NHL 2019-20 season Fantasy & Chat thread

[mr. leisure]

Lets go Canucks

Winner , lets get another Canucks win today .

[yisman]

Blues have come out flat since the restart

[mr. leisure]

Blues have come out flat since the restart

Binnington sucks this year

[yisman]

Pastrnak injured, unknown if he will return this season

Rask quit on the team

but Bruins lead the series

[mr. leisure]

Nice comeback today by Dallas to to tie up the series .

[yisman]

took a huge loss betting Canucks last night

lost in OT

damn Jake Allen shut them down

[mr. leisure]

took a huge loss betting Canucks last night

lost in OT

damn Jake Allen shut them down

Hope the Canucks can comeback tonight .

[hotcross]

Jake been looking good again tonight,
Canucks had far more chances in the first period of this 2nd game of the back-to-back

St.Louis just opened the scoring with a Power Play goal with 3:17 remaining in the 1st

Seems like the refs calling a ton of penalties, in most all of the playoff games, not just this one. You guys thinking the calls are legit? Maybe the players are a bit rusty on technique and taking these penalties to overcompensate?

[BigSpoon]

Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk dies at 57 from stomach cancer. Very sad, R.I.P.

[mr. leisure]

Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk dies at 57 from stomach cancer. Very sad, R.I.P.

That sucks , way too young . RIP

[yisman]

lot of mysterious scratches

tonight Backstrom didn't play

[mr. leisure]

Tarasenko out for Blues for rest of Western First Round against Canucks

Forward returns to St. Louis for evaluation of surgically repaired shoulder

Vladimir Tarasenko is out for the St. Louis Blues for the remainder of their Western Conference First Round series against the Vancouver Canucks.

The forward returned to St. Louis for evaluation of his surgically repaired left shoulder. Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said Tuesday that an update on Tarasenko's status will be available Aug. 24.
"It's concerning, but we don't know a lot yet, so I'm not going to jump to conclusions on anything," Blues coach Craig Berube said. "He's not feeling right, so that's why he's going to get it looked at. … It is concerning but we've got to wait and see."
Tarasenko didn't play in the past two games against the Canucks after playing in Games 1 and 2 in Edmonton, the hub city for the Western Conference.
The Blues and Canucks are tied in the best-of-7 series with Game 5 at Rogers Place on Wednesday (10:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, SN, FS-MW).
Tarasenko had surgery Oct. 29 after getting injured in a game against the Los Angeles Kings five days earlier. Prior to the shoulder injury, he scored 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in 10 games.
He returned to the lineup in an exhibition game against the Chicago Blackhawks in Edmonton on July 29 but sat out the second of three round-robin games during the Stanley Cup Qualifiers.
Berube said he didn't think Tarasenko was in any danger at the time.
"He was sore, and we just thought the rest would do him good," Berube said. "It wasn't a real big concern at the time, but we'll have to see what he looks like after getting evaluated."
Berube said he thought Tarasenko was hesitant in each of the four games he played in Edmonton. He had no points and was minus-1.
"But I understood why [he was hesitant]," Berube said. "Coming back from surgery and nine months off, I looked at these games that he played in the round-robin as preseason games almost. It's not easy being off that long, coming back and just jumping right into it and being full-out. I knew that he'd come back and probably ease his way in a little bit.
"That's natural for any player that's been off that long and to go through what he went through. For sure he wasn't full out, but in saying that, I didn't think there was anything wrong. I just thought that was part of the process, taking these games, easing his way in a little bit."
Berube said he thinks the high intensity of the games against the Canucks may have become problematic for Tarasenko's shoulder.
"When it gets ramped up in a real game, things change, the intensity level goes way up, the banging and things like that," Berube said. "That maybe had something to do with it, but really, I'm not sure exactly, nobody is. Even [Tarasenko] is not. We'll see what shows up here and we can go from there."
Berube left open the possibility of Tarasenko rejoining the Blues in Edmonton at some point. His timetable to return to the hub city and then play again would need to be determined.
"He's going to get evaluated and we've got to see what's going on and then we can go from there," Berube said. "We'll see what happens after the evaluation."

[yisman]

Pastrnak returned for Boston today

[mr. leisure]

Need a Canucks comeback .

[mr. leisure]

Need a Canucks comeback .

Going to be tough , Seaweed is on Vancouver .

[yisman]

as always, the teams won’t say anything, so we don’t know if Tkachuk or Backstrom are playing
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Bishop (undisclosed) won’t be available for Thursday’s Game 6 against the Flames, Mike Heika of the Stars’ official site reports.
ANALYSIS: Bishop will miss a fourth straight game Thursday and the Stars still haven’t released any details regarding his injury or a timetable for his recovery. The 33-year-old backstop may need his teammates to get past Calgary without him in order to have another shot at playing this postseason.

[mr. leisure]

Glad the Stars are advancing .

[yisman]

Colorado/Dallas the first matchup set

[mr. leisure]

Looking forward to the vegas / vancouver series .

[hotcross]

Bishop was supposedly nearly cleared to play before game 6 on Thursday, yet somehow he's not cleared still for game 1 on Saturday night

[yisman]

Avs reeling as they lose Grubauer to injury and lose Game 1

[aggieshawn]

late late start for Sundays games.

[mr. leisure]

Avs reeling as they lose Grubauer to injury and lose Game 1

Grubauer unfit to play for Avalanche in Game 2 of Western Second Round

Francouz to start in goal against Stars, Johnson also unlikely

[hotcross]

The Washington Capitals fired Todd Reirden as head coach Sunday after they were ousted by former Capitals coach Barry Trotz and the Islanders in the first round of the NHL playoffs. Reirden lasted just two years after taking over for Trotz following the Captials’ first-ever Stanley Cup win in 2018.


“We have higher expectations for our team, and we felt a fresh approach in leadership was necessary,” Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said in a statement.

[yisman]

Sounds like Grubauer going to miss the series

not confirmed yet, but the impression the coach gave

[mr. leisure]

Canucks a complete no-show in game 1 .

[hotcross]

Remember though in the Qualifying Round, the Canucks lost the Sunday Aug.2 game 1 to Minnesota by 3-0 score, then came back to win 3 games in a row. Vegas is a much tougher matchup obviously, but just saying maybe there is a similar trend. This series also started on a Sunday. Penalties were 4-1 with Vancouver getting the 4. In the previous game 1 against Minnesota, penalties were 8-4.

[aggieshawn]

Canucks will get sweep vs Vegas.

[yisman]

Dallas about to go up 2-0 on heavily favored Avalanche

[yisman]

that was a backbreaking empty netter for meI bet a huge amount on COL +2.5 after 2 periodssurvived close to 3 minutes of an empty net only to have Oleksiak clear the zone with 10 seconds left and the puck slowly goes on edge and somehow ends up in the net, even though Girard was there to get his stick on it

[Otters27]

Dallas about to go up 2-0 on heavily favored Avalanche

Avs in deep trouble

[mr. leisure]

Avs in deep trouble

Canucks need to show some life tonite or they are too .

[mr. leisure]

Canucks need to show some life tonite or they are too .

Great game by the Canucks tonight .

[yisman]

UPDATE: Coach Jared Bednar doesn't expect Johnson (undisclosed) to return this postseason, Vic Lombardi of Altitude TV reports.

[mr. leisure]

T. B. goes off for 7 goals tonight .