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Around the League 2018-2019 Edition

Apparently Edmonton is firing Todd McClellan, and replacing him with...Ken Hitchcock.

LOL, Peter Chiarelli. LOL.
 
Also, does anyone really think Hitchcock can fix what ails Edmonton?

I mean, theoretically he can get all non McDavid lines to play typical boring lockdown Hitch hockey, and hope McD can outscore the other teams on his own?
 
This is really exactly what Edmonton needs.

An old-school, hardass coach who will put even less emphasis on speed, skill, puck-movement and offense in Edmonton than ever, because that's definitely the way this league is trending.
 
Hitch is a great coach, but coaching isn't the problem.

Crazy Chia could survive the coach. Mclellan wasn't the problem. Mclellan not having Hall, Eberle, Barzal, Schultz, Tkachuk literally anythign drafted outside of the top pick in the draft, is the problem.
 
A lot of coaches are being fired. Damn.
Hitch will have them play boring, shutdown hockey and hope to win 2-1 games.
 
McClellan was throwing his guys under the bus the other day. I think he’s had enough. Edmonton needs six new dmen. Their defence is atrocious.
 
I guess we can't say for certain that it's only the pad-size adjustment that has sunk these guys, but here is a list of the goalies that have played at least 60 games the past two seasons with a 2-yr average SV% of .910 or better.

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You would think pad size is a big factor. Average save percentage started going down a couple years ago, when they started making the changes.

Torts also had a good take. Because of the cap the league is now filled with cheap, young players that are skilled, score a lot and make a ton of mistakes.
 
BG said:
I guess we can't say for certain that it's only the pad-size adjustment that has sunk these guys, but here is a list of the goalies that have played at least 60 games the past two seasons with a 2-yr average SV% of .910 or better.

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shouldn't Freddie be on this list?
 
I think we’ve proven that all it takes is a goodcock to dig a team out of a hole.

Who’s to say that the hitch won’t be just as effective as the bab?
 
NHl Avg Save%
2013-14: .914
2014-15: .915
2015-16: .915
2016-17: .913 *new pants mid season
2017-18: .912
2018-19: .909 *new chest protectors
 
hitch is awesome and mclelland probably sucks.

should be an upgrade, but it's still a bad roster.
 
made me check:

1.Rinne .942
2.Andersen .935
3.Halak .935
4.Raanta .929
5.Gibson .928
6.Vasilevskiy .927
7.Varlamov .926
8.Dubnyk .925
9.Greiss .925
10.Campbell .923
11.Bishop .923
12.Crawford .922
13.Howard .922
14.Lundqvist .919
15.Luongo .918
16.Hutton .917
17.Kinkaid .916
18.Bobrovsky .915
19.Hellebuyck .913
20.Elliott .911
21.Holtby .906
22.Darling .903
23.Anderson .901
24.Fleury .901
25.Price .900
26.Markstrom .897
27.Allen .894
28.Jones .894
29.Talbot .888
30.Murray .877
31.Smith .876

1.Brossoit .959
2.Peterson .951
3.Rittich .931
4.Khudobin .925
5.Miller .924
6.Desmith .923
7.Ullmark .922
8.Dell .920
9.Koskinen .917
10.Kuemper .917
11.Johnson .916
12.Lehner .915
13.Nilsson .912
14.Rask .912
15.Stalock .909
16.Sparks .906
17.McElhinney .903
18.Saros .903
19.Bernier .901
20.Copley .899
21.Grubauer .896
22.Reimer .895
23.Georgiev .894
24.Domingue .892
25.Ward .891
26.Niemi .887
27.Korpisalo .885
28.Schneider .865
29.McKenna .862
30.Subban .859
31.Pickard .852

Miiska .889
Mrazek .880
Quick .845
Hutchison .839
Budaj .833
Condon .800
Bachman .793
Neuvirth .727
 
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