136- Weeks 16-17 recap–2023-24 NHL Season; Thomas Pepin NHL Talk
136- Weeks 16-17 recap–2023-24 NHL Season; Thomas Pepin NHL Talk
For e hello everyone this is Thomas pep and NHL talk I’m Thomas Pepin and let’s talk about the NHL uh I just want to double check I forgot one thing to make sure that everything’s working here just bear with me a moment okay cool uh so as you’ll notice I’m in a
Different location so like I said visiting family house sitting for a month or so and uh so I’m currently in the exercise room so I got a whole bunch of uh whatever you call them elastic bands punching bag right beside me over there sauna right across from me
Um backround ofi family is uh French Canadian so we’ve got the Quebec flag uh anyways so different scenery uh this was the least in the way location so I mean there’s some other spots that are nicer looking uh so next stream while I’m still here so the not next Friday but
The Friday after that I’ll be in a better location visually at least but this one it’s just cuz people they’re packing for their trip and want to be out of the way so anyways um so this is where I’m going to stream for today uh and yeah so as
Always for the Friday streams it’s going to be a recap of uh either the past week or the past two weeks sometimes in the rare case the past three weeks in the NHL uh for today it’s the past two weeks um for one because it fits my schedule with all this traveling and
Whatever uh and then uh also just the amount of news so it’s actually a good timing because we do have a chunk of news to go through uh as it usually takes should be about an hour to go through everything uh but we do have
Plenty to go through now I should say so the power cut out on me when I was prepping for the stream partially why I’m late and then also why the description of the stream is uh not complete so I’m going to finish that after the stream and just fingers
Crossed that the power doesn’t go during the stream so uh if something happens that’s what’s happened so any who let’s get to it uh all right so we’ll share screen so first piece of news is L is stepping away for a period of time to receive care for from the player
Assistance program so uh as I’ve mentioned previously I don’t talk about the particular issues people are facing whether that be personal legal whatever it is um just giving information on people being away in the case that they’re one of your team’s players or your sports betting and it’s relevant
And stuff like that so anyways so L is going to be out for an undetermined amount of time uh that’s all we’ll have to say about that and so it kind of makes sense because his performance hasn’t been the best also there’s been rumors about him getting traded of course I don’t really
Put much faith in rumors but the fact that there are rumors typically some sort of indication that something’s going on so and I think the GM said that everybody is available um so anyways just uh uh unfortunate that he’s having to step away whatever is going on but anyways that’s the news
For that uh next up so again I I don’t I talk about other injuries later on but in terms of anything that’s uh season ending or extremely longterm I might touch on it in the news portion of the stream or headlines I guess portion of the stream so here’s an example cheel I
Think is how it’s pronounced he’s out for the rest of the season with an upper body injury doesn’t specify what it was I don’t think so in any case so he’s going to be out for the rest of the season uh next up uh the GM Alvin and V Vancouver was
Extended to a multi-year contract I did go back to try to find how long that contract was for but I couldn’t find anything um so don’t know and uh in any case it’s not all that critically relevant now the team hasn’t done that good for a
While I think they’re having an off good season so I don’t know if I like the idea of uh extending the GM I don’t think he’s done a good job I think he’s been there long enough to have made an impact and hasn’t um and on that note let’s go have a look
Actually oh he hasn’t been there that long two years and then I don’t think it says how long he’s extended for so maybe I’m too quick to judge because he hasn’t been there long enough but anyways so that’s that for that piece of news uh then there’s the trade for Lind
Home I don’t think there’s any other trades to talk about oh yeah there was the Monahan one did I not I think I might not have uh saved that give me one sec where is it okay so I’m going to leave that actually close that so we’ll just
Go to trade so there’s the monan trade and the um linol kzo trades so I might as well just go over to those since they’re both pretty big and then talk about those at the same time so um so first up there’s the Calgary Vancouver trade so
Kzco yero I don’t think he’s of any great significance third round pick yeah not doing much in uh Liga is finish I believe um so nothing of great significance there in that player based on his performance uh burst witch I don’t know if that’s how you pronounce it um good performance in the
OHL where was he drafted third round so he seems like a decent pickup then there’s a first and a conditional fourth fourth becomes a third if they make it to the conference final then there’s other terms there you can read yourself and then Elias lindol goes over to Vancouver uh Lindome man that I didn’t know he did that well in that season so 42 goals 40 assists 82 points and 82 games is very very good but the rest rest of his seasons are 2third of a point per game towards a point per game in some cases
Um so a decent player and then what’s his because he’s expiring yeah so the cap hits outstanding uh mind you he’s probably going to well certainly going to get a lot more in free agency or if he extends um so yeah the value is great there now in terms of kzo I don’t
Believe had good performance they were having issues with getting much out of them uh this season that is so 39 goals 74 points in 81 games the previous season did very well in the KHL he drafted High undrafted so he’s probably I mean he’s got two goals in two games so far with
Calgary he’s got the performance to indicate that he’s going to be very good um moving forward but again sometimes people have just a good season and and they never ever get back to that same level so um I would say they’re probably equal in terms of um high-end potential because 39 goals
Versus what was it for lyol 42 it’s like the same thing so uh essentially they basically have similar value cuz Mano is a bit more unknown because he doesn’t have as much of a track record mind you I would argue the having KHL stats like that is enough of
A track record whereas lindol was a first round pick um then you got the risk of a Russian player because they could always go back to the KHL um so anyways so that’s probably why there the value was so high going to Calgary so I think Calgary definitely
Won that trade and kazano had another year left I believe it said right yeah so in my opinion definitely Calgary won that trade uh you could argue that Lind because he’s more um certain of an asset that um H they both have two goals in two
Games um that he’s a smarter pickup and that’s the difference in the value and like I said because he’s got you know the pedigree behind him that’s probably why he fetched more in the trade um and the fact that it’s a rental and Calgary or sorry and Vancouver had
Issues with kusano so there’s probably all those layers to it so I understand the value of the trade I don’t think it’s good I wouldn’t have made the trade I wouldn’t have given up the assets that Vancouver gave up in that trade I’d much rather Calgary side of
Things so um mind you they Vancouver might know more about issues with kzo that um Cal wouldn’t have known but I think Calgary was having trouble uh extending lyol anyway so I I think it would amount to pretty much the same so I think Calgary clearly clearly
Wins that trade so um anyways that’s kind of my look at that uh and then Monahan to Winnipeg for first and a third uh and let’s close these so Monahan so the third I should say about the third the third’s conditional if Winnipeg wins the Stanley Cup otherwise
It’s just a first which is not all that crazy it seems like for Monahan now I know Monahan’s been very up and down in his performance over the years uh 34 goals 82 points in 78 games usually approximately 2third of a point per game uh or three quarters something like that
Um and yeah of late so this past season on a team that’s not that great Montreal he 35 points in 49 games he’s got enough of a pedigree to score goals which I think increases his Value Plus he’s a centerman um apparently good at face offs I
Haven’t looked at his stats but that’s what the analyst said when I heard some stuff uh so for a first round for him zenderman given that background I think it’s great and didn’t he do well in one of the playoffs here eight points in 10 games with Calgary five and four games with
Calgary 21 and 30 so I mean altogether if wiip Winnipeg is a much better team now now I think uh that they’ve spread out their uh performance so that there’s few previously they had fewer players which made it easier to defend against them also I think some of the guys are
Flaky and um some of the ones they still have like I don’t know if eers is very up and down to me he’ll play really great in a really important game and then completely be non-existent in another one so I don’t know um um and then schley’s I don’t know if I
Like the team that much and I’m a Jets fan um they’re all very good but anyways what I was getting at is they have the scoring spread out now better so they’ve got more lines they didn’t so previously they had a first a second line and then
A third checking and the fourth was basically unimportant now they basically have one to three and a checking line or you could argue two good checking lines or uh checking line and a third scoring line anyways a lot more death so if there’s injuries they’re going to be
Well equipped to handle those I think it’s a much better Winnipeg team so to pick up this guy to go for a long run hopefully uh hella bucks on his game too so a first round pick if because they’re probably going to finish decent in the standings it’s more like a second round
So I would argue it’s a really good trade um if that’s the case if they finish barely in the playoffs which is quite possible because you can slip and they have slips lately um then that’s where the value goes up so but no matter what it’s not going to
Be it’s they should make the playoffs and it’s not going to be like a high-end pick so I think it’s a great trade uh Monahan doesn’t have any term right yeah tiny cap hit I think it’s fantastic um and to be honest for both sides I think Montreal getting a first round
Pick uh maybe you could have gotten more for uh Monahan but sometimes it’s better to get it done than wait and get less um so so I don’t know personally I would would have said that more accurate value for what Montreal would have wanted back is
Probably a first and maybe like a first and a second first and a third something like that so that if they had the conditional third as nonconditional then I would say it’s a pretty good trade I think that little bit of value off makes it where I think Winnipeg’s got better value
Um so anyways so I again it’s one of those I kind of like to trade for both sides but one side in my opinion does better than the other in terms of value so uh and that’s it for trades so we’ll well like I said we’ll just have gotten those out of the
Way and then we’ll move on to the rest here so next up came the um oh sorry I clicked something on my phone give me a sec so I’m using this to monitor if there’s any comments so just give me a sec I’m GNA have to get out and go back
In there we go um so yeah next uh up was the allstar game so like I said because they changed the format for the skills competition I was interested in having a look um and the so the only part in the end that I actually I should say things differently
So I didn’t see the the player draft I thought that was cool to bring that back um and then I was going to watch the skills competition and depending on how that went if I liked it then I would watch the allar games if I didn’t like it then
I wouldn’t watch those so uh I’ll explain my opinion on the skills competition after we go through all the the draft stuff so um so anyways now since this is in the past I don’t know if it’s if you really if it’s going to be all that
Important to know that stuff but anyways so these are the players that got drafted onto the Hughes team you can see the roster there uh and then the McDavid team McKinnon team and then Matthews team so of course Course once I had the links saved to the stream you can go
Back and have a look if you want to review those uh and then so we had the so that was it for that day they had the draft and that was basically all that happened I believe the women’s game happened but I didn’t watch that
Um and so anyway so it went on to the skills competition the following day uh as you can see there McDavid 1 and like I said I watched the whole thing and before I go through the results I should say just my opinion generally on it and
I absolutely loved it it went right back to the old school kind of style the competitions were different and um the structure was different too but I really like the way it was uh put together so you had the skills people got to choose certain skills that they would compete
On um then you accumulate points based on how you performed uh compared to everybody else so first place got X number points second so on and so on and then after I forget if it was six or eight competitions the points got tallied and then people got
Eliminated and then I think it was two more and then more people got eliminated and then was the last one I think that’s how it went but anyways um I won’t go Through uh all the like the how people performed on each of the things but basically long story short um McDavid was fantastic uh where final eight final six oh it does show it so if we go all the way to the bottom and then scroll up it’ll go through everything so but we’ll
Just show the point totals after so the final eight oh that shows what they had on the final so it doesn’t show the standings where did I find that then because I found it somewhere is that the bottom huh well I know I had it on my
Channel so I go back there it’s just kind of funny that um I could have sworn that I would have bookmarked it where is it here it was on one of my shorts that I did I guess I’m going to have to go back further Allstar SP board skills final standings
So there it is right there so um whoops there it is so McDavid got first marar second Matthew’s 3D then you can see the rest there uh and let I forget exactly how people got eliminated I think it was oh yeah they did say so it was 86 and
Then uh the winner from the the remaining six so anyway so those were the points at the end some people performed better than expected like JT Miller I think did better than expected some people way worse than expected like coov dry cidal past neck McKinnon so sometimes like
It was strategies in each of the competitions as well as um just performance on those competitions which you could you know just have an off day in terms of your touch another thing I heard from the um the analysts that were talking like the commentators and stuff
They were saying how the pucks weren’t Frozen so yet in games they were and so that would really impact to players touch on the puck so is it a big enough excuse well probably not but um you know things like that they really should have factored in and uh made sure it was
Consistent to how these players are used to playing so um anyway so there’s a bunch of factors why it would have been as it was but then again you know if McDavid got first M second Matthews 3D it kind of tells you that it was close
Enough so some PE I would argue it’s just that people were off so anyway so those were the uh standings and H let’s see if I can find that link again and then I’ll include it but let me copy where did I get it it’s not that one I don’t Think oh I’m pretty sure it was this one at the bottom of the live blog or is it at the top yeah this is where I found it so I’ll add that to the description as well Okay cool so anyways yeah long story short the skills competition was great
In my opinion uh so now I’ll watch uh future iterations of it as long as they don’t change it to that stupid gimmicky stuff and it’s funny because all the commentators were like oh this is great and I don’t know I bet you they said it was great when it was all the
Garbage stuff anyway so but I liked it so if you didn’t see it i’ I’d actually recommend go back and watch the the skills competition all the events and um it would kind of then you can kind of have your own opinion if you didn’t see
So uh all right so next up was news that the NHL um or players would participate in the next two Olympics so that would be 2026 in 2030 there’s in 20 25 where is it there it is uh there’s going to be a four Nations face off instead of
The allstar game so Canada Finland Sweden and the US uh I wonder if that means that there’s no skills competition H well in any case uh that’s kind of cool I guess it’s like a warmup for the Olympics and uh all that stuff so um yeah so that’s going to be cool I
Don’t know if to be honest I don’t think I’m going to care about watching those like the four nations face off that they’re calling it I don’t it’s not a great interest because it’s not important there’s no like significance to it it’s not for uh an Olympic medal it’s not the
World Cup of Hockey which even that uh I think is kind of me so they and then yeah it says that the plan is to alternate the World Cup of Hockey and Olympics every two years after that uh after 2026 um and to be honest I just will Cup
Of Hockey is not that important to me it’s Olympics are not important but anyways so kind of cool at the very least to me the Olympics um NH each other’s are going to be back at that for the next two at the very least which I’m excited to watch the other one other
Things that I don’t think it’s that um big of a deal to me but might be to you uh next up Kings fired mlen they said that they weren’t going to and then they did that’s why I never put much faith in rumors or ownership saying a certain thing or
GM saying that a player is not available and all that kind of stuff just I ignore it all until we see what happens um and then Hiller is the interim coach uh how did mclen do when he was there I thought he did okay but wasn’t
He only there for a short period of time why is it not letting me one sec how you do not good in the first season not good in the second season good in the third season good in the fourth season and then got fired I don’t know if I agree with that
Uh decision and they weren’t out of a playoff spot either when he got fired I’m pretty sure so I don’t know I don’t know if it’s the right call but whatever that’s the call they made then Hiller I don’t think has been a coach so I doubt he’s going to be the long-term
Option yeah he’s only been an assistant did pretty well in the WHL so has a decent track record where maybe he’s ready to be a coach so we’ll see what happens um but yeah not uh I don’t think he’s going to be the coach but you never know
Like I said it’s a decent enough track record where it could happen um yeah so anyways that’s hen there some news about the coyotes they applied to buy stat land north of Phoenix because the previous thing that they tried to do fell through um but I don’t I wouldn’t put much faith
In that um at this point because so many things have happened with them and then have fallen through that basically it’s just for information’s sake to let you know if you’re interested in more information on it you can read the article of course uh so that’s that and then the
Next day of the Allstar Weekend where the allstar games and then there was mcdavid’s team against McKinnon it finished 43 and a shootout for mcdavid’s team if you’re interested in more information you can check that article in the video uh the other game Matthews against Hughes
Again in a shootout that was 65 for Matthews and so Matthews and McDavid in the final and then team Matthews 174 in my in my opinion I thought it was um you know pretty competitive I it wasn’t like the hardest effort of a game you know not as
Hard as like a real NHL game but the fact that it was still for a million for the winning team and then the skills competition fact that there was a million for the winner um I thought that was cool what I think would have been
Better is if maybe the top three for the skills competition get incrementally less from the first down to the third um because then it drives you to at least you know try to get in the top three so I think it puts more uh uh like gives you more motivation to
To compete whereas if it’s just one person then if you’re too far out of the running you’re just going to give up so um so I think they should do that also the fact that one player got a full million dollars whereas a team got a million dollars with the All-Star games
Um that’s where if it was spread out more for the skills competition I think that would be better anyways that’s my opinion on that but uh games were like I said the competitiveness wasn’t anything too fantastic but it was decent and in my opinion they deserved my eyes from
Having done a good job on the skills competition you know not that you know I’m the most important fan to have watched but I judged it uh if I was going to watch that based on the skills competition the skills competition was great like I said so anyways so
Altogether in my opinion a great Allstar uh uh or great All-Star events at least from the hockey stuff the rest of it I didn’t watch to be honest so uh any who so that’s it about the Allstar Weekend I typically don’t talk about signings unless they’re $5 million or
More but he was a a weird case where probably should have been signed a long time ago and then he um anyways just got signed and he was playing I saw in the Winnipeg game I don’t know if he’s still playing if he plays in their most recent
Game because I think they had one since then but anyways so poar po povi I forget how it’s pronounced but he signed with the Penguins good for him it’s funny going from I think a second overall pick wasn’t he or did he slip I forget no he could have been a first overall
Pick and then what did he get fourth overall um yeah it’s just what a big drop off of uh what he was expected to do versus what he has done so but with the Penguins you never know he could do well we’ll see he’s supposed to be a skilled
Player that’s why he was drafted so high so uh anyways so just a interesting story the fact that he missed out on the beginning of the season I think I think it was due to injury but also probably just sign not finding a team to sign
Him and so anyways he got signed by Pittsburgh uh another person long-term injury Samuelson from the Sabers season ending surgery for upper body injury doesn’t specify what it is but anyway so he’s out for a while another person entering the player assistance program ketov which we’ve heard I think
I spoke of previously how he was having issues with his team so don’t know if there’s something personal going on with him but clearly something where he has to miss time and to enter that program so hope he gets better hope everything goes well for both him and his team uh
This one I don’t know if I’ve heard the result yet so he cleared waivers and I think it was there’s no other oh yeah there was a clean there so I’ll go back to that later um purposes of contract or terminating his contract so I don’t know if there’s there’s any sort of
Issue uh so he didn’t want to report to the AHL and asked for the team to terminate his contract so okay anyway so not anything of great significance but for information so uh DJ Smith so the coach that was fired from the Senators earlier in the SE season uh he’s an assistant in
La um I’m interested to see if that’s kind of their plan of the next coach there you never know or he’s supposed to or he like he is somebody that Hiller wanted and then that’s supposed to be like a tandem coaching I guess or you know still subservient to Hiller or whatever but
Um yeah it’s interesting so that at least gives you the thought that maybe DJ Smith could be the head coach there moving forward uh once they like as part of their process of um finalizing their head coach there so anyways so that’s that uh pis from the Bruins has season ending shoulder surgery
Again not much more to say than that uh sergachev I don’t know if you saw it I had a look and man that looks brutal so he uh bro so he had he fractured both his tibia and fibula which I believe are is hard to do uh I forget which
One’s the one that’s like thicker and more difficult to break but he I think one of those is it so anyways nonetheless he broke a lot and it looked very bad and he’s going to be out for a while uh it doesn’t specify the time frame and just uh unfortunate for him
And the team because he’s an important defenseman for the team so um so that sucks pretty gruesome injury uh last piece of the headline is garen’s going to be the GM for the American four nations team in 2026 Olympic team which I think he’s done a horrible job with
Minnesota and as a result I think it’s a horrible decision for those two events um so anyways those are my thoughts and I guess you can have your own opinion on that uh for suspensions there’s a few suspensions uh and fines so marchan’s one Dylan’s one Meyers I forget if I think trouba’s
W 27th when was the last one yeah that would have been after so I think that’s the last one on the list there we know about Gallagher okay so Marchman find for interference against MC which I didn’t see but I thought I heard it was pretty
Bad but I guess not bad enough for a suspension so uh $5,000 fine uh this one whether he meant because I saw this live actually whether he meant to injure uh Char or not it was a dangerous hit so the problem was if he lowered his body to hit a
Chari I wouldn’t have said it was suspension worthy but he stayed too high and like where the head was going to he should have done he should have either gone low and hit the body or just not done the hit so and it and he had enough
Time to make that decision in my opinion so I thought it was a bad hit um and worthy of three games um and of course you could go back to to have a look and I’m sorry for Char getting hurt like he did uh he had a concussion apparently so um yeah
Definitely suspension worthy I think they got the number of games right too uh Myers got to find for for elbowing uh in a game against the Blue Jackets $5,000 trouba suspended two games for elbing DV DV I think that’s how you pronounce it um that’s it for suspensions injuries we’ll have a look
Through so again the criteria or Criterion is um a month or more it’s where I’ll make note of it otherwise it’s not as long term we already know about cheel Jack Quinn I don’t know if it’s something I’ve mentioned before but out until March 27 mcran from St Louis out until next season it looks like Cal foot McLoud oh that’s the the legal stuff out until April 15 both of them uh Dubay 18th of April same reason Carter har 16th of April same reason fanti out till 27th of
March uh I think it was a leg GL ration if I’m not mistaken AJ Greer until March 23 foot injury Robin Leonard hip injury till April 18 so they they had given an update on this website at least recently mentioning that he could have come back earlier but I guess he’s still
Recovering from that night he had his legal things too so um yeah it looks like he’s out for this season my assumption is that’s the case uh luch out until April 16 ankle injury so that’s been extended I believe Pat maroon back injury out till March 7 pous we already know
Sergachev they’re estimating April 17 so not until the playoffs and then that’s it for long-term injuries uh we did have one waiver claim I believe no a couple waiver claims so chisel I believe he was claimed earlier in the season if I’m not mistaken anyways uh he got claimed
Named by Minnesota Minnesota after having been put on Waivers by Winnipeg no okay so then I’m confusing there’s somebody else from Winnipeg that I believe was put on waivers and claimed uh previously uh another defenseman I think and then patchel put on waivers by Vegas claimed by by Calgary and that’s that and so by the
Sounds of it Bonino is going to have his contract terminated too uh contract signings I think 26 was the previous stream so then it’s everything past then so ginak I think is how you’d pronounce that uh P RV and posal posal anyways no major contract signings uh any major standout scores
Since last news so again it’s if you’re interested in all those games that happen you can go take a look at those games I’m just looking for like big lopsided um games and it doesn’t look like there’s anything no um there was that Edmonton had what
Was it 16 games and I think 17 was the record I think that’s right but anyways if I’m off by a couple games um they were close to getting tying the record and then fell short by one game so too bad for them but you know that
Happens uh next up we’ll compare the current standings to my pre-season Predictions so first the Atlantic division this one’s this is my favorite part of the stream because I like seeing where I’m at for my predictions so I have Leafs Bruins Panthers and so I’ll consider as I’ve said before that my predictions are right if they’re in a
Playoff spot and I have them in a playoff spot because the position of where exactly they’re sitting is just so difficult to predict so anyways I have Leafs Bruins Panthers Bruins Panthers Leaf so I’m perfect there three for three lightning in a wild card spot so that’s four for four for the Atlantic
Division mind you I think I’d be willing to bet that uh Tampa’s gonna slip out because of losing sergachev uh because he’s a pretty important player uh Metropolitan I have hurricanes Islanders Rangers hurric hurricanes Rangers Flyers so if for two for three in that Islanders are outside of the
Wild card spot that’s the wings so I’m wrong there and penguins are also out but they have more games in hand so they could potentially move into a playoff spot uh if they get on a bit of a winning streak so in that Division I am two for
Four but the other two are kind of Within reach uh going over to Central Division I have stars Blues Avalanche it is currently Stars avalanch Jets um I have Jets and a wild card so that’s three for three on the top three at least and then Blues are in the
First sorry second wild card spot so I’m actually four for four on the Central and so the blues actually turned it around which uh I’m not surprised by I think they’re a decent team and I thought the other teams were overperforming so um so yeah four for
Four in the central then Pacific I have Knights Oilers Kings and it’s Canucks Knights Oilers so two for three there and then kings in the wild card spot so I’m uh KN Oilers Kings three for four Flames are just behind them but more games played and uh yeah there’s other teams ahead of
Them so altogether in the western comp conference I’m 1 2 3 7 for eight and in the Eastern Conference I’m six r eight one two three four five six so 6 + 7 13 for 16 which is pretty darn good um hey Marcus thanks for tuning in again uh so that’s pretty good
Predictions are looking pretty close and that’s it for that uh last thing kind of just to show you you can look in your own time if you’re interested so point leaders COV leads the way it’s basically between COV and McKinnon for points mind you a bunch of people could catch up
Because there’s still plenty of games left in the season Matthews leading the way in goals 41 reinhardt’s actually come back up so he’s Within Reach too then you know with goals you never know some of these guys could actually move up uh go tending Aiden Hill still at the
Top hellu likewise at least for goals against average same for Save percentage some other guys basically all the All-Star goalies are um there for the most part and then defense SP Hughes leading the way there Mar catching up and then Believe It or Not Bard even
Though he’s been for a chunk of games still leading for rookies um yeah so that’s it for the stream nothing else to uh cover so that’s where we’ll leave it so if you like the stream hit the like button share with your friends subscribe turn on notifications the channel homepage has upcoming streams
I’m regular NHL content um because of my schedule for travel and uh everything the it’s going to be every two weeks kind of regardless of the quality of news um and so that’s already scheduled on the channel homepage uh not next Friday but the next one after that it’s going to be 5:00
P.m. I think I put I might change that again but it’ll be that day at the very least um so that’s that I do have my plans for my schedule for franchise mode and be a pro starting Monday Sunday I’m not going to be able to do that stream as per normal
Because there’s the Super Bowl and I want to watch that and also I’m getting up crazy early to bring the the family to the airport so Um yeah so it’s just not going to be a good day for me to do another scheduled stream uh so that day is going to be cancelled I think unless I just put it in whenever I’m awake and have enough energy but we’ll play that by year it won’t be planned but after
Monday um the plan is two streams a day uh one franchise mode one be a pro there might I might take a day off here and there but for the most part it’ll be two um some streams might go longer than normal uh maybe shorter it won’t be as
Structured because I don’t have like a specific schedule since I’m not U doing any work as far as I know at this moment I could pick up a contract that takes up some time but we’ll figure that out if that happens the plan was to take the the month off so
Um anyway so we’ll play that by year in terms of like if any if there’s any adjustments but it should be like I said one franchise mode a day one be a pro a day uh probably about two hours a piece or for franchise mode two hours be a pro
Probably two games which is typically like an hour and a half almost two hours um so that’s the plan but I’ll put that schedule in the about section on the channel once it’s finalized which I think it is but I just want to give it a couple days to just
Make sure um then that’s it uh any comments leave them in the comments suggestions likewise um and today’s Friday there could be another franchise mode stream tomorrow um could there be one one today maybe even today but those ones don’t hold me to it because I don’t know um because I got to
Go to bed early tomorrow because I’m traveling early in the morning the next day and then today since I’ve done this I don’t know if I’ll have more time but we’ll see anyways that’s it so thanks for tuning in and we will see you guys next time okay bye
In today’s live stream, I’ll be recapping and commenting on news/events that took place during the sixteenth to seventeenth weeks (January 27-February 9) of the 2023-24 NHL Regular Season. Planned subjects include:
1. Laine to receive care from NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program 2. Chytil out rest of season for Rangers with upper-body injury 3. Canucks sign GM Allvin to multi-year contract extension 4. Lindholm traded to Canucks by Flames for Kuzmenko 5. Team Hughes 6. Team McDavid 7. Team MacKinnon 8. Team Matthews 9. NHL All-Star Skills Final Results: Oilers’ Connor McDavid the big winner 10. 2024 NHL All-Star Skills live blog (Skills Final Standings) 11. Monahan traded to Jets by Canadiens for 2 picks 12. NHL announces return to Olympics, will participate in Milan in 2026 13. Kings fire McLellan, name Hiller interim head coach 14. Arizona Coyotes apply to buy state land in north Phoenix with eye on new arena 15. Team McDavid scores two late goals, wins in shootout over Team MacKinnon 16. Team Matthews knocks off Team Hughes to reach final of NHL All-Star Game 17. Maple Leafs-led Team Matthews mix competitiveness, chirps in NHL All-Star Game win 18. Penguins sign F Puljujarvi to two-year, $1.6M contract 19. Sabres D Samuelsson to have season-ending surgery 20. Capitals’ Kuznetsov to enter NHL/NHLPA player assistance program 21. Rangers place Nick Bonino on unconditional waivers 22. Ex-Senators coach D.J. Smith joining Kings as an assistant 23. Bruins rookie Matthew Poitras has season-ending shoulder surgery 24. Sergachev has successful surgery, vows to come back ‘stronger’ 25. Guerin named USA’s GM for 4 Nations, 2026 Olympics 26. Suspensions 27. Injuries 28. Waiver claims 29. Signings 30. Trades 31. Scores 32. Standings 33. Stats leaders
136- Weeks 16-17 recap–2023-24 NHL Season; Thomas Pepin NHL Talk
136- Weeks 16-17 recap–2023-24 NHL Season; Thomas Pepin NHL Talk
For e hello everyone this is Thomas pep and NHL talk I’m Thomas Pepin and let’s talk about the NHL uh I just want to double check I forgot one thing to make sure that everything’s working here just bear with me a moment okay cool uh so as you’ll notice I’m in a
Different location so like I said visiting family house sitting for a month or so and uh so I’m currently in the exercise room so I got a whole bunch of uh whatever you call them elastic bands punching bag right beside me over there sauna right across from me
Um backround ofi family is uh French Canadian so we’ve got the Quebec flag uh anyways so different scenery uh this was the least in the way location so I mean there’s some other spots that are nicer looking uh so next stream while I’m still here so the not next Friday but
The Friday after that I’ll be in a better location visually at least but this one it’s just cuz people they’re packing for their trip and want to be out of the way so anyways um so this is where I’m going to stream for today uh and yeah so as
Always for the Friday streams it’s going to be a recap of uh either the past week or the past two weeks sometimes in the rare case the past three weeks in the NHL uh for today it’s the past two weeks um for one because it fits my schedule with all this traveling and
Whatever uh and then uh also just the amount of news so it’s actually a good timing because we do have a chunk of news to go through uh as it usually takes should be about an hour to go through everything uh but we do have
Plenty to go through now I should say so the power cut out on me when I was prepping for the stream partially why I’m late and then also why the description of the stream is uh not complete so I’m going to finish that after the stream and just fingers
Crossed that the power doesn’t go during the stream so uh if something happens that’s what’s happened so any who let’s get to it uh all right so we’ll share screen so first piece of news is L is stepping away for a period of time to receive care for from the player
Assistance program so uh as I’ve mentioned previously I don’t talk about the particular issues people are facing whether that be personal legal whatever it is um just giving information on people being away in the case that they’re one of your team’s players or your sports betting and it’s relevant
And stuff like that so anyways so L is going to be out for an undetermined amount of time uh that’s all we’ll have to say about that and so it kind of makes sense because his performance hasn’t been the best also there’s been rumors about him getting traded of course I don’t really
Put much faith in rumors but the fact that there are rumors typically some sort of indication that something’s going on so and I think the GM said that everybody is available um so anyways just uh uh unfortunate that he’s having to step away whatever is going on but anyways that’s the news
For that uh next up so again I I don’t I talk about other injuries later on but in terms of anything that’s uh season ending or extremely longterm I might touch on it in the news portion of the stream or headlines I guess portion of the stream so here’s an example cheel I
Think is how it’s pronounced he’s out for the rest of the season with an upper body injury doesn’t specify what it was I don’t think so in any case so he’s going to be out for the rest of the season uh next up uh the GM Alvin and V Vancouver was
Extended to a multi-year contract I did go back to try to find how long that contract was for but I couldn’t find anything um so don’t know and uh in any case it’s not all that critically relevant now the team hasn’t done that good for a
While I think they’re having an off good season so I don’t know if I like the idea of uh extending the GM I don’t think he’s done a good job I think he’s been there long enough to have made an impact and hasn’t um and on that note let’s go have a look
Actually oh he hasn’t been there that long two years and then I don’t think it says how long he’s extended for so maybe I’m too quick to judge because he hasn’t been there long enough but anyways so that’s that for that piece of news uh then there’s the trade for Lind
Home I don’t think there’s any other trades to talk about oh yeah there was the Monahan one did I not I think I might not have uh saved that give me one sec where is it okay so I’m going to leave that actually close that so we’ll just
Go to trade so there’s the monan trade and the um linol kzo trades so I might as well just go over to those since they’re both pretty big and then talk about those at the same time so um so first up there’s the Calgary Vancouver trade so
Kzco yero I don’t think he’s of any great significance third round pick yeah not doing much in uh Liga is finish I believe um so nothing of great significance there in that player based on his performance uh burst witch I don’t know if that’s how you pronounce it um good performance in the
OHL where was he drafted third round so he seems like a decent pickup then there’s a first and a conditional fourth fourth becomes a third if they make it to the conference final then there’s other terms there you can read yourself and then Elias lindol goes over to Vancouver uh Lindome man that I didn’t know he did that well in that season so 42 goals 40 assists 82 points and 82 games is very very good but the rest rest of his seasons are 2third of a point per game towards a point per game in some cases
Um so a decent player and then what’s his because he’s expiring yeah so the cap hits outstanding uh mind you he’s probably going to well certainly going to get a lot more in free agency or if he extends um so yeah the value is great there now in terms of kzo I don’t
Believe had good performance they were having issues with getting much out of them uh this season that is so 39 goals 74 points in 81 games the previous season did very well in the KHL he drafted High undrafted so he’s probably I mean he’s got two goals in two games so far with
Calgary he’s got the performance to indicate that he’s going to be very good um moving forward but again sometimes people have just a good season and and they never ever get back to that same level so um I would say they’re probably equal in terms of um high-end potential because 39 goals
Versus what was it for lyol 42 it’s like the same thing so uh essentially they basically have similar value cuz Mano is a bit more unknown because he doesn’t have as much of a track record mind you I would argue the having KHL stats like that is enough of
A track record whereas lindol was a first round pick um then you got the risk of a Russian player because they could always go back to the KHL um so anyways so that’s probably why there the value was so high going to Calgary so I think Calgary definitely
Won that trade and kazano had another year left I believe it said right yeah so in my opinion definitely Calgary won that trade uh you could argue that Lind because he’s more um certain of an asset that um H they both have two goals in two
Games um that he’s a smarter pickup and that’s the difference in the value and like I said because he’s got you know the pedigree behind him that’s probably why he fetched more in the trade um and the fact that it’s a rental and Calgary or sorry and Vancouver had
Issues with kusano so there’s probably all those layers to it so I understand the value of the trade I don’t think it’s good I wouldn’t have made the trade I wouldn’t have given up the assets that Vancouver gave up in that trade I’d much rather Calgary side of
Things so um mind you they Vancouver might know more about issues with kzo that um Cal wouldn’t have known but I think Calgary was having trouble uh extending lyol anyway so I I think it would amount to pretty much the same so I think Calgary clearly clearly
Wins that trade so um anyways that’s kind of my look at that uh and then Monahan to Winnipeg for first and a third uh and let’s close these so Monahan so the third I should say about the third the third’s conditional if Winnipeg wins the Stanley Cup otherwise
It’s just a first which is not all that crazy it seems like for Monahan now I know Monahan’s been very up and down in his performance over the years uh 34 goals 82 points in 78 games usually approximately 2third of a point per game uh or three quarters something like that
Um and yeah of late so this past season on a team that’s not that great Montreal he 35 points in 49 games he’s got enough of a pedigree to score goals which I think increases his Value Plus he’s a centerman um apparently good at face offs I
Haven’t looked at his stats but that’s what the analyst said when I heard some stuff uh so for a first round for him zenderman given that background I think it’s great and didn’t he do well in one of the playoffs here eight points in 10 games with Calgary five and four games with
Calgary 21 and 30 so I mean altogether if wiip Winnipeg is a much better team now now I think uh that they’ve spread out their uh performance so that there’s few previously they had fewer players which made it easier to defend against them also I think some of the guys are
Flaky and um some of the ones they still have like I don’t know if eers is very up and down to me he’ll play really great in a really important game and then completely be non-existent in another one so I don’t know um um and then schley’s I don’t know if I
Like the team that much and I’m a Jets fan um they’re all very good but anyways what I was getting at is they have the scoring spread out now better so they’ve got more lines they didn’t so previously they had a first a second line and then
A third checking and the fourth was basically unimportant now they basically have one to three and a checking line or you could argue two good checking lines or uh checking line and a third scoring line anyways a lot more death so if there’s injuries they’re going to be
Well equipped to handle those I think it’s a much better Winnipeg team so to pick up this guy to go for a long run hopefully uh hella bucks on his game too so a first round pick if because they’re probably going to finish decent in the standings it’s more like a second round
So I would argue it’s a really good trade um if that’s the case if they finish barely in the playoffs which is quite possible because you can slip and they have slips lately um then that’s where the value goes up so but no matter what it’s not going to
Be it’s they should make the playoffs and it’s not going to be like a high-end pick so I think it’s a great trade uh Monahan doesn’t have any term right yeah tiny cap hit I think it’s fantastic um and to be honest for both sides I think Montreal getting a first round
Pick uh maybe you could have gotten more for uh Monahan but sometimes it’s better to get it done than wait and get less um so so I don’t know personally I would would have said that more accurate value for what Montreal would have wanted back is
Probably a first and maybe like a first and a second first and a third something like that so that if they had the conditional third as nonconditional then I would say it’s a pretty good trade I think that little bit of value off makes it where I think Winnipeg’s got better value
Um so anyways so I again it’s one of those I kind of like to trade for both sides but one side in my opinion does better than the other in terms of value so uh and that’s it for trades so we’ll well like I said we’ll just have gotten those out of the
Way and then we’ll move on to the rest here so next up came the um oh sorry I clicked something on my phone give me a sec so I’m using this to monitor if there’s any comments so just give me a sec I’m GNA have to get out and go back
In there we go um so yeah next uh up was the allstar game so like I said because they changed the format for the skills competition I was interested in having a look um and the so the only part in the end that I actually I should say things differently
So I didn’t see the the player draft I thought that was cool to bring that back um and then I was going to watch the skills competition and depending on how that went if I liked it then I would watch the allar games if I didn’t like it then
I wouldn’t watch those so uh I’ll explain my opinion on the skills competition after we go through all the the draft stuff so um so anyways now since this is in the past I don’t know if it’s if you really if it’s going to be all that
Important to know that stuff but anyways so these are the players that got drafted onto the Hughes team you can see the roster there uh and then the McDavid team McKinnon team and then Matthews team so of course Course once I had the links saved to the stream you can go
Back and have a look if you want to review those uh and then so we had the so that was it for that day they had the draft and that was basically all that happened I believe the women’s game happened but I didn’t watch that
Um and so anyway so it went on to the skills competition the following day uh as you can see there McDavid 1 and like I said I watched the whole thing and before I go through the results I should say just my opinion generally on it and
I absolutely loved it it went right back to the old school kind of style the competitions were different and um the structure was different too but I really like the way it was uh put together so you had the skills people got to choose certain skills that they would compete
On um then you accumulate points based on how you performed uh compared to everybody else so first place got X number points second so on and so on and then after I forget if it was six or eight competitions the points got tallied and then people got
Eliminated and then I think it was two more and then more people got eliminated and then was the last one I think that’s how it went but anyways um I won’t go Through uh all the like the how people performed on each of the things but basically long story short um McDavid was fantastic uh where final eight final six oh it does show it so if we go all the way to the bottom and then scroll up it’ll go through everything so but we’ll
Just show the point totals after so the final eight oh that shows what they had on the final so it doesn’t show the standings where did I find that then because I found it somewhere is that the bottom huh well I know I had it on my
Channel so I go back there it’s just kind of funny that um I could have sworn that I would have bookmarked it where is it here it was on one of my shorts that I did I guess I’m going to have to go back further Allstar SP board skills final standings
So there it is right there so um whoops there it is so McDavid got first marar second Matthew’s 3D then you can see the rest there uh and let I forget exactly how people got eliminated I think it was oh yeah they did say so it was 86 and
Then uh the winner from the the remaining six so anyway so those were the points at the end some people performed better than expected like JT Miller I think did better than expected some people way worse than expected like coov dry cidal past neck McKinnon so sometimes like
It was strategies in each of the competitions as well as um just performance on those competitions which you could you know just have an off day in terms of your touch another thing I heard from the um the analysts that were talking like the commentators and stuff
They were saying how the pucks weren’t Frozen so yet in games they were and so that would really impact to players touch on the puck so is it a big enough excuse well probably not but um you know things like that they really should have factored in and uh made sure it was
Consistent to how these players are used to playing so um anyway so there’s a bunch of factors why it would have been as it was but then again you know if McDavid got first M second Matthews 3D it kind of tells you that it was close
Enough so some PE I would argue it’s just that people were off so anyway so those were the uh standings and H let’s see if I can find that link again and then I’ll include it but let me copy where did I get it it’s not that one I don’t Think oh I’m pretty sure it was this one at the bottom of the live blog or is it at the top yeah this is where I found it so I’ll add that to the description as well Okay cool so anyways yeah long story short the skills competition was great
In my opinion uh so now I’ll watch uh future iterations of it as long as they don’t change it to that stupid gimmicky stuff and it’s funny because all the commentators were like oh this is great and I don’t know I bet you they said it was great when it was all the
Garbage stuff anyway so but I liked it so if you didn’t see it i’ I’d actually recommend go back and watch the the skills competition all the events and um it would kind of then you can kind of have your own opinion if you didn’t see
So uh all right so next up was news that the NHL um or players would participate in the next two Olympics so that would be 2026 in 2030 there’s in 20 25 where is it there it is uh there’s going to be a four Nations face off instead of
The allstar game so Canada Finland Sweden and the US uh I wonder if that means that there’s no skills competition H well in any case uh that’s kind of cool I guess it’s like a warmup for the Olympics and uh all that stuff so um yeah so that’s going to be cool I
Don’t know if to be honest I don’t think I’m going to care about watching those like the four nations face off that they’re calling it I don’t it’s not a great interest because it’s not important there’s no like significance to it it’s not for uh an Olympic medal it’s not the
World Cup of Hockey which even that uh I think is kind of me so they and then yeah it says that the plan is to alternate the World Cup of Hockey and Olympics every two years after that uh after 2026 um and to be honest I just will Cup
Of Hockey is not that important to me it’s Olympics are not important but anyways so kind of cool at the very least to me the Olympics um NH each other’s are going to be back at that for the next two at the very least which I’m excited to watch the other one other
Things that I don’t think it’s that um big of a deal to me but might be to you uh next up Kings fired mlen they said that they weren’t going to and then they did that’s why I never put much faith in rumors or ownership saying a certain thing or
GM saying that a player is not available and all that kind of stuff just I ignore it all until we see what happens um and then Hiller is the interim coach uh how did mclen do when he was there I thought he did okay but wasn’t
He only there for a short period of time why is it not letting me one sec how you do not good in the first season not good in the second season good in the third season good in the fourth season and then got fired I don’t know if I agree with that
Uh decision and they weren’t out of a playoff spot either when he got fired I’m pretty sure so I don’t know I don’t know if it’s the right call but whatever that’s the call they made then Hiller I don’t think has been a coach so I doubt he’s going to be the long-term
Option yeah he’s only been an assistant did pretty well in the WHL so has a decent track record where maybe he’s ready to be a coach so we’ll see what happens um but yeah not uh I don’t think he’s going to be the coach but you never know
Like I said it’s a decent enough track record where it could happen um yeah so anyways that’s hen there some news about the coyotes they applied to buy stat land north of Phoenix because the previous thing that they tried to do fell through um but I don’t I wouldn’t put much faith
In that um at this point because so many things have happened with them and then have fallen through that basically it’s just for information’s sake to let you know if you’re interested in more information on it you can read the article of course uh so that’s that and then the
Next day of the Allstar Weekend where the allstar games and then there was mcdavid’s team against McKinnon it finished 43 and a shootout for mcdavid’s team if you’re interested in more information you can check that article in the video uh the other game Matthews against Hughes
Again in a shootout that was 65 for Matthews and so Matthews and McDavid in the final and then team Matthews 174 in my in my opinion I thought it was um you know pretty competitive I it wasn’t like the hardest effort of a game you know not as
Hard as like a real NHL game but the fact that it was still for a million for the winning team and then the skills competition fact that there was a million for the winner um I thought that was cool what I think would have been
Better is if maybe the top three for the skills competition get incrementally less from the first down to the third um because then it drives you to at least you know try to get in the top three so I think it puts more uh uh like gives you more motivation to
To compete whereas if it’s just one person then if you’re too far out of the running you’re just going to give up so um so I think they should do that also the fact that one player got a full million dollars whereas a team got a million dollars with the All-Star games
Um that’s where if it was spread out more for the skills competition I think that would be better anyways that’s my opinion on that but uh games were like I said the competitiveness wasn’t anything too fantastic but it was decent and in my opinion they deserved my eyes from
Having done a good job on the skills competition you know not that you know I’m the most important fan to have watched but I judged it uh if I was going to watch that based on the skills competition the skills competition was great like I said so anyways so
Altogether in my opinion a great Allstar uh uh or great All-Star events at least from the hockey stuff the rest of it I didn’t watch to be honest so uh any who so that’s it about the Allstar Weekend I typically don’t talk about signings unless they’re $5 million or
More but he was a a weird case where probably should have been signed a long time ago and then he um anyways just got signed and he was playing I saw in the Winnipeg game I don’t know if he’s still playing if he plays in their most recent
Game because I think they had one since then but anyways so poar po povi I forget how it’s pronounced but he signed with the Penguins good for him it’s funny going from I think a second overall pick wasn’t he or did he slip I forget no he could have been a first overall
Pick and then what did he get fourth overall um yeah it’s just what a big drop off of uh what he was expected to do versus what he has done so but with the Penguins you never know he could do well we’ll see he’s supposed to be a skilled
Player that’s why he was drafted so high so uh anyways so just a interesting story the fact that he missed out on the beginning of the season I think I think it was due to injury but also probably just sign not finding a team to sign
Him and so anyways he got signed by Pittsburgh uh another person long-term injury Samuelson from the Sabers season ending surgery for upper body injury doesn’t specify what it is but anyway so he’s out for a while another person entering the player assistance program ketov which we’ve heard I think
I spoke of previously how he was having issues with his team so don’t know if there’s something personal going on with him but clearly something where he has to miss time and to enter that program so hope he gets better hope everything goes well for both him and his team uh
This one I don’t know if I’ve heard the result yet so he cleared waivers and I think it was there’s no other oh yeah there was a clean there so I’ll go back to that later um purposes of contract or terminating his contract so I don’t know if there’s there’s any sort of
Issue uh so he didn’t want to report to the AHL and asked for the team to terminate his contract so okay anyway so not anything of great significance but for information so uh DJ Smith so the coach that was fired from the Senators earlier in the SE season uh he’s an assistant in
La um I’m interested to see if that’s kind of their plan of the next coach there you never know or he’s supposed to or he like he is somebody that Hiller wanted and then that’s supposed to be like a tandem coaching I guess or you know still subservient to Hiller or whatever but
Um yeah it’s interesting so that at least gives you the thought that maybe DJ Smith could be the head coach there moving forward uh once they like as part of their process of um finalizing their head coach there so anyways so that’s that uh pis from the Bruins has season ending shoulder surgery
Again not much more to say than that uh sergachev I don’t know if you saw it I had a look and man that looks brutal so he uh bro so he had he fractured both his tibia and fibula which I believe are is hard to do uh I forget which
One’s the one that’s like thicker and more difficult to break but he I think one of those is it so anyways nonetheless he broke a lot and it looked very bad and he’s going to be out for a while uh it doesn’t specify the time frame and just uh unfortunate for him
And the team because he’s an important defenseman for the team so um so that sucks pretty gruesome injury uh last piece of the headline is garen’s going to be the GM for the American four nations team in 2026 Olympic team which I think he’s done a horrible job with
Minnesota and as a result I think it’s a horrible decision for those two events um so anyways those are my thoughts and I guess you can have your own opinion on that uh for suspensions there’s a few suspensions uh and fines so marchan’s one Dylan’s one Meyers I forget if I think trouba’s
W 27th when was the last one yeah that would have been after so I think that’s the last one on the list there we know about Gallagher okay so Marchman find for interference against MC which I didn’t see but I thought I heard it was pretty
Bad but I guess not bad enough for a suspension so uh $5,000 fine uh this one whether he meant because I saw this live actually whether he meant to injure uh Char or not it was a dangerous hit so the problem was if he lowered his body to hit a
Chari I wouldn’t have said it was suspension worthy but he stayed too high and like where the head was going to he should have done he should have either gone low and hit the body or just not done the hit so and it and he had enough
Time to make that decision in my opinion so I thought it was a bad hit um and worthy of three games um and of course you could go back to to have a look and I’m sorry for Char getting hurt like he did uh he had a concussion apparently so um yeah
Definitely suspension worthy I think they got the number of games right too uh Myers got to find for for elbowing uh in a game against the Blue Jackets $5,000 trouba suspended two games for elbing DV DV I think that’s how you pronounce it um that’s it for suspensions injuries we’ll have a look
Through so again the criteria or Criterion is um a month or more it’s where I’ll make note of it otherwise it’s not as long term we already know about cheel Jack Quinn I don’t know if it’s something I’ve mentioned before but out until March 27 mcran from St Louis out until next season it looks like Cal foot McLoud oh that’s the the legal stuff out until April 15 both of them uh Dubay 18th of April same reason Carter har 16th of April same reason fanti out till 27th of
March uh I think it was a leg GL ration if I’m not mistaken AJ Greer until March 23 foot injury Robin Leonard hip injury till April 18 so they they had given an update on this website at least recently mentioning that he could have come back earlier but I guess he’s still
Recovering from that night he had his legal things too so um yeah it looks like he’s out for this season my assumption is that’s the case uh luch out until April 16 ankle injury so that’s been extended I believe Pat maroon back injury out till March 7 pous we already know
Sergachev they’re estimating April 17 so not until the playoffs and then that’s it for long-term injuries uh we did have one waiver claim I believe no a couple waiver claims so chisel I believe he was claimed earlier in the season if I’m not mistaken anyways uh he got claimed
Named by Minnesota Minnesota after having been put on Waivers by Winnipeg no okay so then I’m confusing there’s somebody else from Winnipeg that I believe was put on waivers and claimed uh previously uh another defenseman I think and then patchel put on waivers by Vegas claimed by by Calgary and that’s that and so by the
Sounds of it Bonino is going to have his contract terminated too uh contract signings I think 26 was the previous stream so then it’s everything past then so ginak I think is how you’d pronounce that uh P RV and posal posal anyways no major contract signings uh any major standout scores
Since last news so again it’s if you’re interested in all those games that happen you can go take a look at those games I’m just looking for like big lopsided um games and it doesn’t look like there’s anything no um there was that Edmonton had what
Was it 16 games and I think 17 was the record I think that’s right but anyways if I’m off by a couple games um they were close to getting tying the record and then fell short by one game so too bad for them but you know that
Happens uh next up we’ll compare the current standings to my pre-season Predictions so first the Atlantic division this one’s this is my favorite part of the stream because I like seeing where I’m at for my predictions so I have Leafs Bruins Panthers and so I’ll consider as I’ve said before that my predictions are right if they’re in a
Playoff spot and I have them in a playoff spot because the position of where exactly they’re sitting is just so difficult to predict so anyways I have Leafs Bruins Panthers Bruins Panthers Leaf so I’m perfect there three for three lightning in a wild card spot so that’s four for four for the Atlantic
Division mind you I think I’d be willing to bet that uh Tampa’s gonna slip out because of losing sergachev uh because he’s a pretty important player uh Metropolitan I have hurricanes Islanders Rangers hurric hurricanes Rangers Flyers so if for two for three in that Islanders are outside of the
Wild card spot that’s the wings so I’m wrong there and penguins are also out but they have more games in hand so they could potentially move into a playoff spot uh if they get on a bit of a winning streak so in that Division I am two for
Four but the other two are kind of Within reach uh going over to Central Division I have stars Blues Avalanche it is currently Stars avalanch Jets um I have Jets and a wild card so that’s three for three on the top three at least and then Blues are in the
First sorry second wild card spot so I’m actually four for four on the Central and so the blues actually turned it around which uh I’m not surprised by I think they’re a decent team and I thought the other teams were overperforming so um so yeah four for
Four in the central then Pacific I have Knights Oilers Kings and it’s Canucks Knights Oilers so two for three there and then kings in the wild card spot so I’m uh KN Oilers Kings three for four Flames are just behind them but more games played and uh yeah there’s other teams ahead of
Them so altogether in the western comp conference I’m 1 2 3 7 for eight and in the Eastern Conference I’m six r eight one two three four five six so 6 + 7 13 for 16 which is pretty darn good um hey Marcus thanks for tuning in again uh so that’s pretty good
Predictions are looking pretty close and that’s it for that uh last thing kind of just to show you you can look in your own time if you’re interested so point leaders COV leads the way it’s basically between COV and McKinnon for points mind you a bunch of people could catch up
Because there’s still plenty of games left in the season Matthews leading the way in goals 41 reinhardt’s actually come back up so he’s Within Reach too then you know with goals you never know some of these guys could actually move up uh go tending Aiden Hill still at the
Top hellu likewise at least for goals against average same for Save percentage some other guys basically all the All-Star goalies are um there for the most part and then defense SP Hughes leading the way there Mar catching up and then Believe It or Not Bard even
Though he’s been for a chunk of games still leading for rookies um yeah so that’s it for the stream nothing else to uh cover so that’s where we’ll leave it so if you like the stream hit the like button share with your friends subscribe turn on notifications the channel homepage has upcoming streams
I’m regular NHL content um because of my schedule for travel and uh everything the it’s going to be every two weeks kind of regardless of the quality of news um and so that’s already scheduled on the channel homepage uh not next Friday but the next one after that it’s going to be 5:00
P.m. I think I put I might change that again but it’ll be that day at the very least um so that’s that I do have my plans for my schedule for franchise mode and be a pro starting Monday Sunday I’m not going to be able to do that stream as per normal
Because there’s the Super Bowl and I want to watch that and also I’m getting up crazy early to bring the the family to the airport so Um yeah so it’s just not going to be a good day for me to do another scheduled stream uh so that day is going to be cancelled I think unless I just put it in whenever I’m awake and have enough energy but we’ll play that by year it won’t be planned but after
Monday um the plan is two streams a day uh one franchise mode one be a pro there might I might take a day off here and there but for the most part it’ll be two um some streams might go longer than normal uh maybe shorter it won’t be as
Structured because I don’t have like a specific schedule since I’m not U doing any work as far as I know at this moment I could pick up a contract that takes up some time but we’ll figure that out if that happens the plan was to take the the month off so
Um anyway so we’ll play that by year in terms of like if any if there’s any adjustments but it should be like I said one franchise mode a day one be a pro a day uh probably about two hours a piece or for franchise mode two hours be a pro
Probably two games which is typically like an hour and a half almost two hours um so that’s the plan but I’ll put that schedule in the about section on the channel once it’s finalized which I think it is but I just want to give it a couple days to just
Make sure um then that’s it uh any comments leave them in the comments suggestions likewise um and today’s Friday there could be another franchise mode stream tomorrow um could there be one one today maybe even today but those ones don’t hold me to it because I don’t know um because I got to
Go to bed early tomorrow because I’m traveling early in the morning the next day and then today since I’ve done this I don’t know if I’ll have more time but we’ll see anyways that’s it so thanks for tuning in and we will see you guys next time okay bye
In today’s live stream, I’ll be recapping and commenting on news/events that took place during the sixteenth to seventeenth weeks (January 27-February 9) of the 2023-24 NHL Regular Season. Planned subjects include:
1. Laine to receive care from NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program
2. Chytil out rest of season for Rangers with upper-body injury
3. Canucks sign GM Allvin to multi-year contract extension
4. Lindholm traded to Canucks by Flames for Kuzmenko
5. Team Hughes
6. Team McDavid
7. Team MacKinnon
8. Team Matthews
9. NHL All-Star Skills Final Results: Oilers’ Connor McDavid the big winner
10. 2024 NHL All-Star Skills live blog (Skills Final Standings)
11. Monahan traded to Jets by Canadiens for 2 picks
12. NHL announces return to Olympics, will participate in Milan in 2026
13. Kings fire McLellan, name Hiller interim head coach
14. Arizona Coyotes apply to buy state land in north Phoenix with eye on new arena
15. Team McDavid scores two late goals, wins in shootout over Team MacKinnon
16. Team Matthews knocks off Team Hughes to reach final of NHL All-Star Game
17. Maple Leafs-led Team Matthews mix competitiveness, chirps in NHL All-Star Game win
18. Penguins sign F Puljujarvi to two-year, $1.6M contract
19. Sabres D Samuelsson to have season-ending surgery
20. Capitals’ Kuznetsov to enter NHL/NHLPA player assistance program
21. Rangers place Nick Bonino on unconditional waivers
22. Ex-Senators coach D.J. Smith joining Kings as an assistant
23. Bruins rookie Matthew Poitras has season-ending shoulder surgery
24. Sergachev has successful surgery, vows to come back ‘stronger’
25. Guerin named USA’s GM for 4 Nations, 2026 Olympics
26. Suspensions
27. Injuries
28. Waiver claims
29. Signings
30. Trades
31. Scores
32. Standings
33. Stats leaders
Sources:
https://www.nhl.com/news/columbus-blue-jackets-laine-enters-nhl-nhlpa-player-assistance-program
https://www.nhl.com/news/new-york-rangers-filip-chytil-injury-status-update-out-for-season
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/vancouver-canucks-sign-gm-patrik-allvin-to-multi-year-contract-extension-1.2069900
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/trade-coverage/elias-lindholm-traded-to-vancouver-canucks-by-calgary-flames
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/nhl-all-star/nhl-all-star-game-team-hughes-roster
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/nhl-all-star/team-mcdavid-lands-david-pastrnak-in-nhl-all-star-draft
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/nhl-all-star/nhl-all-star-game-team-mackinnon-roster
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/nhl-all-star/team-matthews-lands-fellow-toronto-maple-leafs-in-nhl-all-star-draft
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-all-star-skills-live-results-fastest-skater-one-timers-up-first/
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-all-star-skills-competition-live-blog-2024
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/trade-coverage/sean-monahan-traded-to-winnipeg-jets-by-montreal-canadiens#:~:text=Sean%20Monahan%20was%20traded%20to,in%20the%202027%20NHL%20Draft.
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-announces-return-to-olympics-will-participate-in-milan-in-2026
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/los-angeles-kings-fire-todd-mclellan-name-jim-hiller-interim-head-coach-1.2070918
https://sports.yahoo.com/arizona-coyotes-apply-buy-state-235854896.html
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/team-mcdavid-scores-two-late-goals-wins-in-shootout-over-team-mackinnon/
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/team-matthews-knocks-off-team-hughes-to-reach-final-of-nhl-all-star-game/
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/maple-leafs-led-team-matthews-mix-competitiveness-chirps-in-nhl-all-star-game-win/
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/pittsburgh-penguins-sign-jesse-puljujarvi-to-two-year-1-6m-contract-1.2071568
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/buffalo-sabres-mattias-samuelsson-to-have-season-ending-surgery-1.2071572
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/washington-capitals-evgeny-kuznetsov-to-enter-nhl-nhlpa-player-assistance-program-1.2071999
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/rangers-place-nick-bonino-on-unconditional-waivers/
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/39472807/ex-senators-coach-dj-smith-joining-kings-assistant
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/bruins-rookie-matthew-poitras-has-season-ending-shoulder-surgery/
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/tampa-bay-lightning-d-mikhail-sergachev-has-successful-surgery-vows-to-come-back-stronger-1.2073166
https://www.thescore.com/wolymhm/news/2840452/guerin-named-usas-gm-for-4-nations-2026-olympics
https://www.nhl.com/info/player-safety
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/injuries/daily/
https://www.capfriendly.com/
https://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_2024_standings.html
https://www.nhl.com/
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/nhl-all-star/nhl-all-star-game-team-hughes-roster
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