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One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
That's not tougher. Half the guys you just named off can't even play the game. West have a lot of guys that can play the game / fight.
Fighting doesn't equate to scoring. West easily has the stiffer competition and higher amounts talent that can bang and score...Plus East just lost Parise.
The NHL is cyclic. After the lockout the faster more skilled teams were the most successful. After a couple years the rules relaxed and the teams like Anaheim and Boston had a jump start on toughness and nobody could compete. Everybody is beefing up now to catch up, but if you think about it, the actual forward thinking play now would be to shed toughness for skill and catch the next wave of rule changes. With this new cba the same thing is probably going to happen and next year the smallest quickest teams are going to be running circles around the pylon tough teams again.
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
The NHL is cyclic. After the lockout the faster more skilled teams were the most successful. After a couple years the rules relaxed and the teams like Anaheim and Boston had a jump start on toughness and nobody could compete. Everybody is beefing up now to catch up, but if you think about it, the actual forward thinking play now would be to shed toughness for skill and catch the next wave of rule changes. With this new cba the same thing is probably going to happen and next year the smallest quickest teams are going to be running circles around the pylon tough teams again.
Only exception is if you have a team like Vancouver, Boston won due to overpowering them with their toughness.
Shuffling around goons doesn't make the east all that tougher IMO. A lot of these teams have a loooong way to go to catch up to St Louis, LA, Vancouver, and Minnesota
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
Rangers also have Dubinsky (who beat Mike Richards a few times.., Boyle (who tries to fight), Michael Sauer (who knows if he will fight with his concussion issues) and prospect JT Miller (8 fights in junior this year)
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
Nice list of teams who aren't going to win the Cup next year
One interesting development, so far, in free agency is the adding of enforcers and grit in the East.
-Boston: already full of guys who can fight (Thornton, Campbell, McQuaid)
-Buffalo: added Steve Ott and John Scott to a team with Mike Weber and Cody McCormick
-Florida: added George Parros and J.F. Jacques
-Montreal: added Brandon Prust and Colby Armstrong, and returned Michael Blunden.
-New Jersey: added Krys Barch and retained Cam Janssen
-NY Islanders: added Matt Carkner and Eric Boulton
-NY Rangers: added Arron Asham and Michael Haley, retained Stu Bickel and still has Mike Rupp
-Ottawa: added Marc Methot and Hugh Jessiman
-Philadelphia: already has Jody Shelley, and Zac Rinaldo
-Pittsburgh: added Tanner Glass and retained Steve MacIntyre
-Toronto: already has Colton Orr in the AHL, along with Mike Komisarek and Mike Brown
Carolina,Tampa, Washington and Winnipeg are about the only teams to stay out of this muscling up.
If I'm one of Tom Kostopoulos, P.L. Leblond, Eric Godard, Matt Bradley, Zack Stortini, Andre Deveaux, Tim Conboy, Boris Valabik, Jim Vandermeer, Jay Rosehill or D.J. King, I'm calling one of those four teams and offering my services, might just end up with an NHL payday.
Anyone see a reason why the East is arming up like this? Is it because of the Rangers and Devils success with toughness?
Both those guys aren't really tough, both play a grinding game, but suck at fight.
But MTL has Prust-White-Moen, Bouillon (pound for pound, one of the strongest guys in the league), who are all good fighters, and I'd add Bourque who is actually a good fighter but never fights.
