PTOITWCFTPP wrote:“I like young players, and I like draft picks,” Hextall said. “My vision is to build this team and continue to make this team better through the draft. That doesn’t mean we won’t make trades; it doesn’t mean at some point, if it’s a good enough player and we’ve got to trade a young player, we may look at that. But it’s not a vision of mine to trade young players for older players. It would have to be a really, really strong deal for us.”

Amen lord HEXY

Soren wrote:I think in hockey, similar to soccer, analytics is an attempt to look at space and where players wind up on the ice/pitch and how they perform in high leverage situations rather than trying to generate an all encompassing metric of a player's value.

SK790 wrote:

Soren wrote:I think in hockey, similar to soccer, analytics is an attempt to look at space and where players wind up on the ice/pitch and how they perform in high leverage situations rather than trying to generate an all encompassing metric of a player's value.

Nerd

The Flyers will be looking to make a move at the draft for a D-man and the three names I keep hearing mentioned are Anaheim's Sami Vatanen, Dallas' Trevor Daley, and Winnipeg's Dustin Byfuglien. All three are names you will hear a lot of from several teams at the draft. The Maple Leafs also have interest in Daley.

Bill McNeal wrote:Wow, the Trenton titans went kaput? Crazy, used to love going out there for games. Beer dude would basically give us free beers if we brought the cup back to refill. Just had to tip him nice.

BigEd76 wrote:They haven't had a steady ECHL affiliate in a while. They were sharing a team with the Penguins, then they got the Trenton Titans for a year before that franchise went POOF, then this past year it was a South Carolina team

As for Reading, they moved from Columbus when the Blue Jackets joined the league, so I doubt they'll change their name. Plus Reading Royals sounds like a LeVar Burton thing

How does Jim Benning's selection as GM in Vancouver, and who he selects as head coach, affect the Ryan Kesler situation?

Darren Dreger: Ryan Kesler hasn't changed his mind. He wants a fresh start and to move on from Vancouver; he met with Benning earlier this week to talk about that. It's believed that Kesler still has six teams on his list that he's willing to be traded to. And we think that Philadelphia and Anaheim are among those.