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Prospects tournament starts tomorrow, and training camps right after. I am ready for hockey!
Steve Yzerman is reportedly stepping down as Tampa GM, moving into an advisory role for the last year on his contract. Could this mean a possible return to Detroit? Oh, I hope so...
The San Jose Sharks missed out on several of their trade targets this offseason, but will come out with arguably the best available player. Ottawa Senators captain and superstar defenseman Erik Karlsson has been traded to the Sharks. In exchange the Senators will receive a 2020 first-round pick, a 2019 second-round pick, Chris Tierney, Josh Norris, Rudolfs Balcers and Dylan DeMelo. The Senators will also receive a 2021 second-round pick if Karlsson re-signs with the Sharks and an additional first-round pick no later than 2022 if the Sharks trade Karlsson back to an Eastern Conference team. That 2021 second would also upgrade to a first if San Jose reaches the Stanley Cup Final next season. Francis Perron will also be going to the Sharks with Karlsson.
After last year's excitement--Vegas, anyone?--I imagine this year will be a huge disappointment.
Pre-season hockey on TV, life is good.
In short, including preseason and postseason games played, this is Wilson’s fourth suspension in his last 105 games—an unprecedented frequency of suspensions in the history of the Department of Player Safety.
Season starts tonight, but Washington will be without Tom Wilson:
https://www.nhl.com/video/wilson-suspended-20-games/t-277440360/c-61556003
20 games is unreal, but hard to argue with the logic. Hits like that do need to go, and it will take a few more suspensions like this to do it. To quote from the video at the link:
Looked like a good hit to me :shrug:
He made contact on the hit with the head first and primarily. That is a huge nono, as it tends to lead to injury and can end careers.
Because the other guy had his head down. This "targeting" nonsense has already hurt football. If its fully intentional then go ahead and suspend him but it looked like an incidental part of the hit.
No, that is not why. Had he skated about a foot to the left, he would have made contact with the body and no problem. He chose, fully aware of what he was doing, to make the hit to the head.
"We watched a video from the league saying what hits are good and which ones aren't. They showed some hits that were way worse than that ... maybe not in force, but as it regards to the head, that were so-called 'allowed.' I guess he just has a different rule book, and I think it's garbage, honestly."
He made contact on the hit with the head first and primarily. That is a huge nono, as it tends to lead to injury and can end careers.
Showed a number of Scott Stevens' hits on TV the other night in relation to the Wilson suspension. It's a miracle Stevens didn't kill someone during his time and pretty much every one of his hits was considered legal and fair play and today they'd result in lengthy suspensions. Stevens is a hall of famer largely because of those hits. Times have definitely changed and it's not that bad a thing, in my view.
It is not in the interest of the NHL, nor the teams, to have their big stars dropping to severe concussions. They will still happen, but when they can limit them and teach players to limit them, then yes, they need to change the game, you are right. Hockey is still a physical game, there will still be big hits. Fighting is still going to be around. But without the skilled guys making the exciting plays, the NHL won't be successful, so the league needs to do what it can to protect those players.
And on a completely unrelated note: how excited are you for your Leafs this year?
Too early to tell for sure, but it certainly appears as if my hopes for Phoenix this year were false. The Coyotes suck.