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Really loving glad we nickel and dimed franchise legend Evgeni Malkin so that we could eventually bring in Mikael Granlund to make one million dollars less than him in cap and put out on ice impacts worse than Jeff Carter. I hope Granlund proves me wrong but I don't think he will
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:36 |
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McAvoy is good but 9.5 isn't an incredible discount, nor is this Pastrnak signing. It's maybe 1-2m at most under what they would have gotten in the open market. Bergeron and Krejci, well yeah of course no one is using veterans wanting to win a Cup with a team they've been with their entire career as a comp in a negotiation, but the Devils can absolutely point at this and say hey, if you take 1-2m under your open market value you get to play for a likely Cup contender for the next 8-10 years.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:37 |
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Ginette Reno posted:Really loving glad we nickel and dimed franchise legend Evgeni Malkin so that we could eventually bring in Mikael Granlund to make one million dollars less than him in cap and put out on ice impacts worse than Jeff Carter. Even if Granlund ends up playing better than I expect him to, it still won't make the Pens a better team. That's what gets me. Ultimately though none if it matters if they're not willing to get rid of Dumoulin. They cannot be a good team with him in the lineup.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:38 |
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Thanks, I hate all of this Bruins news.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:39 |
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I'm going to console myself for the impending Bruins bitchslap of the playoff field by remembering it'll win Nick Foligno a Cup and he is good people and deserves to hoist Lord Stanley.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:40 |
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The Bruins winning the Cup is only a foregone conclusion if Linus Ullmark continues to be vintage Dominik Hasek all the way through late June. (He won't.)
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:41 |
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I'm a lot higher on the Bruins after these moves than I was before, good for them for not buying into their own bullshit and realizing they needed to get better. Still think they're in it real tough in rounds 2 and 3, but so is everyone else in the East.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:42 |
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T-Bone posted:McAvoy is good but 9.5 isn't an incredible discount, nor is this Pastrnak signing. It's maybe 1-2m at most under what they would have gotten in the open market. McAvoy could have gotten a lot more. Dom did his annual "best contracts in the NHL" list this summer and McAvoy has the second best contract (in terms of value to the team vs what he's actually being paid) behind Makar. quote:
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:45 |
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T-Bone posted:They've been carried by Ullmark to an even more incredible degree lately, so I think they're absolutely correct to make these moves and insulate themselves as best they can if he isn't Dominik Hasek in the playoffs. Not really--even if you just take the month of February, Ullmark started six games (6-0) and Swayman started four (3-1), and they averaged 4 goals/game over those ten games. Yeah he stood on his head in Calgary and he's probably going to win the Vezina but this isn't a Lundqvist situation; it's a team effort.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:47 |
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Non Bruins fan chiming in to say that if McAvoy hasn't peaked as a player yet, and I doubt he has, that deal is real good unless he gets hot brains or something....which is a risk with most players
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:47 |
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Dom's contract values mean absolutely nothing when it comes to what a team would actually pay on the open market. Adam Fox got 9.5 too. Dougie made 9 on the open market. Maybe McAvoy gets 11 from a really desperate team at most which is right in line with the 1-2m discount that I cited and likely the same discount the Devils will try to sell Meier/Bratt on.Ace Jameson posted:Not really--even if you just take the month of February, Ullmark started six games (6-0) and Swayman started four (3-1), and they averaged 4 goals/game over those ten games. Yeah he stood on his head in Calgary and he's probably going to win the Vezina but this isn't a Lundqvist situation; it's a team effort. Oh they're a very good team, they're just not better than Carolina/Toronto/New Jersey/Rangers/perhaps even Tampa if they don't get Hart Trophy level goaltending. Likely close to 50/50 series vs those teams if the goaltending is a wash. T-Bone fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Remember when Detroit won 62 games as well as the Stanley Cup? I could swear that's how their season ended
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Eric the Mauve posted:The Bruins winning the Cup is only a foregone conclusion if Linus Ullmark continues to be vintage Dominik Hasek all the way through late June. (He won't.) Yeah he’d have to decline to be that.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:50 |
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How many goals does Hasek have?
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:50 |
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Boston also has Swayman as a backup, and he's better than like half of the league's starters.
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Ginette Reno posted:https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1631048553299599364?s=20 cups hand to ear to hear CAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znh8kT455Yc turns on radio, listens to international CAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYFmrs_KZYI
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:57 |
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I mean being a flames fan in general has sucked rear end for 30 years, but thank the good lord in heaven I was raised to hate the Canucks. LOL all over.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 16:58 |
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Colorado did win a Cup with a .902 from Kuemper last year, then again Western Conference, etc.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:05 |
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McDavid taking 12.5 has really limited what players get for UFA contracts. Pastrnak should have got closer to 15.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:14 |
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Taylor Hall pushed from DTD to LTIR for 6mil in space. Let's see if he's magically ready for the playoffs. https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1631319390103777280
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:29 |
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Tage Thompson has the same number of points as Pasta, but is signed for $5m less per year. Tage contract continues to be the best. Sabres fans on Twitter are melting down because Kevyn Adams hasn’t sold the farm for a guy who might help them sneak into the playoffs, even though there’s zero chance they win a round. Also the trade deadline is over a day away, gonna laugh so hard if he makes some blockbuster trade and they all have to eat poo poo.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:31 |
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Tage Thompson has the same number of points as Pasta, but is signed for $5m less per year. Tage contract continues to be the best. I agree. Sabres fans are the worst.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:33 |
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Sabres should get Karlsson imo
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:37 |
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fawning deference posted:My honest guesses are $8.5m for Bratt and $9.25m for Meier If they get this done, Fitz is a wizard. It's crazy how underpaid hockey players are lol
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:37 |
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Sabres should get Karlsson imo Selling the farm for a guy who’s one injury away from blowing up his ankle, brilliant! Get on the phone, Kevyn!!!
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:39 |
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Doesn't Buffalo need defense and goaltending? Outside of Karlsson dream move there's not a whole lot out there for that. Hronek would have been a reasonable move for them, but not sure they could have beat Vancouver's offer comfortably, or that Detroit would have traded him in division. I'd say like Garland or Boeser could be an interesting pickup for a young team that's still growing and has cap space, but they're so loaded on wing as it is.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:45 |
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https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1631332669354024960?s=20 Putting two players with some of the worst on ice impacts in the NHL on the same line sure is a choice Sully
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:50 |
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Selling the farm for a guy who’s one injury away from blowing up his ankle, brilliant! Get on the phone, Kevyn!!! Its fun to have the best players in the world on your team
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https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1631328736531423244
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https://twitter.com/FlyersNation/status/1631147741014376449 this is some Ari Aster level horror poo poo
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Ginette Reno posted:https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1631332669354024960?s=20 That's a shutdown third line if I ever did see it as in, when I see it my brain shuts down and I only see darkness
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:04 |
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Totally fine!!! Nothing to see here baby!
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:05 |
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T-Bone posted:https://twitter.com/FlyersNation/status/1631147741014376449 This is like the end of Return of the Jedi where Luke is carrying Vader to the shuttle. You don't like seeing that. You want the real villain Philadelphia Flyers, not the desiccated corpse of a once proud franchise. like gently caress da Flyers but also I don't like seeing them like this. League is more fun when they're good and flailing to get over the final hump and get that cup
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:06 |
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Flyers trying to save Philly by making sure they have at least one team that can't lose a championship game (because they won't be in one)
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:11 |
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T-Bone posted:Doesn't Buffalo need defense and goaltending? Outside of Karlsson dream move there's not a whole lot out there for that. They do need to get a goaltender, UPL has been decent but Comrie has been bad and Anderson is done after this season. As for defense, they just got Riley Stillman who is likely an upgrade over Jacob Bryson but probably not enough to have a huge impact. If they got another RHD to replace Jokiharju that would be cool but otherwise idk what else they could do.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:13 |
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Totally fine!!! Nothing to see here baby! https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1631073048659935234 needing the dead Voracek contract to hit the floor and not getting maximum return on your best asset for cash reasons is completely reasonable Has Bedard ever been point blank asked if he would sign if drafted by the Coyotes? He seems like he has a little more personality/brains than McDavid.
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# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:17 |
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I think with the gauntlet the East is, Buffalo probably shouldn't be too aggressive and focus more on keeping their young core together and making smaller depth moves to see if they can sneak in to a WC spot. I don't know who else is available on the D/G front.
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Ginette Reno posted:https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1631332669354024960?s=20 Swap Rust and Granlund it's less of a disaster, but still a disaster. Top notch work all around.
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T-Bone posted:https://twitter.com/FlyersNation/status/1631147741014376449
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going from a proud tradition of to that, just completely unacceptable
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