2025/2026 Season Other NHL Teams Thread

[Erick Estrada]

Zegras is having a fantastic start to the season in Philly under Tocchet of all coaches. One has to wonder if they should have held onto him as he would have likely turned around under Quenneville. The locker room hated Cronin and a team should be weary of trading players under those circumstances.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Zegras is having a fantastic start to the season in Philly under Tocchet of all coaches. One has to wonder if they should have held onto him as he would have likely turned around under Quenneville. The locker room hated Cronin and a team should be weary of trading players under those circumstances.

Quenville might have fixed Zegras. It sometimes I think players getting a complete fresh start with a new org is what they need.

Anytime there is a sub 25 year old former top 10 pick who at least at some point showed flashes in the NHL is worth the gamble. It seems like a decent amount of these guys are better in their second stop.

[Macho0978]

I think the contract situation with Zegras played a part in his play.

Carlsson is young and so is Gauthier, but these 2 are tearing it up compared to last year so who knows.

[Geeoff]

The Ducks squad looks dangerous for years to come, so I'm not sad about them losing a weapon

[Ba'alzamon]

Didn't Zegras say in an interview that (ironically) the climate was part of the reason he wanted out of Anaheim? He said something like he needs snow and every day in Anaheim is the same, which really wore on him after a while.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...rs-ducks-trade

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by Geeoff

The Ducks squad looks dangerous for years to come, so I'm not sad about them losing a weapon

Don't worry about the Ducks they will never overcome the losing culture they created over the last few years

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Ba'alzamon

Didn't Zegras say in an interview that (ironically) the climate was part of the reason he wanted out of Anaheim? He said something like he needs snow and every day in Anaheim is the same, which really wore on him after a while.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...rs-ducks-trade

Seasonal depression is a thing for sure but if you read the article it's clear that he and Cronin were not a good match. Back on the seasonal depression thing, it's pretty common for that to kick in the fall because it signals summer is ending and winter is coming. That's kind of been something that has affected me for most of my life so I'm curious if say living in California would be a cure for that or lead to a different type of seasonal depression like Zegras admitted to.

[BigThief]

In case anyone missed Carolina vs Colorado two weeks ago they both wore their former cities uniforms and damn it was crisp. On screen graphics used HFD and QUE while the announce team was referring to them as the Nordiques and Whalers towards the end.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Ba'alzamon

Didn't Zegras say in an interview that (ironically) the climate was part of the reason he wanted out of Anaheim? He said something like he needs snow and every day in Anaheim is the same, which really wore on him after a while.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...rs-ducks-trade

I think sometimes we probably underestimate how tough it is from a mental health perspective to be these guys who are 19, 20, 21 years old that get thrust into the spot light with all the pressure in the world on them.

On the ice they are under so much pressure to perform, off the ice you pretty much are being watched 24/7, never know who is taking a picture or might be recording you, and you can't make a mistake. And nowadays the constant criticism feeds into your personal life for sure - in the past you only had to hear it at the arena and maybe the news paper, now the criticism is all over social media, etc and it's harder to hide from it.

Don't get me wrong - they are rewarded handsomely financially to deal with it - but I think it's tough on them especially in those cases where it probably feels like the organization doesn't have your back either.

I look at that 24 year old on the Cowboys who ended up taking his own life today and worry that could become more common for some of these young athletes with the mental health toll and pressure they're under nowadays.

[shutout]

Originally Posted by Goriders

Looking at the standings St Louis and Minnesota seem to be two other teams in team tank mode that maybe weren’t predicted to be there.

The Wild are not anywhere close to tank mode.
With the contract that they gave Kaprisov they will be trying to do everything possible to make sure they are icing a winning team.