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NHL Wins and Sins Appreciation for Rick - seestyle - 02-09-2023 It's time for our weekly installment highlighting what's right and what's wrong with the NHL during every week throughout the season. For all the things there are to love about the NHL and its product, there's also plenty to hate and plenty to criticize.With that in mind, let's hash it out together ... right here ... every single Wednesday.What's right: I just want to kick off this week's column with some appreciation for Rick Nash, who announced his retirement from hockey last week. It was more of a forced retirement, as Nash hasn't been able to fully recover from a concu sion he suffered last season with the . It sucks that Nash, 34, wasn't able to go out on his own terms, but hopefully his future is as good as his past and he's got plenty of happy and healthy post-playing days ahead. He retires with 437 goals, which Jamie Mcginn Kids Jersey ranked him third among active players, behind just and .It feels somewhat easy to overlook or under-appreciate what Nash was able to accomplish during his 15-year career, probably because he spent so many years fronting irrelevant teams that couldn't properly build around him. After going first overall to Columbus in 2002, he spent nine seasons with the Jackets. In seven of those seasons he hit the 30-goal mark, twice hitting 40 -- including 41-goal season that won him the Rocket Richard as a 19-year-old.The Blue Jackets only made the playoffs once during Nash's tenure, getting swept in the first round by the eventual Eastern Conference champion in 2009. It's a shame that they weren't able to put more talent around Nash, who almost singlehandedly helped put Columbus on the map as Aleksi Heponiemi Kids Jersey an NHL market in their early years as a franchise. (His No. 61 can't be retired fast enough.) He had several more cracks at the postseason with the and, briefly, the Bruins, but he didn't have a ton of playoff succe s and never got the chance to raise the Cup. Unfortunately, that's something that many people will hold against him, even though hockey is constantly touted as the ultimate team sport.But it's without question that Nash was one of the best goal-scorers of this generation (and a damn good two-way player as well), so let's not forget that. If you need help remembering, here's a flashback to one of the most impre sive goals the NHL has seen in the last few decades. Rick Nash is retiring today. What a player. Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) Every time I see that highlight it makes me laugh just out of sheer absurdity. A decade later, I still imagine Keith Ballard waking up to a cold sweat in the middle of the night as he's forced to watch Nash reduce him to a twisting, flailing puddle on an endle s loop. It's undoubtedly the highlight I'll forever a sociate with Nash, and what a highlight it was. Definitely on the shortlist of favorite goals of my lifetime. What's wrong: Peter ChiarelliEverybody strap yourselves in tight ... Peter Chiarelli is behind the wheel and looking to make a trade once again. What could po sibly go wrong?! Oilers organization is on a full court pre s to find help at forward. Scouts and staff deployed en ma se. Cap situation could make it tough, but first round pick, a goaltender, maybe a young developing forward likely all in play. Ryan Rishaug (@TSNRyanRishaug) But seriously, what are the even doing here? I understand that they're on the playoff bubble and want to get some help for , who is doing his damn best to drag them back to postseason where they absolutely do not belong. What I don't understand, however, is continuing to give Peter Chiarelli the keys to make these kinds of trades -- especially when you're putting significant futures like a first-rounder and/or developing prospects in play.This is the same Peter Chiarelli who traded forward -- last year's MVP -- for a second-pairing defenseman straight up. The same Peter Jaromir Jagr Jersey Chiarelli who turned forward into . The same Peter Chiarelli who has committed a handful of other absolutely stunning front office blunders in Edmonton -- from the contract to the trade -- that have helped turn the Oilers back into a pumpkin despite having the best damn player in the world lead them up front. How many times would you let your friend borrow your car if he continually kept getting into fender benders? Probably le s than the Oilers have.Maybe Chiarelli saved all his trading magic for the 11th hour and can magically broker a brilliant deal that helps push the Oilers back on the right track. But the Jonathan Huberdeau Women Jersey Oilers are in this desperate position right now because he's done an absolutely magnificent job of mangling their roster and paying a lot of money to do it.There's not a lot of reason to believe that he's going to do anything other than set this team back even further in a desperate Hail Mary attempt to save his job -- a job that he should have lost months ago ... and even that might be generous. What's right: Snoop Dogg doing play-by-playThis one doesn't even need a write-up. Just listen to the man work. The LA Kings had Snoop Dogg in the booth doing play-by-play tonight and it was amazing Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) LOL Snoop Dogg is the best Eric (@Kingsgifs) What's wrong: The Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender and two-time Vezina winner found himself in headlines last week when the team held him out of action last Thursday as a disciplinary measure. The unofficial suspension came one day after the goaltender was pulled during a game against the , and it was initially speculated that the discipline may have been because of an ongoing rift between Bobrovsky and CBJ head coach John Tortorella.But more details have emerged about the incident that caused the Blue Jackets to tell Bobrovsky to stay home, and it would seem that the blame should be fully shouldered by the goaltender in this case.From 's Aaron Portzline:When Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky was pulled from a game last Tuesday at Tampa Bay, he walked straight to the dre sing room and started peeling off his gear. There were 11 minutes, 7 seconds remaining in the game.Typically, the goaltender if not removed because of an injury will remain on the bench with his teammates while his replacement finishes the game.But by the time Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella sent a member of the training staff to find Bobrovsky, the two-time Vezina Trophy winner had already showered, or was in the shower, and was unable to return to the bench.Yeah, that's not great. This isn't baseball where a pitcher's night is officially done and in the books when he's pulled from the game. Had anything happened to the Jackets' backup after replacing Bobrovsky, he would've had to go back in and he clearly wasn't willing or able to do that. Not OK.Several key members of Columbus's roster reportedly pulled Serron Noel Kids Jersey Bobrovsky aside to lay into him before their flight to Nashville later that night, as they should have.The two sides have seemingly moved on and put this behind them, as the goaltender was back with the team after his one-game abs