Alumni in the pros - January 2014

[Rita]

playing in front of the Edmonton defense will be a stark contrast to playing in front of the LA defense.  Best of luck to Ben.

From NHL.com: Musical nets.

From wunderground.com:  LA v. surprisingly "balmy" in Edmonton.

[Weder]

Scrivens traded to Edmonton for a 3rd round pick, after they sent Dubnyk to Nashville for Matt Hendricks earlier in the day. Tough break for Ben, but he should get more playing time.

Tougher break for his wife, who is from the LA area.

Sounds like the Kings were looking to cash in on Scrivens solidperformance while Quick was out.  Selling high, if you will.

Scrivens is from the Edmonton area, though. Trade makes a lot of sense for the Kings, who are pretty set with Quick and Jones now.

[Jim Hyla]

Scrivens traded to Edmonton for a 3rd round pick, after they sent Dubnyk to Nashville for Matt Hendricks earlier in the day. Tough break for Ben, but he should get more playing time.

Tougher break for his wife, who is from the LA area.

Sounds like the Kings were looking to cash in on Scrivens solidperformance while Quick was out.  Selling high, if you will.

Yes, the Kings did well. Scrivens wasn't guarenteed for next year, they have a backup goalie, and now a third round pick. Essentially they didn't give up anything for getting the pick.

[Josh '99]

Scrivens traded to Edmonton for a 3rd round pick, after they sent Dubnyk to Nashville for Matt Hendricks earlier in the day. Tough break for Ben, but he should get more playing time.

I speculated last offseason (though maybe just in my head and I never actually posted it here) that winding up in Edmonton might be an ideal situation for Scrivens.  This was before they signed Bryzgalov (a free agent again after this season).  It seemed to me at the time that Dubnyk was an OK player but that there was a large enough sample size (over 170 NHL games at this point) of decent-but-not-great performance to make an educated guess that he was probably not ever going to be a star in the NHL, and his performance so far this season isn't likely to have convinced anyone otherwise.  Hockeysfuture.com says that "lack of an elite goaltending prospect" is one of the weaknesses of the Oilers' system.  And with the Oilers in the basement of the Western Conference and going nowhere this season, and Bryzgalov a free agent after the year and possibly headed back to Russia (not based on any particular source, just my hunch since this seems to be the case for more Russian players lately), and Scrivens a nice local kid, it seems like a good chance for him to show what he can do in a supportive, low-pressure environment with the chance to maybe actually be a starter next year if he plays well.

[Trotsky]

I was hoping for Scrivens to go to the Isles, but that must have made too much sense.

[jeff '84]

Nice goal by Matt Moulson

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/15/video-moulsons-goal-will-test-your-eye-sight/

[Rita]

Scrivens traded to Edmonton for a 3rd round pick, after they sent Dubnyk to Nashville for Matt Hendricks earlier in the day. Tough break for Ben, but he should get more playing time.

Tougher break for his wife, who is from the LA area.

Sounds like the Kings were looking to cash in on Scrivens solidperformance while Quick was out.  Selling high, if you will.

Yes, the Kings did well. Scrivens wasn't guarenteed for next year, they have a backup goalie, and now a third round pick. Essentially they didn't give up anything for getting the pick.

More analysis on the trade from Backhand Shelf.

[sah67]

Nice goal by Matt Moulson

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/15/video-moulsons-goal-will-test-your-eye-sight/

Although some, including Moulson himself, don't think it actually went in:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/did-matt-moulson-goal-really-beat-james-reimer-033455892--nhl.html

[Josh '99]

I was hoping for Scrivens to go to the Isles, but that must have made too much sense.

The Isles seem to already be evaluating Nilsson and Poulin as successors to Nabokov, so being in a three-way competition might not be ideal for him.  On the other hand, it'd be easier for a young goalie not to have any media attention or expectations of success.

[Josh '99]

After killing it over 8 games in the ECHL with the South Carolina Stingrays, David LeNeveu is back with the Hartford Wolf Pack, where he previously played for a stretch in 2007-08.  With Jason Missiaen having been sent down to Greenville, the Wolf Pack's incumbent starter, naturally, is Dov Grumet-Morris.  Sieve-hyphen-Sieve hasn't dressed for the Wolf Pack's last two games after losing 3-1 in Worcester last Friday, so I wonder whether he might be carrying an injury.  The Wolf Pack are currently in the middle of a five-game road trip, but those in the area might have a chance to see him play at home against Springfield next Friday; if that's not enough enticement, apparently all Wolf Pack Friday home games feature dollar hot dogs and $2 beers.

[RichH]

After killing it over 8 games in the ECHL with the South Carolina Stingrays, David LeNeveu is back with the Hartford Wolf Pack, where he previously played for a stretch in 2007-08.  With Jason Missiaen having been sent down to Greenville, the Wolf Pack's incumbent starter, naturally, is Dov Grumet-Morris.  Sieve-hyphen-Sieve hasn't dressed for the Wolf Pack's last two games after losing 3-1 in Worcester last Friday, so I wonder whether he might be carrying an injury.  The Wolf Pack are currently in the middle of a five-game road trip, but those in the area might have a chance to see him play at home against Springfield next Friday; if that's not enough enticement, apparently all Wolf Pack Friday home games feature dollar hot dogs and $2 beers.

The $1 hot dogs and $2 beer deal is valid through the end of the 1st intermission.

I went to a game in December, and it turned out to be Dov's first game back in Hartford after being acquired earlier that day.  Backing him up was Yale's Jeff Malcom.  Malcom got sent to the ECHL affiliate last week.

Brendon Nash is also playing for Hartford after signing an AHL contract. He's 0-7-7 with 22 PIM in 20 games this season.

[sah67]

A Kings fan bids farewell to Scrivens with a GIF memorial:
http://theroyalhalf.com/trh-top-10-gifs-nothing-compares-2-ben-scrivens/

[Rita]

Ben gets to play tonight in the Oiler's game @ Minnesota.

[Josh '99]

The $1 hot dogs and $2 beer deal is valid through the end of the 1st intermission.

One can drink a lot of beer by the end of the first intermission if one puts one's mind to it.

Not that I would ever do such a thing, of course.

[sockralex]

The $1 hot dogs and $2 beer deal is valid through the end of the 1st intermission.

One can drink a lot of beer by the end of the first intermission if one puts one's mind to it.

Not that I would ever do such a thing, of course.

Hopefully it is a half decent beer for $2. I've had mixed results in the past. It's also a 2 beer limit so bring your DD to buy you a few to hold on to after the first.  

See you there next Friday!  I'll wear my Hornby jersey.