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  1. That was just one quote out of so many others. There are so many concerns around the health of players, access to family, how are they going to preserve that bubble. Players are tested but are hotel staff, other hotel guests, custodians, etc. Are these outside staff self isolating - what are the risk that they bring in Covid into that bubble. They have families, young kids at home, wives that are expecting and don't want to be away from them for a prolonged period of time. Some players have diabetes that could compromise their immune system. Players and owners split revenue at 50%. It's a down year so players have to return part of their salaries to equalise that revenue. They need to know the financial implications as it affects how much more money they will owe back on top of escrow already retained. Fwiw every Wild player including Dubnyk contributed to make their hourly paid employees whole. His wife was also hospitalised earlier this year with a serious medical condition where her life was at risk. He has 3 young kids and might not want to put himself in a position where he could catch it and transmit it to his wife or kids. He also doesn't want to be away from them for too long. The league has yet to provide details on the protocols.
  2. They have not agreed to play yet. The vote was only on the format should they agree to return. As for the financials there is a cost to organise all this. If at the end it does't impact revenue (ie reduce their escrow or only marginally) they might not be willing to come back. Dubnyk is on the NHLPA executive committee representing the Wild. On the financials via the Athletic: “Like, one question a lot of players have is the revenue thing. How much revenue are we getting from coming back and playing versus how much money are we spending on all these things that need to happen for this to happen – all the hotels, the food, the testing. These are a lot of expenses, so is it worth it?” He also insists that there will need to be a vote with every player because he thinks it's could be quite tight. Every player has their own personal situation. A player with young kids or a pregnant wife might not want to vote the same way as someone with no ties. In normal times a player would leave the team for a few games to attend the birth of his child and then come back. They talk of keeping players in a bubble - so what's the protocol to bring players back into the bubble - will they have to go through a 2 week quarantine.
  3. Training camps could possibly start in July but not the games. The players have only voted on the format. If they return that's the format but it's still pretty much in the air if they will return. The league has yet to answer their questions around the logistics - testing protocol, will their families come with them in that bubble, etc etc. Some players have wives that are expecting or kids at home - they don't want to put their family at risk and also don't want to be away for weeks or months. There's also the financials - it might not be worth it to them. Until all those questions are answered a vote on return to play is not going to happen. Likely all players will vote this time and not just the 31 representatives of each team.
  4. because they retired earlier - the cap benefit was not as significant and there were more years to spread the amount over.
  5. Martinook confirmed that the Canes were indeed the other team to vote no.
  6. Win - Loss - OT Loss A win in OT counts in the win column but it's wins in regular time that is the tie-breaker.
  7. Nashville has more regulation wins than Vancouver - it's 28 to 27.
  8. The conference bye-teams are playing in a mini-tournament where each team will play the other 3 teams. It's still undecided but they might re-seed so not necessarily Colorado.
  9. Yes. Earlier tweet was Lavoie 29 to 2. Alex Killorn did confirm that he voted no on behalf of Tampa. They felt it wouldn't be fair to have teams that probably wouldn't make the playoffs possibly end up in the playoffs after playing a best of 5 series. They also felt that bye-teams would not be as well prepared.
  10. He's not allowed to play this season. RFAs had to be signed by 1 December. The league also told teams that given the Covid situation new contracts can only start next season. In the past teams were allowed to sign their 1st time ELC players (see Boeser, Makar, Hughes) but this year they apparently do not want to allow it. The league is arguing that rosters are set and it wouldn't be fair to add those players. If they don't want new ELCs to begin this year although it was allowed in other years, it's highly unlikely that they make an exception for RFAs like Tryamkin who are not even allowed to join in normal circumstances.
  11. So you are thinking Eriksson as part of the 23 player roster but his contract not counting (as it's the highest on the team). Aren't you trying to use up 81.5M for the other 22 players? vs 23 player roster + Eriksson's buyout not counting against the cap and not part of the 23 player roster. Don't see how solution 1 is not more expensive than approach 2.
  12. Aren't you parking that player. For example remove say Eriksson's cap hit from the cap and sign Toffoli.
  13. They are still adding a new salary for the replacement player as they park the other. Buyouts are 2/3rds of the base salary. Keeping the guy around has them paying the full base salary. Dreger and Seravalli believe flat cap with a mechanism to make up the losses over time. There were already discussions to keep the cap somewhat flat once the new TV deal kicks in, to allow revenue to catch up with the salary cap to mitigate/eliminate the escrow issue. There's now more catchup to do.
  14. The owners are against buyouts because they don't want the extra cost. This would cost them even more money.
  15. I think it's more that they are not build that way and rely more on stick work and smart positioning to get the puck back. Sportlogiq's video tracking software just crowned Koivu as the league's best puck battler this season. He has 25 hits on the season. Advanced stats considers their D-corps elite. Heat maps show their front of the net to be ice blue where they just keep shots to the perimeter. The Wild might not be overly physical but they don't shy from contact. They typically get their goals from driving to the net. Parise is the typical Wild player - hard working and taking a beating at the net. The Wild were more of a dump and chase team under Boudreau. Evason wants them to hold on and carry the puck more though. Fiala's emergence, progress of their young players, more reliable goaltending and overall buy-in and team unity is more the reason why they've somewhat overcome their poor start to the season. It was still peaks and valleys but nothing as bad as their 1st month.
  16. Berkshire's analysis of the matchup using Sportlogiq video tracking software: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/picking-winner-loser-dark-horse-nhls-proposed-24-team-playoff/ Of all the teams that have an opportunity because of the play-in, the most dangerous might be the Minnesota Wild. Sneakily a very good team that was undone by a disastrously awful season from Devan Dubnyk, the Wild have been making up ground since going to Alex Stalock a little bit more often. Stalock still hasn’t been great, giving the Wild a league average save percentage despite playing behind one of the league’s best defences, but average is really all the Wild need to find success. In their opponents, the Wild would find a Canucks team that was brilliant to start the season but has had weaknesses exposed over the course of the year, including a league-worst rush chance differential that would give the Wild a specific area to focus on and exploit. The Canucks would have a gigantic advantage in goal if Jacob Markstrom is fully recovered from the injury that took him out in late February, but without the ability to work out with team trainers it’s very possible that Markstrom is either behind schedule or would come back pretty rusty to start. The Canucks are very reliant on their goaltender and power play to get things working for them, and against this Wild team that’s so strong at even strength, they would be really up against it to advance past the play-in. The Canucks were dealt a rough card for sure, but they put themselves on the edge anyway so I can’t say they’ve been given the roughest ride here. [...]
  17. The Canucks don't have a lot of cap space to the point where probably every 100K counts. It's also financial. Owners are set to lose a fair bit of money and 800K saved might not be all that negligible. Dhaliwal tweeted that he heard that the Canucks made some salary cuts among staff.
  18. They'll be playing against the other bye teams in the conference. From the article in the OP: The proposed format also would have the top four seeds participating in a three-game tournament during the play-in round, thereby alleviating concerns from top teams that they could be rusty and facing sharper teams coming off first-round games. It hasn't been determined if the mini-tournament among the top four conference teams will have an impact on seeding.
  19. Greenway took down Getzlaf just before the season was halted. Minnesota is not a physical team and has the lowest hits per 60 of any team in the league. Aside from Greenway they have Foligno and last season Fenton went out to get Hartman to bring some grizzle (his word). These were the lines they were using to finish the season - Staal missed their last 3 games but they went back to those lines at practice the morning the season got cancelled. Kunin can play C although he is a better winger. Rask can also play C but his skating is too slow for a team that is already not all that fast at F. Greenway Staal Fiala Parise ErikssonEk Kunin Foligno Galchenyuk Zuccarello Donato Koivu Hartman Rask
  20. Fwiw former head coach Paul MacLean (now assistant with Columbus) had an article up earlier this season calling October the month of loosey goosey hockey. Players tend to be more relaxed in playing defence and are more focused on scoring to feel good about their start and build their confidence according to him. As the season goes along he claims that's when you can start having a better indication of the team. Systems come in place, defence is tightened up and chemistry builds. He talks about how at training camp you hardly play your 23 player roster together before the very end, because you are also trying to get a look at potential call-ups and trying to make decisions for the best of the organisation and not just the main team. He described the first few weeks of the season as hectic. He thinks that around end of November gives enough time for the coaches to get their message across and that scoring goes down as teams tighten up defensively. If the team is still struggling defensively then there's reason for concern. The Wild were a bit of a mess to start the year. They had bad stretches later in the season but October was at a different level. Just so much on the road and no opportunity to practice and build lines. Fenton had also dramatically shaken up their roster last TDL and he was dictating lines/ice time to Boudreau to finish the prior season. Boudreau didn't have the opportunity to build the lines he wanted then and there was a fair bit of mending to do in the room. Fenton got rid of 3 guys that were favourites in the room and replaced them with guys who initially looked like downgrades. Even Boudreau was openly admitting that he was underwhelmed by the Granlund trade. Stalock also made the interesting comment that their vets were also top players on their teams (slowing down but still former top scorers) and it's more challenging for a young guy there to come in and say give me the puck. The Canucks are most likely not going to be playing that October team but the one that say they became family. Most of those advanced stats use 5v5 scoring in evaluating teams/players.
  21. No cap counting / limit for the rest of the season apparently per information received by CapFriendly. They'll likely just freeze the end of season cap space at the date where they suspended the season. Teams will most likely not be allowed to add players on their reserve list though. Unlike previous years NCAA players and those from abroad can't have their contracts start this season. Montreal for example won't be able to add Romanov or St Louis Perunovich.
  22. Minnesota is not a physical team. They delivered the least hits of any team this season. Greenway can be a beast but he is inconsistent in using his size. Foligno is solid - he was acquired by Fletcher who felt the Wild were too soft for the playoffs. The roster changed at F but they didn't add physicality other than Greenway and Hartman who is not an imposing player. Big guys like Coyle, Niederreiter are gone. Their vets are more likely going to have a hard time to get going after sitting at home for so long. The Wild are the 2nd highest scoring team behind Tampa since 1 November (in goals for per game). They had a very slow October where they spent most of their time on the road and finishing the month tied last. They are now just 1 point behind Vancouver. Over the season (including their poor October) they have outscored the Canucks at 5v5 - 156 to 141. The Wild's goalies have been their downfall this season.
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