Jeff Hembd

@TalkeyHockey With what assets do you think you might acquire Lawson Crouse with?

Add: Elias Pettersson Lawson Crouse Dougie Hamilton Darren Raddysh Scott Laughton Subtract: Robertson Maccelli Hopkins Benoit Woll or Stolarz Picks (2nds + 3rds)

@JFreshHockey These are beautiful unto themselves but agree. Too many blue and red teams in the NHL.

would be horrible. an expansion team from 1998 in a southern US market playing dress-up like they were founded in 1940. yet another navy blue team again as well.

@wyshynski Hayton is not playing tonight. Those forward lines in the practice skate are not the forward lines that will be in play at game time.

Peterka, benched for half the 3rd and OT in Game 4 and now skates on the 4th line for a critical game?

@TimCPeel20 @SiriusXMNHL @GordStellick Respectfully disagree with your disagreement particularly relative to his embellishment points. He is correct to believe it is impossible to accurately officiate an NHL game by live on ice officials wo review. If it was possible, it would be done by now.

I respectfully disagree. I have so much respect for Rod. He always treated me with the utmost respect when I officiated him as a player and as a coach. I was listening to @SiriusXMNHL and @GordStellick had a great point. “The good teams always find a way to win” We have I think the perfect number of reviews right now. Anymore will turn our games into 3 hour games. Our game is in a great place right now. Enjoy the rest of the #StanleyCupPlayoffs

@vihutchref 3pts in 4gp. Yesterday's assist was a pretty big one.

How do you make $13M disappear? Put Mitch Marner in a tough playoff game.

@Madi39 It's astonishing the amount of people who don't realize the issue is getting the call right. On this one, it may have been accidental that they got it right but...they got it right.

It’s astonishing the amount of people who don’t realize the issue is that it shouldn’t of been called a goal on the ice lol

@patersonjeff Strengthens the argument for getting rid of the loser point.

doesn’t feel like anything will ever change with #NHL playoff format, but both WC2 getting swept certainly strengthens the argument for a play-in. Maybe a different WC2 gives top seed a better run. Maybe?

@worldhockeyrpt Arizona did. See Coyotes in the 90s at AWA.

Arizona could never.

@MFT801 There were two trials. He was found guilty by the media and public opinion. In the actual trial it was found the plaintiff was unreliable and dishonest and he was found not guilty.

Somebody explain the Carter Hart thing to me. I thought he like got away with a serious crime but after seeing Knights fans defend him I looked it up and he got acquitted cause they couldn’t provide enough evidence? Why do we hate him then? Genuine question.

@gawbaey +1 for Tom Sawyer too

Whoever decided it would be a good idea to bring the team out to “Wherever I May Roam” by Metallica needs a raise. Absolute chills. 🥶🥶 #TusksUp

@CCross03 @Ana_L_Beads_CFB @xdabluesfan @SlavBritt Currently game between Car v Ott TNT has titled game 4 is actually Ott game 2 and Car game 0.

@Ana_L_Beads_CFB @koho7777 @xdabluesfan @SlavBritt So if you’re watching from somewhere that isn’t Minnesota or Dallas than you call it Minnesota game 3? And Dallas game 3? There’s already a name for those games

The wild fanbase is losing the plot just like their team…

@xdabluesfan @CCross03 @Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt I guess but that's not what the games are. There are 7 games in a playoff series. Each of them are named accordingly. Coming up with a separate name for something that's already been named...ok? but hey..I don't really care if everyone's happy and there's no confusion carry on.

@CCross03 @koho7777 @Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt Like I said, because when people buy a playoff strip they would get tickets that say 3, 4 & 6 and many would get confused as to why they are missing tickets. Home Game 1, 2 & 3 less confusing because a very large majority of people are not going to away games.

@xdabluesfan @Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt Fair enough. I don't live in the sth world so I will trust. Just seems like it would add clarity to only have 1 game 3.

@koho7777 @Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt It's very common in the NHL playoffs

@Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt *vernacular

@Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt I understand...but it is uncommon venacular and silly.

@Ana_L_Beads_CFB @SlavBritt Valid but...also dumb to call game 6, game 3

@SlavBritt When in the history of 7 game series has the 3rd game of the series been “if necessary”? Learn to read/critically think and stop blaming others for your lack of attention to detail

@ncjensen It's otherwise pretty sweet.

@koho7777 Yeah… AI isn’t perfect. I tried.

Defend home ice! Lets gooooo! #tusksup

@RandBall It's not savvy...it's crap...the NHL needs to reinvent how they officiate hockey games.

Remember Eriksson Ek drawing the penalty that led to the pp Wild goal if this turns out well for Minnesota. Savvy play to lift Roberston's stick and then sell the contact like he was hit with a cannonball

@mcclxskey Well stated and laid out.

Alright, on John Chayka’s exit from Arizona and the draft combine violation… Here’s what I know. 1. On his resignation…. Chayka asks for permission to talk to another team, believe it’s NJ. Arizona initially says no, then they let him. He gets a massive offer. Too big to turn down. Arizona is, despite giving him permission, upset. Won’t let him leave right away, want him to stay through playoffs. Chayka agrees to stay through playoffs, but wants to put a succession plan in place so he can leave after. Arizona say nah, we’ll deal with that later. Relationship went sour immediately, John Chayka terminates his contract. Arizona runs to the league demanding punishment. Bettman suspends him for a year and the whole fiasco cost him his opportunity. A few years later they’re playing in Mullett Arena where John Chayka would have been running a trade deadline out of a janitor’s closet had he stuck around. 2. On the scouting violation… The violation is framed everywhere as physical testing, like Arizona ran a private illegal camp. I’ve read several articles. Sounded like they ran a private prospect camp before the combine. According to The Athletic, the violation was asking players to show up to their pre-combine interviews wearing shorts and a t-shirt, as well as the Coyotes bringing their head of fitness as part of their squad to ask prospects questions about their diet and exercise. Arizona took no measurements, conducted no tests. That’s it. That’s the violation. I haven’t looked up the previous CBA to see how it’s worded, but some executives in the NHL felt it was open to interpretation and they revised the wording in the next CBA. The rule states it’s a team fine, but Bettman didn’t want to fine the failing Coyotes because it would have been in the millions, so he charged them 2 picks (a 1st and a 2nd), which obviously hurts and looks worse to the fans. Can’t absolve him of any responsibility whatsoever but the way he’s being talked about as some disgraced GM is, in my opinion, blown way out of proportion by people who don’t know what really happened. Not that I claim to have the full picture either, but that’s what I know. Most of it’s from Friedge (on his resignation) or The Athletic (on the scouting violation).