Quick Strikes: Hampus Lindholm re-signs and hockey in Seattle

The Ducks re-sign Hampus Lindhold, more rumors of hockey in Seattle, the Rangers release McIlrath, and more in this morning’s reads.

By loserpoints@loserpoints Oct 28, 2016, 7:00am EDT

The Bolts

The Ducks signed restricted free agent defender Hampus Lindolm to five year contract at $5.25M per year. [Sportsnet]
The Rangers placed former number 10 overall pick Dylan McIlrath on waivers. They’ll find out at noon today if he clears or if they lose him. [Blueshirt Banter]
Defender Chris Tanev is on injured reserve for the Canucks, which is bad for them because they already aren’t very good. [Today’s Slapshot]
A group headed by Tim Leiweke is reportedly interested in bringing an NHL team to Seattle. [Sportsnet]
Goalie Craig Andersion is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the Senators for personal reasons. [Today’s Slapshot]
In case you didn’t see enough of Carey Price last night, here’s a gif post of just what makes him so great. [Eyes on the Prize]
The Jet’s goalies haven’t been great this season. But does that even matter after so few games? [Arctic Ice Hockey]
The Stars are not very good right now. [Defending Big D]
James Reimer’s got jokes about Auston Matthews. [Pension Plan Puppets]
Sidney Crosby ruins lives when he plays against the Sabres. [SBNation]
The Penguins have 197 names on the Stanley Cup. That’s a lot of names. [Pensburgh]

The Peoria Rivermen and large portions of the hockey community in general draped themselves in embarrassing misogyny yesterday when the SPHL team released goalie Shannon Szabados. [Today’s Slapshot]
DTMAboutHeart is writing up his Wins Above Replacement model at Hockey Graphs this week. This link is part 4 but if you’re interested, start with part 1 that ran on Monday. This is some of the most important hockey analytics work being done anywhere. [Hockey-Graphs]
DragLikePull investigates whether Hockey Reference’s quality start statistic for goalies is repeatable. [NHLNumbers]