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At the 2021 deadline the Canucks were offered a first round pick for Tanner Pearson. Benning opted to resign him because the team had lost Toffoli and Tanev over the summer and he felt a lack of veteran leadership had been responsible for the team's struggles. At the time, Pettersson was opening to signing a max length extension for around $9.5m. The Canucks gave Pearson $3.25m which meant they couldn't afford to go to $9.5m for Pettersson bridging him at $7.8m instead. We could've had: 1st round pick, Pettersson on a sweetheart deal We got: jettisoned a 3rd round pick, Pettersson publicly refusing to negotiate an extension during his contract year, two years of Pearson being injured and a very awful botched surgery. Have I mentioned lately that Jim Benning was really, really awful at his job?
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Island Nation posted:What's the likelihood that players will have a second cell phone on hand with no personal data on it minus a SIM card? Anecdotal (and really not an answer to the actual question), I sold phones to a few NHL players around 2018 and 2019. Some of them do have a second cell and/or phone number because most of them are from Canada and live there in the offseason. US carriers offer service in Canada, but there are limits if like, you’re roaming there for 3-4 months out of the year. eSIM / dual SIM was just rolling out at the time, I would bet now a bunch of them just have a Canadian and US number on one phone. Almost every hockey player tends to want the same thing: buy latest iPhone outright, never trade in old phone, just pay $1000 for everything up front. The younger players also sometimes have to buy outright. I sold a phone to Robert Thomas when he was 18, dude was getting paid whatever 6 figure entry level deal, but since he didn’t have any credit, 0 financing approved had to pay everything outright.
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Mike Works posted:So how about that Hockey Canada report now. They're still working out the release scheduling so it doesn't conflict with Star Citizen.
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Now that training camps are starting to open I declare the offseason over!
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rip Hand Knit, nobody here to tell us to make new threads 
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Aye Doc posted:rip Hand Knit, nobody here to tell us to make new threads I must’ve missed it, he dead?
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Sep 20, 2023 13:50
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He quit because the Leafs suck too much.
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Wait, have we achieved a modless utopia?
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So we can do lovely puns with impunity? More like the Minnesota Mild
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Cocaine Bear posted:So we can do lovely puns with impunity? Midesota Mild
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He once gave me a three day probe for Chuck Norris jokes. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3943250&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=90#post511134931
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Cartoon Man posted:He once gave me a three day probe for Chuck Norris jokes. Ban-worthy imo https://twitter.com/ahbseaborn/status/1704162202423357916?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q Hopefully the league can make up this lost money through their NFT project
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Fine I'll do what you asked for *ahem* Someone make a pre-season thread.
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The Dirty Burger posted:Hopefully the league can make up this lost money through their NFT project Mike Cammalleri cashed out and the business immediately failed. Guy is a genius.
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neoaxd posted:Let's do it again. Let's really see how many picks we can squeeze out of ol' Jeffy P. If you want, we can throw in Ben Chiarot and you can see how much more you can get for him too.
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Boston named Marchand the captain. The little rat has climbed higher than I ever imagined he would.
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Go Devils. Preseason hockey this Saturday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbUn2nK3k4 Probably still the most rocking hit I ever saw watching a game live, and I saw Kariya die on ice
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https://twitter.com/NHLBruins/status/1704504729118609499 A fitting captain for a Jeremy Jacobs-owned team.
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Apparently they were giving out coupons at the pro shop to return to get a C or A added to the anniversary jerseys, since they started selling them before a captain was named.
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So what third-rate sports drink is the official beverage of the NHL this year?
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https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1704503548862398591 actually dead?
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Paul Byron officially retired. He was cool when he wasn’t broken. Although I think that’s the first time I’ve seen “Being claimed on waivers changed my life” in a retirement announcement.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1704503548862398591 Robidas Island baby
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1704503548862398591 Amazing how this always happens right when a team needs that exact amount of cap space.
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Stamkos’ extension negotiations sound like they’re going well https://twitter.com/kyle_burger/status/1704486173245092078?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q https://twitter.com/chris_krenn/status/1704513443556991390?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q
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He'll be 34 and had a ton of injuries over the years. A smart (but cold) franchise wouldn't entertain anything more than a two year deal for him. He could get more than that on the open market. I see the impasse.
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AntiDepressor posted:Paul Byron officially retired. He was cool when he wasn’t broken. Although I think that’s the first time I’ve seen “Being claimed on waivers changed my life” in a retirement announcement. I liked him. Needed a shorthanded goal? He was your man. It's okay to be a one-trick pony when your trick is really good. Also, this picture of, you guessed it, a shorthanded goal, against the Leafs in Game 1 fuckin' rules: 
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:https://twitter.com/Chris_Krenn/status/1704517551005299192 This reads like a commitment to retooling
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Ya its very much a "we love Steven Stamkos but not really enough to pay him, this team is kinda hosed and things need to change"
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Biosteel was weird. I always heard about it via NHL players, their off season camp etc, but actual product-wise I know almost nothing about it. Was this stuff in stores? I don't recall ever seeing it next to Gatorade or something. At least not where I live in Western Canada.
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Szechwan posted:Was this stuff in stores? I don't recall ever seeing it next to Gatorade or something. At least not where I live in Western Canada. Its business model for a long time was to only sell directly to pro sports franchises, not commerical retail. Presumably as a groundswell marketing thing to create demand. It eventually got sold to some cannabis company and I think they found out too late it wasn't even coming close to breaking even, so tried to ratchet up marketing and get it to shelves for consumers. I saw it in a Walmart once but it didn't last. It's too niche a product and NHL players just aren't cool enough to drive demand. It was basically an Ontario hockey bro exclusive product and could never gain a foothold beyond that.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Ya its very much a "we love Steven Stamkos but not really enough to pay him, this team is kinda hosed and things need to change" It's kind of bizarre. Like, yeah, he's getting older and probably doesn't have many more years in him. But he's arguably the face of their franchise, the best Lightning player ever, and he had 84 points in 81 games last year - it's not like he's dead weight. Yes they have cap trouble, yes he's probably not going to be paid $8.5 mil a year anymore, but I feel like he's the kind of franchise icon you pay to keep around.
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Szechwan posted:Biosteel was weird. I always heard about it via NHL players, their off season camp etc, but actual product-wise I know almost nothing about it. I have been able to buy Biosteel at Shoppers and Sobey's. Typically in the vitamin/health sections.
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ThinkTank posted:Mike Cammalleri cashed out and the business immediately failed. Guy is a genius. Michigan Man
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Szechwan posted:Biosteel was weird. I always heard about it via NHL players, their off season camp etc, but actual product-wise I know almost nothing about it. We could get it in hockey adjacent stores here in Seattle, but I never saw it in a convenience store or anywhere else. I wasn't looking for it either. The bottles were second rate for on the bench, but for being just another gatorade, it was fine.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:It's kind of bizarre. Like, yeah, he's getting older and probably doesn't have many more years in him. But he's arguably the face of their franchise, the best Lightning player ever, and he had 84 points in 81 games last year - it's not like he's dead weight. Yes they have cap trouble, yes he's probably not going to be paid $8.5 mil a year anymore, but I feel like he's the kind of franchise icon you pay to keep around. It also seems like a year or two early for the lightning to really consider a re-tool? Unless they consider Stamkos this year and Hedman next year as deadline trade chips.
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Twin Cinema posted:I have been able to buy Biosteel at Shoppers and Sobey's. Typically in the vitamin/health sections. It was expensive as hell. Could have competed in the running/cycling drink market but they focused on hockey bros instead
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