#Charlotte checkers hockey

[jocelynscrazyideas]

Then there were two.

Anyways let’s talk abt this.

[turcott3]

i miss him on umich but i LOVE him on charlotte. somebody help me i miss him so bad😭😭😭😭😭

[patosduck]

He’s alive

[starshipoftheseus]

12.19.20 (BEL) — 01.12.22 (CLT) — 11.12.22 (CV) — 01.26.23 (CV) — 04.01.23 (CV) — 05.19.23 (CV) — 06.05.23 (CV) — 12.29.23 (SEA) best quality: his wiggles hops

[decipheringsidelines]

UPS is UPL and Simba is Spencer Knight on The Sideline Times

Okay I’m gonna start with Spencer because his made more sense!!

First! This is the image that was used!

The red, yellow, & white are panthers colors

I think the Simba name is double reference to him being a baby cat (Panther) and him being trained to take over after their current goalie Bobrovsky retires.

The S name, when his name is Spencer

UPL being UPS

I’m pretty sure this is the picture but with the pads, it could be any goalie

The yellow and blue align with the sabres logo

UPL and UPS are both 3 letters

This may be a stretch, but in the Lauri Markkanen article (HERE) sidelines mentions the northern lights as a reference to Finnish people. I just think they associate the two and assume the wavy things are supposed to be that lol

Now onto the article!

“Our beloved goaltender, Simba, has been groomed to take over the throne and just like the movie, he can’t wait to be king!” - Again, Spencer is supposed to take over for Bob and he’s recently expressed his excitement to come back

“It seems another goaltender, known as UPS, might be ready to scar Simba for life. UPS has his eyes set on warmer skies, and our sources say this full-package player is ready to be shipped off.” - UPL is in Buffalo and it’s a lot less warmer than Florida. He’s also a restricted free agent awaiting contract from the Sabres (SOURCE)

“But is it enough to overtake the baby cub who’s been determined and clawing his way up into the lineup?” . Okay I know this is all alleged but one thing that isn’t, is the fact that Spencer has been fighting really hard for his spot on the Panthers. I read an article published by the Charlotte Checkers (HERE) and in it, it talks about how Spencer left to prioritize his mental health and he’s currently supposed to be making his way back: “For now Knight is headed to Florida (“Whatever they need me to do, I’ll do”), then he’ll head into the offseason and prepare for whatever next season holds in store for him.” I think that’s why the original post is relevant at the moment given that they’re about to reintegrate him in the off season!

[goalhofer]

Top 10 AHL point leaders: week 2

10: Aidan McDonough, Charlotte (6) 9: Justin Hryckowian, Texas (6) 8: Alex Limoges, Hershey (7) 7: Logan Shaw, Toronto (7) 6: Ethen Frank, Hershey (7) 5: Ivan Miroshnichenko, Hershey (7) 4: Vinnie Hinostroza, Milwaukee (7) 3: Walker Duehr, Calgary (8) 2: Jakob Pelletier, Calgary (8) 1: Rory Kerins, Calgary (8)

[antrea]

[22.03.05] charlotte checkers @ lehigh valley phantoms

ginger battle

[mitchbeck]

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - PRO HOCKEY SIGNINGS CONTINUE

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT – Much to empty from the Reporter’s Notebook as the off-season pro hockey signings continue but slow down as the dog days of summer approach. EX-HARTFORD WOLF PACK PLAYERS SIGNING After playing for three European teams last year, ex-Hartford Wolf Pack Aaron Luchuk signs with Orlando Solar Bears (ECHL) for next year. Goalie Keith Kinkaid signs with the…

[stanleycupavoider]

JUST SAW JOHNNY LUDVIG ON BUMBLE I SHOULD’VE SS THE PROFILE OH MY GOD

[annieqattheperipheral]

i was so amused by him on the panthers 'would u rather' vid i had to go hunting around on his tag like who is he why don't i know him and came across this??!!! from his Cleveland Monsters days (cbj AHL) some fundraising event, wearing an apron, from serving to performing boy doing it all for the charity dollars with that lovely vibe and voice

Zac Dalpe singing! 

[jocelynscrazyideas]

Do we have time? | Mackie Samoskevich x Reader

Summary: Mackie chose to leave Michigan for Florida. You wake up for a suprise.

Warnings: language, heartbreak?!

A:N- really short! Sorry, but a Quinn Hughes smut is coming soon!!

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The Michigan hockey team had just lost in the third round of the frozen four games. It’s been a week since Mackie had left for Charlotte.

~the day of the game~

“Michigan shoots! And they miss! We have 10 seconds remaining, will Michigan beat quinnipiac?” The announcer had informed us. They have a live stream play by play on in the family seats.

“QUINNAPIAC WINS!” the buzzer triggered. I see Mark look up, and followed by Nolan, and Mackie. I know they feel guilt. They were the last few guys that were in the ice, we had two guys in the box and we had an open netter.

The players shake hands and the bobcats celebrate for one last time before they skate off, the wolverines sit on the ice for a good minute.

Mackie skates off, shaking his head, I see him from afar, he has tears steaming down his face. The camera zooms into his face, he’s all red. The Jumbotron centered Mackie and he looks up, he sees me and tears up more.

I wait for Mack for a while outside the let locker room. Guys start to pool out and of course Mackie is the last one to walk out. “We need to talk.” Mackie voices.

He stares at me with this sad expression, his eyes are slightly puffy, he seemed to cry about something, his mind was occupied. I know it wasn’t just the loss, it had to be something else making him cry.

“No. No!” I look at him. I see Mackie look around. He hugs me, he stuffs his head into my shoulder. The crook of my neck filling with warmth, and Mackie cries into me.

“I know. I don’t want to go, not yet.” Mackie insisted, which I know he’s lying. He really excited deep down, but he didn’t want to leave me here in Michigan.

“Say it. If you don’t say it, then it’s not real.” I told him, I might just be wrong. I’m looking for clarification in his eyes. I’m clearly just dramatic. He’s not leaving-

“I’m leaving for Charlotte.” He cuts me off. I’m not upset, I’m proud.

I smile, and I catch him inside my arms. He hugs me as he strats to walk with me. His bag on his shoulder and me in his arms.

~present day~

“Movie?” Mackie walks into my room with his computer and a blanket. “I brought your favorite blankie!” Mackie informs me. He holds onto my hamstrings while I lay on my stomach pretending to sleep.

“I know you’re faking.” He flips me over. Mackie set his stuff on my bed as he jumps onto my bed. “I love you.” Mackie looks into my eyes. He whispers something that I can’t hear.

“I miss you already.” I cry. Today is the last day with Mackie in Michigan. He’s leaving tonight.

~

We watched She’s the man. THE best movie ever!!

Mackie held me until I fell asleep, and he got up, and left. He took his bags, and left me with his blanket. He wrote me a note for me when I wake up. I felt so overwhelmed with everything.

I woke up to the sound of cars leaving. It’s about 8:36 AM, Mackie is probably in Florida by now.

I go onto my phone and see a sweet message.

To my love,

I will 4ever miss the way you smell, the way you look at me when I say something stupid. Most importantly I’ll miss the late night talks. I hope you don’t get really mad, but I took some of your perfumes- only to use when I miss your presence.

I’m exhausted with all of the moving and the constant “welcome to Charlotte!” and the “nice to meet yous.”

I’m glad you and I had figured things out.

Peace and love, hardcore lover-

Mack the man 💗

I hate him. Why does he have to be such a man. I love him.

~

The letter he left me on my night table read:

Sorry, I love you so much… but I think we need to break up. I still love you, but I just can’t stay with you when I’m across the country. I hope we connect again soon. I also have decided to make my debut, but move down to the AHL, and play for the Charlotte Checkers.

-love Mack.

~

My heart dropped. He seriously ddint give me any time to fight him on this. We can make it work. We can!!

I feel tears bawling up on my eyes. I feel the stress and pain leave my body. My heart smashed through the floor of my bedroom. I can’t.

I call Mackie. He doesn’t answer. I’m going to fly myslef down there. I can’t believe him! I call Ethan.

“ETHAN FUCKING EDWARDS!” I scream. I know Ethan drove Mackie down to the airport. I’m so upset. Not about him leaving. But the fact he though we wouldn’t make it. I get it. Maybe he wanted to get his own girlfriend down in Florida agin. I mean it’s home, he’s a Florida man at heart. I can’t handle it.

“you finally woke up?” Ethan mumbles in. Sleepy tone. I let my tear fall out of my burning eyes. “Yeah.” I trail off as I smell my hoodie. It still smells like him. “I miss him already.” I’m so proud of Mackie. I just can’t date other guys when he’s walking around the earth.

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[starshipoftheseus]

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[jocelynscrazyideas]

I miss him sm

WE NEED MORE MACKIE

[stereax]

is there a reason why Carolina is losing all their affiliates???

Other than being assholes to Erik Haula?

Okay, but in all seriousness, there's a short answer and a long one.

The short answer is two words long: Pyotr Kochetkov.

The long answer? Meet me under the cut.

Alright, hi there. So to answer this question fully, we need to talk about the AHL in depth. The AHL, or American Hockey League, is the second-highest league of North American pro hockey, under the NHL. Most people tend to believe it's just "where prospects play before they hit the NHL". This is... only a part of the story.

There are 32 teams in the AHL to match 32 NHL teams. The idea there is that every NHL team would have an AHL affiliate - the most recent expansion, for example, the Coachella Valley Firebirds, is the AHL affiliate for the newest NHL team, the Seattle Kraken. Many of these teams are owned by the same group as owns the NHL team - Harris Blitzer, for example, owns both the New Jersey Devils and the Utica Comets. Others don't - the AHL's Charlotte Checkers, for instance, are owned by Michael Kahn, whereas their NHL affiliate, the Florida Panthers, is owned by Sunrise Sports (aka Vincent Viola).

Why is this important? Well, if you're an NHL team that owns your AHL team, you can let that AHL team leak money. You're turning a good profit on the NHL team, so you don't have to make your AHL team economically viable on its own - you just put it in as a massive tax write-off and go on with your day. Thus, you can put all of your AHL team's resources into developing your AHL players to get ready to play at the NHL level. Of course you sign some vets and such of your own, maybe get a few undrafted guys for the AHL team too, but generally, an NHL-owned AHL team's sole purpose is to develop NHL players. Winning the Calder Cup (the AHL equivalent to the Stanley Cup, not to be confused with the Calder Memorial Trophy given to the best NHL rookie) is just gravy on top.

Contrast this to independently-owned AHL teams, where this is not the case. For these teams, making money is paramount. How do you make money? When you win. Fun fact - the Chicago Wolves, incidentally, used to be televised on main channels partially as a fuck you to Bill Wirtz, who didn't let the Chicago Blackhawks' home games be televised, presumably to drive ticket sales. The Wolves saw that and pounced on the opportunity to make some cash. So if nothing else, love them for sticking it to the Hawks. You can still watch Wolves games on My50, it seems, if you've got that channel, as well as AHL streaming options.

But back to independently-owned AHL teams before I go on my daily anti-Hawks crusade. You want to make money. You do that when you win. When you make the postseason. When you win in the postseason. Independently-owned AHL teams want to win, not necessarily develop for the NHL. So when your NHL team keeps taking your best player away for weeks and then giving him back... you get annoyed.

Now let's play Chicago Wolves Simulator. You are Don Levin and Buddy Meyers, the Wolves' owners. Your goal is to win the Calder Cup or at least come pretty damn close so you can pay the bills. You have a good team - hell, you won the Calder last year! - but your best asset is this star goaltender named Pyotr Kochetkov. When Koochie's in net, you usually win because he bails out your team. When he isn't there to help you win, you kind of don't. Now, Carolina's going through its own issues in net, so they keep calling Koochie up and down. And, as previously mentioned, you kind of suck without Koochie. To be fair, you're not all that great with him, but you suck without him. And you have no control over when he goes up to Carolina, even just to sit on the bench.

You miss the playoffs by one point. One. And your three-year contract with the Canes is up. What do you do?

Waddell Young, GM of the Wolves, says their philosophy and the Canes' fundamentally differed. The Wolves develop and win. Winning develops, to them. The Canes wanted the Wolves to focus solely on development. Not winning. So, when their deal with the Canes was up, the Wolves said "no thanks, we're not going to continue this, we're going independent". This decision makes them the first non-NHL affiliated team in almost 30 years. Now, this isn't to say all independently-owned AHL teams are doomed to fail in partnerships because of divergent philosophies. Look at the Hershey Bears and the Washington Capitals for a prime example of that - the Bears are one of the best teams in the AHL and have won four Calder Cups with the Caps as their affiliates since their affiliation began in 2005. But the Wolves were quite unhappy with the Canes, and so the two split. Also notable is that the Canes have also poisoned the waters with who should be their local AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, to the point where the Checkers affiliated with the Panthers instead. So... there's that.

So what can the Canes now do with non-roster players? They can affiliate with another AHL team (co-affiliation); one instance of this was when the Seattle Kraken affiliated with the Charlotte Checkers in 21-22 because the Coachella Valley Firebirds weren't yet ready. Supposedly the plan is to get an affiliate for 24-25. But what do they do this year? Especially if they can't find an affiliate to share, which seems more and more likely as the summer drags on? Well, you can't sign players to two-way deals with the Wolves anymore, so you can't really keep veterans around in the AHL to call up if needed. So you... sign nine defensemen to NHL contracts and carry them on the roster at all times. Yep. Don Waddell, Canes GM, has basically stated outright that his roster is probably going to have to carry 22 or 23 players at all times to be sure to have replacements in case of injury. And your prospects? They either go to Europe, where they're basically inaccessible for the whole year, or you loan them to other AHL clubs. Waddell has said plans are in place with several teams to send 2 or 3 players each to several different AHL clubs. For your youngest, they go back to major junior in the CHL and related leagues. Same for your veterans - if you want to keep them, you'll have to sign them one-way (I believe) and then loan them down to scattered AHL teams across the league. Prospects who you could have signed to play in the AHL and develop? You're probably going to have to let them go to free agency (see: Kevin Wall, leading player for Penn State and Carolina draft pick, who just inked a deal with the Milwaukee Admirals, AHL affiliate of the Nashville Predators). And then you can send your worse prospects to your ECHL tea- wait. Oops. They just lost that too. Can't do that either. Well, shit.

And remember, one of the Canes' biggest assets is their system of play (with strong defense) that they execute well. The Wolves needed to teach their players the Canes' system and prepare them so the jump from AHL to NHL wouldn't be that tough. The Canes put their coaches on the Wolves for that purpose (the Wolves have since cleaned house and instated their own). Loaning your players to another AHL team? Why would that team be incentivized to teach your player(s) the system? So now even when you're calling up someone to play for the Canes, you have no idea how well they know the system and no idea how well they can play in it.

This now begs the other question - how will the Wolves fill their roster? Well, they've got options. Generally, an AHL team takes the prospects of its NHL affiliate and then fills the rest of the roster with AHL veteran free agents that the AHL team signs to AHL-only deals. But without an NHL team, it's a smidge more complicated, or perhaps easier. Firstly, other NHL teams can loan their prospects to the Wolves instead of their own AHL teams if they consider the Wolves better at developing them, for instance. The Wolves can now also sign whatever free agent players they find roaming around that could be a good fit for their team - undrafted college players, good ECHL players that can't seem to get called up enough, AHL veterans, players on European teams (especially Russians who might want the chance to get the fuck out of Russia) and so on. These free agent players could see the Wolves as a stable AHL team that can pay solid money (the AHL doesn't have a cap) with a strong chance at contending for the Calder as well as a possible stepping stone to an NHL contract. The Wolves also don't have to worry about these free agents taking ice time away from the Canes' prospects, who would need to be prioritized under an affiliation, which would also be a strong incentive for AHL free agent veterans to sign with them - they'd be able to get a truly fair chance, unlike under an affiliate system where prospects are the priority and free agents are generally playing fewer (and worse) minutes.

And remember - Chicago just drafted Bedard. The city's getting back into hockey and Hawks tickets are expensive. Want to watch some quality hockey on the cheap? Why not come to Wolves games! They're only 18 miles away from the Hawks, too!

Let's now talk about the ECHL and the Norfolk Admirals. Thankfully, this is going to be a lot simpler. The ECHL, unlike the AHL, has only 28 teams. This means 4 NHL teams don't have an ECHL team. In addition, very few, if any, ECHL teams are owned by their NHL affiliates. This further incentivizes them to play for profit (winning the Kelly Cup, the ECHL version of the Stanley Cup) instead of development. On top of this, relatively few ECHL players actually make it to the NHL. ECHL affiliates change fairly frequently, especially due to many of the teams folding because of financial issues (most recently the Brampton Beast, Manchester Monarchs, and Quad City Mallards). So if an ECHL team decides to drop its NHL affiliate, or vice versa, there are four other suitors, all of whom would probably want to pay the ECHL team decent money to be their associate. For the Admirals, it's easy - they see the Canes lose their AHL affiliate and decide they'd rather take the Jets' offer instead, whether it be for the money (Carolina's supposedly notoriously stingy) or for the security. It's just really fucking funny that it happens at the same time Carolina loses their AHL team. Get fucked lol.

TL;DR stan the Wolves for rejecting the system. Canes Suck.

[goalhofer]

Top 10 AHL goal leaders: week 4

10: Clark Bishop, Calgary (6) 9: Sam Colangelo, San Diego (6) 8: Egor Sokolov, Tucson (6) 7: Ivan Miroshnichenko, Hershey (6) 6: Walker Duehr, Calgary (6) 5: Roman Ahcan, Cleveland (7) 4: Aidan McDonough, Charlotte (7) 3: Joshua Roy, Laval (7) 2: Rory Kerins, Calgary (9) 1: Ethen Frank, Hershey (9)