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Did I say Ingram is as good as Demko? But he's fine very well behind a bad team. Giving up the 6th OA plus Ingram plus having to take a cap dump is a massive overpay. Especially when the goalie in question has missed big blocks of games over each of the last few seasons.

Ingram is an excellent goalie. And at his age, with his injury history Demko alone isn't worth the 6th oa. Goslies just dont return that in a trade. Add in the negative value of Mikheyev and its not even close. Add In the fact that you want them to include Ingram and another promising prospect for a 2nd and it's laughable

Utah has Ingram. No way do they give up the 6th OA to get Demko and have to take on multiple years of Mikheyev.

Not when they're in the crease

There hasn't been that many penalties in the series and the Canucks have actually had more opportunities than the Oliers have (edm 10 pp in 4 games, Van 12 pp in 4 games) If the league was actually trying to screw with the Canucks the refs would be calling everything.

I doubt Tocchet would publicly call out Pettersson on his play if there was an injury involved.

They had a better angle after the game. Clearly NOT a high stick

Avery did that during the play though. Not really the same thing

Except it wasn't a high stick

It's his 3rd strike. There's only one more level and there's no guarantee of reinstatement at that point

Holy fuck Boeser. Guy can't not score tonight

I just flashed back on beer pong. Lol

They looked good for the first couple shifts. Let's see how the PP looks here

I prefer theory of a creedleback

He isn't

What I'm saying is there have been a number of missed calls going both ways and calling the series tighter where both teams are getting more powerplays favours Edmonton. Thier pp is deadly. Vancouvers, not so much

Or, they realize they got away with a number of infractions that weren't called either. Maybe not as egrigous as the missed call on the Hughes play, but they've missed a number of potential calls against Vancouver too. All things bring equal they probably don't want the series being called tighter. Edmonton has had 4 powerplays in total in the series and has scored on 2 of them. With how ineffective Vancouver's pp has been in the playoffs so far, more powerplays for both teams is a bigger boon to Edmonton than it is Vancouver.

Hronek can refuse to sign his QO and opt for arbitration. It's unlikely he ends up getting less than $7-$7.5m in that case.

There are certain restrictions regarding a team walking away from an arbitration reward but I don't think there is any restrictions on trading a player who has gone through the arbitration process. That said any arbitration reward would be a 1 year deal that would see him end the season as a UFA. Since any team trading for him couldn't extend him until after the following Jan 1st it would certainly impact his trade value. Vancouver could still trade him after that initial arbitration award but the return might be questionable

I was just addressing your statement that if he signs a 1 year deal and doesn't live up to what he thinks he worth that he'd nr a valuable trade asset. If he's on a 1 year deal where he's ufa after he doesn't really have trade value to a Vancouver team who is in a playoff race. They'd keep him as an own rental and lose him for free.

A 1 year deal walks him to UFA. I doubt Vancouver will be out of the playoff race by the trade deadline so trading him for a haul is unlikely. You're essentially signing him for a year and taking a significant chance that he walks for free

Players need to be with a team by the trade deadline on order to qualify for the 8th contract year. Trading just prior to free agency doesn't afford that option

I enjoyed seeing Tampa get utterly dismantled by Florida. I hope this is the beginning of a long painful downward spiral for the Lightning

Haha. Eat a satchel of richards Tampa.

As big a rat as he is there isn't really any other players on his level. I truly hate him but there aren't any guys that are as skilled as him thst play that rat style