Cant be worse than Michalek.
Seems like a good trigger man for Spezza and Hemsky, they need a pure shooter.
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NHL Off-Season 2014 |OT| - O stands for Overhaul
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Cant be worse than Michalek.
Seems like a good trigger man for Spezza and Hemsky, they need a pure shooter.
Coldnoodle
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Lone_Prodigy
Member
Buyout Booth, re-sign Tanev, Kassian, and Santorelli and you end up with this:
Pretty much the same line-up, assuming they don't jettison a defenceman, Hansen, or Kesler. They do have enough space to sign a UFA winger though.
Pretty much the same line-up, assuming they don't jettison a defenceman, Hansen, or Kesler. They do have enough space to sign a UFA winger though.
KernelPanic
Member
can't even imagine how many goals that line would let in.
#BeLEAF
Happened to Reimer, probably gonna happen to Bernier. If it happens to Bernier we're looking at a bottom 10 pick -crossesfingers-
bonesmccoy
Banned
It's quite an accomplishment to be worse than teams from the Wilson era in any measurable category.
I thought Dreger said Carlyle was staying?
Lmaooo worst junior coach evar!!
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, he's actually not a very good coach...
Also messed up that one time he coached Team Canada too iirc?
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Do we want Carlyle? I doubt it.
What's Jason Blake doing these days? He's got the face of a coach
No, you'd much rather have Therrien instead.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Guy Boucher, Mulller as an assistant. Just to troll the Habszzzzzzzzz
Pretty sure he prefers being a GM.
ZeroGravity
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So at what point do the Capitals seriously start to consider trading Ovechkin?
He's becoming even more of a one-dimensional player, he's nearly the age when goal scoring tends to start dropping off, and he clearly isn't the leader that team needs. His 9.5 million a year could probably be put to better use.
He's becoming even more of a one-dimensional player, he's nearly the age when goal scoring tends to start dropping off, and he clearly isn't the leader that team needs. His 9.5 million a year could probably be put to better use.
That would be just about the greatest thing ever
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
At that price, I'm not sure any of the teams that could afford that have any cap space left. I still think he's an elite player and he showed what happens when you count him out like last year. I wonder, though, if the Caps wouldn't rather have had Malkin instead.
Coldnoodle
Member
Once you fire the buffoon of a GM that's been here for 16 years and the idiot coach who thinks he knows everything. I want to see what Ovi looks like under a coach with previous NHL head coaching experience. Then you give him one year, if he shows no signs of improvements then you try to move him.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Coldnoodle
Member
Please no.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Haven't they been trying to build the team around him for years? It clearly hasn't worked, so at some point you have to consider that maybe it's the player, not the management, coaching, or teammates.
This is going to sound ridiculous because he has almost 50 goals, but how many coaches want Ovechkin? He comes across as the most uncoachable player, completely 1 dimensional, and takes up so much of the cap that hampers your team. Chokes in big moments, and seems like a shitty leader, I don't really see a lot of coaches wanting to have to deal with that. He would give Therrien a stroke with all his "disconnected controller" moments.
Caps fans would literally jump off bridges. Great post.
Coldnoodle
Member
The same guy has been in charge of General manager duties for 16 years. That's a failure on his part. We've never had a competent defense, they've never stuck by one goalie and we didn't get a 2C until Ribeiro last year.
I'm not saying that Ovechkin is perfect but before last year's playoffs he was third in playoff ppg since the lockout behind Malkin and Crosby.
People outside of Washington put too much at his feet and not enough at our incompetent owner and GM who's only hired rookie coaches ever since he got here.
Coldnoodle
Member
There's been no talk of him having it renewed but if he does I don't know what I'll do. The guy's a cockroach.
Every leafs fan will still call him vajayjay
bonesmccoy
Banned
Connor Brown won some OHL award.
Lets hope the Leafs let him ripen in the AHL for a year or two rather than drop him on a 4th line with Orr and Matt Hendricks.
Lets hope the Leafs let him ripen in the AHL for a year or two rather than drop him on a 4th line with Orr and Matt Hendricks.
You let something ripen too much and you have to throw it out. All that mold and shit.
Scoring title. And NO he didnt play with MacDavid.. lol
He could potentially fight for a job against Leivo -- which would be Raymond's position.
The guy gained 20lbs since last year and grew a bit too.. if he can pull this off again hes got a chance.. but i would rather see Leivo up first.
Leivo is quite a bit ahead of Brown development wise. His strengths transfer over to the NHL better. I have no idea what Brown is going to be at the pro level. He has a lot of talent and character. There was a leaf video which showed him in Erie when he signed his contract and the different people talked about him. There are not many players with his kind of determination. I think he will find a way to make it to the NHL one day.
Not sure if you're serious or not about letting kids stay in the AHL too long, but Nyquist is 24. People forget that and think he's just a kid from the AHL tearing it up, but he's the same age as JVR.
He hasn't been getting top line minutes on the top PP unit already?
Or trade him back to the Leafs with a new coach.
There's a difference between Leafs prospects and rest of NHL prospects. Translation: Leafs prospects usually stink.
Nyquist, taken in the 4th round by Detroit
Stefanovich taken in the 4th round by the Leafs.
One of those 2 is an NHL player, the other is out of hockey.
Grabovski is a UFA again this summer.
SuperSonic1305
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Sign him to 3.5 x 4