Quoting: Kotkaniemi15
Plus there’s the fact that the Calder Cup playoffs probably don’t happen this year, meaning there’s absolutely no reason for Chicago to insert Galchenyuk into their locker room.
there will be no playoffs in the AHL that's already been stated. It's basically developmental ice right now.
Quoting: ON3M4N
TOR so far this year at 5v5 among NHL teams:
SA - 9th most
xGA - 8th highest
SCA - 8th most
HDCA - 8th most
Toronto needs to address their defense and that's been the case for 3-5 years now. Not sure how Galy is going to help here, but it seems like Toronto is really trying to make this style of just try and score a crap ton of goals and hope the goalie holds up for a win.
Quoting: drewjenkins
Did you make these up? Hockey reference has Toronto at 5v5 as:
13th best in NHL = HDCA
12th best in NHL = xGA
12th best in NHL = SCA
16th best in NHL = GA
BTW none of these are per-game stats, they're totals for the season.
And Toronto is tied for the 7th most games played in the NHL.
So they're actually doing a bit better than these numbers show.
You're not statting right bro.
It doesn't really matter what the numbers are. It's all about the playoffs and it's a different game then.
Truth is the bottom 6 on TOR does not look playoff sound. Don't get me wrong, they aren't the ONLY team like that. But if you want to win a cup you need a bottom 6 that can play playoff hockey.
Their defense is what it is. I'm not totally sold on the fact that TOR can't win a cup with their defense. Hell I watched the penguins win a cup with Ron Hainsey as their 1RD and Schultz as their 2RD. So defense isn't really what is needed. But in order to do that you have to dominate at the forward group. That means having speed, being a threat, and keeping the other team on it's heels and pinned in.
TOR doesn't have 4 lines capable of doing that. They got 2.
When you only got 2, you need defense.
Take the regular season with a grain of salt. Ain't no one trying to expose anyone yet.