Tuesdays with Dani: GM meeting topics include the 1-3-1

by Dani Toth on Nov 15, 2011 12:01 PM EST in General

The GM's will have their first meeting of the season in Toronto today. Dan Rosen of NHL.com writes that the 1-3-1 system will be a hot button topic being discussed at the meetings.

In response to all the questions about Guy Boucher's system, GM Steve Yzerman had some great quotes in Elliotte Friedman's 30 thoughts this week. After saying he prefers a re-alignment system where teams play home-and-home every season, he said "Every fan should get a chance to watch Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos. And with all of you guys talking about the 1-3-1, every fan will be dying to see it."

Your Lightning links:

Jacques Lemaire defended Boucher's coaching system. Great quote on former NHL coaches criticizing Boucher: ""They have the mike, and some guys with the mike try to coach. They couldn’t coach, so they go behind the mike because they couldn’t find a way to win. So they’re no big deal." (Montreal Gazette)
An article on assistant coach Martin Raymond who was inducted last month to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame (Montreal Gazette)
Carter Ashton is looking to follow in his father, Brent Ashton's footsteps (NHL)
Not often a guy readers agree with, Ryan Lambert seems to be the voice of reason in that Flyers-Tampa 1-3-1 story from last week

More links after the jump...

Your links from around the NHL:

Milan Hejduk is announced the new captain of the Colorado Avalanche (TSN)
The Hockey Hall of Fame inducted Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Joe Nieuwendyk and Mark Howe into its Class of 2011 (TSN)
The Anaheim Ducks claimed Hagman off of re-entry waivers, splitting his $3 million dollar salary with the Flames. The rest of the Northwest Division continues to laugh at the Flames (TSN)
A sad story to link to: Over the weekend Kyle Fundytus, a Grade 11 student from Edmonton passed away after being struck in the neck with a puck during a minor-league game (Edmonton Journal)
Hockey Canada will review the risks of block slap shots after the death of Fundytus (Globe and Mail)
The NHL announces the creation of NHL Original Productions which is a partnership with Ross Greenburg Productions. The last collaboration between Greenburg and the NHL produced 24/7 Penguins/Capitals, so this is awesome news
Puck Daddy looks at how Ross Greenburg plans to revolutionize NHL on TV
Larry Brooks writes that the NHLPA believes it has discovered unreported revenues by certain NHL clubs last season (New York Post)
Last week the NHL launched their French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovenian and German sites. No idea if the translations make sense or if its like they just fed NHL.com through google translate
After a two week hiatus, The Royal Half comes back with a monster Pundays post
John Carlson of the Caps in a carpet cleaning commercial. I'll give you five minutes, come back when you are done laughing (RMNB)
Because I have a love for celebrity gossip, Just Jared has Brad Richards and Olivia Munn dating
Joe Haggerty thinks that Milan Lucic and the Bruins should embrace the role of the villain
Jibblescribbits compares two young players on the Avalanche, Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog, having two very different starts to their season
J.P. on Alex Ovechkin losing his mental edge (Puck Drunk Love)
Even though we lost to them last night, Gary Lawless of the Winnipeg Free Press says that "despite having moved to Winnipeg and taken on a new name and colours, the Atlanta Thrashers still, unfortunately, exist" and that the team needs to raise its standards
I'm sure every stadium has a few of these fans especially on a weekend game, but Arctic Ice Hockey has some thoughts on a few Jets fans that were fueled by idiocy and beer
A really funny (and accurate) post on a 6 year old boy's first Leafs game (Bitter Leaf Fan Page)
Springing Malik has a look at how man games lost to injury and illness translate to salary cap hit losses
Hockey in Society looks at the slow erosion of hockey homophobia

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On the NHL.com foreign language sites

I know for sure that at least some content on the Russian site is written by a Russian in Russian. (Slava Malamud)

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by CAustin on Nov 15, 2011 5:22 PM EST reply actions

Interesting to know. I was going to ask my friend who is from Slovenia to check since I was curious

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by Dani Toth on Nov 15, 2011 11:35 PM EST up reply actions

Some veeeerry interesting quotes from Paul Holmgren on the whole 1-3-1 thing...

from that NHL.com article you linked to, Dani.

Puck Daddy’s review of the meeting has:
“There’s no real way to mandate how a team plays,” Flyers GM Paul Holmgren said. “Speaking from the Philadelphia Flyers’ standpoint, I’d like to see us attack the situation a little bit differently than we did last game. But we’ll continue to monitor and see if it becomes an issue.”

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

by CAustin on Nov 15, 2011 6:26 PM EST reply actions

So that didn’t sit well with Holmgren, huh? Interesting. I wonder if he spoke to Laviolette about it after the fact.

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by Cassie McClellan on Nov 15, 2011 6:44 PM EST up reply actions

Hard to believe. I’m sure it was planned well in advance, probably while watching footage in the tape room. Or hell, maybe early as last season? Who knows? Doesn’t help that the quote was taken from the GM meeting, instead of say, Flyer land.

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by Let's JOE WINGS-BOLTS on Nov 15, 2011 6:58 PM EST up reply actions

I was all cynical and thought, “I wonder what that quote would have been if they’d won the game?”

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

by CAustin on Nov 15, 2011 7:03 PM EST up reply actions

Exactly

Or if it wouldn’t have been a national broadcasted game? Would it even be an issue at all… at the meeting or around the league? One can’t help but wonder if their was more chess being played other than just on the ice?

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by Let's JOE WINGS-BOLTS on Nov 15, 2011 7:19 PM EST up reply actions

Gotta love JM the mighty

“Every fan should get a chance to watch Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos. And with all of you guys talking about the 1-3-1, every fan will be dying to see it.”

Just as every fan should get a chance to see Nick Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk play. Although the key words he should have included are: Every season Hopefully Lidstrom blesses us with another season and I get to see him at least one more time. And why not? He’s having one of his best seasons so far. Like the lil’ shot at the end there too, haha.

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by Let's JOE WINGS-BOLTS on Nov 15, 2011 6:52 PM EST reply actions

agree with you about Datsyuk. I knew he was good, but since I’ve moved to Chicago I’ve seen him a lot more. What a set of hands….

Can we get an all star line of Datsyuk/St Louis/ Stamkos this winter?

by Lightningfan7609 on Nov 15, 2011 9:38 PM EST up reply actions

Always a possibility

Depending on how they do things this year. I’m guessing it will be the same format. Which have it say… was loving all the Red Wing/Bolts love. Team Lidstrom with Marty, Stammer & Richards… awesome!! Team Class aka Team Perfect Human!

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by Let's JOE WINGS-BOLTS on Nov 17, 2011 9:58 AM EST up reply actions

Anyone else notice

what Ed Belfour was wearing during the HOF announcements, in Toronto before the Leafs/Sens game? Saw some footage of the ceremony on NHL.com. Everyone else was wearing very nice suits (of course) …Then ol’ Eddie comes out in jeans, blue plaid button down and a bomber jacket, haha, wtf? Stuck out like a sore thumb.

Then I saw some pics, from what I thought was the same event and Belfour was in a suit. Weirrrrrd. Especially in front of so much hockey royalty, mostly in their members jackets.

However, was glad to see close family friend of mine, former Red Wing, HOF member.. Bill Gadsby in the line-up, welcoming the new inductees. Also good to see was looking healthy, as last I heard, he had been ill.

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by Let's JOE WINGS-BOLTS on Nov 15, 2011 7:12 PM EST reply actions

Ed Belfour is a weird dude. :)

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

by CAustin on Nov 15, 2011 7:46 PM EST up reply actions

Always has been.

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by Cassie McClellan on Nov 15, 2011 8:13 PM EST up reply actions

beyond normal goalie weird all the way to weird weird. although Bernie Parent’s pretty out there, too.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

by CAustin on Nov 15, 2011 11:18 PM EST up reply actions