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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Mike_V posted:

Chayka is cool as hell.

he's basically fixed everything wrong with the team in a year and we're 10MM away from the cap floor and just waiting on a breakout year from our ELC guys

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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i think the jersey looks fine but they should have added dark blue shoulderpads kind of how the oilers one currently looks like

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Jordan7hm posted:

Yep he's definitely fixed the goaltending. Johnson and Domingue, no problems there no sir.

Arizona is more likely to be a burning trash fire than a playoff team next year, and those ELC deals are burning years while this happens.

i'm not expecting playoffs this year and you're right that goalies are a step behind the forwards and d but chayka managed to trade away justin peters, not re-sign lindback, pick up madsen, and the rest of the goalies in the pipeline are 22 or younger and don't look like busts yet.

rebuilds rarely sync up perfectly and the coyotes have managed to slide as many contracts as they can to deal with strome not being mcdavid right out of the gate

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Gio posted:

q: when was the time holland traded a rental player?

vanek

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

http://auction.nhl.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?auctionId=1903357

what?

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i actually like the dark grey because black is overdone and i think white looks stupid but man there's way too much poo poo going on with the vegas sweaters. embossed gold armbands? perforated numbers?

it looks like the coyotes just got new numbers and armpit windows and a stupid collar thing you cant see because it's on the inside

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

maybe the chinese knockoffs will look better

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Duke Chin posted:

That loving black is still on the shoulders - it looks dumb / beer league as hell :argh:

Either go back to kinda simple, or go ALL the way back to OG maroon and greens.

i don't know how it works, but it looks normal to me after a season.

the worst part is they lose their thirds for this year

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

maybe he's got a nickel plated cup. i'm allergic to that poo poo too.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

ThinkTank posted:

This turn of events is considerably better than him retiring (and considering he's making $1M a year for the next four years there was essentially zero chance he intended to play them). If he'd just retired rather than succumb to his suddenly debilitating disease, the Hawks would've still been out that 20 goal scoring defensively responsible winger but also slapped with a $4.25M penalty. This way they can throw him on LTIR, spend that cap space on someone else, then watch him have a miraculous recovery around oh... I dunno... April 12, 2018?

I think if this happens then the nhl for real would look at eliminating the patrick kane loophole

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

If the hawks want a 20 goal scorer they should just trade hossa and a third for jamie mcginn

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Kilza posted:

https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/877605397749682177

Looks like it's set up so that Gretzky gets to present the Hart trophy to McDavid.

his team, meaning gretzky's team

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/CurtisPashelka/status/877984432728059905

has this been done before? sounds fun

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

well, uh, there's the end of 2 coyotes eras already. i think tippett has a massive buyout so this is going to be interesting

they held on for a while despite being real bad but his claim to fame was more like, coaching up derek morris and boyd gordon instead of figuring out how to get duclair to put the puck in the net 20+ times a season.

calling him old time is kind of wrong, he's said the right things all the way back to 2012: https://www.defendingbigd.com/2012/4/13/2941077/dave-tippett-defense-mark-fistric-matt-niskanen hitchcock or sutter without the roster is probably more accurate

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

beating the oilers a hundred times in a row with rob klinkhammer and kyle chipchura in a row was a funny accomplishment

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

the coyotes' being better than buffalo in 2014 is the caps' getting to the ecf

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

another thing was replacing gretzky and adding 30 points and going to the playoffs

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

bad luck

https://twitter.com/craigsmorgan/status/878099458235420672

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Schremp Howard posted:

Seriously who takes that job though? Nothing good can come of it. Unless you can leverage yourself a deal to still be coach by the time they move and can spend money you might as well stay away.

why is it bad? nobody's clamoring for a stanley cup right away, there's a boatload of young prospects, the front office has been patient in the past, and uhh the weather's great when the season is going on.

this just seems like another media hitpiece on why hockey in the desert doesn't work. the biggest complaint doan could come up with was he was let go "corporately", which gets spun into some kind of ice cold snub of the highest order, and tippett gets canned and people are claiming the coaching job is toxic and at the same time wondering what took so long

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Vargatron posted:

I think the key gripe somebody could have with the Doan situation was that he wasn't traded during the season, thus the Coyotes didn't get anything out of him. Granted there probably wasn't many takers on Doan, but hell a 7th for a pending UFA on a team that's missing the playoffs is something right?

Nobody was really pissed about it, people wanted him to go to a contender at that point, and then when nothing happened it made sense that nobody wanted him and chayka wasn't going to call and beg a team over it.

Maybe letting doan go now would be easier if he was a true UFA that the coyotes didn't have rights over, i dunno.

Also now that tippett is gone, not moving vrbata looks real bad

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

ThinkTank posted:

That's not much to pay for a pretty good defenceman in Hjalmarsson, but why is it Phoenix picking him up? I guess they figure they can get more for him at the deadline next year?

Murphy is signed for 5 more years at $3.85M. This isn't even a cap saving move for Chicago. What?

yeah, it's a little weird from both sides

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

Doesn't Murphy kinda suck?

right now he's a bottom 4 guy but he's looked better every year. his ceiling is like, marc staal or luke schenn though.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012


lunch time

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Pornographic Memory posted:

I know Saad is really good but what's the angle on trading Panarin for him? To me it seems like it's just swapping two really good wingers of comparable salary because...I dunno, sentimentality?

If chicago can do the saad trade over again with panarin instead they should do it

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/JSportsnet/status/878156434407653376

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

deangelo looked good but lmao at rangers hfboards asking for oel plus and getting yandle trade 2.0 except with a rfa guy

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

people were mentioning it but the deangelo suspension was kind of a 50-50 call.

compare https://twitter.com/FangFingersTN/status/866128578320228353 with https://twitter.com/ScoutingTheRefs/status/815638358965751809

it's not a good look but it's been not called before

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/dellowhockey/status/878324942038630400

no respect, lol

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

gudas and simmons vs sestito and reaves should be cool

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

biznasty doing radio for the yotes this year

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

what the gently caress is with this list https://www.thescore.com/news/1323358

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

THE MACHO MAN posted:

I love the advanced stuff, but the charts without context and explanation are kinda useless. I think this means Stepan wasn't good but I am not sure.


i looked it up so:

penalties drawn/taken
even strength offense/defense
faceoffs

interesting because people were bitching about stepan's faceoffs and the actual negative is he doesn't dive enough

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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i think the hjalmarsson trade was bad for the hawks. top pairing guy for a middle pairing guy on a long and not cheap deal and a center that's more likely to just be ahl fodder than a nhl player.

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