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2024-25 NHL Misc. Thread

Tyler Johnson announced his retirement last night. He was a major pest every time the Canes played Tampa. I remember the hat trick he had in Tampa during the 2017-18 season when he completely outworked Noah Hanifin to break a 3-3 tie with less than 5 minutes in that game.

Go to around the 6:55 minute of this highlight video from that game to see the play I'm talking about. I remember this goal for 2 reasons. It solidified Tyler Johnson as an absolute Canes killer for me. It also gave me serious pause about Noah Hanifin.


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Yeah, TJ had a heck of a career. Kind of a shame that he was on the down slope of his career by the time Tampa got those Cups because he was a guy who carried a lot of their offense while they built up that roster.
 
Kolyachonok is kind of expensive for what amounts to an 8th NHL defenseman, but hey ... less expensive than Dumba, who hasn't been able to play at an NHL level for a while now. That poor guy just hit a brick wall when he left Minnesota. He was a useful 2nd pairing D at one point
 
Scott Wheeler from The Athletic says there’s is “chatter” among agents and CHL clubs about moving the AHL age from 20 to 19. The thinking is that with the promise of playing in the AHL, it will keep 18 year olds in the CHL for an extra year rather than jumping to NCAA hockey. They’ll have the option of turning pro a year early rather than enrolling in college.


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Scott Wheeler from The Athletic says there’s is “chatter” among agents and CHL clubs about moving the AHL age from 20 to 19. The thinking is that with the promise of playing in the AHL, it will keep 18 year olds in the CHL for an extra year rather than jumping to NCAA hockey. They’ll have the option of turning pro a year early rather than enrolling in college.


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The misalignment has never made sense to me. The fact that tweener draft picks who are too good for major junior but not good enough for the NHL don't have the option to play in the AHL is just stupid. It's left over from when major junior had WAY more market dominance, so they could muscle their way into getting an extra year out of top players but now that kids have the option to play that year in college against older players, they want to sing a different tune.
 
NHL teams employee people to specifically figure out loopholes to exploit. If you are not looking to take advantage of what the CBA allows you to "get away with" then you are going to fall behind all the teams who are.
 
Vegas and Tampa's "LTIR exploitation" turned into the Dallas' and the Florida teams' "no state income tax advantage" and one day somebody else will exploit a perceived advantage that everybody whines about. It's the nature of sports for teams to try to gain any advantage they can and the nature of the media and fans of other teams to complain about it. The circle of life.

Wake me when we go back to the territorial draft level of unfairness.
 
If they don't harass him about playing defense or bench him for just floating around doing nothing productive and give him PP1 time, Jeff Skinner can score 30 goals for San Jose with all of the young offensive skill they have. SJ is a perfect destination for #53.
 
So, San Jose also traded for Ryan Reaves yesterday in addition to adding Skinner. What a weird collection of spare parts they've accumulated. Not sure how all of that is supposed to work together, but they should be even more entertaining next season.
 
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