Asunto: Draft

Once again, please upload to bulls4ever's website (ppmdb.bulls4ever.com ) if you turned out to have pulled anyone interesting (with around 80+ AVQ and 350+ OR) during your draft.

I've noted all the As and A+ players. When i get home I'll upload the list here if folks are cool with it.

I'll probably end up scouting all of them just to see what we're looking at when getting an A type player.

...wait... what?

huh?

It was a reply to your NYR-MTL post.

Was in reference to Prust's late hit on Stepan. Even if the Rangers win to go through to the finals, we'd be out of players to take on LA or Chicago. There were a couple of late hits yesterday as well, one on Hagelin in particular but he was very quick to side step the Habs player. Lucky!

It is playoffs man. Both teams are trading blows. It sucks to lose players but I'd rather that than dancing around each other like the world tournaments.

Good hits are not a problem. the problem is late hits to injure a fellow professional. If I did that at work, I'd be fired. The interesting part is that Montreal was complaining about Boston doing it to them.

And Price is out because? I have no attachment to either team; I'm merely providing an alternate perspective. As a retired varsity goaltender I can assure you he could have avoiding going into Price feet-first and blades up. That may be the agitator for all of MTL's aggression for retribution on NYR.

I disagree. Kreider was going to the net really fast, and would have skated in front of Price. The defender, who I don't remember who it was, tripped him and Kreider was just a freight train out of control at that point. I don't think he could have turned around since the tripping happened just 5 ft away from Price.

Don't get me wrong, Price being out is huge for Montreal. But I can't help but think of the time Stamkos broke his leg. He could not turn his leg away either. When you're going that fast towards goal, and then your legs are out, there's not much you can do. We're talking less than half a second. We're not cats who can rotate our body really fast.

I'm not saying he could have got out of the way. What I'm saying is he could have avoided going skate-blades-first into Prices leg. He had plenty of time to get his blades away from the point of projected contact. Hence why Montreal was so pissed and hence why there was no call. Incidental, sure. But the nature was definitely not.

Anyways, we're getting off-topic here.

I'm not a fan of any player who goes at the goal similar to "a freight train out of control."

Sure the defender had a role in it, but I think that it's gotten far too common for players to just throw themselves towards the net at full speed (forcing the defenders to either commit a penalty, or throw them into their own goalie).

It's one of those unintended (or possibly intended) results of the holding/obstruction rule changes from 2004. As long as defenders have no recourse against charging players, goalies will continue to get injured from guys charging the net with no remorse.

It's sad because it's such a dangerous, unnecessary, and frankly uncool way to play the game. But the rules encourage it, and the NHL thinks fans want to see lots of "fast-paced" gameplay. So it's what we've got.

Quite honestly a shame though. Goalies are some of the most entertaining players on the ice (to me at least), and the NHL time and time again seemingly hangs them out to dry.

i don't think it has anything to do with the NHL encouraging it or discouraging it for that matter. It's simple, any single player is trying to get to a certain location on the ice as quickly as possible. That's it. You're trying to get to open space, before the other guy gets there. It's the same in soccer, rugby, football, any sport you can think of.

The A player I got turns out to be an average player for me. I might keep him but I doubt he'll ever start a game. He would be a decent sub though.

My A player turned out to be great: 83-99-89 with 6/6 CL and 300+ OR. He was supposed to be a center and turned out to be a goalie (he has a quality of 90 for offense and 53 for shooting), but I'm not complaining.