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Mid-Life Crisis posted:I don’t get why they were trying to make him first pairing other than some vain attempt to get Dahlin and Power both on the left side well whatever they're doing they need to get him the gently caress away from Dahlin because he is getting buried right now
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The Capitals waived Nic Aube-Kubel after signing him to a $1.225M contract extension last season. If he goes unclaimed they'll have a small dead cap hit. Kind of weird. I didn't expect a guy who just got re-signed to be waived but I'm not unhappy about it since it means some of the younger guys will get a shot. Carbery has seemed great so far but it's still just preseason so I'm not getting my hopes up too high given the roster is closer to a lottery team than a playoff team.
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Oct 7, 2023 01:51
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Mind_Taker posted:The Capitals waived Nic Aube-Kubel after signing him to a $1.225M contract extension last season. If he goes unclaimed they'll have a small dead cap hit. it looks like (according to capfriendly) the capitals are in some sort of cap hell so it might be more of a money move than a roster one
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:it looks like (according to capfriendly) the capitals are in some sort of cap hell so it might be more of a money move than a roster one Edmundson and Pacioretty will start on LTIR so I don't think that's it? With them on LTIR they should have plenty of space. Unless they have to be cap compliant before they can put those dudes on LTIR. Not exactly sure how it works.
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Mind_Taker posted:The Capitals waived Nic Aube-Kubel after signing him to a $1.225M contract extension last season. If he goes unclaimed they'll have a small dead cap hit. I'd imagine the idea that his salary is too high to be claimed. Its one of the reason end of roster guys get just over the amount that can be fully waived or 2x800k ish deals
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Oct 7, 2023 02:29
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Also regarding NHL24 chat: I haven't bought a game since 21, I usually space em out a few years. It's fun but basically the same game with a different soundtrack and more accurate rosters.
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Mid-Life Crisis posted:Clifton isn’t rusty. He’s awful. Just wow. Three goals against all on him. Every time the play goes near him they lose possession. He even checks guys into his own net and causes goals against his goalie had saved. It’s comical Yeah, like I was saying, he's not that good and he went from playing on the best defensive team in the league to the worst. If Buffalo is realistic and uses him on the bottom pairing or maaaaaybe the second, he shouldn't be a total anchor. But boy is he bad. He looks fun while he's doing it though. That guy loves to hit.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I do believe I am going to enjoy this powerplay Pens looked very fun tonight. So uh yeah lets go fun!
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Pens looked very fun tonight. So uh yeah lets go fun! A Rheostatics occurance in the Flames - Canucks game and we are all the better for hearing it
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Oct 7, 2023 03:24
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Love to watch my goalie that the team rushed into being their #1 guy give up seven goals
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Love to watch my goalie that the team rushed into being their #1 guy give up seven goals "I thought it was 3-1, it's 4-3? I should get my eyes checked."
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Who could have foreseen this Please save this for Laine tyvm.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I'm actually ok with more teams provided Bettman never dies thus holding his no more playoff teams mantra cause the play in would suck rear end I think a 1 game play in round system would be fine, although it would probably end up being best of 3.
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Duckman2008 posted:I think a 1 game play in round system would be fine, although it would probably end up being best of 3. I would imagine a playoff expansion would similar if not identical to the version we saw in the bubble.
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ThinkTank posted:I would imagine a playoff expansion would similar if not identical to the version we saw in the bubble. Agreed, and honestly I really liked the play in round bubble year. Granted, it was after months of no hockey. Obviously wouldn’t want it to be that many teams for the play in either. That bubble play in was a fun week though, 1 week of hockey from morning to night, and the quality varied wildly by how teams prepared.
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Duckman2008 posted:That bubble play in was a fun week though, 1 week of hockey from morning to night, and the quality varied wildly by how teams prepared. I agree it was fun but I wouldn't want it to be a regular thing. I'm not opposed to a play in because it works in baseball but I think it needs to be considered carefully. The bubble was terrible hockey it was just nice to have something to watch after months stuck inside doing nothing. Plus hockey at the height of summer was pretty great.
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https://twitter.com/NJDevils/status/1710453361550459364?t=DDHrOaDPp89Mbjl7FdMUPg&s=19 Dude played 22 minutes against the Isles opening day roster. He's still raw and I still expect NJ to go with Smith and Miller as the 6 and 7 D, but I really hope they give Nemec a shot on the bottom pair to open the season. He's earned it, he's outplayed both of those two, and the Devils can just send him down after a few games if he looks like he needs work. The only problem is that they are probably going to want to bring Hughes along on the third pair too and having two rookies there might be too risky in the eyes of the coaching staff but I say gently caress it, put the best players on the ice and let them develop chemistry together.
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Mind_Taker posted:The Capitals waived Nic Aube-Kubel after signing him to a $1.225M contract extension last season. If he goes unclaimed they'll have a small dead cap hit. Carbery was part of the Leafs staff that basically deemed him unplayable a month into the season last year, I imagine it’s hard for a guy in that situation to win over his new head coach. Writing was probably on the wall for NAK when Carbery was hired.
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ThinkTank posted:I agree it was fun but I wouldn't want it to be a regular thing. I'm not opposed to a play in because it works in baseball but I think it needs to be considered carefully. The bubble was terrible hockey it was just nice to have something to watch after months stuck inside doing nothing. Plus hockey at the height of summer was pretty great. I think you could easily replace the wild card with a 4 team play in though. Three games between 7-10 and 8-9 would be exciting enough to fill a week of hockey, and put something in the dead week between regular season and playoffs starting.
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ThinkTank posted:The regular season will never shrink in size. The owners would be happy to extend it considerably if they could. Revenue in hockey is heavily driven by gate receipts. You can charge more for the playoffs, but that's only true for half the number of teams. The ultimate goal is to expand the playoffs because it means more teams getting higher playoff gate receipts. None of this is wrong of course, but you might misunderstand what I was saying, which is: of course the owners are going to continue to try to cram in more and more games. Every game is more revenue for them. However, there must be a few months of offseason, and hockey does not allow for teams to play 5 games a week for months on end without dramatically expanding the rosters (which would eat up the extra revenue). So before long there simply will be no more room in the calendar for more games. At which point, the owners will turn their attention to making the existing games more lucrative. Which will mean fewer regular season games, more ~playoff~ games.
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https://twitter.com/tsn1200/status/1710676402230460463?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q Not sure what the point of the team lying about Norris’ health all pre-season was for, the Sens centre depth is trash now. Dorions job depends on not having another garbage start to the year lol, good luck bro
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Jhet posted:I think you could easily replace the wild card with a 4 team play in though. Three games between 7-10 and 8-9 would be exciting enough to fill a week of hockey, and put something in the dead week between regular season and playoffs starting. gently caress this!
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:gently caress this! No!
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All I want is them to get rid of stupid as hell divisional format. Return to straight up 1-8 with reseeding every round. 1-16 would be even better. Screw the conference matchup in the final. Let's get weird.
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Matt Zerella posted:All I want is them to get rid of stupid as hell divisional format. Completely agree with this.
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Couldn't disagree more. Four divisions and teams seeing plenty of each other in the early playoff rounds is cool and good. There's nothing in sports better than two teams seeing too much of each other and growing to really loathe one another.
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I like the divisional format but don't give a poo poo generally how they seed. Adding two more teams on either side stinks though. Seeing an 81 point team getting trounced by the #1 seed does not sound like a good time.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:gently caress this! I agree with you, but you know it’s what they’re going to look into.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Couldn't disagree more. Four divisions and teams seeing plenty of each other in the early playoff rounds is cool and good. There's nothing in sports better than two teams seeing too much of each other and growing to really loathe one another. It's boring and it stinks
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Trying to add play ins with the loser point as it stands would mean that last year the likes of Montreal would be “playoff contenders” which is just wrong and disgusting
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Eric the Mauve posted:Couldn't disagree more. Four divisions and teams seeing plenty of each other in the early playoff rounds is cool and good. There's nothing in sports better than two teams seeing too much of each other and growing to really loathe one another. Dumb, nobody needs to play a team in the playoffs a bunch to hate them. Like you really think rivalries will stop if the same teams don’t play eachother in the first two rounds 10 times in a row? So many other reasons to hate rival teams (mostly cause they are smelly)
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Columbus had 81 points two seasons ago in 10th. That team fuckin sucked!!!
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Oh yay for the 6th year in a row we get a matchup of NJ/NYR/CAR/PITT. So exciting!
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I dunno I'm pretty into the Oilers beating the Kings and Flames every year in the playoffs.
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The format doesn't matter. The only reason to care is if you're afraid your loser rear end team's record was a smokescreen and they need their hand held through the playoffs or they'll go on to lose to like... I don't know, some bigot team from Florida or something.
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Matt Zerella posted:Oh yay for the 6th year in a row we get a matchup of NJ/NYR/CAR/PITT. So exciting! No you see without this system the fans of these teams will start loving each other. Rangers and Devils fans splitting pastrami sandwiches. Caps fans cheering for Crosby because he has had a real solid career.
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