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NHL Off-season Thread 2019 |OT| You'd still be playing if you had Ryan Reaves
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Hah I didn't realize Cactus had tried to whatabout Leafs fans booing Subban. There are plenty of cities, besides Vancouver, that I'm quite sure have never booed Subban.
And Canadiens fans are terrible. Of course they boo Subban.
He has to evaluate their golf form first before he can tell you how good they'll be next April, makes perfect sense to me.
I'm hopeful that they're still somehow in on Gardiner, but I know it's not true. Where the fuck is this guy signing.
Obviously I wouldn't know whether every single fanbase boos him; I was just basing that generalized statement on the various reddit threads I referenced. Trust me, I'm not gonna defend the average Leaf fan, especially all the garbage that I had to listen to about Nylander over the last year. I'm fully aware that a lot of them are morons, and I don't doubt there's some unconscious racism there too.
Fair enough. And in kind, I cannot guarantee that if the Canucks somehow met the Devils in the playoffs (lol) that Canucks fans would not just instinctively start booing Subban.
The Gardiner situation is so weird. There were rumors that he was waiting for a D to be moved by the team he's planning to sign with (people have guessed the Sabres and Risto), but it's really late in the game to be waiting. I'll be a bit sad if he ends up signing for peanuts a day before camp, because I think he's earned a raise.
my bet
Cody Ceci's contract is, in fact, mostly signing bonuses
Leafs trade him back to Ottawa for Ryan Callahan at the end of training camp. I ran the numbers and there's a set up where the Leafs, at the end of camp, can put themselves in a situation with callahan on roster with $2,801 in cap... which is incredibly optimal. but they can't actually do this trade until players are assigned/waived as they don't have enough cap.
Immediately afterwards they could sign Gardiner and Marner and have them effectively take $16.35 million between them, if they so chose to. (I'd expect less due to need for extra players)
Then dermott, hyman are swapped out for other players with LTIR and a couple called up (like bracco, mikheyev) to fill in the final gaps
Mikheyev-Matthews-Nylander
Hyman-Tavares-Marner
Johnsson-Kerfoot-Kapanen
Moore-Spezza-Bracco
Agostino
Rielly-Muzzin
Gardiner-Barrie
Dermott/Sandin-Liljegren
That lineup is stupid good from top to bottom.
But can't wait for camp to come and go and my wild theory is put to bed and ceci actually is playing for us, gardiner is playing for the sabres and we're dressing all the bad players
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That is actually Bergevin's list lol
Love it when Soc brings the receipts
Interesting... the beat writer for the Avs said the Avs are circling him as well.
Should've followed it up by asking about Marner.
Red has me blocked so he never has to read them :D
BTW Pronman has the Habs at #6 for best prospect pools. He has Caufield, who he's always been high on, as 'elite'.
Rangers, Devils, Avs, Kings and Canucks still out there
Also: recency bias
Also: no elite prospects in Habs pool
I think he'll be really good, but his performance in college might clarify NHL expectations.
Just to make sure everyone reads this post, then carry on: https://www.resetera.com/threads/my...-she-is-mad-at-me.138014/page-8#post-24079142
lmao
lmao
Anyone else getting really worried that the season will start in about 30 days and yet there is a massive amount of RFAs that still need to sign? I honestly think Marner is going to pull a Nylander and I sadly think other players will follow right behind him. I could players like Rantanen and Point waiting for Marner to be signed.
AFAIK, Marner can't pull a Nylander. If he doesn't sigh by a certain point, which I believe is soonish, he will be forced to miss the season. I might be wrong, someone can correct me, I thought I read that about him a while ago.
Post #384 is the relevant post, just read the quoted one first
50ppp heathens
Possibly the best part: ex-gf scolds him for airing their dirty laundry. Then someone finds a post of hers complaining in great detail about him in another thread.
100ppp here yo. Links to posts have never worked for me. Maybe Smiley is a 50ppp'er? I need to find that post lol Looks like I missed it.
Indeed, it's a great hire and I'm looking forward to reading her work.
I'm in and I'm coming for your title, Cakey Boi.
'Pissed' Tortorella vents about FA departures, Werenski negotiations
Torts is pissed? Nice to see hockey really is starting up again soon.
Also that expression is exactly how I look when I read your post about something on Discord.
Torts is pissed? Nice to see hockey really is starting up again soon.
Also that expression is exactly how I look when I read your post about something on Discord.