June 23, 2018

SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 3 comments

Ilya Kovalchuk returns to NHL with L.A. Kings in 3Yr/$18.75M deal

posted by tommybiden at 03:46 PM on June 23, 2018

Calgary Flames trade Hamilton, Ferland, Fox to Carolina Hurricanes for Hanifin, Lindholm

posted by tommybiden at 03:49 PM on June 23, 2018

As a Hurricanes fan, I'm very happy with this deal. Noah Hanifin has tremendous upside, but as my more knowledgeable hockey friends tell me, the guy doesn't have much hockey sense. Lindholm is, well, whatever, just meh. Both guys are going to be RFAs and frankly, whatever they're going to get, they won't be earning it.

Who knows, maybe they will both realize their potential one day, but I don't think that's going to happen under Bill Peters. I think the biggest positive impact on the Hurricanes so far this offseason is Peters walking away from the team.

posted by NoMich at 04:53 PM on June 23, 2018

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