One more time for old times sake. Come win a cup, you rat.

If that's indeed the case, it doesn't shed a good light on mngmnt/ownership... especially with a player who's loving the city & team as much as Boeser does.

I wonder which implications this behavior could have in regards to future off-season signings. Canadian markets are already unpopular enough.

With some of those huge returns today, it's hard to believe they didn't get any feasible offers, if they really wanted to trade him.

So -unless their expectations were unrealistic- one could conclude, they're trying to downplay Boesers market value in order to get a cheap extension done.

a hockey player laying on the ice with the number 14 on his shirt ALT: a hockey player laying on the ice with the number 14 on his shirt

Trade Dealine, everybody is shoring up for the playoffs.

Vancouver Canucks:

“Yah…….. are there anymore guys out there named Petterson ??”

Lastly: Marchand, eh? In my mind, he and Boston are synonymous.

It's going to take a while to get used to that. But one thing is for certain: the Panters are going to be fun to watch in the playoffs... and maybe one can hope the Bostonian Rat will return home after his lil adventure in the south.

of dump-and-chase probably quite out of his comfort zone.
Not to mention all the mental aspects accompanying the events of the last couple of weeks.

TL;dR it's for the best Carolina got to flip him. And if Nečas continues to get elevated by MacKinnon, neither of the three teams lost this trade.

Sure, the best outcome for the Canes would have been for Rantanen signing an extension with CAR and producing at the same pace as he did at MacKinnon's side.

But realistically speaking, CAR's system wasn't a match. He's more of a passenger rather than a driver of play and with RBA's preferred style

Speaking of Rantanen: viewing the situation as one big 3-way-trade between COL, CAR & DAL... it wasn't that bad of a deal. In the contrary actually, if you ask me.

Nečas, Drury + a few picks for Stankoven, Hall, two 1st rd picks and a 3rd is a return, the team wouldn't have gotten without Rantanen.

Now that the NHL trade news have calmed down, a few quick thoughts on the deadline:

Besides the Marchand and Rantanen moves, the day felt surprisingly low-event-esque. Maybe it was just the typical expectation vs reality discrepancy.. but in hindsight it was rather quiet compared to previous years.

Don't sweat, I'm also doing some proper reading 🤓🤓

#1 Star Spencer Knight

Cats fans look away.

Seth Jones and Sergei Bobrovsky hugging each other on ice in Panthers uniforms.

Seth Jones and Sergei Bobrovsky hugging each other on ice in Blue Jackets uniforms.

Nearly six years after they last played together, Seth Jones and Sergei Bobrovsky have the post-win hugs going again. 🤗

The downside? If I'm reading one more Canucks or Hurricanes trade-rumor article in the name of research, I might be losing my sanity..

what a burden, I know :)

The good thing about recklessly changing my master thesis topic?

I can procrastinate by scrolling social media & reading hockey articles and still claim it as ✨research✨

i don't even have anything good or funny or interesting to post about the canucks man i'm just as frustrated and confused as y'all

thank god we have quinn when he's alive

What does it 'correct' Byram to tho? My new keyboard is adamant to change 'hky player' to 'holy player' lmao 💀💀

Screenshot of a paragraph from our trade deadline article on EH (https://evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolving-hockey-trade-deadline-targets-2024/). "Of note, goalies were not included here (sorry goalies). Goalies are historically difficult to predict, and it’s actually quite rare that a big-name goalie is traded heading into the deadline. Based on some personal research of the consensus among media sources, it appears Jacob Markström, Juuse Saros, and Jake Allen are the possible targets there. To be honest, I’m skeptical enough of these to be begin with, but the Devils should totally go get Markström. Also of note: it’s unlikely we’ll see many RFAs moved at all (although we’ve seen more of this in recent years), but I have included them above for reference. Ok onto the targets."

Working on our trade deadline preview/targets article (it should be up sometime Sunday or Monday on the site). Going back over what I wrote last year, and ... nailed it (even though I completely forgot I wrote this last February)

To Canes Fans | By Sebastian Aho I can promise you one thing, Raleigh: Close isn’t good enough.

Well this was long and unexpected from Aho today. #RaiseUp www.theplayerstribune.com/sebastian-ah...

Hey!! So excited to have found you here again!

Ohhhh. This. Is. NICE.

I got on here, before all my hky mutals switched over from x. So didn't really use it. But now? Peak og twitter sentimentality 🥺

But enough about that. Hi! Your fav hockey doodle artist and sarcastic German is finally here too! ;)