2026-27 NHL Regular Season Thread: NTC Misery & 2 Minutes for Tucking

[synistar]

The regular season is upon us. Except for Charlie McAvoy (suspended 6 games for the Benson slash in the playoffs) and Ridly Greig (2 games for roughing in the playoffs)

The Flyers reset the market with the Carlsson offer sheet that entertained everyone. Cale Makar will be the highest paid player starting next year (for now) when his $20.4M extension kicks in (or 1.133... Carlssons if that's your unit of measure.)

A bunch of new captains were named this off season
ANA: Granlund
CHI: Bedard
LAK: Doughty
NYI: Horvat
SJS: Celebrini
STL: Thomas
BOS: Pastrnak
Last minute addition OTT: Chabot

Larkin and Hellbuyck kneecapped their careers with their trade demands. At least the former will play to the rain of Boos in Little Caesars Arena. The latter flat out refuses to play.

HNIC will live for another year. They're covering PWHL instead. How long that league lasts with Mark Walter's financial scheming remains to be seen. At least he built up a brand for some other billionaire to buy it.

Equipment infractions will have tighter enforcement this season - re: neck guards, visors, and helmets & untucked jerseys. How does Trevor Zegras feel about this after he got a 2 minute minor in a preseason game for a tucked in jersey?


Enjoy the season BG. I'm just hoping the Kings tank it this year instead of being a 1st round punching bag for the Oilers again. Maybe I'll just hatewatch the Sharks intermittently for some good hockey and reddit spamming this:

[Melena]

What's the reason anyways to keep jerseys untucked?

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[synistar]

What's the reason anyways to keep jerseys untucked?

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It's been a rule since 1964. GMs asked for the league to enforce it 2013 much to Ovechkin's objections.

[Obsidian]

I think it's primarily for number visibility, but technically any plastic padding needs to be covered by fabric and there is some hard plastic around the pants/waist that may not always be covered with a tucked in jeysey.

[DFJS]

Idk Syn. The kings looked pretty good against the Ducks today. As someone who doesn't like them at all even i can see the change already with new coaches.

[Salodin]

Q is gonna turn that organization around. People can boo all they want, but the guy can lead a team to success on the ice

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[Sepukku]

I don't get the Red Wings / red wings fan base approach to the Dylan Larkin situation. He's not an elite 1C; on a good club he's an above average 2C/3C. He's just putting up 60-70 points a year cause they have no true 1C to take those minutes.

He's been playing for them since 2015-2016 and they haven't made the playoffs in ten years with him, so its not like they're on the edge of a cup and hes giving up. Hes not taking you anywhere, so you guys should want to divorce from him as much as he from you.

Related interesting fact I found while checking recent Red Wings season results... they haven't won a playoff round since they were in the Western Conference LOL

[Salodin]

One has to imagine that ego in the front office is a big reason why so many teams try holding onto players that don't want to be there anymore.

Sure, if the biggest names don't want to be there then why would the players beneath them want to stay? But that's a problem for morale and culture that management is in charge of, and you don't fix it by coercing people to stay who want out.

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[synistar]

Hes not taking you anywhere, so you guys should want to divorce from him as much as he from you.

Related interesting fact I found while checking recent Red Wings season results... they haven't won a playoff round since they were in the Western Conference LOL

It's Larkin's own doing. He's not going to a contender that has no cap space and/or the assets going back. The NTC/NMC is firmly locking him into Detroit.

From the previous thread.

https://twitter.com/grumpadotca/stat...C22RdOkV5t6tVA

https://twitter.com/grumpadotca/stat...C22RdOkV5t6tVA

[Cail]

I'd like Larkin on the Caps, but we don't have cap space or lineup space

[Salodin]

Anyone would want him, but not if it means having to trade one of their current assets for him. The opportunity gain just isn't there.

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[Salodin]

https://x.com/JamesonCoop/status/2104004688555479490

This is the kinda shit that pisses me off both feet clearly out of the crease, just baiting contact and gets it, and the cats draw a penalty. Gtfo with that nonsense

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[Bombur]

The Leafs are winning the Cup this year !!!

https://x.com/reporterchris/status/2...186040678?s=20

[Bombur]

The Canes have unveiled their Stanley Cup rings. It also comes with a championship puck pendant inside the ring.

https://x.com/Canes/status/2104368214125719655?s=20

[Richybear]

Leafs and Lumbus looking at a Marchenko trade. Gonna assume LOLumbus wants Knies

[Bombur]

Unless CBJ is incredibly high on Cowan and Danford, Leafs don’t have an asset not named Knies that could work here, and the Leafs really need Knies’s skillset more than they need Marchenko’s.

Also Knies is 8M AAV locked in long term. Marchenko given what market has been this summer will likely want 13M-14M..lol

[Obsidian]

Why are the Leafs so willing to deal Knies ?

They really need Knies’s skillset more than they need Marchenko’s.

People really need to throw all the bullshit rumours from the summer out the window. They aren't tripping over themselves to trade him, but he is surely what Columbus is asking for for Marchenko.

I like Knies, I'd rather not trade him just to trade him. But he does have some rough aspects to his game, he is not good at finding Matthews or getting the puck to him (or his other linemates). Over the last three seasons there's only one player with 3000+ minutes of 5-on-5 ice time and a higher on-ice goal% than Marchenko (61.5%); it's Nathan MacKinnon (63.5%). This guy is a sick playmaker, would be awesome with Matthews or Willy or Gavin.

This whole deal also sounds contingent on getting Marchenko extended as well.

Edit: Marchenko is also right-handed, which the Leafs are desperate for on the wing.

[Richybear]

I’d laugh if this falls thru too and it’s like “Welcome back, Knies!” after yet another public trade with him didn’t materialize

[Cail]

https://x.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/2104677430908555473

[Cail]

https://x.com/friedgehnic/status/210...C22RdOkV5t6tVA