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The Hawks need goaltending and defense.
As a Wings fan, I love hearing others complain about our draft lottery results… yes, Zadina hasn’t hit and who knows if he ever will… but we won the lottery with Raymond and Seider. #Yzerplan
rangers not anywhere in the top ten most likely cup contenders? Interesting, I would at least put them 10th over edmonton
Shanny you missed the big draw for American's in the TO/Caro thing. Matty,,,geeezusus those mercans know how to promote their homegrown superstars. USA loves USA and thats fact.
Getting Shane right will definitely be a boost for a team but that's going to be at least a couple of years down the road before he's really producing much.
I remember all the panic among Canes fans – myself included – when we did a complete turnover with our goalies out of nowhere.
Feels good to be proven wrong about that.
im calling an upset and tampa is not the cup winners this year. They were lucky in the bubble and covid years. Tampa is over rated. They will lose in the second round. I was rightt about montreal this year and called it before the year started. I will be right again. Edmonton will go one round but they dont have enough depth. Toronto will make it to the 3rd round this year but they will lose too.
Vasi should get Hart consideration.
If I am not wrong Ed Belfour and Dominik Hasek are the only two HOF goalies that started their NHL careers as late as the 1990s. Not many goalies getting recognized.
Being a Blues fan I’m glad the Wild didn’t make the 10
being a Canucks fan must really fuck with your head with things like these, you're probably leaning towards being super hard on them in a bid to remain fair and not too much of a homer.
They are absolutely top 10 in goaltending. I understand leaving them off the rest but not that one.
I think for Buffalo they could definitely use Wright and I agree their fans and the team do need that feeling of hope, the problem is especially because of what happened with Eichel and because they’ve never really been a competitive team except when Hasek was there and before that when Perrault was there, that hope only goes so far.
Drop out of the West – Edmonton 100% they have a terrible record against teams with winning records at time of play. The schedule at the start of the season was beneficial and covered up the issues with the team, that we have seen in Dec. This also means the schedule going forward is going to work against them. They are already 1-2 games from being out of the playoff picture. A team with no room to make any plays at thee deadline, suspect goaltending and defence, and a forward group that consists of two players, and teams have in Dec remembered that they can just box them out.
Great video, would like to see more like this. Honestly though not a fan of the wright section but overall like the creative categories.
Thank you
Vegas @ #3 to win the cup…almost spilled my coffee laughing.
Eurgh there's a few things I can't agree on this, and some others I could argue for a while…
1) Boston coming back into the playoffs is the easy answer, but at Detroit's expense? That feels like heavily underestimating Detroit. I called it at the very start of the season, Boston will drop out in favor of Detroit, nobody took me seriously, yet my prediction seems to have aged well, no?
2) Kinda surprised Montreal is in the discussion of NEEDING Wright. I mean, they have good chances, but them actually needing him? I'd agree but I'm still surprised it was mentioned.
3) In the same vein: Buffalo doesn't need Wright. They had Eichel, they had Reinhart, they spoiled these awesome talents, but now they'd need Wright, so they'd start that over again? Can't agree, sorry. Vancouver might've been a better choice somewhere on the board.
4) Not a fan of Toronto but I'll agree to say they'd need to be higher on that cup board IMHO. At least ahead of Pittsburgh and St-Louis.
5) Gotta explain, how is Minnesota not in cup chances, though? (legit curious, seems to me they'd be higher than some of these teams, right?)
6) Florida, day and night, Spencer Knight… Pun not intended? Intend your puns, you cowards!! xD (joke)
7) You should do some 'lemon prize' awards at the end of the season, being weird funny awards sent to players of the league or something. Knowing your sense of humor that could be a hilarious video xD
I would say buffalo needs shane wright the most but I hope they dont get him. They will just ruin him like they did with eichel
I'm convinced that the Islanders are going to end up with Brad Lambert in the draft. They need scoring in the future and one of their assistant coaches is Brad Lambert's uncle.
This has got to be one of my favorite video musings from you (and that says a lot). Thanks for all of the thought provoking commentary.
A couple of your comments inspired an idea for a future video: ranking some or all teams based on how surprising their performance is this year. Probably separating them into most inspiring and most disappointing based on fan expectations. Just a thought.
Happy New Year!
im suprised that you didnt put nyi up there for goaltending, their offence is one of the worst in the leagues
As much as it pains me as a Rangers fan, i kind of have to agree with them not being in the Top10 teams for a cup.
This has been some fantastic content Shannon. Keep up the great work. I would love to see more videos like this in the future. Doesnt even need to be an every week thing.
This was great
Yes I do believe Garry rule is NO Canadian team will win a cup while I’m comishiner never and I’m here for a long time so ha you guys will never win I will tell the refs he probably says
Outside of ottawa and Canadian teams Florida I like to see them go on a long run maybe win a Stanley cup
Was this video done on Christmas Day? I thought that Canadian Christmas was 6 weeks before American Christmas…oh, wait…um, never mind…
How do you see case Rask? If he doesnt end up signing with the bruins. Where do you see him signing with? Avs? Oilers?
THG wants Toronto (any Canadian team but they have the only chance) to win the cup so bad.
Wow I didn't see the highest paid goaltender in the NHL talked about…..Carey Price….or is that the most overpaid goaltender in the NHL compliments of MB who made it through waivers and Montreal fans think they can get quality draft choices in any trade for. BREAKING NEWS….the Montreal organization broke Carey Price into "regular season Carey Price" and are still in a state of delusion about his abilities.
I usually agree with most of what you think, but to not have Vancouver/Demko in top 10 goaltending is a travesty, without Demko the Canucks are vibing at the bottom of the league right now
Have you ever considered taking the audio from these and putting them as podcast to. Just a idea.
Just a comment, the Flames have the best point percentage, best goal differential of those currently in a playoff spot and 1 to 4 games in hand. Interesting choice.
As a devil i would prefere frank nazar
Hats off for making good content without games
I love this type of video hope to see more but nobody needs shane more than the coyotes, yes they have picks but you only get franchise center at 1 or 2 not 8 picks in rd 2 plus buffalo had their chance at #1 already , Arizona has suffered enough
Panthers minus Barkov is the problem I guess… could it be that simple explanation?
This was fun. Thanks, Shannon!
Lmao rangers.. cmon man
Redwings could use a Connor bedard if they can’t a Shane Wright
No love for Kings goaltending!? Or at least Quick!?? He's playing lights out
Is Montreals draft pick top 10 protected? If that trade ends up being Shane wright for christian Dvorak that'll be a hard pill to swallow for Habs fans.
merry christmas to you
As a ranger fan, we started off so hot and it’s only investable we come back down to earth. We’re 19-7-4 rn and I don’t think we’re quite exactly where we need to be yet
No, there is no hope for sabres…