Still chairman of the NHL's board of governors.
He passed over the ownership of the Bruins to his children but he's still at the top of the organisation as chairman of the Bruins.
McPhee is the boss in Vegas - he's president of hockey ops. He was GM/president when he started in Vegas. McCrimmon was his AGM and was starting to get a lot interest from other teams and he didn't want to lose him so he promoted him to GM but stayed as President of hockey ops.
Friedman in his 32 Thoughts:
18. Boston is definitely willing to do a Jake DeBrusk deal, but on its terms. They are looking for the best defenceman/forward they can find, and are unafraid to take a chance on a younger player. But they are telling potential partners that they value DeBrusk, and won’t make what they feel is a bad deal because the trade request is now public.
He's a 1st time offender. In his case it's by game days missed over the full season.
There are 200 days in this season and he is missing 6 game days.
6/200 x 750K = USD 22'500.-
There was a clip of camp where you could hear Green talking to the assistants on the bench when the bag skate was going on and asking if everyone was within the time -- can't remember the exact formulation but it was apparent that there was a standard to meet. MacIntyre says all the technical staff are on the bench timing each player individually during the skate.
Green's bag skate is also timed. MacIntyre explained that the coaching staff pours over the results (his words) and that it's the times that are important - not that Juolevi was lying down on the ice by the end of it.
Boudreau does a bag skate drill at the start of each camp to test players physical fitness. It's timed and players even get their blood tested afterwards.
He explains that he wants to be able to play at a pace that is comfortable for them but uncomfortable for their opponents and they have to have the conditioning for it.
Players talk of how they are anxious about the test and the relief once it's over. They have to do the drill 3 times with a 2 minute rest between each. If they exceed the imposed times they go again for a 4th and even a 5th time.
Some players who have managed to complete the drill in 3 will volunteer for an additional rep to help out players who have to go again. They don't want to let anyone struggling behind. It's also part of team building.
Thanks - think I found it. Did a search on twitter using "canucks puck possession" and someone posted a Sportsnet screen grab that shows them 2nd in o-zone puck possession time but with 5.4 shots from the inner slot per game while the other 4 teams ranked are between 7.1 and 8.4 (EDM, TOR, MIN, COL). Not sure if 5v5 or all situations.
They wanted more speed with Vancouver not a particularly fast team. They misevaluated Sutter's offensive upside. In Pittsburgh Bonino's lack of speed was compensated by having him between two very fast skaters and Pittsburgh were in a cap crunch and Bonino was at less than 2M.
Vrbata's wife was going through an at risk pregnancy and he didn't want to be far away from her.
He should have been traded in the off-season once they traded Bonino for Sutter. Vrbata had built chemistry with Bonino and Sutter was not a playmaking C. Expecting him to replicate his production while changing his C was not likely.
But at the time Benning believed Sutter was a C2 with more offensive upside that was stuck behind Crosby/Malkin, with Kuzma even describing him as a gifted playmaker. They tried him on an offensive line, had him on PP1 and even playing wing to the Sedins. He even played C to newly acquired 30 goal scorer Loui Erikson but Sutter never became that offensive C they envisioned. He was in his right spot in Pittsburgh.
Toffoli wasn't supposed to be a rental. Benning himself talked about how they were hoping to get him extended and that's why they were willing to pay that cost. They even contacted his agent after the trade to talk about staying long term. He was expecting a few players to be dealt in the off-season - talked of recouping that 2nd round pick but it never materialised. Once they qualified Virtanen they couldn't fit him in anymore because teams can't walk away from an arbitration award if under circa 4M.
Boudreau would have chosen Vancouver anyway.
In Minnesota he had to deal with some veterans with very large egos and it distracted sometimes from just the hockey. Philadelphia looks to have a closer makeup to Minnesota than Vancouver and Vigneault got fired in part over tension with some of their players and was asked to change his ways in the off-season.
Vancouver is a much younger team and there's also so much promise in their young players.
Doesn't sound like it. Sounds like Fletcher had his mind set on giving the gig to Yeo for now. They haven't reached out to anyone and it looks like they aren't going to start looking for anyone just yet. Fletcher was a big fan of Yeo in Minnesota and really delayed as long as he could to fire him.
They had Gustafsson over Yandle last season and he too was an offensive D.
Ellis, Ristolainen, Yandle vs Gostisbehere, Philippe Myers, Gustafsson
Seeler is a depth D, more of D7/D8, but Ellis is injured. Fletcher drafted him back in Minnesota.
They struggled just as much last season and missed the playoffs. Fletcher tried to improve the D-corps in the off-season.
Ryan Ellis is a legit top pairing D but he is unfortunately injured and only played 4 games. The analytics community has been skeptical about Ristolainen though.
Gostisbehere had been on the trade block for a while and he too was an offensive D. Philippe Myers is now a healthy scratch in Nashville as they work with him on the details of his game.