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2025-26 NHL Season

Toga said:
Hagler - Hearns Round 1.
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I am a former hockey fan who got sucked back in by the Olympics and the fact that the Sabres are good again. This game was insane, while the skill wasn’t at the level of the gold medal match the intensity was off the charts a If these two teams face each other in the playoffs will the winner have anything left for the next round? If I was a gambling man I would short the Sabres the next few games.

Is it just me or was Power’s name called out during a lot of Tampa’s goals? Is he good and just had a rough night or what?
 
OrangeFoo said:
I am a former hockey fan who got sucked back in by the Olympics and the fact that the Sabres are good again. This game was insane, while the skill wasn’t at the level of the gold medal match the intensity was off the charts a If these two teams face each other in the playoffs will the winner have anything left for the next round? If I was a gambling man I would short the Sabres the next few games.

Is it just me or was Power’s name called out during a lot of Tampa’s goals? Is he good and just had a rough night or what?
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I think Power is generally well regarded. To me he seems like a skilled 6'5" defenseman who is Charmin soft.
 
Power takes are all over the board. Some people hate him because he's not as physical as his size suggests. But the skating and skill make him a plus player. Sort of the anti Ristolainen. My Bills comp would be Stef Gilmore.
 
BuffOrange said:
Power takes are all over the board. Some people hate him because he's not as physical as his size suggests. But the skating and skill make him a plus player. Sort of the anti Ristolainen. My Bills comp would be Stef Gilmore.
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Interesting... maybe it was just one of those nights. But he seemed to be there every time TB scored a goal.
 
The Sabres needed a game like this. Their reputation has been that they’re a “soft” team for over a decade. I think Tampa came into this game thinking they can’t skate with the Sabres so they need to muck it up. And the Sabres didn’t get bullied and won the game.

The win was great. But the fact they went toe to toe with the Lightning was what teams around the league noticed.
 
OrangeFoo said:
I am a former hockey fan who got sucked back in by the Olympics and the fact that the Sabres are good again. This game was insane, while the skill wasn’t at the level of the gold medal match the intensity was off the charts a If these two teams face each other in the playoffs will the winner have anything left for the next round? If I was a gambling man I would short the Sabres the next few games.

Is it just me or was Power’s name called out during a lot of Tampa’s goals? Is he good and just had a rough night or what?
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He and Samuelson didn’t have good nights, not as together they have been since December. That game was an outlier
 
Cusefan95 said:
Thats not quite accurate in all the details. The Sens traded Evgenii Dadonov to Vegas, who were not on his no trade list. However - they did not disclose to Vegas an accurate list. Vegas then tried to trade him to the Ducks roughly a year later, but the Ducks were on his no trade list. The NHL invalidated the Vegas trade to the Ducks and stripped the Sens of their first round pick.
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Now they’ve rescinded the draft pick loss.

www.espn.com

NHL: Senators won't forfeit '26 1st-round pick for nixed '22 trade

The NHL will not make the Ottawa Senators forfeit their 2026 first-round draft pick for their role in a canceled 2022 trade between Vegas and Anaheim involving winger Evgenii Dadonov.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
BuffOrange said:
The eye test with those Jets certainly aligns with what the numbers geeks told us. Ooff.
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You can have one of them out to add some size, but both, no good.

The forward was a big dude, rather have Krebs or Benson or Kozak or Dunne out there on the 4th line
 
Cusefan95 said:
As a hockey fan, I think this is crap. As a Devils fan…I think I’ll keep quiet.
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The Sens broke the rules and deserved to be punished. But that is not the full issue here. The issue is a potential inccurate response by the NHL to a due diligence question (misrepresentation is perhaps strong here but it could apply) -- at least per the Sens owner comments in 2023. If this was the case, the Sens arguably deserved some relief,

When the current Sens ownership group was looking into buying the team 3 years back (and the punishment had yet to be laid down), they had due diligence questions for the NHL. At his first appearance as the new owner, Andlauer himself said that he felt the NHL did not accurately answer the questions related to severity of the penalty when they were doing their acquisition diligence. He said the league said it would not be significant. Perhaps the Sens should have pressed harder at the time.

I remember watching that press conference, and being surprised how brazen Andlauer was in challenging the NHL. The league and Andlauer must have had a chat afterwards, because this issue never came up again in a public manner ever again.

I'm not a Sens fan by the way, but this seemed like a fair remedy.

I'm sure the league and Sens were just hoping the Sens would be good one year so that the draft pick lost would be in the mid 20's. But when it became clear the Sens were likely going to lose a lottery pick, I'd imagine the Sens ramped up the pressure on the league, in a professional manner to make this fairer.
 
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jncuse said:
The Sens broke the rules and deserved to be punished. But that is not the full issue here. The issue is a potential inccurate response by the NHL to a due diligence question (misrepresentation is perhaps strong here but it could apply) -- at least per the Sens owner comments in 2023. If this was the case, the Sens arguably deserved some relief,

When the current Sens ownership group was looking into buying the team 3 years back (and the punishment had yet to be laid down), they had due diligence questions for the NHL. At his first appearance as the new owner, Andlauer himself said that he felt the NHL did not accurately answer the questions related to severity of the penalty when they were doing their acquisition diligence. He said the league said it would not be significant. Perhaps the Sens should have pressed harder at the time.

I remember watching that press conference, and being surprised how brazen Andlauer was in challenging the NHL. The league and Andlauer must have had a chat afterwards, because this issue never came up again in a public manner ever again.

I'm not a Sens fan by the way, but this seemed like a fair remedy.

I'm sure the league and Sens were just hoping the Sens would be good one year so that the draft pick lost would be in the mid 20's. But when it became clear the Sens were likely going to lose a lottery pick, I'd imagine the Sens ramped up the pressure on the league, in a professional manner to make this fairer.
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The NHL wanted the sale to go through and wanted no problems. Im surprised they even imposed fake penalty.
 
STEVEHOLT said:
The NHL wanted the sale to go through and wanted no problems. Im surprised they even imposed fake penalty.
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So the Sens wants the trade to go through and wanted no problems, and didn’t disclose a no trade clause. Then the NHL, while investigating it wanted no problems with the sale of the Sens and didn’t disclose the seriousness of the investigation.

The entire western world has completely forsaken any moral standards in favor of ease and self-interest. It’s not going to end well.
 
Cusefan95 said:
So the Sens wants the trade to go through and wanted no problems, and didn’t disclose a no trade clause. Then the NHL, while investigating it wanted no problems with the sale of the Sens and didn’t disclose the seriousness of the investigation.

The entire western world has completely forsaken any moral standards in favor of ease and self-interest. It’s not going to end well.
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NHL was sort of weak.. did we really think the prospective owner was going to nix the entire deal because of 1 draft pick? They should have just factored in the estimated value of said pick and compensated him since he was not at fault.
 
Sabres four ahead in the division, only two behind Carolina in the conference

Crazy
 
GoSU96 said:
Sabres four ahead in the division, only two behind Carolina in the conference

Crazy
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I was really hoping for a leafs regulation loss . We are now 4 ahead of the 5th from bottom spot . Need that draft pick
 
Crazy stat I read on Twitter today.

Alex Ovechkin has now played 68 games this year without starting a single shift on a defensive zone faceoff.

Obviously he is not ideal in the defensive zone, and its a sound strategy, but to not start a single shift in the d-zone the whole year is hard to believe.
 
upperdeck said:
that also means he has never been on the ice on time for an icing call
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Its based on when he "starts his shift", not start of play. So he has certainly been out there for some icings, and then was still on the ice for the face-off. But they don't apply in this scenario.

But there has to be about 10-20 face-offs a game (quick estimate) in a defensive end that are not icing related. So say its somewhere between 800-1200 face-offs that would apply this year, Every time Washington has made the choice to not put him on.
 
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