Wouldn't surprise me if that's the case ... :heckno:

well, there goes Joacim Eriksson

signed a deal with Dinamo Riga of the KHL

No surprise there.

His numbers in the AHL were not very impressive.

And it was a free signing anyways



On the other hand, there really seems to be nothing coming out of Arizona for the Coyotes after the city ripped up the contract. Anyone knows what are they going to do if they don't have an arena to start the year.

IIRC another city has said it was willing to take on the team.

Then again, I don't think it's official, I think the other city just said that they see the Coyotes as an asset and sees their value.

Whats the other city?

I think it was Scottsdale's mayor?

I remember reading it on theScore app.

There's talks of playing where the PHX SUNS play temporarily. Sight lines apparently are bad.

Coincidently, the Coyotes played there in the begining before relocating to Glendale.

Kenins for 575k could be the best signing this off-season if he has a breakout year (or at least keeps making Bo better)

too bad it wasn't an affordable 2 or 3 year deal

Meh. Thatcher Demko = goalie of the future.

LOOLOOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOOLLLL :lol

EDIT: oh wait, were you being serious?

True there's still Demko in the pipeline but he's what? Only 20? Still a ways to go. Was hoping Eriksson would stick around for a couple more years as after Lack/Markstrom it's now just Cannata who's pretty average.

1 year for Kenins is good imo. If he can step it up next season I'm pretty sure there's a long term deal in the cards.

another update on McNally. agent says he can become a free agent aug 15. benning apparently will not sign him because he had a bad knee injury last year, and says theres too many people ahead of him on the depth chart.

Demko is 19, still has 2 more years of college left (unless he leaves school early).

I'm also hesitant to put all my eggs into the Demko basket. Highly-touted goaltending prospects flop all the time, despite success in junior, college, or even professional leagues in Europe.

Bold = 100+ NHL regular season games

1st round goaltenders chosen over the past 20 years:
J.S. Giguere (13th overall, 1995; 597 NHL games)
Martin Biron (16th overall, 1995; 508 NHL games)
Brian Boucher (22nd overall, 1995; 328 NHL games)
Marc Denis (25th overall, 1995; 349 NHL games
Craig Hillier (23rd overall, 1996; 0 NHL games)
Roberto Luongo (4th overall, 1997; 864 NHL games, active)
Mika Noronen (21st overall, 1997; 71 NHL games)
J.F. Damphousse (24th overall, 1997; 6 NHL games)
Patrick Desrochers (14th overall, 1998; 11 NHL games)
Mathieu Chouinard (15th overall, 1998; 1 NHL game)
Brian Finley (6th overall, 1999; 4 NHL games)
Maxime Ouellet (22nd overall, 1999; 12 NHL games)
Ari Ahonen (27th overall, 1999; 0 NHL games)
Rick DiPietro (1st overall, 2000; 318 NHL games)
Brent Krahn (9th overall, 2000; 1 NHL game)
Pascal Leclaire (8th overall, 2001; 173 NHL games)
Dan Blackburn (10th overall, 2001; 63 NHL games)
Jason Bacashihua (26th overall, 2001; 38 NHL games)
Adam Munro (29th overall, 2001; 17 NHL games)
Kari Lehtonen (2nd overall, 2002; 510 NHL games, active)
Cam Ward (25th overall, 2002; 512 NHL games, active)
Hannu Toivonen (29th overall, 2002; 61 NHL games)
Marc-Andre Fleury (1st overall, 2003; 595 NHL games, active)
Al Montoya (6th overall, 2004; 111 NHL games, active)
Devan Dubnyk (14th overall, 2004; 231 NHL games, active)
Marek Schwarz (17th overall, 2004; 6 NHL games)
Cory Schneider (26th overall, 2004; 212 NHL games, active)
Carey Price (5th overall, 2005; 435 NHL games, active)
Tuukka Rask (21st overall, 2005; 266 NHL games, active)
Jonathan Bernier (11th overall, 2006; 175 NHL games, active)
Riku Helenius (15th overall, 2006; 1 NHL game)
Semyon Varlamov (23rd overall, 2006; 267 NHL games, active)
Leland Irving (26th overall, 2006; 13 NHL games)
Chet Pickard (18th overall, 2008; 0 NHL games)
Tom McCollum (30th overall, 2008; 3 NHL games, active)
Jack Campbell (11th overall, 2010; 1 NHL game, active)
Mark Visentin (27th overall, 2010; 1 NHL game, active)
Andrei Vasilevskiy (19th overall, 2012; 16 NHL games, active)
Malcolm Subban (24th overall, 2012; 1 NHL game, active)

Success rate (100+ NHL games) from 1995-2004: 13/27, 48.1%
Success rate (100+ NHL games) from 1995-2009: 17/35, 48.6%

2nd round goaltenders chosen over the past 20 years:
Aaron MacDonald (36th overall, 1995; 0 NHL games)
Paxton Schafer (47th overall, 1995; 3 NHL games)
Mathieu Garon (44th overall, 1996; 341 NHL games)
Francis Larivee (50th overall, 1996; 0 NHL games)
Aren Miller (52nd overall, 1996; 0 NHL games)
Jean-Marc Pelletier (30th overall, 1997; 7 NHL games)
Evan Lindsay (32nd overall, 1997; 0 NHL games)
Patrick Dovigi (41st overall, 1997; 0 NHL games)
Philippe Sauve (38th overall, 1998; 32 NHL games)
Jomar Cruz (49th overall, 1998; 0 NHL games)
Alex Auld (40th overall, 1999; 237 NHL games)
Simon Lajeunesse (48th overall, 1999; 1 NHL game)
Jan Lasak (65th overall, 1999; 6 NHL games)
Ilya Bryzgalov (44th overall, 2000; 465 NHL games)
Mathieu Chouinard (45th overall, 2000; 1 NHL game)
Dan Ellis (60th overall, 2000; 212 NHL games, active)
Andrei Medvedev (56th overall, 2001; 0 NHL games)
Peter Budaj (63rd overall, 2001; 296 NHL games, active)
Jeff Deslauriers (31st overall, 2002; 62 NHL games)
Tobias Stephan (34th overall, 2002; 11 NHL games)
Josh Harding (38th overall, 2002; 151 NHL games, active)
David Leneveu (46th overall, 2002; 22 NHL games)
Maxime Daigneault (59th overall, 2002; 0 NHL games)
Corey Crawford (52nd overall, 2003; 268 NHL games, active)
Jimmy Howard (64th overall, 2003; 338 NHL games, active)
David Shantz (37th overall, 2004; 0 NHL games)
Justin Peters (38th overall, 2004; 80 NHL games, active)
Tyler Plante (32nd overall, 2005; 0 NHL games)
Jeff Frazee (38th overall, 2005; 1 NHL game)
Ondrej Pavelec (41st overall, 2005; 338 NHL games, active)
Pier-Olivier Pelletier (59th overall, 2005; 0 NHL games)
Michal Neuvirth (34th overall, 2006; 168 NHL games, active)
Jhonas Enroth (46th overall, 2006; 131 NHL games, active)
Joel Gistedt (36th overall, 2007; 0 NHL games)
Antoine Lafleur (48th overall, 2007; 0 NHL games)
Trevor Cann (49th overall, 2007; 0 NHL games)
Jeremy Smith (54th overall, 2007; 0 NHL games, active)
Jacob Markstrom (31st overall, 2008; 50 NHL games, active)
Jake Allen (34th overall, 2008; 52 NHL games, active)
Tyler Beskorowany (59th overall, 2008; 0 NHL games)
Peter Delmas (61st overall, 2008; 0 NHL games)
Mikko Koskinen (31st overall, 2009; 4 NHL games)
Robin Lehner (46th overall, 2009; 86 NHL games, active)
Calvin Pickard (49th overall, 2010; 16 NHL games, active)
Kent Simpson (58th overall, 2010; 1 NHL game, active)
Magnus Hellberg (38th overall, 2011; 1 NHL game, active)
John Gibson (39th overall, 2011; 26 NHL games, active)
Christopher Gibson (49th overall, 2011; 0 NHL games, active)
Oscar Dansk (31st overall, 2012; 0 NHL games, active)
Anthony Stolarz (45th overall, 2012; 0 NHL games, active)
Zachary Fucale (36th overall, 2013; 0 NHL games, active)
Tristan Jarry (44th overall, 2013; 0 NHL games, active)
Philippe Desrosiers (54th overall, 2013; 0 NHL games, active)
Eric Comrie (59th overall, 2013; 0 NHL games, active)
Mason McDonald (34th overall, 2014; 0 NHL games, active)
Thatcher Demko (36th overall, 2014; 0 NHL games, active)
Alex Nedeljkovic (37th overall, 2014; 0 NHL games, active)
Vitek Vanecek (39th overall, 2014; 0 NHL games, active)
Brandon Halverson (59th overall, 2014; 0 NHL games, active)

Success rate (100+ NHL games) from 1995-2004: 8/27 (29.6%)
Success rate (100+ NHL games) from 1995-2009: 11/43 (25.6%)

Now Peters, Markstrom, Allen, and Lehner all have a shot of making 100 NHL games, but even if they all make it, that's still only 15/43 (34.9%) from 1995-2009 2nd round goaltenders. And 100+ NHL games isn't exactly a high bar, either. Only 4 of those guys, at this point, are/were bonafide starters (being generous to Pavelec here). Again, Markstrom, Allen, and Lehner have a shot to be bonafide starters, but that's still a very low % even if you include all of them.

I'm not saying Demko will flop, but until we see what he does at the pro level, it's way too early to dub him "the next one."

For what it's worth, just a few years ago, Markstrom was the #1 goaltending prospect in the world and Cannata was the top goaltender in the NCAA.

3 on 3 OT pending approval, sounds like an arcade game.

^speaking of, you need to trade all your goalies and sign this guy:
http://i48.tinypic.com/2r3bcya.jpg

penguins to sign Sergei Plotnikov. new winger for malkin i guess

https://twitter.com/YarSportRU/statu...905088/photo/1

lol reminds me of this game.
good times.

heard on the radio today that lack may go to buffalo for a 2nd rounder?

yeah, they're among the teams seriously interested.
31st overall would be great.

Though if NYR supposedly turned down two 2nd rounders for Talbot, it'd be awesome if the Sabres were to offer 31st and 51st for Lack.

if JB can somehow get Sabres' 21st overall, he'd be a wizard in my books. But if a trade with Buffalo does happen it'll probably be for 31st overall.

31st overall would be good return for Lack, IMO.

hopefully we get the 31st pick for him, anything less then that would be a joke. It all depends what happens with Talbot since he's the hot goalie on the trade market right now.

:drunk:
it'll be like the 1st pick...
...of the second round.


almost draft day...is tsn still showing it? or is it exclusively on sn now?

31st and maybe another lower round pick. I think Lack is worth a bit more than the 31st pick but just a bit. Certainly wouldn't be unhappy with their 2nd rounder.