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Mr.Beantown's Blog

Fantasy 2014 - Your Top 5 Goalies!

I have been "Fantasy Hockey Blogging" for a few years now, and thought I would drop a small one on here! I have been a (self-appointed) Fantasy Hockey Guru for a few years now. I play in some insanely competitive leagues that mimic all life like NHL systematics for Drafting, ELC's, Contract renewals etc... so after years of this I have always had a knack of planning, scouting, building and obsessing over my teams, players and rivals. All in this has garnered me the opportunity to learn about Fan
Mr.Beantown

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Two Pad Stack

Boston Bruins: 5 Things

Welcome to the “5 things” series here at Two Pad Stack! As we head toward the twilight days of summer, each team has some unanswered questions that need addressing before the season gets started. Luckily for you, the staff here at 2PS will bring those questions to light. Today we take a look at last seasons Presidents Trophy winners, the Boston Bruins. 1. Can Loui Eriksson step up to the 1st line? Let's put it this way, Eriksson was brought in to be a top 4 forward on this Boston Bruins team. Du
JohnnyDrama21

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Two Pad Stack

5 Things: Buffalo Sabres

Welcome to the “5 things” series here at Two Pad Stack! As we head toward the twilight days of summer, each team has some unanswered questions that need addressing before the season gets started. Luckily for you, the staff here at 2PS will bring those questions to light. Today, we take at the new and (sort of) improved Buffalo Sabres! 1. Will the Sabres be better in 2014/15? Yes and no. Will they improve on their NHL-worst 52 points and 157 goals for? It would be really, really difficult for the
JohnnyDrama21

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Welcome to Pegulaville

Pre Training Camp Sabres Projected Lineup

With training camp a little over two months away the Sabres will have a lot of roster spots up for battle. New GM Tim Murray and Head Coach Ted Nolan have stated since day one ice time will be earned not given. If the tone of prospect development camp was a slight insight into training camp, the coaching staff will be pushing competition and physicality hard. The goal of the Sabres offseason was to get harder to play against. I think they achieved their goal, perhaps too well and taking them out
Pegulaville26

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It's a Canadian Game

Evaluating the Cody Franson Signing

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Cody Franson avoided what would have been another arbitration meeting between the two Monday. The meeting was avoided when just hours before it was scheduled to occur, both sides agreed to a one year $3.3 million dollar deal. Just days before the deal was made, a report surfaced that both sides were as much as $2.2 million dollars apart. Franson was reportedly looking for a deal in the area of $4.2 million dollars while the Maple Leafs were offering around $2 million.
Welcome to Pegulaville

Sabres Development Camp

This week the Buffalo Sabres held their development camp with all the prospects in the system. A chance for the fans to get a look at the real future of the Sabres. I'll start with main attraction 2014 2nd overall pick Sam Reinhart. Over the first two days in camp you can see Reinhart has come as advertised. He's shifty, great instincts, and quick hands. On the first shift of Tuesday nights scrimmage Reinhart made a great no look pass under pressure right on the tape of 2014 2nd round pick
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It's a Canadian Game

Where Have Offer Sheets Gone?

Well it’s been almost two weeks since the NHL free agency signing period started and things have started to quiet down. The majority of the interest has now shifted from unrestricted free agents to restricted free agents and salary arbitration cases. Early last week a rumour came out of a Montreal radio station reporting that the Canadiens were prepared to offer young Boston Bruins defenceman Torey Krug an offer sheet. Though many were skeptical about the credibility of the report and some confi
Inside Edge Hockey News

Brodeur Odd Man Out?

NHL Trade Talk: July 3,2014 BRODEUR ODD MAN OUT? Sometimes you feel that “enough is enough”. Martin Brodeur has had an amazing career with the New Jersey Devils. He has done it all, and will be a guarantee first time ballot hall of famer. But, is his career over, or should his career be over. Many believe that he should have just retired as a member of the New Jersey Devils, and went out as one of the greatest goalies of all time. Well Martin just wants to play! He is now an unrestricted free ag
InsideEdge

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It's a Canadian Game

Who's in and Who's Out in Toronto

NHL’s free agent frenzy kicked off Tuesday with a big bang. Though they didn’t make a number of monumental moves when the signing period began, the Toronto Maple Leafs did dabble in the action and also said farewell to other bodies. So with this the Toronto Maple Leafs are already looking to be a different group of players when they take to the ice next season. The Leafs transactions first began last Saturday when they sent defenseman Carl Gunnarsson to the St. Louis Blues for fellow tough-guy,
It's a Canadian Game

Possible Shake-Up in Chicago

The 2014 NHL Entry Draft kicks off Friday night in Philadelphia and along with the excitement surrounding the new crop of young stars, comes the excitement of wheeling and dealing that is likely to occur in the coming weeks. Among the teams that early on look as though could be busy this off-season is the Chicago Blackhawks. It seems kind of interesting that the Hawks would want to make many moves after coming just a goal a way from punching their ticket to their second Stanley Cup finals in two
Two Pad Stack

Pens Draft Grades; Neal Trade Retrospective

Busy weekend and you couldn’t keep up with what the Pittsburgh Penguins were up to at the NHL draft? No problem. Here’s a breakdown of all the weekend’s important events, complete with some semi-arbitrary grading scale that I developed to save you some time on the details. The James Neal Trade: B- Make no mistake, the single most talented player to move in the deal is James Neal. He’s probably one of the top-10 pure snipers, and I would rank his release even higher: probably top-5 in the whole N
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Inside Edge Hockey News

Draft by Numbers

The 2014 National Hockey League Draft is now in the books. A total of 210 players were selected in the seven draft rounds. PLAYERS BY COUNTRY A total of twelve countries were selected at this years NHL Draft in Philadelphia. Here is a breakdown of the counties, number of players selected, and the percentage of players from that country. Canada – 77 players – 36.7% United States – 67 players – 31.9% Sweden – 27 players – 12.9% Russia – 13 players – 6.2% Finland – 9 players – 4.3% Czech Republic
InsideEdge

InsideEdge

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It's a Canadian Game

Making a Case for Alexander Mogilny

The newest class of inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame was announced Monday. This November the likes of Dominik Hasek, Peter Foresberg, Rob Blake, Mike Modano, Pat Burns, and Bill McCreary will become the newest members to be enshrined in the hall. With this year’s class named, questions about who was left off this year’s card begin to swirl. The most popular name that had been receiving a lot of consideration in the days leading up to Monday’s announcement was ‘the Big E’ Eric Lindros. Howe
Inside Edge Hockey News

NHL Trade Talk - The Summer is Heating Up!

NHL Trade Talk: June 18, 2014 Avalanche Problems? The Colorado Avalanche has some very difficult decisions ahead of them this summer. TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger thinks that the decisions, and actions concerning Ryan O’Reilly and Paul Stastny will be very troublesome. He thinks that the Ryan O’Reilly situation, and pending team requested arbitration case, will make this a very difficult and messy situation. It is no secret that teams are interested in O’Reilly. This will get messy, and it
InsideEdge

InsideEdge

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Two Pad Stack

Ryan O'Reilly Salary Arbitration Situation

TSN’s Bob McKenzie posted a series of tweets regarding the Colorado Avalanche’s Ryan O’Reilly earlier today. The implication that O’Reilly could be taken to a third-party salary arbitrator caused a bit of a ruckus in the Avalanche social media world. The ruckus intensified when McKenzie confirmed the rumour shortly thereafter. Here’s the lot tweets in a more convenient format: Lots of talk within NHL circles that COL has or will file “club-elected salary arbitration” on Ryan O’Reilly. If so, it
JohnnyDrama21

JohnnyDrama21

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Inside Edge Hockey News

The Best and Worst Stanley Cup Match-ups

Every hockey fan wants their NHL team to make the Stanley Cup Finals every year. We all know that is not possible. So do you watch when your team is not in the Stanley Cup Finals? Or, are you the hardcore NHL fan that will watch no matter what? Every year the NHL hopes for parity, and new teams in the finals. It creates a broader level of excitement. But, we all know that fans, and the league hope for certain match-ups. Great television ratings in the United States depend on certain match-ups.
InsideEdge

InsideEdge

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Chompboard

FIRE DOUG WILSON BEFORE HE RUINS THE TEAM

Dear Doug Wilson, this is for you. Doug Wilson's comments today indicate he wants to trade everyone 30 and over for prospects and picks. Ill bold the comments and give my thoughts. "I want players that want to play here, not just live here." Said in reference to player who wanted to return, not current Most Shark fans think it is Setoguchi after hearing it is a former Shark who wants to come back. "There has been a lot of roster turnover in the last 12 months, and there will be more going forwar
J0e Th0rnton

J0e Th0rnton

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Two Pad Stack

Oilers are not trading Nail Yakupov

It’s almost time for the NHL Draft which means it’s everyone’s favorite season: trade speculation season! Like the build-up to the trade deadline, the lead-up to the NHL Draft is full of what-if’s, maybe’s and how-about-this’.\ One name is brought up seemingly ad nausem: Nail Yakupov. The first overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft has become everyone’s favorite trade rumor over the last several months. He slumped his way to a mediocre sophomore year, dropping to 11 goals and 24 points, both less t
JohnnyDrama21

JohnnyDrama21

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Will Kris Letang be the next Edmonton Oiler?

ith only a few weeks left before the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, Edmonton Oilers GM Craig MacTavish is working against the clock to find a deal to move his first round pick. So when the Pittsburgh Penguins announced the hiring of GM Jim Rutherford, Oilers fans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief. The Oilers need a serious infusion of skill on defence to dig their way out of the bottom of the Western Conference and adding an established NHL quality defenceman is the fastest way to accomplish this. But
JohnnyDrama21

JohnnyDrama21

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HokkeyNutt's Blog

It’s Time to Play Like A Champion!

There’s really not much more that can be said about tonight’s Game 6. The Blackhawks enter a tough building where they won in last year’s WCF, but unfortunately have not done so in this year’s. That changes tonight! The pressure is on the Kings and if the beloved Blackhawks force a Game 7, lookout! Coach Q’s Game 5 adjustment of re-mixing his top 4 D, underscores the luxury he has… two top shutdown pairs. The Kings aren’t quite there. So if Q can roll two dangerous lines, as he did in Game 5, t
hokkeynutt

hokkeynutt

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What a Canucks Fan Wants This Offseason

If you have ever cheered for or followed the Vancouver Canucks, you know that every single fan has an opinion on the direction of this team. Yes I know that this happens for almost every sporting team in existence.. but here in Vancouver, it is especially prominent. We are all #armchairgms and think we know what’s best for our boys in blue. On that note, let me explain what I would do if I were the GM of the Vancouver Canucks. (I can dream!) Before We Get Started.. The Canucks have already take
JohnnyDrama21

JohnnyDrama21

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Kings Didn't Get the Memo

This phrase has been said a million times; not about the Kings but about the countless teams that don’t know they aren’t supposed to be good when they are shocking the world. The NHL sent out a memo TWICE to the LA Kings, pretty sure they didn’t check their inbox. Back in 2012, the Los Angeles Kings had 3 opportunities to not only make the playoffs but win the Pacific Division. They decided to blow 2 of them and their entire season came down to one game. Their record was inflated because of a sl
JohnnyDrama21

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Habsguy26

Habs Goalies, thoughts on Eastern Final:May 27

Hello folks. I wanted to post this today before tonight's Eastern Conference Game 5 showdown between the Habs and the Rangers, because regardless of tonight's final score, whether the Habs are eliminated, or whether they live to fight another day, there is one, shining, bright light that we've seen emerge over the past year or so, and that is our goaltending is looking stellar, and the future is now. Carey Price is only 27 years old, is obviously a top 5 goalie in the league, signed to a long te
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