The Official 2024-2025 NHL Season: SNES clinch playoff spot with dominating loss

[Grand Moff Larkin]

JERTS reupped Pionk for 7AAV 6 years and Iafallo for 3.666666 x 3

The Pionk deal seems long and I’m a little surprised they’re bringing back Iafallo with a few middle six guys waiting in the wings

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Got an overly excited email from a Habs fan buddy this morning and I've gotta give him credit, this is good:

I cant wait for the Habs-Caps

The best Russian player in the world vs Ovi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's some small consolation that while they have the best Russian and the best American, they do not have the best Quebecois player

Yet

[Cacophony]

Bread guy is a sex pest?!

[nick]

JERTS reupped Pionk for 7AAV 6 years and Iafallo for 3.666666 x 3

The Pionk deal seems long and I’m a little surprised they’re bringing back Iafallo with a few middle six guys waiting in the wings

Pionk's deal is a bit long and a bit rich, but I can live with it if it means that his regular partner Dylan Samberg (RFA) resigns long-term this summer; they were pretty good as a second pair. I do figure there's a bit of a "a guy actually wants to stay in Winnipeg long-term" tax on the deal though.

I like the Iafallo deal. He can play pretty much anywhere in the lineup -- a lot of time on the 4th line, but when Vilardi got hurt a few weeks ago, he's been hanging quite well on the top line with Connor and Scheifele. The Jets value that kind of versatility (him, Nino, Namestnikov). He's also a guy who loves to tramp around the winter wilderness and stuff, so, again, there's a matter of "he likes us, so we like him". I figure that the real potential spot for a Brad Lambert or Nikita Chibrikov will be on the second line if/when Nik Ehlers signs somewhere else as UFA.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Should I covet Ehlers as a free agent or do you think he’s going to fall off

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Bread guy is a sex pest?!

That was a surprise, did he have a “personal leave” stretch around then? I can’t remember.

[nick]

Should I covet Ehlers as a free agent or do you think he’s going to fall off

He's what, the second best UFA forward available (after Marner)? What he's finally shown this year is that if you play him PP1 time, he'll be be basically a PPG guy with great metrics and elite 5-on-5 scoring. I'd love to keep him, but I think he's gone. ~$9M long-term seems about right. A couple things that might hurt his value are a perceived (and real) lack of playoff production (14 points in 37 games) and some injury history -- he's missed on average 13 or 14 games a year for the past five seasons.

[nick]

Bread guy is a sex pest?!

That was a surprise, did he have a “personal leave” stretch around then? I can’t remember.

Different woman:

In February 2021, Panarin took a leave of absence from the team for personal reasons following claims printed in a Russian newspaper that he was involved in a physical altercation with a woman in Latvia in 2021.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Oof

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Should I covet Ehlers as a free agent or do you think he’s going to fall off

He's what, the second best UFA forward available (after Marner)? What he's finally shown this year is that if you play him PP1 time, he'll be be basically a PPG guy with great metrics and elite 5-on-5 scoring. I'd love to keep him, but I think he's gone. ~$9M long-term seems about right. A couple things that might hurt his value are a perceived (and real) lack of playoff production (14 points in 37 games) and some injury history -- he's missed on average 13 or 14 games a year for the past five seasons.

The three guys after Marner (who I think either stays in Toronto or takes stupid money and goes to Chicago) of interest are Ehlers, Boeser, and Bennett. Boeser doesn’t seem consistent enough and Bennett, aside from being a total shit, will probably find some way to stay in Florida.

My concern with Yzerman is that he’ll strike out on those four guys and sign a consolation prize.

[nick]

Ryan Donato, step right up!

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Dudes who will never score 30 goals again for 100, Alex

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Ullmark starts for no good reason and is getting pumped by the Canes B team

[sutterfamily]

For a game that i watched on a plane it sure was a rollercoaster ride

Kinda “who cares” either way but I like that they came back.

(Context: SNES went up 3-0 in the first. Canes scored five (5) in a row to lead 5-3 after two and then SNES scored four (4) to win 7-5

[Grand Moff Larkin]

These late season games once all the seeds are set are stupid. Tonight the Leaves played their top guys but didn’t play them that much. I don’t get it.

[sutterfamily]

Do we do playoff threads or just continue the season one? You'll have to forgive me for not remembering this detail - it's been a long time since I had to think about it.

[Cacophony]

Wild playoff schedule is absolutely insane. You cannot tell me Gary and his group of chuds don’t see Vegas as their special little child and will give them every little advantage that they can so they will be successful so another desert team doesn’t fail miserably

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Do we do playoff threads or just continue the season one? You'll have to forgive me for not remembering this detail - it's been a long time since I had to think about it.

I’ll start a playoffs thread