* it. I find that completely inexcusable.

spader wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:Brutal, Edmonton just can't win with those guys.

You have to really question the desire to win that locker room. Its either because some of those guys just dont know how to or they dont have leadership capabilities but no matter what piece they add they dont seem to really put it together. They added some better peices via free agency the last couple of years but to no avail.

They need to move one of the big names and bring in better D and a quality leader in that room.

I wonder what Dash thinks.

I don't think Dash would dare say anything. If there was one time someone was ever wrong it was there.
But I'll admit that I as well thought Edm would be better by now.

wprager wrote:Gudas will have a hearing today.  Flyers don't play until Friday, what's the hurry?  Unless it's because a suspension is likely and the Flyers already have a callup on D, so I don't think they have a 7th on the roster right now.

I wonder how Gudas will try to defend his actions.  The puck is on the ice and the hit is almost 6' above the ice.  There was no body contact, it was all arm to face.  There was literally nothing about that hit that was anything to do with a hockey play.

And yet every member of the officiating crew *missed* it.  I find that completely inexcusable.

This is par for the course with NHL officiating. They missed it. It happens all the time. Gudas will be suspended, probably a couple games.

tim1_2 wrote:

spader wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yost wrote an article on how trading RNH makes sense for the entire NHL, including the Oilers, and I would agree. Do something.

Link? I can't find such an article.

I had it through Twitter and now can't find it at all.  Dang.

The top 2 trade candidates are RNH and Eberle, according to LeBrun.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

spader wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Yost wrote an article on how trading RNH makes sense for the entire NHL, including the Oilers, and I would agree. Do something.

Link? I can't find such an article.

I had it through Twitter and now can't find it at all.  Dang.

The top 2 trade candidates are RNH and Eberle, according to LeBrun.

you have to think that the oil won't really have achance at getting better if they put purcell on the market.
Eberle i think is a gamble for a team. sure he's shown he can score but he's not a very physical player and probably should go to a team that has plenty of those. plus he gets injured quite a bit. buyers beware.
RNH is intriguing. Definitely a good trade chip, does ChiChi risk having another Seguin trade fiasco on his hand when he deals him? I sure hope so.

You have to ask yourself how much you want anyone from Edmonton. These guys are perennial losers.

SpezDispensed wrote:You have to ask yourself how much you want anyone from Edmonton.  These guys are perennial losers.

definitely. i don't think just any franchise can bring some of those types of players in. I think you need a solid group of players and a core that won't be affected by it.

Three games for Gudas. Would have been fine with 5 minutes.

John Scott is the leading vote-getter in the ASG.

John. Scott.

spader wrote:John Scott is the leading vote-getter in the ASG.

John. Scott.

Congrats to Scotty.

They do it every year. Last year it was Girgensens. The choice of John Scott, of course, is sheer brilliance, but the idea was the same.

wprager wrote:They do it every year.  Last year it was Girgensens.  The choice of John Scott, of course, is sheer brilliance, but the idea was the same.

Scott is getting some vote love from a group of Latvian supporters?

spader wrote:

wprager wrote:They do it every year.  Last year it was Girgensens.  The choice of John Scott, of course, is sheer brilliance, but the idea was the same.

Scott is getting some vote love from a group of Latvian supporters?

"They" were the Latvians last year. This year it's happening everywhere!

spader wrote:

wprager wrote:They do it every year.  Last year it was Girgensens.  The choice of John Scott, of course, is sheer brilliance, but the idea was the same.

Scott is getting some vote love from a group of Latvian supporters?

As he should. Scotty is the feel-good story of the year!

GO SCOTTY GO!!!!

Johns Scotts.

Blackhawks have placed Tikhonov on waivers. Wow. I guess Panarin's English is good enough now?

To be honest, I love it when some flunky gets voted in to the ASG. The NHL should embrace this.