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Schlesische posted:Does anyone have a close family member connection to corroborate this rumour? Mateen Cleaves had a great time at the game, you guys.
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AsInHowe posted:Mateen Cleaves had a great time at the game, you guys. Which game, "Friend of the Family Feud?"
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I will not be surprised if Datsyuk leaves this poo poo team, he's probably tired of his 12th straight year of carrying around a loving boat anchor on his line. I can't wait to see what Holland does to combat this, probably another year of Brad Richards, and maybe Hudler comes back for 4y/24m. There will be 7M+ in new cap space!!
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Dandy Kaiser posted:I will not be surprised if Datsyuk leaves this poo poo team, he's probably tired of his 12th straight year of carrying around a loving boat anchor on his line. I can't wait to see what Holland does to combat this, probably another year of Brad Richards, and maybe Hudler comes back for 4y/24m. There will be 7M+ in new cap space!! Not necessarily. The Wings are stuck with the cap hit unless they trade his rights.
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AsInHowe posted:Not necessarily. The Wings are stuck with the cap hit unless they trade his rights. Which is probably a given they will do. Pavel Datsyuk... your newest Arizona Coyote!
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http://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2016/04/10/albom-wings-datsyuk-column/82835594/ posted:Then a strange thing happened. Datsyuk complained of continued soreness in his right ankle — the result of what he and the team thought was a puck-related injury near the end of the season. The Red Wings took quick action, and arranged for surgery in North Carolina with Dr. Robert Anderson on June 26. Datsyuk returned to America. Yikes.
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Ginette Reno posted:You're not missing anything. You've got it exactly right. First tie breaker is ROW, after that it's head to head. Rangers have the ROW and Isles can't possibly match that, so they have to get two points to pass the Rangers. It hugely depends on who the Penguins' goaltender for the series will be. The Cats are good but with Murray the Pens are way better. If it's Zatkoff though then the Pens are pretty weak because they're not going to keep scoring 4-5 goals a game in the playoffs and lovely goaltending always sends you home early. Although as you said, the team that gets the Panthers also gets to avoid the Caps in round 2, which ain't nothing. Which is a succinct summary of while the intradivisional-plus-wild-cards playoff system is hosed up and terrible. It's not just that the lower seed gets an easier first round matchup--the lower seed is guaranteed to avoid BOTH of the undisputed two best teams in the conference until the conference finals, and is guaranteed not to have to play both (whereas the higher seed is guaranteed that they DO have to play both in the first two rounds). By all logic the Islanders should want to lose tonight and should scratch everybody who might put them in danger of winning. In fact they should go so far as to instruct their backup goaltender to make sure they lose, i.e, let a puck or two in late in the game if they find themselves leading or tied. Or ideally he would understand that's the smart thing to do without needing to be instructed. I'm OK with the current setup for the first round but the second round really should be reseeded. If the Islanders lose they get to avoid the Penguins in the first round, fine, but there should at least be the tradeoff that they have to play the Caps in the second round. (edit: Actually reseeding wouldn't do that either. Even if the Cats beat the Rangers the Islanders would then get the Cats while the winner of Tampa-Detroit gets the Caps. So yeah, just burn this playoff system.) Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Go Dallas. Jumbo Joe is cool in my books. Ovie Crosby matchup will be cool. I guess the cats are cool, if a bit uninteresting to watch. Tampa sans stammer and hedman vs old poo poo Detroit should be an interesting matchup (like Vancouver Calgary last year: entirely moot as the Victor will surely get steam rolled in the following round). Uh, gently caress the Kings and and Minnesota and whatever garbage the Pacific is sending to the playoffs this year. Caps Stars final w 9 goals per game (maybe pens if they get a goalie from somewhere or if caps choke against rangers) Oh, and the top five teams on the year come from two divisions. The ocean divisions are very bad.
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mik posted:Yikes. That article is a pro read.
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Zero One posted:That article is a pro read. I'd be okay with the "Datsyuk gets a departure victory" narrative, but this year is all about American hero Philip Kessel. His name is going on that cup! 
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Per the Freep article, Datsyuk's agent was told the Wings are planning on eating the cap hit. That stings in an off season where a 26 year old 50 goal scoring C is available.
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I admit to feeling conflicted emotions at realizing this is the Last Ride of the Red Wings.
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Veskit posted:So do we want the Kings out the ducks to start I'm torn Either will be hard to beat
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Glambags posted:Murray stepping down as Sens gm? Congrats sens fans? Yessssssssssssssss loving finally. e: that said they really needed to go outside the org to find a new GM, so I'm not thrilled with just promoting Dorion. Still, something is better than nothing. Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Glambags posted:Murray stepping down as Sens gm? Congrats sens fans? the sens' problem lies more with Melnyk, imo
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Glambags posted:Murray stepping down as Sens gm? Congrats sens fans?
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SchrodingersCat posted:Per the Freep article, Datsyuk's agent was told the Wings are planning on eating the cap hit. That stings in an off season where a 26 year old 50 goal scoring C is available. It seems fairly obvious that they'll still dump a ton of money on Stamkos. Datsyuk's $7.5m hit will hurt but it's only for this upcoming year. It's poo poo like giving $4m contracts to Abdelkader, Ericsson, and Quincey -- along with the $5m they're spending on Franzen (RIP) and Weiss (RIP) -- that cripples the team. At least cap magic allows them to keep Franzen off the books. They can (and should) free $12m by not re-signing Richards, Helm, Miller, and Quincey, all of whom are easily replaced internally. DeKeyser, Mrazek, Marchenko, Sheahan, and Pulkkinen are RFAs but only the former two will get any kind of significant raise. So, they could fit Stamkos if he's cool with joining a half-assed rebuild icing an AHL defense. i am the bird fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Dandy Kaiser posted:can't wait to watch datsyuk's career end with an unceremoniously abrupt and embarrassing first round exit just like yzerman and lidstrom. he'll probably get hurt during his last series like yzerman did, too. Yzerman lost an eye, Lidstrom basically lost a testicle. Datsyuk tried to beat them by destroying both tendons but he's got more to do. Maybe a head shot will deflate part of his alien skull. 
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i hope the wings get swept so at least he can skate his last shift on home ice in front of a half filled lower bowli am the bird posted:not re-signing Richards, Helm, Miller, and Quincey lol wut Teemu Pokemon fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Dandy Kaiser posted:i hope the wings get swept so at least he can skate his last shift on home ice in front of a half filled lower bowl I'm goofin'. Of course we'll sign them and Hudler will replace Datsyuk. Zetterberg-Larkin-Abdelkader Tatar-Richards-Nyquist Helm-Sheahan-Hudler AA-Glendening-Miller Kronwall-Ericsson DeKeyser-Green Quincey-Marchenko 26 years and counting, boys!
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i am the bird posted:Kronwall-Ericsson you forgot to banish marchenko to the press box and continue to stuff ouellet and sproul in GR, don't worry, i fixed it for you
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Maybe something more traumatic can happen to Datsyuk, like finding out someone he is friends with is gay.
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Eric the Mauve posted:You'd rather play the Penguins than the Cats? I hosed that up.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I admit to feeling conflicted emotions at realizing this is the Last Ride of the Red Wings. It is, because the Pittsburgh Penguins will win the Cup. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jovial Cow posted:I hosed that up. Yeah. Repeating myself from the last page but the Islanders have every incentive in the world to lose today and it'll be kinda lol if they gently caress it up and win.
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Jovial Cow posted:Hey Flyers, it would be awfully nice of you if you could lose to the islanders for us today. Hopefully Hak is resting some starters today, so who knows!
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Gio posted:I dunno but it happened fast. His last full season was an ok one, certainly good enough to stick around in a league that employs Jonathan Ericsson, but did poo poo-all the next season from what I remember. He was a free agent after that and I guess no one thought he was worth whatever price tag he wanted??? That's my guess why he hosed off to Russia. That's why a lot of players do. He said some unkind things about Bettman during the lockout. Doubt that helped. mik posted:Yikes. Hm. This is okay. Everything's okay. Hockey is a cool sport. I like hockey. I don't think it irreparably destroys anybody's comfort of life. I'm gonna go vomit and cry for some other reason.
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