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NHL 2016.1 -- Anyone have a Laine on a new Auston?

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Goddammit. If it wasn't for bad luck, Jimmy would have no luck.
 
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God, I hate the Avelanche. What a ****ing dirty team, led by a complete D-bag captain. Enjoy your shutout and last place, *******s.
 
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Saturday is set. Wild vs Blue Jackets. 12 and 14 game win streaks respectively. Puck drops at 5 at the X.
 
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I don't care that this story is 50% likely to be fake. I liked it anyway.
 
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Part of me wishes the Centennial Classic was at Skydome. Then I remember how high up I was this summer for a Jays game in the upper deck, and that was the first couple rows.
 
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They should do away with the 3 on 3 OT and the shootout if it gets there. Repeating 20 minute periods. ;)
 
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The Carolina Hurricanes had to have their equipment manager dress as backup goalie tonight in Tampa. He went in for the final 7-8 seconds. Pretty neat.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
The Carolina Hurricanes had to have their equipment manager dress as backup goalie tonight in Tampa. He went in for the final 7-8 seconds. Pretty neat.
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This is how I thought most teams handled the "lose a goalie and our affiliate is a days worth travel away" scenario... Seems to happen a time or two per season. The Hawks signed a dude off the street in Philly this year when Crawford went down with appendicitis.
 
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This is how I thought most teams handled the "lose a goalie and our affiliate is a days worth travel away" scenario... Seems to happen a time or two per season. The Hawks signed a dude off the street in Philly this year when Crawford went down with appendicitis.
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Ya, I remember it coming up. It may be an option for some teams, but my gut feeling is that most don't have the option for a staff member to fill in as goalie.

Here's some good articles on it:

http://www.si.com/nhl/2014/11/18/emergency-backup-goalies-hockeys-worst-case-roster-shortage

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhls-emergency-goalies-live-on-edge/c-278299936

So, sounds like some teams could opt for a goalie coach (usually former pros signing a PTO) to fill in, or use a local fill in, which I believe most (all?) teams have a small list for in the event they need a practice guy.
 
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This is how I thought most teams handled the "lose a goalie and our affiliate is a days worth travel away" scenario... Seems to happen a time or two per season. The Hawks signed a dude off the street in Philly this year when Crawford went down with appendicitis.
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Which is hilarious when these NHL teams that whined about this problem and moved their owned AHL clubs closer have this problem happen.


Though the new reason NHL clubs are moving their AHL teams closer seems to be in the name of "more practice."

I can't wait for that to backfire when these teams prospects don't develop game situation awareness.
 
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