On today's episode, Matt and Zack go HAM on NHL DoPS and go over players on expiring deals to see how their point projections are looking.
Around the league news:
New NHL all star game format!
12 man skills competition. Winner gets $1mil
Tavares gets 1000th career point against inlanders at islanders.
Washington Captials on the move to Virginia?
Connor vs Connor facing off first time this season
Vrana on waivers yet again.
The Detroit Red Wings have forced:
-The firing of Craig Berube (Blues HC)
-The firing of Dean Evason (Wild HC)
-The firing of Pierre Dorion (Sens GM)
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Red Wings News:
Raymond becomes 7th Detroit player to reach 50 goals before their 22nd bday
Berggren, Aston-Reese and czarnik recalled on emergency loan basis. Who knows how long.
Perron suspended 6 games for his cross check to Zub. The NHLPA has filed an appeal for Perron. 2 games have been played thru so hopefully it’s shortened
Nate Danielson makes Canada’s World Junior roster. Looks to be playing on the 4th line
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Main Topics:
Department of Player Safety…oh boy.
Allan Walsh goes off on Twitter saying Perrons 6 games was unfair and used examples like Matthews cross checking Dahlin in the face only was 2 games
Avs Colton boards flames Tanev into the boards. Should be suspended but isn’t…
Gudbranson suspended 1 game going after Nick cousins who boards him
Kyle Connor out 6-8 weeks…Strome goes knee to knee with him
Player Scoring projections:
- cap increasing so let’s check in on players on 1yr deals
Seider: 15 goals, 38 assists, 53pts
Raymond: 29 goals, 41 assists, 70pts
Rasmussen: 18 goals, 21 assists, 39pts
Veleno: 21 goals, 15 assists, 36pts
Berggren: 20 goals, 10 assists, 30pts
👻🐻: 15 goals, 48 assists, 63pts
Sprong: 21 goals, 35 assists, 56pts
Kane: 15 goals, 15 assists, 30pts
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Game notes:
Wings lose 6-3 vs Stars:
- Reimer starting in net first time since what seems forever(11 saves the game before🫣)
- Sprong gets the wings on the board first
- Wings easily crumbled in the first and allowed Dallas to get a pp goal after a veleno penalty
- Stars then score one right at the end of the 1st to make it 2-1 Stars
- Confirmed Reimer is still bad and not an NHL goalie (Zack got really high after this)
- Stars then make it 4-1 and bergers comes in clutch with a bounce back goal to make it 4-2 in the 2nd period
- more than midway thru the 3rd veleno puts the team within 1 goal with a pp net front goal to make it 4-3
- Then the team remembered Reimer was in net and let in another one to make it 5-3 to then getting an empty netter to close it at 6-3
- Overall, it was an expected loss, but this goalie situation is god awful and needs to be corrected before it’s too late. Great to see Berggers get one after being called up on emergency basis
Wings win 6-4 vs Blues:
- Husso in net…
- Compher still out
- Kane looks better and better as he rings the pipe
- Blues score first with fabbri and Walman leaving a wide open Saad. Husso looked lost trying to make the save
- Walman answers back to tie it up
- Burgers takes it a step further with a backhander to take the lead 2-1!
- 2nd period starts and Husso lets in 2 quick ones. Blues lead 3-2
- Seider gets the next one on a nice hustle to the net. Tie game 3-3 half way into the 2nd
- Blues break the tie with a breakaway short handed goal after 👻🐻 snaps his stick off a shot and Kane couldn’t get the puck in time. Blues lead 4-3
- Razor gets one to tie it on the pp down the slot 4-4
- Fabbri gets it to give us the lead 5-4
- Michael Rasmussen seals the deal with an empty net goal thanks to the strong efforts of Joe Veleno
- Overall, Husso is not the guy. Even with a win, he was covered by our offense once again. Veleno, Rasmussen, Raymond and Bergers all shined in this game in big ways each putting up 2pts minus bergers. Kane gets an assist as well.