By 1 year ago. x.In this week’s edition of NHL Power Rankings and weekly review: James Neal lost some teeth, the Ducks lost all hope, and the Lightning reveal a new third jersey.Happy Monday, everyone. It’s time for this week’s NHL power rankings slash week in review.A while ago, I was assigned the role of coming up with a highlight and lowlight from the previous week.
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Also, to really put things into perspective of how everyone’s week is different, and every week to each person is different. So we’re taking that to the NHL.
Lowlight: Connor Hellebuyck not getting much help vs Montreal, nor Laurent Brossoit in Ottawa. San Jose Sharks (3-0-0, +7 GD)Last Week: 7Lowlight: Matthew Perreault’s by the Sharks.Highlight: Joe Pavelski’s in overtime later that night. Nashville Predators (2-1-1, +2 GD)Last Week: 6Highlight: Power play finally scored a goal for the first time in eight games, ironically against the league’s top PK unit, Arizona.Lowlight: Vince Dunn after skating right past every Predator on the ice looking for the rebound. New York Islanders (3-1-0, Even GD)Last Week: 5Highlight: Ryan Pulock’s and goals against the Avalanche to complete the comeback effort.Lowlight: Scoring a go-ahead goal in Boston, only to have it taken off the board. Boston would end up winning the game 3-1. Boston Bruins (3-0-1, +4 GD)Last Week: 9Highlight: Patrice Bergeron celebrating his 1000th career game vs the Islanders. He would later add an empty netter.Lowlight: Blowing a 3-1 lead in New York to fall in a shootout to the Rangers.
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Pittsburgh Penguins (0-2-1, -6 GD)Last Week: 8Highlight: Jared McCann scoring a against the Panthers. Lowlight: I still have no idea how Phil Kessel didn’t manage to score on against the Lightning. Montreal Canadiens (2-0-1, +5 GD)Last Week: 12Highlight: Brendan Gallagher putting the Ducks away early in the first with a of.Lowlight: Every one of these Habs fans gets two for flinching at this (not that I blame them). Vegas Golden Knights (2-1-0, Even GD)Last Week: 10Highlight: William Karlsson and Valentin Zykov combining for against the Lightning.Lowlight: after Marc-Andre Fleury was victimized by a bad bounce behind the net. Columbus Blue Jackets (3-0-0, +6 GD)Last Week: 13Highlight: Cam Atkinson’s clutch goals against the and.Lowlight: Nate Schmidt to tie the game in Vegas. Washington Capitals (2-0-1, +1 GD)Last Week: 11Highlight: Alexander Ovechkin is now the most prolific Russian scorer in NHL history, passing Sergei Fedorov with his against Vancouver.Lowlight: Derick Brassard after Michael Kempny blew a tire at the blue line.
Dallas Stars (1-1-1, -1 GD)Last Week: 14Highlight: Dropping three goals in three minutes in period three against Arizona on Monday.Lowlight: Craig Smith gets credit for in Nashville, after the puck hits the back of his head, then off the back of Anton Khudobin and in. Carolina Hurricanes (3-1-0, +7 GD)Last Week: 17Highlight: Teuvo Teravainen to win the game in Buffalo.Lowlight: They needed six skaters on the ice to score against the Devils. They scored once on a delayed penalty and once with the goalie pulled in Sunday’s 3-2 loss. Louis Blues (4-0-0, +4 GD)Last Week: 19Highlight: Jordan Binnington shutting out the Lightning.Lowlight: I guess falling behind Florida 2-0 in the third before coming back to win. 4 wins in a week is a good week.
Colorado Avalanche (0-1-3, -6 GD)Last Week: 15Highlight: vs the Blue Jackets to take a lead late in the second.Lowlight: Despite holding leads in three of their four games, they lost every single one. Minnesota Wild (1-2-1, -2 GD)Last Week: 16Highlight: Jared Spurgeon’s in Buffalo.Lowlight: Losing captain Mikko Koivu to a torn ACL for the season. Buffalo Sabres (2-1-1, -1 GD)Last Week: 18Highlight: Sam Reinhart putting together a, and the vs Minnesota.Lowlight: Remember that Teravainen OT winner? Stopped a comeback bid dead in it’s tracks after Buffalo tied the game with two late goals.
Vancouver Canucks (1-2-1, -3 GD)Last Week: 20Highlight: Elias Petterson’s against the Blackhawks on the power play. He seems to show up here every week.Lowlight: Either in Washington, or against Calgary 21. Arizona Coyotes (1-3-0, -5 GD)Last Week: 21Highlight: Alex Galchenyuk having a great week, scoring the three goals against the Stars in two different games.Lowlight: Goals like should be stopped by the goalie.
Philadelphia Flyers (2-0-1, +5 GD)Last Week: 25Highlight: This to preserve a one goal lead in an eventual win vs Vancouver.Lowlight: They lost their big win streakto the Kings? Chicago Blackhawks (3-0-0, +8 GD)Last Week: 28Lowlight: Leon Draisaitl scoring a pair of power play goals within two minutes of each other in the first.Highlight: Chicago would respond with five third period goals to run away with the game. Florida Panthers (2-2-0, -2 GD)Last Week: 22Highlight: Mike Matheson’s in overtime against the Penguins.Lowlight: Dropping a late 2-0 lead in St.
Louis to lose 3-2. Edmonton Oilers (1-2-0, -4 GD)Last Week: 23Highlight: Cam Talbot and the defense locking down the Wild in a 4-1 win.Lowlight: Remember that third period in Chicago? Four of those goals were scored in a stretch of three minutes. New York Rangers (2-1-1, -1 GD)Last Week: 27Highlight: Alexandar Georgiev stopping 55 of 56 Toronto shots on net Sunday in a 4-1 win at the Garden.Lowlight: Kevin Hayes by Jaccob Slavin to prevent the opening goal. New Jersey Devils (1-2-1, -5 GD)Last Week: 24Highlight: Marcus Johansson helping his trade stock with a pair of goals in Sunday’s win over Carolina.Lowlight: Ilya Kovalchuk after being booed every time he even stepped on the ice. Ottawa Senators (2-1-0, +6 GD)Last Week: 30Highlight: Anders Nilsson stopping 44 of 46 Winnipeg shots to lead the Senators to an improbable win.Lowlight: Any of the five goals Toronto scored in Wednesday’s game.
Detroit Red Wings (0-3-0, -6 GD)Last Week: 26Highlight: against the Sabres was a great show of speed and skill.Lowlight: It was the only goal they scored that night, in a 3-1 loss. Los Angeles Kings (3-0-1, +4 GD)Last Week: 31Highlight: Scoring three goals in the first two minutes of the third to bury the Devils in New Jersey.Lowlight: Jakub Voracek’s in Philadelphia to force overtime. Anaheim Ducks (0-4-0, -16 GD)Last Week: 29Lowlight: going on their honeymoon to follow the Ducks through Eastern Canada, and getting rewarded by watching a road trip from hell, which would finally cost Randy Carlyle his job.Highlight: James Duthie being a kind soul and in Turks and Caicos for the newlyweds. Schmooze of the Week: Offer SheetsYou have to go back to 2013 to find a player who actually signed an offer sheet. That player was Ryan O’Reilly, and the Calgary Flames signed ROR to a two year, $10M offer sheet. The Avalanche, ROR’s team at the time, would match it, and the rest is history.Another more prominent case is Shea Weber, who signed a 14 year, $110M offer sheet from Philadelphia, which Nashville matched, and was later dumped on Montreal for PK Subban.You have to go back to 2007 to find the most recent player who switched teams via an offer sheet, that being Dustin Penner (remember him?) going from Anaheim to Edmonton on a five year, $21.5M deal. Anaheim received in compensation Edmonton’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks in 2008 (After a series of trades, Anaheim got Jake Gardiner, Justin Schultz, and Marc-Andre Bergeron).
Penner played 3+ of those seasons in Edmonton before a trade to Los Angeles.Offer sheets are no longer fancied by NHL GM’s. Maybe it’s because the compensation is too intimidating, because of the high esteem people hold first round picks to.
Maybe it’s just an honors system among all GM’s. Maybe it was determined in a mass prophecy that came down from the hockey gods after O’Reilly’s situation played out. Who knows?This year, though, the endangered offer sheet could be making a comeback.
In light of Auston Matthews’ big contract signing the other day, immediate speculation of what could happen to Mitch Marner this summer started filling the airwaves and Twitter feeds.It makes sense. The Leafs are tight under the cap next year, with Matthews and John Tavares combining for $22.634M of cap space, and they have the rest of the roster to put together.The Leafs aren’t alone in this situation, either. A number of RFA situations are due big time raises, and it may fall on teams to throw caution to the wind, and exercise a once-lost tactic.Here are some of the most prominent of such situations: Marner, Brayden Point, Sebastian Aho, Matthew Tkachuk, Kyle Connor, Patrik Laine, Kasperi Kapanen, and Timo Meier.Each of these players are coming off their rookie contracts, and are all sure to receive significant pay raises. Also, each of these players belong to teams who have the salary cap breathing down their necks.So what GM’s of other teams could do is to lay out some offer sheets, and force the hand of those teams who are a bit hamstrung by the cap.The worst thing that could happen is that the team who owns that players’ rights match, and your team loses nothing. That team now has an even worse salary cap situation, and may need to unload unruly contracts to help keep things in order.If they don’t match, congrats, you just got a stud young player for a package of two to four draft picks. There’s a chance those draft picks don’t pan out anyway, as draft picks are inherently dart throws, with some darts more accurate than others.
These RFA’s are proven talent.GM’s have this tool that they haven’t used in quite some time, and that’s unfortunate. It makes offseasons more fun, and it offers teams with salary cap room the ability to take advantage of those who don’t. Cap space is a very potent weapon if utilized correctly, and this could easily be one of those correct situations.
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