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imperatorrrrr · 3 months

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You Know What? Fuck It. Here’s my Fuck Lindy Ruff Manifesto.

Alexander Holtz - For a coach who was hired and praised for his ability to mold the youth and allow them to make mistakes and grow and give them grace and patience, he surely is doing the exact opposite with Alexander Holtz. I understand the want to make him a well rounded player who is solid defensively, but to continuously put him on the fourth line and bench him or limit his ice time is actually ludicrous. He has proven himself all season with the limited minutes and the shitty lines he’s been on. He’s a pure goal scorer. Let him do what his fucking innate skill is. Stop trying to make him into a player he’s not and then punishing him for not being exactly the player he’s not supposed to be anyway.

Player Usage Generally - I don’t think he actually understands the strengths of the players he’s coaching. He doesn’t know when to use them or where or how. Why is Timo constantly playing on his off wing? Why isn’t Holtz’s shot consistently on one of the power play units? Why does he not know what to do with Nico? Does he fail to understand that Nico isn’t just a defensive forward? Does he not realize Nico was a Selke finalist because of his offense AND defense? And how about Nico being one of the main factors in Taylor Hall’s Hart trophy win? How do you look at Nico Hischier as a player and not give him actual fucking goal scorers on his wings? Like why was Nico being deployed on a damn checking line? Like is he blind?! His overuse of Brendan Smith. Last season his benching and scratching of players like Shango or Siegs. His fucking goaltending decisions.

Timeouts - Why does he refuse to use timeouts. When your team has just given up three consecutive goals on three shots, when your team gives up its two goal lead and then is losing altogether, when the other team scores in bunches against us. How do you not call a time out? Use that time to slow the other team’s momentum. Use it to get the team out of their heads. To regroup. Anything.

Slow Starts - For two straight seasons we have rarely if ever been ready to play at puck drop. That is a coaching issue. Or at the very least a problem that needs to be addressed by the coach if it’s not his fault. How has it been a season and a half and he hasn’t fixed this.

Home Record - Another multi-season issue. Why has he not been able to address or fix or make any progress on the fact that the boys can’t put a solid effort together in front of a home crowd. They’re an amazing road team but they get to the Rock and it’s never as easy.

Player Treatment - Players are not treated the same. Luke and Nemo are constantly allowed to mess up, which good! Holtz, however is benched. It’s been happening for two seasons at least actually probably longer. If you’re gonna be punishing type coach then do that and do it with everyone. If you’re gonna be a coach that gives people a chance to make mistakes and still go out there again then do that! He has never treated players equally. There have always been guys that get away with murder while others are benched instantly. Two players can make the same exact mistake and only one gets benched. Explain the logic. Treat your guys equally!

Lack of Adaptability - When teams figure us out, Lindy has no solutions. He thinks doing a line blender will solve everything, but it doesn’t. You need to be able to change game plans and adapt quickly and he just doesn’t. Same with our season of injuries. He’s trying to hide behind the fact that we aren’t playing as well due to our treasure trove of injuries this season, but if your entire play style is around one or two players and you can’t coach this incredibly deep and talented roster to wins in the absence of the Jacks and the Nicos then that’s a coaching problem. This team should not crumple without Jack.

Line Changes - Fairly certain we have the most too many men on the ice penalties in the league because we can’t complete a damn line change properly. Also so many of the high danger chances against or goals against come off of bad line changes or slow line changes. That’s such an easy fix Lindy! Fucking do your job!

Physicality v. Skill - I think Lindy prefers the old school style of hockey and values players that bring grit and physicality that’s why he was so high on Miles Wood. It’s why he’s high on McLeod. It’s why my beloved Nate is being promoted to third line when Holtzy is on the fourth line. It’s why Brendan Smith is getting starts. But this team and this league is moving past that style of play. You have some of the most skilled players on this team when it comes to the puck: Jack, Jesp, Nico, etc. Your team identity and the way you play needs to prioritize that skill. I’m not saying physicality is bad but it’s not the focus on this team. Lindy tried to change this teams identity with the first two games of the Rags playoff series and look what happened. When we played our game then we shut out the Rags TWICE during a playoff series.

I’m sure I’m missing some massive points, but I’ll leave it at this.

Goodnight.

#New Jersey Devils #Lindy Ruff #Devils #NJD #NJ Devils #this is because of that post game presser Lindy gave #it got me all heated #Text

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broadstflyers · 4 months

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New fan cuz of Jamie here! Who are the flyers baby girls and who are the players we should avoid???

welcome, welcome my darling! so happy to have you here with us! honestly the flyers have done us a solid and got rid of the jerky players in an effort to create a better locker room culture (which is another reason why I believe that, after some time, jamie will be fine). the only player i do not like is mark staal. as a person and as a defenseman. so i guess that's the only person i would say that we don't really care about.

in general, sean couturier (#14) is pretty much the last OG flyer here. we love him very much. selke trophy king, and the flyers are noticeably much better when he's on his A game. the old man (i call him that lovingly) was hurt for like two seasons but he's rebounded and he's great. love that guy.

joel farabee (#86) is baby girl. he lacks a few brain cells but we love him. he's gonna be there for jamie, i just know it. along with jamie's friend, cam york (#8).

travis konecny (#11) is my personal favorite flyer. he is such a nuisance and he has been since his skate touched NHL ice. love that guy. BUT, he has also evolved to be a leader, which is why i love him. he's still not afraid to talk his shit, but he does it in a way that doesn't cost the flyers penalties (most of the time). to add onto that, scott laughton (#21) is in the same boat. love that guy. bonus: he is outspoken about supporting LGBTQ+ rights. he is the only alternate captain because torts hates everyone (sort of kidding about that). he's grown into a leader as well. these two were the players that were helping jamie with the new practice drills.

i hope this helps to an extent. please feel free to pop back into my inbox if you have more specfic questions. i could babble on about the team all day lol. so i got you! welcome to the fanbase!

edit: I FORGOT ABOUT THE BIGGEST BABYGIRL: SAM ERSSON. I LOVE THAT MAN. I STAN THAT MAN. HE'S OUR BABY GOALIE AND NO ONE WILL EVER HURT HIM.

#philadelphia flyers #joel farabee #travis konecny #scott laughton #flyers lb #jamie drysdale

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fannyyann · 3 months

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Aleksander Barkov's impact on the Panthers, and how he's taken the mantle as best two-way player in the NHL Dimitri Filipovic

Patrice Bergeron’s departure from the NHL this past summer obviously left a massive opening atop the Boston Bruins depth chart down the middle that would be difficult to fill, which they’ve remarkably done one heck of a job of patching together thus far.

But it also created a void every bit as glaring atop the Selke Trophy conversation as well. He’d won the award in each of the past two seasons quite decisively, totalling 187 out of 196 possible first-place votes last season. Even as he crept into his late 30s, he truly cemented himself as the gold standard of two-way excellence, consistently operating at a level that was simply unmatched by his peers.

His retirement created an opportunity for someone from the current crop to step up and take that mantle though, and if the first 30 games or so this year are any indication, that role appears to have been filled rather admirably by Aleksander Barkov.

It’s certainly fitting that it would be him, considering that he’s the last active player to have won the award, but the heights he’s taken his game to in doing so are still awfully impressive.

What he’s doing right now would make even Bergeron blush, distancing himself from pretty much everyone else at his position much like his predecessor had made a habit of doing. The on-ice numbers Barkov boasts right now are downright staggering. In his 323 5-on-5 minutes, here’s how the Florida Panthers have fared:

Goals: 23-5 differential

High Danger Chances: 74-46 differential

Shots: 60.5 percent share

Expected Goals: 61.0 percent share

To put his dominance into even further context, he’s already scored six times himself, which means that he’s currently scored more goals than he’s allowed all of his opponents to muster combined. It’s also worth noting that without him out there, the Panthers are getting outscored 38-29. How they play with him on the ice and without him are two entirely different things, which speaks to his impact. He does it with the degree of difficulty ratcheted all the way up, chewing up heavy minutes against the other team’s top players while shouldering an immense amount of responsibility.

And despite all of that, he’s still taken just three penalties (while drawing six of his own), finding a way to artfully poke and prod constantly with that pole vaulting apparatus he calls a hockey stick without ever crossing the line. It’s legitimately impressive that he can legally challenge puck carriers with the sheer volume of stick checks that he does, considering how much the league has mandated cracking down on anything even remotely near the hands. It allows him to craftily execute takeaways, while still staying on the ice, which is doubly important for a Panthers team that takes a bunch of penalties otherwise. That seems like a small perk in the grand scheme of things, but it actually ranks as one of my favourites about his game.

He’s spent the majority of the season with Sam Reinhart and Evan Rodrigues on his flanks, and that trio has been the best line in hockey. In just under 200 minutes together, they’re up 19-3. Rodrigues has been underrated for years, and it’s great to see him finally find a long-term fit this season in Florida. Reinhart is tied with Kyle Connor for fourth in goals, currently on pace to score 50 times. The timing of his spike in shooting percentage couldn’t be better in a contract year, but he’s been so good for so long now, that he deserves to be rewarded for it. Plus, he’s such a smart player that I could see him aging quite gracefully into his 30s, the way that someone like Joe Pavelski has.

I love both players, so don’t take it as diminishing their contributions when I say that the reason all of it is possible for Florida is because of Barkov. His skill set is so unique, and such an enabler for everyone in his orbit.

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The two things that the Panthers have become synonymous with as an organization during this run of success have been a) their supremely aggressive forechecking, and b) their uncanny ability to keep bringing in castoffs from other teams and immediately juicing their production beyond what we had any reason to believe they were capable of at this point.

What they’ve been able to pull off to start the season almost surely hasn’t received nearly enough nationally. The team started the year without having Aaron Ekblad and Brandon Montour available for the first 15 games, who are clearly two of their three best defenders (you’ll see them referred to as their two best, but that’s Gustav Forsling erasure and we don’t stand for that here). Yet they’re currently 17-9-2 on the season, sitting in a tie with the Colorado Avalanche for eighth in the league in points percentage, with the sixth best goal differential. And despite those early absences, much of that success can be directly attributed to the team’s defensive performance.

Only the Vegas Golden Knights, Winnipeg Jets, and Vancouver Canucks are giving up fewer goals than them at 5-on-5, and they’re sixth in fewest goals against surrendered on a per-minute basis overall. According to Sportlogiq, here’s how they grade out in all of the key categories we care about:

Expected Goals Against: 3rd

Slot Shots: 2nd

Inner Slot Shots: 5th

Offensive Zone Possession Time Allowed: 2nd

By any important marker, they’ve graded out as one of the best defensive teams in the league. Which almost seems impossible based on the aforementioned injuries, and the personnel they’ve largely leaned on along the way. Their top four players in total 5-on-5 ice time so far are Forsling, Niko Mikkola, Oliver Ekman Larsson, and Dmitri Kulikov. The three latter names were free agent signings, who they were able to bring in this past summer for a combined $5.75 million. So how exactly are the Panthers able to keep churning out these types of results then?

Every possible explanation keeps circling back to Barkov, because he represents the throughline that ties everything together for them. The reason why everyone they bring in thrives is because they get to play such a simple, fun brand of hockey. All they’re required to do is to keep unapologetically plowing ahead aggressively, and relentlessly, over and over again.

The wingers are asked to forecheck as hard as they can, closing off walls and forcing the other team to try to make plays up the middle. That plays right into Barkov’s waiting hands, where his range allows him to cover ground like a ball-hawking safety in football. The defencemen get to pinch down the wall and try to extend plays in the offensive zone, knowing that Barkov will be there to cover them with support because he religiously stays above the puck.

Barkov's 10 goals and 28 points in 25 games are obviously fantastic, and 99 percent of players in the league would kill to have that stat line. That said, it feels like he's capable of so much more offensively because of how much raw puck skill he possesses. And he honestly probably is, if he were wired differently. But whereas some of his peers may cheat for offence and stay deep in the zone until the last possible second to see possible scoring plays through to their conclusion, he instead circles back to get into the right position defensively proactively.

It's a calculated sacrifice on his part, and it's because of those choices he routinely makes that the scales get tilted in his teammates' favour. Regardless of who you are, because of his habits you now get to freely move forward and attack. With such a simplified decision-making process, everyone that comes to Florida gets to tap into the physical tools that helped get them to the NHL in the first place, without having to worry about some of the other complexities that might’ve inhibited them in their previous stops on other teams.

The result of creating that sort of infrastructure is a massive competitive advantage for the Panthers. They’re able to routinely shop in the bargain bin, and squeeze value out of sources that might not be as readily available for the competition. That’s turned into quite the luxury for a franchise that hasn’t exactly had a lot of financial flexibility of late, having to turn over the roster and find a way to make the cap figures work creatively.

Everyone involved deserves their fair share of the credit for creating an environment where that’s possible, but none moreso than Aleksander Barkov. Great players make those around them better, and that’s exactly what he’s done in Florida. By doing so, he's cemented himself as the preeminent two-way center in today's game.

#aleksander barkov #i paid $6 for that matthew article so if you've got requests for rinkside paywalled content i will post them lmao #2324 #florida panthers #Youtube

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himbeaux-on-ice · 2 years

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I remember reading once that with the Lady Byng trophy, back in the 1930’s there was that guy Frank Boucher who won the thing so many times, that the Lady in question who’d donated the award in the first place got the NHL to just let Frank keep that original trophy to have in his house, and she gave the league a new one to keep handing out after that.

anyway at this point I think they should let Patrice Bergeron do that with the Selke. his trophy now.

#five time selke trophy winner ‘brad’s conscience’#patrice bergeron #boston bruins

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bergeronprocess · 3 months

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I listened to the special Morning Bru podcast with Patrice Bergeron. I like Morning Bru - Billy Jaffe sure loves to cuss on that podcast lmao

Patrice says he's been taking guitar lessons since he retired. I love that for him. He can jam with Tuukka on drums. Speaking of Tuukka, he's been taking tennis lessons with him.

Raycroft asks about the "comeback rumors" (he texted Bergeron to say it wasn't him who started that rumor). Patrice called it laughable. He is skating 1x a week with Raycroft and other former players just to keep up his skills and friendships. (Lee Stempniak jokingly was like "Wow way to say that, like we suck or something" when Patrice said they were skating more slowly.)

He says he's not mad about the rumors. I'll be mad on his behalf. That shit was so raggedy and of course Barstool did it. God I hate Barstool.

Jaroslav Halak has also joined in this weekly skate fun time! Let's remember some guys

Raycroft was his first year roommate (Oh my God they were roommates) and he remarks that Patrice slept ALL the time lmao he was NOT missing them pregame naps

Patrice says he's thanked Marty Lapointe many times for how gracious he was in letting him live with his family during his first season, but that he feels he can never thank him enough 🥹

Patrice was impressed by Chara's work ethic when he first met him. He was spending an hour on the bike at the practice rink lol

Patrice first met Brad at dev camp when he was still rehabbing from his concussion and he saw a bit of his own youthful hunger in Marchy's ambition

He was nervous during the Cup final in 2011 and so he went to ask Mark Recchi how he was feeling. Recchi was calm, thinking only of having some wine and relaxing. So then Patrice had a nice walk around the hotel with Andrew Ference and felt better.

Crosby was his toughest opponent and he always felt he needed to be at his best to face him. But of course off the ice they're good friends! And they worked well together in tournaments

His Cup ring and Olympic medals are in a safety deposit box. His Selkes are at home in a closet. His kids like to go look at them. He and Raycroft both say they need to clean their trophies lol

JAFFE BRINGS UP THE COMMERCIAL LOL

Patrice says Raycroft was the better actor of the two because he didn't have much English yet at the time

They were both kind of voluntold to do the ad

(They have since updated the ad with Charlie Coyle, but he is not asked to drive anywhere on it.)

Jaffe tells Patrice to keep going out there and dangling on Tuukka and Raycroft and them lol

It sounds like they'd like to have him back to talk about other things they didn't get to. Yes please!!!

#patrice bergeron #boston bruins

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sergeifyodorov · 2 months

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the hart conversation this year is actually fun and sexy (im a Kuch if the bolts make playoffs Auston if they don't girlie) but more importantly... in this post bergeron age WHO is winning the selke... nhl writers Genuinely have no idea how to properly evaluate defense (most ppl don't actually) so they'll probably give it to someone boring like. ooohhh who has the most takeaways... actually im just going to say it. selke is a reputation trophy (most of them are but ESPECIALLY selke *because* most ppl can't evaluate defence.) also because it's like really nebulously defined also, like: best defensive forward. is some measure of offensive skill also required? is it pure defense? how much does toi and usage factor into this? ET CETERA. so like i can just triple campaign auston for hart selke lady byng and i won't even be Wrong (because he's honestly kinda running away with the lady byng) it just depends on who people decide is defensively good on ballot day. put your top three selke candidates out there now and YOU might get a chance to win some smug satisfaction if they pick your guy!!!!

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loserdudes · 1 year

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Of course he is.

For the 12th consecutive season, Patrice Bergeron is a finalist for the Frank J. Selke Trophy.

#boston bruins #bruins #hockey #nhl #patrice bergeron

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iamjackedwards · 4 months

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i just realized that someone else gets to win the selke (patrice bergeron trophy) now.

this may be the saddest part of him retiring fr

#like it belongs to patrice #<- the selke king #6 time winner no big deal 😁#bruins lb #boston bruins #patrice bergeron

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imperatorrrrr · 4 months

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Nico Nolan but like a moving on fic (as Nolan unfollowed Nico on ig)

Nolan is about to soft launch his retirement or maybe its hard launch his retirement.

All he knows is that in a couple of days the hockey coaching and mentorship organization he's now working for, working with as a Skills Specialist is going to launch and the world is going to know he's a "retired pro".

He feels a little restless about it. He's putting a demonstrative end to his National Hockey League career. Closing not only that chapter, but basically shutting the book with a heavy lock and key, and tossing the book and the key into the ocean.

He needs to do something about it, but he doesn't know what. Some sort of ceremonial end. Maybe some pomp and circumstance. Something. Maybe he should grab a beer or something.

He settles for opening up Instagram for lack of anything better to do and the first thing he sees is Nico Hischier's stupid, perfect, face, standing there.

It's a fucking watch ad. Of course its a fucking watch ad.

Nolan's this close to chucking his phone away, but he stops himself, so maybe its not some big, official thing, but its symbolic as fuck.

He clicks through to Nico's profile, gives one final scroll through, stops at the picture of them at the 2017 Stanley Cup game, opens it up.

Sees himself. Sees himself when it was all about to begin. When anything could have happened. When the world was in front of him. Everything at his fingertips. And sees Nico standing next to him.

He zooms in on himself and Nico. Nico and Nolan. Nolan and Nico.

He catches himself staring, fondly, and clicks out of the picture, back to Nico's profile.

He scrolls back up to the top.

And sees this Nico. Nico Hischier, Captain of the New Jersey Devils. Nico Hischier, Frank J. Selke Trophy Finalist.

This isn't his Nico anymore. This hasn't been his Nico for a while now.

And he isn't that Nolan anymore. There's a whole new world in front of him and there's something different at his fingertips now.

He clicks "Following" and sees the "Unfollow" selection at he bottom of the screen.

He closes his eyes and sees Nico from the draft, baby faced, smiling wide at him, eyes crinkling, and this Nico of the past says "Do it, Patty."

And Nolan does it.

#Ask #Anonymous #Text #NicoNolan #1319 #New Jersey Devils #Philadelphia Flyers #Las Vegas Knights #Writing #Prompts #actually funny story Anon there's an idea thats been in my head for like six months about Nolan getting stuck in a freak snow storm #and having to crash at Nico's place for the duration of it and he sees Nico now as Captain and with this Devils team #and its what he needs to kind of heal and move on #with some fun dynamics between the new people in Nico's life and Nolan #but I'm actually really happy with how this one came out #I hope you enjoyed it!

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