Spencer Knight is getting cooked in the AHL, wouldn’t even pay Erik Gudbrannson for him

Seen that before some goalies are built for NHL but when they got to AHL they just get torched

Fun-Tanking-Fact of the Day!

The San Jose Sharks have a produced a total of 48 points as a team (53 - 5 of Addison points which all came from the Wild).

44% of those points come from their top line;
Eklund - Hertl - Zetterlund (21 points)

The rest of their team had a combined 27 points (20 players! 6 of which have no points).

Elias Pettersson has 25 points which out scores their top line, but is 2 points shy of technically being more productive then basically an entire team minus their only actual NHL top 6 caliber line. Realistically he would probably beat an entire roster of Sharks by himself if Eklund, Hertl, Zetterlund, Couture and Addison sat and his own team only played defence.

That would look like;

Zadina - Granlund - Duclair
Barabanov - Strum - Labanc
Hoffman - Carpenter - Kunin
Lindblom - GSmith - Macdonald

Ferraro - Burroughs
Knyzhov - Emberson
Okhotiok - Rutta
Vlasic - Benning

Goalies

Vs

Pettersson

When you view the roster this way it’s laughably an obnoxious tank of a roster. Held together by a few players and Blackwood.

The Sharks call up Gushchin who has 58 points in 82 AHL games. He has played 2 NHL games before, recording 2 points.

Gushchin hasn’t played an NHL game this season yet if we for fun consider his 2 NHL points; he is out scoring 17 current Sharks skaters performances so far this year.

He had one bad game yesterday and one other bad game this season (really just a bad 3rd period vs Rochester); the other 5 games have been good (a bad 2nd period vs San Diego but otherwise good) to great (a shutout vs Bridgeport).

Oilers new coach mixing up the lines:

RNH-McDavid-Gagner
Kane-Draisatl-Hyman
Holloway-McLeod-Foegele

blueline still intact and Skinner in the net.

That top line is giving me EDM tank vibes from when they were bad

Like I swear 2016 that was their top line

he had a .920sv% and like 2.?? GAA with a 4-2 record like yesterday? Must've had a bad game yesterday or something.

Its now a 0.899 and 2.74GAA in 7 games

yea, I looked. Bad game yesterday it seems. Team lost 5-1.

Anyways I wouldn't say he's getting cooked...

The team had 1 bad game, and now his numbers look bad when they didn't before.

Remember when people shat on Peter Laviolette that man turned the Rangers into a wagon

Lafreniere and Kakko look good

Team has a nice record even with Shesterkin out.

Special teams look good.


Could be a revenge story in the making again lul

The Streak of Penis Releated Names of Oilers Head Coaches Continues

Ken HitchCOCK

Dave TIPpett

Jay WOODcroft

Kris KNOBlauch

Next on the line

Mike BabCOCK

Shamefully stolen from /r hockey

damnit, wish I had the balls to post this (pun intended)

This is the type of hockey thing we’re all here for

#97 Connor McDavid traded to CGY for #98 Ilya Solovyov

My column on why the Oilers win this trade because of numerical superiority:

This wins the internet for the day

For NYI sake

I say fire Lambert and see if the new guy fixes anything. If not than it may be time for an atom bomb

As if a new HC dont help tear it down and restart

The Hughes Brothers points totals vs the sharks this year could be a fun race.

Hughes x 3 = 50
San Jose Sharks = 48

This is going to be interesting

Just spitballing here but wow would Woodcroft's systems work really well for a team that already had a blueline and goaltending.

New HC is just delaying the inevitable. That team is built for Barry Trotz and no one else

If Woodcroft lands anywhere this year it will probably be Ottawa, right?

The "fire DJ" chants are going to continue getting louder if they don't pull out of the basement.

If he doesn't get there, I would expect to him to join one of the established coaching groups as an assistant or analyst (Tampa Bay, Colorado, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, etc) for the rest of the season then look for opportunities in the off season.

DICK Chernomaz
Artem CHUBarov
Mike JOHNSON
ROD Brind'Amour

(sorry)

Was thinking the same but this is Lou. He may go I want some NHL vet as HC like Gallant

Ottawa wont fire Smith

That man should have been fired years ago but hes still kicking

Fans hate him but players basically told them hey we support em



NYI are looking more and more likely. As they dont got the OTT window. They are getting older and the prime time is now

Is that more of a Gerard Gallant spot though? Not sure Woodcroft would fit in with Lou Lamoriello and Co. Could be wrong of course.