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Eakins is an interesting one. Was once an up and coming potential coach (with the Marlies of course) but the guy ended up in probably two of the worst spots possible in his stints as a head coach. Tough to really put those failures on him much. I also appreciate the route that he's taken since...

They just took over Torts' contract with the Flyers (that he was of course relieved of his duties from), which expired then yeah.

"The list of candidates includes Joe Pavelski, Patrick Roy, Jay Woodcroft and Dallas Eakins, according to league sources." Everyone but Friedman continues to report that Woodcroft is in the mix. I still think/hope he's the guy.

Small sample size but Ersson did step up for the Flyers post-Olympic break this season to help get them into the playoffs with a 6-1 record and .912 Sv%/1.99 GAA. Just don't look up what his stats were before that.

I would guess a selling point of acquiring Ersson would be that (assuming he's re-signed) he's not-great (aka bad) enough that he'll likely get through waivers easily at the beginning of the season and be able to serve as a pretty experienced 3rd NHL goalie when injuries inevitably hit.

I've flip-flopped on that constantly. When healthy I prefer Stolarz, I always think back to the last playoffs and how much of a turning point him getting knocked out was. But this past season was such a disappointment with injuries for him it was almost enough to turn the tide. Not like Woll has...

It feels like for years, even with a huge analytics team, we weren't able to scoop up guys like this that ended up having success. Hopefully this is a turning point and we get one right.

Andrae for Benoit seems like a decent swap. Benoit did a lot of good here to re-establish himself as a NHL defenceman after Anaheim, but simply put kind of had to go for the Leafs to get more puck moving ability from the backend. That leaves basically a 3rd for Woll. I dunno. I guess the...

At first glance, this trade feels very, very underwhelming and pointless. Chayka's really betting on some untapped potential from Andrae (which could very well exist).

Small PSA, I know we love our "General" threads here but if the first major trade of the offseason doesn't deserve it's own thread I don't know what else would.

"The Citizen was told the club wants to get bigger and harder to play against on the back end. If that’s the case, then Spence doesn’t fit that mould." If the sens are still using the same outdated scouting reports for Carlo that Treliving was, this might work.

He'll still get paid a dumb amount of money, and I'd rather give Raddysh that.

Really well done article here about the Canes coach and GM. Pretty insightful especially if you aren't super aware of Tulsky's background. I really liked this bit, as it's basically one of my exact points when someone asked what's to really like about Tulsky a few months ago:

I think they definitely weighed the Finals performances significantly higher than any other round here, which makes sense considering there probably wasn't a clear-cut favourite otherwise. Hall had 2 goals and 3 points against Vegas, while Staal had 6 goals and 7 points (Ehlers led the team in...

TBT to that time Steve Simmons randomly started shouting at Tyler Dellow (now a Stanley Cup winning assistant GM) for thinking he knows more than NHL GMs: https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/steve-simmons--tyler-dellow-and-shouting-about-dave-bolland-165706004.html

Are you kidding? They gotta focus on all their end of year meetings, then draft prep, then free agency. They won't have time to consider whether or not he can be allowed to interview with another team until late July at the earliest.

I'm very, very happy to see Eric Tulsky win the Cup. Best GM in the league. But also for anyone who's kept up with the analytics trend in hockey from the start it's truely even more incredible to see Tyler Dellow be a Stanely Cup champion.

Mr. Game 5/6/7 does it again. *lights a cigarette and walks away, never to open this thread again*

Taking this from an article at the Athletic, but these were the drafted prospects on McKenna's NCAA team this season: Jackson Smith - 2025 1st round pick (CBJ) Charlie Cerrato - 2025 2nd round pick (CAR) Reese Laubach - 2022 7th round pick (SJ) Luke Misa - 2024 4th round pick (CGY) In...

The AHL site says all games will be on SN 360, except for game 2 which will be on SN One.