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He's back on the roster now, was likely just a glitch as you said.

Reports out there that Silf has been removed from the Ducks roster. Trade incoming?

Also I know Rakell was injured, but Deslauries was on the ice with 40 seconds left in regulation last night. That is just insane.

What I mean is that Henrique isn't working on the Zegras line. He just isn't finishing. Then he gets some time with other players, and suddenly scores. I'm not saying you have to keep those 2 guys paired together, but what the set lines aren't working great. Yet Eakins keeps persisting with them. Last night was actually the first game where I thought Henrique didn't look like he was skating through concrete.

I don't get some of the line choices. Zegras and Milano combined for 2 goals against Winnipeg despite not being on the same line, because they were in the middle of line changes when the goals were scored. They were kept on separate lines to start the next game. Why? Last night, Henrique got a goal off a pass from Silfverberg in the second period. By the 3rd period they were on separate lines again. Persisting with Henrique playing with Zegras when he hasn't been able to finish anything is ludicrous. Persisting with Grant as a checking center is ludicrous (at least he has been in the press box more lately).

It's all speculation of course but certainly possible. It does seem strange that he couldn't find another other teammate that wanted to have dinner with him.

Maybe he's not the world's greatest captain like the media has made him out to be for the last decade...

Toews sounded like he was more concerned about people losing their jobs than he was about one of his teammates being sexually assaulted while he was the captain.

I find it hypocritical that most of the media 'insiders' basically ignored the allegations against Aldrich except a select few reporters. But now that it has come out they are jumping all over it and saying things like 'we stand with you'. Where was this previously? They wanted nothing to do with this until it because the biggest story in the league and they could no longer ignore it.

Edit: Figured it out.

It's called empathy. It seems like you have none. This is unbelievable. You're upset because people want to 'cancel' sexual abusers? I absolutely love how anybody suffering the consequences of their actions is seen by some as being unfairly 'cancelled'. Much like Gorb, I'm not going to engage on this anymore. Your comments on this are quite honestly, despicable.

This might be the worst take I've seen on this, on any forum. Wow.

https://www.tsn.ca/kyle-beach-john-doe-1.1712468 Based on comments made by players and others in the organisation, Kyle Beach believes everybody knew, just as Boynton and Sopel said. At the very least, there were players that knew and did not care, as they were bullying Beach with comments about his assault. I think it is bizarre that you dismiss those players, yet believe what Q has to say when he is trying to save his own skin.

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Sorry but I'm not sure how he gets a pass when this stuff happened under his watch. Particularly all of the stuff about players taunting the victim, calling him slurs and making fun of his assault. It's pretty rich that this guy is regarded as some kind of amazing legendary coach when this stuff was happening right under his nose. You seem to be going out of your way to defend Q here, as if he had no clue even who the accused was?? Let's say you're a head coach. One of your coaches gets accused of inappropriate conduct. You don't ask which coach it is? You don't ask for more details? You think Q just put his head in the sand? Come on, you really think that happened? I know you are smarter than that. Even if that is how it went down, I don't know that him deciding he didn't want to know the details is much better than him knowing and not doing anything about it. So the accusations must be pretty serious, right? If the Team President, Executive VP, General Manager, Assistant General Manager, and the Senior Director of Hockey Administration all had to be in on this meeting? But obviously the allegations were not serious enough for Q to ask who the accused was. Or to ask for more specifics. Not serious enough to make sure the accused was not in a position to do it again to another one of his players. Not serious enough to warrant talking to his player about it either I guess. But serious enough that the top people in the organization had to deal with it. If you believe this from Q, I have a bridge to sell you.

Wow! Honestly I wonder how Winnipeg can keep Cheveldayoff and Florida can keep Quennville now too. If either were in Anaheim I would want them gone.

Yeah, that sucked. The fact that we won the Cup 4 years later made me get over it though, lol.

He was terrible on the draws. A big part of the reason our PK couldn't get the puck out of the zone. Lose every faceoff. I know our PK stats look good right now but that's due to good luck/goaltending. The PK has looked atrocious, and Grant has been a big part of that.

It does seem like an overpay in the short term. Brady has been remarkably consistent since entering the league. 0.63, 0.61 and 0.64 points per game in his first 3 seasons. His Corsi and Fenwick numbers are also amazingly consistent over those 3 years. So he's still young, but he hasn't taken any big steps forward in his time in the NHL. They are banking on him becoming more than a 50 point scorer, which is what he is now. He sort of reminds me of TJ Oshie. He might have one or two seasons that are more productive, but overall he is a consistent 50 point per year guy, every year. I don't think that's enough scoring for $8.2M per year.

Agreed, the 2023 first or the protected pick in 2022 would be my offer.

I think the problem is that there are limited teams still in on Eichel due to cap constraints. Out of the teams left, maybe only Columbus could beat an offer that doesn't include Zegras, Drysdale or McTavish. Considering the lack of other options for Buffalo I don't think I would offer more than Perreault + Lundestrom + 2023 1st round pick + Kesler. That's 4x first rounders right there! Lol.

They've done enough upgrades over the last decade that I don't think you need to worry about the age of the arena. It's just as good as many other NHL arenas I've been to anyway.

I would be fine with this if McTavish is playing well enough. It can't be a bad thing to have him learn from old man Getzlaf while the guy is still here. He could be gone by the time McTavish is ready for a full time gig. How about: Comtois - Eichel - Rakell Henrique - Zegras - Terry McTavish - Getzlaf - Silfverberg Jones - Groulx - Whoever 😁😁😁

I agree with a lot of what you have said. I would be incredibly surprised if McTavish makes it past his 9 games before going back to Juniors. I don't think Terry and Getzlaf have shown much chemistry to speak of, but where else do we slot Terry in? Fingers crossed this is the year that Terry really breaks out. I was talking to a buddy of mine here in Edmonton who is a Sabres fan. He is hoping that if Eichel goes to Anaheim that Terry is in the package back the other way. There's a lot of love for this kid around the league because his underlying numbers are great. Now he just has to put it all together and start scoring on a regular basis. I hope Drysdale stays with Lindholm. The other pairs don't matter all that much IMO. Since we know Fowler and Manson don't really work, I would be fine with Fowler-Shatt and Mahura-Manson as the other pairs. Pateryn is basically Holzer. He's the 7th d-man that only plays a game every 2 weeks if everyone is healthy.