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NHL Off-season Thread 2019 |OT| You'd still be playing if you had Ryan Reaves
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Please Let Christmas come early!
Ex-Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli said to be in running for Minnesota Wild job
Ex-Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli said to be in running for Minnesota Wild job
Chiarelli has already worked under Melnyk and I don't think he'd want to do so again.
IMO he was always a defensive liability and teams put up with it for his puck movement and PP. Honestly I never understood the attention that he got.
A shame. 2 years ago I thought Shatty would bring the Rangers to new heights. Instead, everything fell apart at the seams and he among others paid the price for it. Hopefully this rebuild with Fox, Trouba, Panarin, and Kakko will fix these last few years of misery.
Dayal wrote a solid and somewhat depressing what-if piece about a 2013 Canucks rebuild.
Don't think I knew that Gillis tried to rebuild in 2013 and was turned down. Fuck Aquilini.
Also, this is nuts:
Don't think I knew that Gillis tried to rebuild in 2013 and was turned down. Fuck Aquilini.
Also, this is nuts:
Girardi's and Shattenkirk's buyouts take up quite a bit of cap.
Feels like Alzner will be bought out too eventually, or heads to Robidas Island.
"continuing to pay for stars and accomplish nothing"
You mean what Bergevin did with the Aho offer sheet?
In the last few months the Rangers have added:
- Trouba
- Kakko
- Panarin
- Fox
In the same time the Habs have added:
- Cousins
- Chiarot
- Weise
- Caufield
One of these is worth poking fun at. The other is worth admiring.
I could see the Habs making the playoffs and don't necessarily malign sitting pat in the offseason given possible alternatives
Shattenkirk had signed on a hometown discount, too. It is amazing how cursed this team is with free agent signings, though. Even the relatively decent looking ones tend to turn sour. It's the one major thing putting a damper on the whole Panarin thing for me, really. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
2019-20 and 2020-21 are looking like they might still be a bit painful especially with nearly $7.5m in dead cap space in 20-21 (and Lindy Ruff still inexplicably running the defense again next season), but the chips are going all in on 2021-22 and beyond right now. That's the team of Shesterkin, Kakko, Panarin, Kravtsov, Trouba, Miller, Fox, Hajek, Lundkvist, etc. with no more Marc Staal, the worst of the Girardi and Shattenkirk buyout hits behind us, and *whispers* no more Henrik Lundqvist...
2019-20 and 2020-21 are looking like they might still be a bit painful especially with nearly $7.5m in dead cap space in 20-21 (and Lindy Ruff still inexplicably running the defense again next season), but the chips are going all in on 2021-22 and beyond right now. That's the team of Shesterkin, Kakko, Panarin, Kravtsov, Trouba, Miller, Fox, Hajek, Lundkvist, etc. with no more Marc Staal, the worst of the Girardi and Shattenkirk buyout hits behind us, and *whispers* no more Henrik Lundqvist...
I'm hoping he'll be ready by next season just to blow Sam Rosen's mind.
I hope Poehling becomes a solid player for the Habs, but this might be the cringiest list ever, and he appears to be a right wing doofus:
Fuck chick fil a. Theyve never gotten a cent from me and they never will.
I was focused on the Tony Robbins book thing, but just...everything about that profile. Man...
NHL fans, today is your annually scheduled reminder that NBC doesn't care about anything west of Pittsburgh. (big NBC, not NBCSN)
I'm always conflicted b/c Doc is pretty much the only asset they have that I enjoy listening to. That being said, you'd like to see your team get exposure. Call me a homer but I'm somewhat surprised they decided the Cup Champs don't need to be on NBC once.
I'm always conflicted b/c Doc is pretty much the only asset they have that I enjoy listening to. That being said, you'd like to see your team get exposure. Call me a homer but I'm somewhat surprised they decided the Cup Champs don't need to be on NBC once.
- It continues to bug me that NBC doesn't give the champs and runners-up at least one game on the big network. For smaller market teams (St. Louis, San Jose, Nashville, etc.), that's a great way to build on the rare national exposure they got the prior year.
- Doc & Kenny are good as play-by-play guys. Please fire everyone else except for maybe Liam McHugh (he's not bad, but he doesn't really stand out beyond being Milbury's punching bag)
- Fire Milbury. Preferably into the sun.
- Fire whoever picks the national NBC games. How is the NHL NBC's premier partner if friggin IndyCar gets a better broadcast package?
Just switch teams to a Canadian one and get the overexposure you want. :)
jk, they're all trash.
I like having Pierre McGuire around just because he's kind of an odd dude. He gets too much hate, but then again I tell him to shut the fuck up periodically when watching NBC coverage. Milbury on the other hand deserves any and all criticism thrown at him, dude is an asshole.
The Devils have 5 nationally televised games this season it looks like. That includes one Cross River Rivalry game. They had to get that one in. I don't know when they are going to learn to stop nationally televising this team. At least they're sticking with NBCSN this time.
4, actually.
- Devils @ Philly (2017 #1 OA vs. 2017 #2 OA + Philly game)
- Devils v. Rangers (2019 #1 OA vs. 2019 #2 OA + NYC game)
- Devils @ NYI (meh; most I can think, even as a Devils fan, is that maybe both will be in the running for a playoff spot?)
- Devils v. Nashville (Subban)
I think this is the most regular-season games the team has gotten in a decade or so -- usually, we get one, usually over the holidays, and we're lucky if NBCSN manages to keep the feed running the entire game.
Looks like I double counted one thankfully. I doubt they'll keep the feed running once they find out the mistake they made of televising really boring hockey again. MSG even struggles to keep the feed running most nights. I do agree with the Islanders game. I'm not sure what that one is about.
