BTW, Aleksander Barkov was named team captain today for the Panthers, ending the reign of Derek McKenzie.
This ends a recent trend of the Panthers captain being a low talent, grinder-type player:
McKenzie for the last 2 years
Willie Mitchell for 2 year
Ed Jovanovski for 2 years at the end of his career
Barkov is one of my favourite players outside of the Flames. He does everything and seems very humble. I am sure this will be a great decision by the Panthers.
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Nick Kypreos says Tavares alone will make up all 97 points the Leafs lost in Bozak and JVR, in case you're wondering how nauseating the Maple Leafs hype is going to be this year.
You can’t get away from it. I’m in Budapest on vacay and I overheard some dude at another table bragging on Tavares to some uninterested Euro at breakfast.
How many times is this now that Domi has either jumped a guy early or just flat-out suckered him? Useless plug. The only good thing he'll ever do in his career is whoop Kesler's ass.
"The two were arguing with one another," Jonathan Drouin said. "I saw a pretty big slash from Ekblad on Max, and Max just took matters into his own hands. It's also Ekblad's fault for not protecting himself."
I always hated Tie Domi, he was a grade a cheap shot artist. I hated his son purely by association. Now I hate him because he also is a cheap shot artist.
Ferenced him. Gonna make for some tense fla-mtl games this year suckering the panthers top young dman who already has a concussion history.
This is what disturbs me the most, concussions are scary business. Not only does Ekblad have nothing to prove in a pre-season game, but he has no business getting into fights at all with his head injury problems.
I know Ekblad isn't a fighter but if I'm in his position there I take that opportunity to lay a lickin' on a guy 30 lbs lighter and way less reach. I know Max is decent scrapper and all but still.
Sucks to see a great young dman get suckered like that.
I know Ekblad isn't a fighter but if I'm in his position there I take that opportunity to lay a lickin' on a guy 30 lbs lighter and way less reach. I know Max is decent scrapper and all but still.
Sucks to see a great young dman get suckered like that.
Really? In a meaningless preseason game (that the panthers were winning) and he has a bad concussion history and Ekblad is a 24 minute D and the other guy is a tool trying to be a tough guy. There's really no reason for Ekblad to entertain Domi there 30 lbs advantage or not.
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Has anyone been following former Flames Dougie Hamilton and Micheal Ferland? I am watching the Hurricanes v. Washington now, and Hamilton is playing, but I have noticed that Ferland has appeared in only one pre-season game. Is he injured?
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Has anyone been following former Flames Dougie Hamilton and Micheal Ferland? I am watching the Hurricanes v. Washington now, and Hamilton is playing, but I have noticed that Ferland has appeared in only one pre-season game. Is he injured?
Yes he is. I seem to remember hearing he sustained a lower body injury in the game he scored.
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Leafs offense living up to the hype so far this preseason.
The problem is they have only been playing trash teams. I wonder how they will look against a non-lottery team. But still. scoring goals at this rate is impressive no matter the competition.
