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NHL Offseason Thread 2018 |OT| Vegas sins, lottery wins and BargainBins
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There's no way they can allow that kind of a distraction, for a team that'll most likely suck, into the regular season.
I don't see how they could get him. Who would take Backes at his contract?
Bergevin is probably super shook right now. Not that he probably would have done the better thing and leveraged the cap space in taking on bad contracts for assets, but woof at siting on $8 million for an entire season to Hail Mary at Tavares and not even get handed the ball
Also congrats Fubar!
Also congrats Fubar!
It never made any sense for the Habs to structure any Pacioretty deal around an extension because:
1) Pacioretty's coming off a low shooting percentage season.
2) Shooting percentages regress.
3) Scorers still basically get paid by shooting percentage because NHL management sucks (looking at T.J. Oshie).
Unless the contracts on offer were clear overpays (and they probably weren't with the low percentages) any agent with half-a-brain would tell him to play out the season, hope that regression comes, and have his pick of the teams interested in him next season.
1) Pacioretty's coming off a low shooting percentage season.
2) Shooting percentages regress.
3) Scorers still basically get paid by shooting percentage because NHL management sucks (looking at T.J. Oshie).
Unless the contracts on offer were clear overpays (and they probably weren't with the low percentages) any agent with half-a-brain would tell him to play out the season, hope that regression comes, and have his pick of the teams interested in him next season.
Lavoie says Tavares was approached by the Habs and turned them down. I think it's down to the Sharks and Islanders.
Interesting! That I guess explains why we had those seemingly confirmed reports that the Canes were close to have 3 1st round picks.
Interesting! That I guess explains why we had those seemingly confirmed reports that the Canes were close to have 3 1st round picks.
man, I hope he doesn't end up being decent, don't feel like watching that skate around 6 times a year.
Congrats Fubar, you have been more successful during your tenure than Babcock has been with the Leafs.
Thanks guys - and Dubbed, I did have a few coaches say they liked the tenacity the defense played with and will be trying to get their kids to do the same next season. #grit
I would really, really love if the Wild signed Duclair and Tobias Rieder as UFAs to fill out the bottom six and allow Greenway, Kunin, and other prospects to develop in the AHL. And who knows, either Duclair or Rieder could bust out past their current 20-30 point seasons any time. It would give the team a fair amount of speed on the 3rd or 4th line and not require them to pay for aging 4th liners that contribute little.
Duchene?
No joke, that would have been me had Benning passed on Hughes
your friendly reminder that Phil Kessel is a two time Stanley Cup champ :)
Some notes from the last ~24 hours
- Canucks are looking at Rielly, Bozak and Beagle. They never reached out to Tavares given rebuild phase
- Canucks wanting to add "grit and toughness" with UFAs
- Madden over Wise given "grit, determination and skill" (will be interesting to watch those two)
- Canucks are not targetting Vanek (I wouldn't have minded him getting paid for 2 seasons)
- Woo thinks he's 1 or 2 years away (nah)
- Hughes will join the dev camp this weekend (and, I guess, will play in the top prospects game)
- Benning: 'Hughes draft pick takes pressure off Juolevi having to be a powerplay player' (not a good look)
- Discussions over the next week re Canucks/Hughes camp on turning pro - whatever's best for his development
- Benning would have taken Zadina if Detroit took Hughes
- Canucks will "make room" for Petterson, Hughes and Juolevi if they can prove they're ready
- No QO for Cassels. Shame how much his development stalled once he reached the pros
- Canucks are looking at Rielly, Bozak and Beagle. They never reached out to Tavares given rebuild phase
- Canucks wanting to add "grit and toughness" with UFAs
- Madden over Wise given "grit, determination and skill" (will be interesting to watch those two)
- Canucks are not targetting Vanek (I wouldn't have minded him getting paid for 2 seasons)
- Woo thinks he's 1 or 2 years away (nah)
- Hughes will join the dev camp this weekend (and, I guess, will play in the top prospects game)
- Benning: 'Hughes draft pick takes pressure off Juolevi having to be a powerplay player' (not a good look)
- Discussions over the next week re Canucks/Hughes camp on turning pro - whatever's best for his development
- Benning would have taken Zadina if Detroit took Hughes
- Canucks will "make room" for Petterson, Hughes and Juolevi if they can prove they're ready
- No QO for Cassels. Shame how much his development stalled once he reached the pros
Lots of Cap fans? I don't think anyone else really cares. It's almost expected.
not surprising, wouldn't be surprised if islanders pick him up.
The New York Rangers in 2018 are a strange new beast.
Meanwhile, K'Andre Miller is definitely going to Wisconsin, and Nils Lundkvist is going back to Sweden. Kravtsov, however, may end up buying out the last year of his KHL contract to make the jump to North America.
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I love how the Habs preach character and attitude, ship out PK (for being self promoting and black) and AGally (rumored rehab stint and girlfriend/police incident) and then target Domi (bigot), ROR (DUI), and Voynov (wife beater).
Such rispek
Such character
Such attitude
Such intangibles
Such rispek
Such character
Such attitude
Such intangibles
Leafs will never win a cup with Babcock as coach. First Leafs poster to reply to this that thinks otherwise - I will buy a Jersey (not the authentic but instead the Replica or whatever Adidas calls it) of their choice if the Leafs win a cup with Mike Babcock as their head coach for the duration of the season and Stanley Cup Finals.
More successful than the Wild will ever be, that's for sure.
As far as I am aware KHL players can no longer do this, which is a large part of the reasoning behind Kaprizov still not being in the NHL. He has his contract set for a few more years and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The only good thing that could come from a Voynov signing is I would finally have a use for my Habs Komisarek jersey sitting in the back of my closet.
How does one safely burn a hockey jersey?
How does one safely burn a hockey jersey?
In an empty metal barrel and with gasoline and a box of matches, in a gravel parking lot far away from any other structures.
Alternatively, you could also do it on a sidewalk on of the arena in the middle of the night. Drive by with it already soaked in gasoline, toss it on the sidewalk, drop match, drive away. That would leave quite the statement.
Voynov doesn't even make sense from a hockey perspective.
Weber and Petry are clearly better right defencemen and Juulsen looked ready to be the regular 3rd-pair guy.
Weber and Petry are clearly better right defencemen and Juulsen looked ready to be the regular 3rd-pair guy.
The reporting on this has been pretty consistent since the draft, though it's unclear whether it's an out clause that is part of his contract or not. It seems like both Kravtsov himself and the Rangers believe that the option exists for him to be in the States this year. Whether that's actually the case or not, we'll have to see. Even if it is the case, they may want him to remain in Russia playing at a high level against men rather than going to Hartford. Either way it doesn't sound like the plan is for him to be starting on the main roster, at least for now. Then again, Chytil wasn't expected to play last year either.
In general, though, everything Gorts has been saying seems to indicate that we're going to suck this year (by design).
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