Just bounced over to NST for a look....Chad F'n Ruhwedel was a fancy stat darling yesterday.
- MattStrat

Yikes! - Riikola not so much.

Yikes! - Riikola not so much.
- Hockey66

Marino had a bad one too. NST is saying that Riik spent the most time with Marino at 5 on 5.

EDIT: it also says that in their around 8 mins together, Math and Rudy were very good haha

Marino had a bad one too. NST is saying that Riik spent the most time with Marino at 5 on 5.

EDIT: it also says that in their around 8 mins together, Math and Rudy were very good haha
- MattStrat

F these fancy stats, tho

Curious what the Matheson injury is? I think best case scenario would be his equipment is itchy, ala Hossa, and the contract gets buried.

Would love to get Roslovic. He seems like a guy who could do well with Sid or Geno. Only concern is what you are paying and what kind of shape is he going to be in without a camp.

With Matheson on LTIR the possibility of Fleury coming back gets more real... just saying.

Way too early in what will be a weird season to jump to conclusions but if they are going to make a major move it needs to come early.
- MacPatty

Unless he's missing the rest of the regular season, that doesn't really open up the cap space

But if Jarry continues to struggle, a reunion with Fleury isn't that far-fetched.

TIOPS reporting what we know, that the Pens are interested in Roslovlic. What they expound on is that some teams view him as a headache. I guess he’s been wanting out for a long time, wanting to go to a team where he has a bigger role, specifically a defined PP role and to play center full time.

Hopefully that shootout goal gives Jake a bit of his mojo back. I keep reminding myself how little hockey he's played the past 13 months and also the injury/surgery he's coming back from. I expect him to get back to his usual ways but could take some time.

TIOPS reporting what we know, that the Pens are interested in Roslovlic. What they expound on is that some teams view him as a headache. I guess he’s been wanting out for a long time, wanting to go to a team where he has a bigger role, specifically a defined PP role and to play center full time.
- Rinosaur

Well we could give him top PP time on the LW but we can't give him center duties...

TIOPS reporting what we know, that the Pens are interested in Roslovlic. What they expound on is that some teams view him as a headache. I guess he’s been wanting out for a long time, wanting to go to a team where he has a bigger role, specifically a defined PP role and to play center full time.
- Rinosaur

Well we could give him top PP time on the LW but we can't give him center duties...

Edit: Can you see what TIOPS says about the Horny trade being botched?

Well we could give him top PP time on the LW but we can't give him center duties...

Edit: Can you see what TIOPS says about the Horny trade being botched?
- 668710

The more I think about this, unless the plan is to shove ERod out of the lineup and Tanev down the 4th, it doesn't make sense for them to bring in someone like Roslovic. IMO unless they're going for a big gun on the RW, then don't bother.

TIOPS...

If this is true it's even more maddening. 4-5 teams were seriously in on Hornqvist, but basically there was another team willing take nearly all of Horn's contract without having to take an albatross back. For whatever reason JR was dead set on getting Matheson. At least one team was flabbergasted in the direction the Pens decided to go. CBJ, MIN and NJ were seriously in on Hornqvist.

It's TIOPS so obviously take it with a grain of salt, but this also seems very plausible to me.

The other note was at tone point there were discussions of a 1-to-1 swap of McCann for Roslovic, but that fell through.

I got creamed in HBSL. Jake, Rust and my Goalies were just a bust. Here's my lineup which is almost identical to the guy I'm up against.

LW: Pac, Kaprizov, Connor, Hoffman (we both have Connor)
C: Draistial, Pettersson, Scheifele, MacKinnon (we have all the same centers)
RW: Stone, Laine, Yamamoto, Svechnikov (we both have Yamamoto and Svech)
D: Pietrangelo, Hamilton, Graves, Makar, Hughes, Dahlin (We both have Dahlin, Hamilton and Makar)
G: Hart and Samsonov (We both have hart)

This one will really come down to the wire.