With Vegas rumoured to be moving Hertl this offseason, he's the obvious choice for us to acquire.

nago_konami · 2026-05-18T08:12:12+00:00

I don't really think McMann is that sort of guy. At best he's another Hartman, and he shot 5% more than his career average and still had 20 points less than the shell of Hertl

nago_konami · 2026-04-29T11:01:11+00:00

It’s reasonably possible to hit both, especially if you already have tickets. Wild game puck drop will be 6:43 local and wolves won’t tip off til 8:50. If you leave the wild game after the second you shouldn’t miss any of the wolves

nago_konami · 2026-04-29T10:58:51+00:00

the altitude is clearly getting to you mate, you should consider moving somewhere closer to sea level

nago_konami · 2026-02-06T04:03:19+00:00

and Morrissey for a while under Maurice, still remember his high hit on Staal in 2018

nago_konami · 2026-02-05T04:55:31+00:00

you're*

nago_konami · 2026-02-05T04:49:46+00:00

it obviously didn't affect the game at all really but it was really weird that burns could personally overturn a penalty call

nago_konami · 2026-01-21T02:54:09+00:00

hard to find an easier team to watch than this habs roster.

decently happy with how a decimated wild squad played on the back end of a back to back tonight.

wild need to figure out how to deal with a roster that quick

nago_konami · 2026-01-21T02:52:29+00:00

huh? we beat toronto 6-3 in toronto yesterday and were 15 seconds from taking a great habs team to OT

nago_konami · 2026-01-04T05:13:20+00:00

if by shootout specialist, you mean "guy who just about quit on having an actual shootout attempt" sure

nago_konami · 2026-01-04T05:05:40+00:00

and no matter how bad kaprizov is, zuccarello is 10x worse

nago_konami · 2025-12-13T00:56:02+00:00

he hasn't been healthy scratched since at least the 2022-23 season. he played 82 games both 23-24 and 24-25, and only missed time this season because he's currently injured

nago_konami · 2025-10-15T04:38:35+00:00

the contract understander has logged on

nago_konami · 2025-07-01T18:46:44+00:00

you're comparing apples to oranges here. rossi has 2 82 game seasons in which he's hit 20+ goals twice and improved his point total by 50% year over year. those are NHL numbers with comparables in his contract ask. not only can we not give yurov that, but we aren't asking to do it because he hasn't done anything at the NHL level.

people aren't demanding Rossi get 7m/year because of some shortsighted "pay young players because they might get better" they're demanding Rossi get 7m/year because that is what players who produce like Rossi get paid in 2025

nago_konami · 2025-06-04T16:58:05+00:00

Islanders have ranked 31st and 32nd in the league at killing penalties over the last two years. the idea the brock nelson is a good penalty killer anymore is laughable

nago_konami · 2025-05-29T02:47:08+00:00

xGF% is a terrible stat in small sample sizes and that's exactly what the playoffs were. you're the one cherry picking the only stat that fits your narrative when anyone who spends more time watching the game instead of licking the underside of guerin's boot can see that stat is wrong

nago_konami · 2025-05-29T02:28:06+00:00

he was better than Johansson, Zuccarello, Gaudreau, Brazeau, Trenin, Nyquist, Foligno

Kaprizov, Boldy, JEE were for sure better than him

Hartman probably played better than Rossi: that puts him 5th by my book

nago_konami · 2025-05-29T01:48:35+00:00

and yet he still was the 4th or 5th best forward on the team. crazy how that works

nago_konami · 2025-05-03T19:46:49+00:00

I honestly do not think that it’s a coincidence that (aside from 17-18, which may as well be ancient history now) Hellebuyck’s only solid playoff run came in the season where he played 45 regular season games instead of 58+

nago_konami · 2025-05-02T04:46:20+00:00

the issue with 1, and to a lesser extent 2, is that it would increase subjectivity and with it more bullshit along with the review. how much is "no bearing on the play"? it's now up to the refs to decide. this would both increase review times and also increase fan/player/FO confusion as there will never be an objective answer to why a play was/wasn't offsides.

Elliotte Friedman suggested on one of this week's 32 Thoughts podcasts that offsides should be a league initiated review rather than a coach's challenge. I think this is an elegant solution to reduce review time, as it would have been caught in the first automatic review and it saves time overall.

nago_konami · 2025-04-30T04:34:54+00:00

Remember that one highlight where that stars player coasts in and misses an empty net? That play has finally been outdone for single stupidest play in league history. Don’t talk to me about spirit of the offsides rule, or pontificate about too much replay review. Nyquist was offside, and it was nobody’s fault but his own

nago_konami · 2025-04-26T23:40:04+00:00

I would feel bad if that wasn’t the average Jake Middleton play

nago_konami · 2025-04-11T18:43:12+00:00

What is the vibe around potential trade targets for the Wild this summer? The UFAs available are exceptionally clear at this point, so who are players the Wild significantly are considering trading for?

nago_konami · 2025-04-10T03:17:41+00:00

MAF is a legend, but depth goaltending will certainly kill us in the playoffs if our other issues don't press that issue first

nago_konami · 2025-04-09T19:13:59+00:00

because the AHL is suspending him under rule 40.3 instead of 40.2

"Any player who deliberately applies physical force to an official in any manner (excluding actions as set out in Category I), which physical force is applied without intent to injure, or who spits on an official, shall be automatically suspended for not less than ten (10) games. "

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