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Forum: NHLAug. 16, 2019 at 5:19 p.m.
Thread: Are these players a 1C or 2C
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rangersandislesfan</b></div><div>How is Couturier not a 1C? And RNH as a 3C?</div></div>
Couturier is a a 1C in Philadelphia IMO. Ideally, he's a 2C because I think he's more valuable playing against the other team's second pairing than their first. It's not a question of being able to handle the ice time as much as it is how much more effective he'd be in a 2C role, though obviously he was criminally underused (far below his ability) for years by the Flyers.

My opinion of RNH comes from living in Edmonton for 9 years and watching more Oilers games than I care to remember. He's this generation's Mike Fisher. He can sub in at 2C in case of emergency on a short term basis, but he's never been good enough on draws to be a top 2 C IMO, and his speed in a bottom six role would serve a team far more than in a top six role where his weaknesses get exposed. On a good team, he's a 3C. On the Oilers, he's a 2C by default because they haven't had enough decent NHL ready top six wingers for McDavid and Draisaitl to have their own lines.
Forum: NHLAug. 16, 2019 at 3:38 p.m.
Thread: 20 team Playoff
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>draft_em_sign_em_trade_em</b></div><div>I know this isn't the first time this idea has been thought of, but I'm looking to see the reaction to allowing 20 teams into the Stanley Cup playoffs. The most common formula to make this happen is going back to Conference seedings and have a 4 team playoff qualifier Round. Teams 1-6 in each Conference get a 'bye' week while Team 7 plays Team 10 and Team 8 plays Team 9 in a quick best out of 3 Games Round. Having Team 9 and 10 Team play Game 1 at home than both Game 2 and 3 would be played at Team 7 and Team 8 home, so a 3 games in 5 nights if needed. Though to fit this into the NHL schedule, the Regular season would be reduced to 80 games, meaning every NHL owner would have to give up one home game to increase the potential of making the Playoffs. But by allowing Team 9 and Team 10 host the first game it grants them at least 1 playoff home gate money. Or would the Top 6 Conference Teams suffer from the one week off ?</div></div>

Not yet, but IMO it is on the horizon. When the league expands to 36 from 32 (and they will within the next 10-12 years), they'll have to expand the playoffs to suit owners not happy with a less than 50% chance of playoff home dates. At that point though, you're looking at four divisions/conferences of nine teams. Whether it's a wildcard playoff between 4 and 5 (more likely) or the division winner gets a bye (less likely because, money), would remain to be seen
Forum: NHLAug. 16, 2019 at 3:31 p.m.
Thread: Is Alexis Lafrienere a Generational Talent
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>klondikebar</b></div><div>I would say yes, he’s a monster. I think he’ll be like a MacKinnon level player but on the wing. It’s really very hard to call someone generational, but I think he is. Idk what everyone else would say though since you can’t throw the word generational around everywhere.</div></div>
I've only seen him play a handful of times and even then, just in clips. JMO, but I doubt it, mainly because he's a winger and for a winger to be good enough to earn that tag, he has to have the kind of hands where you all but spot him 500 goals on his career on draft day. The last winger to do it would have been Ovi, before that MAYBE Bossy.

That said, I also wish we'd let the kids get drafted and play through their ELC before starting this kind of talk about them.