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  1. He said himself back in January he either needs to change his system or get new players. He didn't get new players and I didn't see him change his system. It seems he'd rather try to put square pegs in round holes than change his system.
  2. Ehrhoffs shooting 10/11 Shot on goal = 209 Shots taken = 307 % of shots taken being on goal = 68.1% Garrisons shooting 13/14 Shots on goal = 181 Shots taken = 260 % of shots taken being on goal = 69.6% Ehrhoff is a god, Garrison can't hit the net. Funny how perceptions work here.
  3. Kesler PP goals: 09/10 - 12 g (2nd unit no Ehrhoff) 2:45pp ice time per game 10/11 - 15 g (1st unit with Ehrhoff) 3:37 pp ice time per game Was his whopping 3 pp goal increase really due to Ehrhoff or the 33% increase in pp ice time combined with having the Sedins as linemates? I really do believe Ehrhoff is getting far too much credit on this board.
  4. I don't recall any rumblings about keeping junior prospects for a regular season try out. Horvat simply wasn't very good in the preseason and Torts said himself Shink needed to work on his strength and was too easy to knock off the puck. The only rumblings about bonus games were from the fans here on this board. That said, if I recall correctly there wasn't anybody on the opening roster who wasn't waiver eligible. Is it worth risking a player to waivers to give a kid you've already decided isn't ready a 5 or even 9 game try out? You decide he is going back to junior and you've already lost Santorelli to waivers. You don't risk losing you're depth to give a kid you know isn't ready a few bonus NHL games.
  5. Actually the way the game is reffed now he might as well go back to the 2nd pp unit and help make it more effective. But what I'm saying is it was adding Kesler to the 1st unit in 10/11 that gave the Sedins a huge pp production boost and making it the top pp in league, not Ehrhoff. In 08/09 without Ehrhoff the Sedins combined for 50 pp points. In 09/10 with Ehrhoff added on the 1st unit the Sedins combined for 48 pp points. Hmm, adding Ehrhoff didn't make any significant difference on their pp production. In 10/11 they combined for 77 pp points. What changed from those previous two seasons? Kesler was moved to the 1st unit.
  6. Ehrhoff was here the season before. Ehrhoff had no effect on the 2nd unit production from 09/10 to 10/11. Removing Kesler is the common factor there. Ehrhoff was here for 09/10 season playing 1st pp unit. So what changed in 10/11? Um, Kesler was moved up to the first unit. Many here highly overrate Ehrhoff.
  7. His pp stat padding in 10/11 amounted to a whopping 4 points. In 10/11 on the 1st unit with the Sedins he had 30 pp points. The previous season playing 2nd unit with Raymond and Samuelsson he had 26 pp points. It was actually the Sedins who had a big increase in pp production when Kesler joined them. Oddly the 2nd unit had a big drop in 10/11 without Kesler. That would seem to indicate it was in fact Kesler that was the driving force on the pp for the 09/10 and 10/11 seasons.
  8. No he's not required to do anything as he has a full NTC. A full NTC gives him the legal right to decline any trade. The difference with a NMC is a player can't be traded or sent to the minors without his permission. A full NTC doesn't prevent a player from being sent to the minors but does give him the right to decline any trade. You're confusing a full NTC with a limited NTC. A limited NTC will have a set of conditions attached within the players contract. Those conditions can vary greatly from contract to contract.
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  10. I did watch. Did you? Henrik controls the PP and always has from the half boards. If Hoff is the PP QB you think he is why has he not enjoyed the same success without Henrik with Buffalo's top players? Why does he not hit the net there more than the "can't hit the net" Garrison here? Answer those questions. The stats don't lie. Garrison is actually hitting the net more than Ehrhoff is.
  11. Ya, it's a shame we didn't keep Ehrhoff..... Garrison - 79 games played 7 goals Shots on goal - 179 Missed shots - 79 % of shots taken being on goal - 69.4% Shooting % - 3.9% Ehrhoff - 77 games played 6 goals Shots on goal - 161 Missed shots - 74 % of shots taken being on goal - 68.5% Shooting % - 3.7% Well at least we don't have Garrison signed until he's 40.....
  12. If the fans are running the team it's really in trouble.
  13. Well at least the new GM will come in with something Gillis didn't have. A prospect pool. Torts is the one that should be gone.
  14. How is that different from the fans here?
  15. PK'ers already get a plus for short handed goals. For pp goals against they don't get a minus. The opposite is true for players on the pp. They do get a minus for goals against but don't get a plus for goals scored while on the pp.
  16. How do you explain Ehrhoffs drop in production since leaving here to play behind Buffalo's top offensive players?
  17. D-men point totals tend to be assist driven. When the forwards aren't scoring the d-men aren't racking up assists. Since new years our forwards haven't been scoring and it only follows that the D isn't getting assists. Injuries to Daniel, Henrik, Burrows and Santorelli have had an effect on D production.
  18. Actually Fraser is giving his opinion on how he feels the rule should be applied as opposed to whether or not the league ruled correctly according to the current application. He feels hits like this should be illegal and the rule should be interpreted differently. I've said several times I didn't like the hit. But I also don't like the idea of 82 games of all star hockey because players are afraid to throw a hit because any head contact at all results in a suspension. The way the league is applying the rule as it stands has been consistent. So it's either change the rule or accept these types of hits. Even when they happen to one of our players. Should Daniel Sedin have been suspended....
  19. 1 - No he doesn't. Unless of course you want to take speed out of the game. Any player skating with speed will be leaning forward. That doesn't mean his head is fair game when hitting from the side. From the side the hitter can target the shoulder instead of the head. It still comes down to hitting into the core of the body. If the hit comes from the front, or an angle from the front, hitting into the core of the body is legal regardless of contact to the head. That's because avoiding the head is not possible in delivering a full body check. Coming from the side a slight direction change can make the shoulder the point of contact instead of the head. Meaning head contact is avoidable. An example of a player putting himself at risk is a player ducking down or turning his back to a hit just prior to contact. Thus giving the hitter no chance to avoid delivering an illegal hit and the hitter is thus absolved of responsibility. The Getzlaf hit on Hamhuis a while back is an example of this. Getzlaf did everything right in the hit, as he coasted in, tucked his elbow in, and dropped his shoulder. But Hamhuis turned his back to the hit at the last moment. The result was Hamhuis was hit from behind spinning him into the glass with force and suffering a concussion. Of course most here were calling it a dirty hit and intent to injure. It was charging, boarding, a late hit, hitting from behind, and elbowing. In reality it was none of those. It was Hamhuis putting himself in a vulnerable position when about to be hit. That's where the player getting hit holds responsibility. 2 - Ok, no sense of humor. My bad.
  20. Well at least as we agree you have no clue. Hey, we've managed to actually agree on something. Pop the champagne!
  21. I've never in my life seen a player position the butt of his in his belly to take puck off the boards. But I've also never seen a player get a puck off the boards by drawing his stick back away from the boards and the puck. I have seen a player go directly at the boards sweep the puck away and turn his body for contact with the boards. No injury. Edler makes no effort to play the puck at all. So he was either playing the hit or coasting along with no idea what he was doing there. Shanny even describes how Edler positioned himself to "deliver a hard legal hit". The problem comes in where the hit was delivered, targeting the head instead of through the core of the body.
  22. Are you saying you can't tell if a hit is into the core of the body or not? Their consistency is: hit core of body good, hit head and not core of body bad. They have been consistent in that application of the rule. There's no was it and accident or what was his intent. They don't care. It's black and white, core of the body or not.
  23. Edler gave up on the puck, slowed up and positioned his shoulder to deliver a hit. Go to the 1:05 mark (the above view) and you even see he draws his stick back and tucks his elbow in which is consistent with delivering shoulder check. If he was going for the puck as you claim. he would have reached forward with his stick not drawn it back further away from the puck. This alone makes it clear he was playing the hit as opposed to the puck.
  24. For the love of God, please watch the videos and actually listen to the explanations. It's as plain as can be.
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