NHL 2023-2024

[technomancer]

Matthews is at 49G in 53GP

That is just an insane pace

 

[eaeolian]

That is just an insane pace

Rookie Teemu Selanne numbers, only he's no rookie, obviously.

 

[JD27]

How can you not love Jagr? I mean, Gretzky is the great one and we love him and all that, but Jagr is just cool. One of my favorite players ever.



Yeah, he's going nuclear a little bit. I reckon if Ovi can't make it to the goal record, Matthews is a good bet. If Ovi does make it, he might just snipe it from him, even.

Possible he could get there one day, but will he remain consistent enough? Hard to believe he has 8 seasons (not including this year and only a single 50+ goal year). He is a such a streaky scorer too (though pure goal scores tend to be that way). Like this year he has 6 hatties. Remove that from his totals and he has 31 goals in 47 games. But it’s crazy that he has 18 goals in the remaining 6 games. When he scores, it’s 2-3 a game.

I guess that is always what I’ve been amazed with Ovi though, the consistency in scoring. I think he has had tops a few seasons with 3 hatties. He has scored (until this year anyway) consistently throughout the season over a 19 year career. He had that one big 65 year season when he was younger, but never had any other huge goal scoring years. Everyone kind of thought he would maybe put in a few 70 goals season, just never happened.

 

[AdamMaz]

 

[JD27]

Matthew’s at. 51 now. Crazy, probably going to see one of the top goal scoring seasons in history from him this year.

Nice to see Ovi scoring again too. 8 in first 43 and now 8 in last 8. I think some of that was injury he was playing through, but wow is that team abysmal offensively. That lack of talent around him has no doubt caused some of the drought.

Good write up on the Ovi/Matthews topic, very different ways they score. Matthews so far is trending towards front loading his totals in his younger years (the way most big scorers do). Being a the peak age for goal scorers, it’s going to be interesting to see how he fairs in the next 5 years. He has not exactly been durable, only played one season with 82 games (rookie year).

Alex Ovechkin vs Auston Matthews

In 2007-08, 22-year-old Alex Ovechkin scored 65 goals. That's been the high-water mark for this era of pro hockey, and Auston Matthews…

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[AdamMaz]

The school of Wes McCauley ref theatrics has a new disciple:

 

[AdamMaz]

 

[technomancer]

Damn that fight was crazy

 

[AdamMaz]

Another big fight today, just over 2 minutes into the game, the legend of Rempe continues. I imagine it must still have more career penalty minutes than career TOI at this point

 

[technomancer]

Just seems absolutely pointless to be honest... kid is getting into a fight for no reason every game and looks like he got hurt this time.

 

[JD27]

Buddy might want to pace himself. He’s on a fast track to CTE.

 

[technomancer]

Well that's not good... Rust did not travel with the team to Vancouver. So he and Guentzel are both out long term

 

[technomancer]

So Rust is out week to week... and Puljujarvi is back in

 

[ElysianGuitars]

So Stankoven is good. And he's still going to be Calder eligible next season, most games he can play this season is 24.

 

[technomancer]

And holy hell they actually beat the Canucks without Guentzel and Rust

 

[AdamMaz]

So Stankoven is good. And he's still going to be Calder eligible next season, most games he can play this season is 24.

I remember hearing that name a lot and for all the right reasons at the World Juniors

And holy hell they actually beat the Canucks without Guentzel and Rust

Puljujarvi

 

[technomancer]

Puljujarvi

His 2 hits and 2 penalty minutes made all the difference

 

[AdamMaz]

Intangibles

 

[JD27]

Waived as soon as he was cleared to play again. Nobody is claiming him and his $7.8m cap hit and I don’t see him reporting to Hershey. Looks like it’s off to the KHL for the bird man.

Capitals plan to send Evgeny Kuznetsov to AHL’s Hershey Bears if center clears waivers

The Washington Capitals waived long-time center Evgeny Kuznetsov on Saturday afternoon. The move sparked several questions, including what the plan would be…

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[AdamMaz]

techno, where does this one land on the scale of Penguins embarrassing plays?