Since we were talking about him I have to post this. I don’t necessarily agree with the players the article says he has to beat out. He’s just too good not to be on the team and has a completely rounded game now, which he didn’t always have.
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Exactly. You need a guy to lead the charge, play in the tough places, lead by example.
I watched the last period of the Jets season last year and not one guy got into “scoring position” in the last period. They took a ton of easy to stop shots from along the boards because Dallas denied them the centre of the ice.
Scoring a ton of points and winning the Presidents trophy may be what Winnipeg is aiming for but they will be as successful as the Maple Leafs until they can play from and score in the dirty areas.
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Today’s Homer Sports Math Moment
I drop this here after a mention in another thread. I can’t stand “hyper-local” people as cited here with fans of the Flyers, and it’s even more baffling in the year 2025, for they seem stuck in the year 1975 or so.
Fans of the Philadelphia Flyers who act like the 1970s was two months ago =
Fans of the Chicago Bears, high off their championship season in 1985, who act like it’s still 1987 and they are going back to the Super Bowl again because “defense wins championships blah blah blah”.
Thank you for watching Today’s Homer Sports Math Moment.
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haha binnington tried to steal ovi’s 900 puck
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A look at who might return from 2014 (maybe only Crosby) and other comments on Canada’s Olympic squad:
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NHL Power Rankings: 1 player who needs to step up for each team
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pitlick with the dirty headshot on chatfield
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new 2026 canada olympic jerseys
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Didn’t realize it, but Mike Gartner is now the chair of the HHOF, taking over from Lanny McDonald. Inductions to take place in 3 days on November 10th.
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Gartner was one of the best Snipers ever in the NHL. He career was pretty decorated with two Canada Cup wins, and multiple All-Star selections.
However, he never got a chance to hoist the Stanley Cup. He actually got robbed of that honor when in 1994, the Rangers traded him at the deadline to the Leafs. 
Then the Rangers went on to win the Cup that year.
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what say you all
Olympics: Hockey Canada unveils jerseys for 2026 Winter Games
this is not an NHL topic. Hockey Canada is a different thing.
Or maybe this thread should be retitled as just Hockey
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I don’t know about that. The team is chosen by NHL executives and all players and coaches will be from the NHL. As far as I can see Hockey Canada had nothing to do with it except unveiling the jerseys.
I moved your post here, however, because as GGirl pointed out she had already made a similar post yesterday. It didn’t seem to me that the unveiling of the jersey, already covered in this thread, needed a separate thread. Anyone on the forum interested in hockey reads this thread.
I expect a separate thread may be started on Olympic hockey and/or the Olympics, but do you really think we need one for just the jerseys?
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well, no matter who posted it here, it is not the right place. How about a separate Hockey Canada topic about more than just jerseys ??
a welll, I can live with it
Can we just fast forward this season to where the flames get the #1 draft slot?
Chances are we’ll fukin blow that too…
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I was thinking the other day that they overdelivered last year and so far are under delivering this year.
If your team is fortunate enough to win the lottery this year you get a generational player in Gavin McKenna, considered to be the best to come along since McDavid. Not even the Oilers could screw up that first overall pick.
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they could definitely screw it up by wasting him with horrible goaltending.
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I wasn’t even thinking of goaltending, but ok.
I have the Oilers at 0 for 2 in making first overall picks.
Yakupov is arguably the worst first overall pick ever starting in 1969 as prior to that from the early 60’s when the draft started it was far different than what it became. . Only Greg Joly, Alexander Daigle and Patrik Stefan provide competition in my view.
The Nuge is a solid NHL player, like Alex Lafreniere, but a whiff as a first overall pick. There are many others in that category. When he was drafted in 2011, admittedly a weak draft year, superior players the Oilers passed on included Gabriel Landeskog, Mark Scheifele, Nikita Kucherov and Jordan Binnington. They may have won a Cup or two since then had they drafted Binnington.
I don’t count McDavid as a brilliant first overall pick, but rather as a no doubter or lottery win. Similar to G. Perreault, Lafleur, Potvin, Hawerchuk, Lemieux, Lindros Ovechkin, Crosby, Mackinnon and upcoming for McKenna. A 4 year old girl could have made any of those picks after spending 5 minutes on the internet. No scouting or decision making was necessary for any of those picks.
For interest’s sake below is a listing of first overall picks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_overall_NHL_draft_picks
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1 quick thought on all 32 teams a month into the season
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All 4 of these guys playing above expected level.
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