Kuro Madoushi
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To this day, I'm not sure there was ever a more stacked team than that Avs team.
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NHL Off-Season 2017 |OT| Weve Been Here Since October
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Actually it was really dope. That series against the Avs was superb.
Fata1moose
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The salary cap was the beginning of the shitty modern NHL.
Just the opposite. Made the NHL have fantastic parity. The cap has been great for the game.
Unhandled Exception
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The cap isn't to blame, bullshit claims of working towards parity is. This league couldn't be less interested in parity and the reason for that is because most teams aren't in favorable markets for hockey. It's basically impossible to achieve parity unless by some magic every team has a marketplace equally invested in the sport. So instead we have Bettman striving for parity ie: making teams look sort of close in competitive ability, but only when you factor in loser points. Then there are instances like with that whole offside rule that curiously doesn't seem to apply to high market teams like the Rickago Ackblox, at least not when matched up against a team that couldn't make it out of the basement if you gave them a team full of McDavids. And last but not least, screwing the four worst teams in the league BY FAR out of the top picks of a draft because maybe some shitty franchises abused the system a little bit, so lets just screw the whole thing up and when shit like this happens we'll just call it a fluke.
But parity tho.
But parity tho.
I'm trying to think. Since the cap was implemented which team has been the absolute worst?
I'm thinking Winnipeg Jets. Followed closely by the Columbus Blue Jackets who are lucky that they made the playoffs this year otherwise it would have been a tighter race. 3rd worst altogether is probably the Isles. I don't care about points. I also care about the amount of playoff appearances and more importantly winning at least a series or making one deep run.
Oh wait since the Leafs were so good this season (relatively speaking) I almost forgot how utterly shit they were for the last 10 years.
I'm thinking Winnipeg Jets. Followed closely by the Columbus Blue Jackets who are lucky that they made the playoffs this year otherwise it would have been a tighter race. 3rd worst altogether is probably the Isles. I don't care about points. I also care about the amount of playoff appearances and more importantly winning at least a series or making one deep run.
Oh wait since the Leafs were so good this season (relatively speaking) I almost forgot how utterly shit they were for the last 10 years.
megachao24
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To be fair to the Jets, they're still feeling the after effects of a disastrous ownership back in their days in Atlanta. The Atlanta Spirit Group did absolutely shit all during internal squabbling that the Thrashers (as well as the Hawks) pretty much languished in the basement outside that lucky playoff run in 2007 (in which they got their asses handed to them by the Rangers). They were such a miserable mess that the Jets are STILL feeling that mess even today, although some of their more questionable moves since moving there certainly hasn't helped them.
CreeperBlocks
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Friberg is not coming back to North America, he's going back to frölunda. We're just going to
Hold his rights probably. So technically it's 3 not 4 RFAs lol
Fata1moose
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Sorry your post sucks!
CreeperBlocks
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I guess Montreal is going to be signing a crap ton of Defenceman for Laval this summer
Just wait until Forsberg has to play.
@LeafsPR
The #Leafs have extended qualifying offers to 4 players: G Garret Sparks, D Justin Holl and forwards Connor Brown and Zach Hyman. #TMLtalk
guess the leafs changed their mind on announcing QOs
better than last year where we learned them in something like late july
The #Leafs have extended qualifying offers to 4 players: G Garret Sparks, D Justin Holl and forwards Connor Brown and Zach Hyman. #TMLtalk
guess the leafs changed their mind on announcing QOs
better than last year where we learned them in something like late july
excelsiorlef
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Teemu
Recchi!
That's a great class wow
CreeperBlocks
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Mike Smith on Fan590:
Bruh 👀
Bruh 👀
More or less what I expected.
This leaves the leafs with 41/50 contracts for next season, gives them plenty of room to give an ELC to Brooks and whoever else.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
Marek Mazanec must have looked good in Milwaukee for the Preds to give him a qualifying offer, because boy did he look worthless in Nashville.
Juuse Saros stealing the backup job from him was secretly one of the best things to happen this season.
Juuse Saros stealing the backup job from him was secretly one of the best things to happen this season.
CosmicQueso
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Wow that's shitty.
Fata1moose
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I bet there's a lot of players who like shooting on Mike Smith as opposed to someone who can actually make a save.
This post is just looool.
You think Chicago gets every call? Go actually watch their games instead of pissing your pants about it. Theyre always getting screwed on offside plays and goalie interference. Just look at the playoffs.
And its good that the top pick isnt guaranteed to the last place team. Teams tanking is embarrassing. Automatically giving the last place team #1 is like giving the kid in the group project who does no work an A. Fuck that shit.
You could have saved time writing this and just said "my team's front office is shit and cant figure out how to win when we cant trade for all the good players like before the salary cap"
If it means hockey is back im all for it.
Kris Russell part deux
I can't think of a single reason anyone wouldn't sign Jumbo, unless he demands a 3+ year contract?
Fata1moose
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These jerseys don't look too bad. I'm glad the apron stripes are gone.
Now our team can look good while playing badly. 😭
Now our team can look good while playing badly. 😭
CreeperBlocks
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I like these jerseys
From sites I've seen, it's rumoured he wants 3 years.
ElephantShell
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Maybe Justin can surprise everyone and fill the Holl on right D for the Leafs this year.
CreeperBlocks
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Methot to Dallas Stars.
The apron stripes should have been gone long ago. What a terrible idea.
Unhandled Exception
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I can't wait to see Duchene suck shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit in these
I hope Vegas got fleeced.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
Of course he had to come to the damned Central.
Why lol? They finally have a defenseman!
Methot has been carried by Karlsson for years. whatever they paid I'm sure it was too much
@DarrenDreger
Methot to Dallas for 2nd in 2020 and Ferguson, goalie the Stars just drafted from Kamloops
poor ferguson lol (he was a 7th rounder)
Fata1moose
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They seemed very headstrong about changing them too, I think they genuinely believed there were fans out there who liked them. I would have preferred a more modern twist while retaining the mountain borders on the bottom, but there are fine.
This is very likely, I really can't see the players improving under Bednar, whether he's capable or not he's already lost the Avs locker room.
Fata1moose
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ShadowSoldier89
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who is VGK tanking for?
megachao24
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That's it? LOL Vegas, already taking a page from the Sens of the early 90's.
The real concern on how badly Methot's play declines without Karlsson.
Lol that's all it took to get Methot? I can sense the SNES fans anger a mile away who love their "veteran leaders".
Like zroid said, the guy has been carried by Karlsson for years, and while he doesn't hurt Karlsson too much, an improvement from within can be had with either Cleasson or Chabot. Plus he frees up $5M in salary.
Like zroid said, the guy has been carried by Karlsson for years, and while he doesn't hurt Karlsson too much, an improvement from within can be had with either Cleasson or Chabot. Plus he frees up $5M in salary.
Fata1moose
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I wish the Avs would have exposed Varlamov, having the cap space would have been nice. He's injured more often than not anyway.
Dubbedinenglish
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Poor kid who was drafted then immediately traded lol