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Forum: NHL30 nov. 2023 à 14 h 2
Sujet: 2025 World Cup of Hockey
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LeafsForLife</b></div><div>I agree that a 4 team WCOH would be a huge letdown, there should be at least 6 or 8. Looking at this from a purely hockey standpoint, wouldn’t Russia have to be included in the spirit of honesty? If the purpose is to have a best-on-best tournament, and Russia has several good players, wouldn’t excluding them diminish the tournament’s credibility? Again, I’m not making any geopolitical commentary, my questions are from a solely hockey perspective.</div></div>

The NHL cares about the economic gains of hosting another WCOH much more than having a true best-on-best tournament. Allowing Russia to participate would likely cause a lot of sponsors to withdraw and would result in a lot of lost money for the league.
Forum: NHL29 nov. 2023 à 13 h 25
Sujet: 2025 World Cup of Hockey
Ideally, the World Championships would be the true best-on-best tournament since the IIHF runs it and every country is included based on international rankings (plus it's literally in the name, the championship of the world). Unfortunately, the timing of it all is not ideal. It takes place after the regular season and during the Stanley Cup playoffs, so a lot of the top NHL players are either too banged up to want to participate or are competing in the playoffs.

It would be nice if they could hold it mid-season and come to an agreement with the leagues to pause their seasons and allow the top players to play, a la the Olympics. However, it's hard enough to get the NHL on board for an Olympic tournament that occurs <em>once every four years</em>, so I can't imagine they would want something like that to happen annually.
Forum: NHL Trades28 févr. 2023 à 14 h 57
Forum: NHL11 janv. 2023 à 10 h 46
Sujet: New Playoff format
I'm perfectly content with 16 teams making the playoffs. I'm also fine with the way playoff berths are determined (top 3 in each division, plus 2 wild cards per conference), but once the playoffs start I would like to see the seeding done as 1-8 for each conference. That way division play is still valuable in order to make the playoffs, but then you don't have the best teams playing each other in the earlier rounds. So it's sort of a hybrid between the current NHL system and the pre-play-in NBA system. Before the implementation of the play-in rounds, the NBA did a 1-8 conference setup, but it was just the top 8 in each conference that make the playoffs, so division play was essentially meaningless (still is even with the new play-in format); even winning your division didn't guarantee a playoff berth.

So based on points percentage of the current standings we would have:

<strong>Eastern Conference</strong>

1. Boston
8. Pittsburgh

2. Toronto
7. Washington

3. Carolina
6. NY Rangers

4. New Jersey
5. Tampa Bay

<strong>Western Conference</strong>

1. Dallas
8. Calgary

2. Vegas
7. Nashville

3. Seattle
6. Minnesota

4. Winnipeg
5. Los Angeles

And obviously with reseeding after each round.
Forum: NHL12 déc. 2022 à 12 h 15
Sujet: Patrick Kane Destinations - Where does it make sense?
From a Dallas perspective, I can't see them making any moves to get Kane. Their cap is already pretty tight and Nill has been very reluctant to trade away any prospects during his tenure.

Glendening is a coaching favorite, so he's likely staying, and probably not the type of player Chicago is looking for. Gurianov is also likely reaching the tail end of his NHL career. He's been very inconsistent and has yet to put it all together at the NHL level, which is unfortunate as he's a hard worker and has some nice skill. I could see a team maybe giving him a fresh start, but probably not at his current salary. I can't see him having much value at the trade deadline.

And like you mentioned, Dallas is light on draft picks this year, and that's been Nill's main currency when making big trades; not having a 1st or a 3rd would likely make him more cautious in moving any future picks. Their prospect pool is quite good, with guys like Johnston, Bourque, Stankoven, Blumel, Harley, Bischel, and Kyrou, but like I said Nill has always been reticent to move any prospects so I would be surprised to see it happen.
Forum: NHL16 nov. 2022 à 11 h 17
Sujet: Top Ten at Every Position
<strong>Center</strong>
1. Connor McDavid
2. Auston Matthews
3. Nathan MacKinnon
4. Patrice Bergeron
5. Leon Draisaitl
6. Brayden Point
7. Aleksander Barkov
8. Roope Hintz
9. Sebastian Aho
10. Mika Zibanejad

<strong>Left Wing</strong>
1. Brad Marchand
2. Kirill Kaprizov
3. Jason Robertson
4. Matthew Tkachuk
5. Johnny Gaudreau
6. Alex DeBrincat
7. Artemi Panarin
8. Jesper Bratt
9. Jonathan Huberdeau
10. Kyle Connor

<strong>Right Wing</strong>
1. David Pastrnak
2. Nikita Kucherov
3. Mikko Rantanen
4. Mitch Marner
5. Valeri Nichushkin
6. Mark Stone
7. Troy Terry
8. William Nylander
9. Joe Pavelski
10. Claude Giroux

<strong>Defensemen</strong>
1. Cale Makar
2. Adam Fox
3. Charlie McAvoy
4. Victor Hedman
5. Roman Josi
6. Devon Toews
7. Miro Heiskanen
8. Jared Spurgeon
9. Jaccob Slavin
10. Mackenzie Weegar

<strong>Goaltenders</strong>
1. Connor Hellebuyck
2. Igor Shesterkin
3. Andrei Vasilevskiy
4. Juuse Saros
5. Ilya Sorokin
6. Jake Oettinger
7. Jacob Markstrom
8. Thatcher Demko
9. Darcy Kuemper
10. Frederik Andersen