Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[SKYO]

Dylan Strome sent to the AHL, apparently Kempe outplayed him.

[Chef Boi RD]

Hudler knows how to party.

Former Detroit Red Wings and Calgary Flames forward Jiri Hudler is accused of having an outburst on a flight to Prague in which he threatened flight attendants, demanded cocaine and tried to urinate in a food cart, according to a report in the Czech Republic.

lol sounds like the Dude on the Greyhound to Kamloops en route to a John Cougar concert

Listen Blobbee Macaroni you crazy Sicilian, your thoughts - Dorsett, Sutter and Virtanen in the season opener?

[Chef Boi RD]

Dylan Strome sent to the AHL, apparently Kempe outplayed him.

Are all of you finally waking to the true meaning of "Strome" which means "NHL Bust"

[SKYO]

Alex Galchenyuk’s Struggles Continue In Montreal
https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2017/10 ... treal.html

After the Candiens went out this summer and acquired Jonathan Drouin, trade speculation spiked around Galchenyuk as the team seemed to have moved on.

Still, they did reach a three-year deal that will pay Galchenyuk $4.9MM per season, and all seemed to settle for a while during training camp. Now though, Galchenyuk has been dropped to the fourth line as part of a shakeup by Julien following the team’s early season struggles. The young forward doesn’t seem thrown off by it, telling Matt Cudzinowski of NHL.com that he just wants to help the team.

Julien doesn't like his perimeter play and poor back checking, weaker faceoff skills. Galchy seems destined to be traded soon. Could be a solid reclamation project.

Speaking of the Habs they obviously would love Duchene but they traded their bluechipper dman for Drouin that the Avs want in any deal so they don't have the assets to make a move like that unless they can try a 3way deal.

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People still bewildered Tavares isn't re-signed by now, NYI folks getting paranoid.

[BladesofSteel]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

[Jovocop]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

Didn't Benning just trade for Pouliot?

[SKYO]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

Well if you can improve the team for the future without mortgaging the farm, it's at least worth looking into for Galchenyuk who is still only 23 yrs old.

Hypothetically if Vancouver got him, they can "reconstruct" & prepare him for 2nd line duties when the Sedins retire after this season - see if he and Goldy can recreate their chemistry.

And besides top tier dmen are much too difficult to trade for unless you got top tier assets to move, like what the Habs did with (PK Subban) or forwards (T. Hall -> Larssen, RyJo -> Seth Jones) or multiple picks (1st, 2nd's -> Hamilton) to deal, & these days it's even rarer that a top dman reaches UFA, it's in your teams best interest to draft and develop them, consequently it's good to see Benning/Linden hiring extra help to develop Olli Juolevi properly with Salo.

Tryamkin is the next best hope to become a potential beast dman in 3 years.
Chatfield and Brisebios seem like good future dmen in a depth role.

[2Fingers]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

Sorry BoS, Nucks have 1 top 3 forward so they need both forwards and defence

[Hockey Widow]

From SN:

Oilers’ Draisaitl out with eye injury, won’t play vs. Senators

Emily Sadler
October 13, 2017, 2:33 PM
The Edmonton Oilers will be without forward Leon Draisaitl when they take on the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

The team made the announcement Friday afternoon, saying Draisaitl’s eye has yet to fully heal following an incident during Monday night’s loss to the Winnipeg Jets.

It’s unclear what happened, exactly, that caused the injury. Draisaitl finished Monday’s game, but missed practice Wednesday and Thursday and did not skate Friday.

“The swelling has come down in the eye and he has a bit of vision in it,” Oilers coach Todd McLellan said Thursday, via Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal. “But it wasn’t safe to put him on the ice (Thursday) and it’s not something we’re going to fool around with until he’s 100 per cent ready to come back.”

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I really hope this is not serious. It would be really unfortunate to lose such a bright, young star.

[SKYO]

^ Jim Matheson also said besides the eye injury, Draisaitl may have a concussion issue.

[Iceman2014]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

Sorry BoS, Nucks have 1 top 3 forward so they need both forwards and defence

Who is the one top 3 forward? Also, you and your scouting department have already declared all of those prospects as not top line players? Wow. You should be charging money for those bold, accurate predictions.

[2Fingers]

If Benning is looking to swing a major deal, his focus should be on acquiring a top tier d-man. Up front, there are plenty of players developing, best to just sit tight and see who take the reigns.

But that blueline....

Sorry BoS, Nucks have 1 top 3 forward so they need both forwards and defence

Who is the one top 3 forward? Also, you and your scouting department have already declared all of those prospects as not top line players? Wow. You should be charging money for those bold, accurate predictions.

Horvat is the single top 3 forward on the team.

If you disagree tell me who will be top 3 for this team?

Lol you should lay off the dope their dude, it wrecks your brain cells. a prospect is a prospect is a prospect until they play in the NHL. The league is full of players drafted top 5 that never made their NHL team let alone became a top 3 forward.

[Hockey Widow]

Nathan MacKinnon latest victim to a high stick to the ey.

From SN:

MacKinnon gets stick right in the eye against Ducks

Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon injured by nasty high stick

Mike Johnston
October 13, 2017, 10:12 PM
Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon was on the receiving end of a nasty-looking high stick from Anaheim Ducks centre Derek Grant Friday.

Grant, in an apparent attempt to lift MacKinnon’s stick, caught the 2013 first-overall pick underneath the visor with the blade of his stick midway through the opening period during a Colorado power play.


MacKinnon immediately fell to the ice near the Anaheim net where he looked to be in considerable pain. He was clutching the area near his right eye as medical staff attended to him. There were some spots of blood visible on the ice where MacKinnon went down.

The play went unnoticed by officials as Grant was not penalized.

MacKinnon headed to the locker room with 7:06 remaining in the first period and the team later announced he would not return to the game with an eye injury.

Two premier players with eye injuries in a short period of time. Hope he's ok.

[BladesofSteel]

This is an epidemic!

That's it!! Grandfather mandatory full face shields. We can't risk losing another star.

[Mickey107]

MacKinnon's eye injury looks pretty bad.
I've had a couple of close calls where the cut was close enough for blood to leak into the eye and the vision just
whites out and it freaks you out, you can't really tell where the pain is coming from.
Hope that's the case in both incidents.