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Brodeur to the Pens makes my horny level go to a T-Rex arm stimulated 10 out of 10.
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Trevor Bird posted:God you're just horrible a good 90% of the time I can accept being horrible 30% less of the time than Poile is as an NHL/National team GM.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:40
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I would go to Leafs games just to boo the poo poo out of Brodeur. Just kidding, I can't afford to go to multiple Leafs games.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:46
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I am so so so mad today. And you all just laugh.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:54
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Just get ready for that Dave Bolland 5 year extension.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:57
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deafmute posted:Coyotes keep their streak alive by drafting Al MacInnis's son. Only a few years away from being able to assemble a team completely made up of star children. They could've had a lineup consisting of: Domi-Samuelsson-Nylander Murphy-MacInnis Burke and it would've been awesome.
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Jun 28, 2014 23:02
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Brodeurs Nanny posted:I think Dallas winds up getting Spezza for peanuts. According to Pierre Lebrun it turns out that Dallas is also on Spezza's no trade list with Nashville. So no go on that probably. It's been floating around that Dallas made a good offer for Thornton but he doesn't want to go waive his NTC either. Sounds more and more like they'll be looking for a short term good value UFA that can play 2nd or 3rd line - so Grabovski most likely.
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Jun 28, 2014 23:05
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Don Maloney doesn't expect any of the Coyotes UFAs(Vrbata, Moss, Greiss, Bissonette, Halpern) to return because they want too much money. I will miss Bissonnette but look forward to getting a backup goalie that doesn't poo poo his pants when leaned on and someone more consistent than Vrbata.Rutkowski posted:I'm still mad they missed out on Nylander. 
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Jun 28, 2014 23:12
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Vrbata seems like the kind of guy who definitely deserves his  , how much is "too much" there?
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Jun 28, 2014 23:17
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Ginette Reno posted:Hornqvist put up 53 points in Nashville, and scores 20+ goals every year, so I'm pretty sure the difference between what he'll do and what Neal would have done will be minimal given the boost Hornqvist is likely to get playing on the Pens powerplay and with Crosby or Malkin. Hornqvist is also good in front of the net, something the Pens have lacked outside of Chris Kunitz. Neal is very much a perimeter player, albeit a damned good one. I always assumed Neal would be in high demand for offense-needy teams, especially if the GM just looked at goals and salary. Hornqvist could do good, but still seems like there was more to be had by talking to other teams. First substantial post-Shero move has me feeling a bit uneasy!
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Jun 28, 2014 23:19
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VJeff posted:Vrbata seems like the kind of guy who definitely deserves his I'll miss him but he has been declining hard and fast and isn't worth what he is probably expecting.
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Jun 28, 2014 23:20
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VJeff posted:Vrbata seems like the kind of guy who definitely deserves his  Rutkowski posted:If you want a playoff disappearing act who is also invisible during about a third of the regular season, nothing is too much!
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Been at work since 4AM. Did anything funny happen?
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Shyfted One posted:Been at work since 4AM. Did anything funny happen? Somebody woke up Dave Nonis. Non-Leafs fans have been entertained.
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Shyfted One posted:Been at work since 4AM. Did anything funny happen? The funny is on hold until Tuesday.
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Anaheim has 20 million in cap space and like Perreault, DSP, Silf and Vatanen to sign. Time to sign some lovely defenseman to bad contracts who will be outplayed by Lindholm and Sami, it's the Murray way E: Please trade for Spezza, Bob. Kes-Spezza-Silf
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CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS INCOMING I suspect the Kesler trade was the best case scenario for Vancouver, or at least close to it. The guy didn't have a ton of trade value to begin with....big decline in production after some major injuries, pushing 30, 2 years left under contract. If he'd been out on the open market he could have brought more, but the market was so limited that his trade value was pretty limited. I would guess, best case scenario he'll be about a 50 pt player for the Ducks for 2 years (plus his excellent defense of course) and then he'll gradually turn into a Guy Carbonneau type of defensive specialist as he goes into his 30s, probably for a different team. Bonino seems to be a bit of a late bloomer and has some upside; not really sure why people are so down on him. He's not nearly as good as Kesler but when your options are so limited, getting a pretty solid 2/3 center with a bit of upside is a reasonable haul. I'm not really sure what else the Canucks could have done in that spot. The Neal trade seems decent from the Pens perspective to me. If they'd decided that Neal had to go, bringing in a guy like Hornqvist is a good change to make. I think the Malkin/Neal "chemistry" is pretty overrated; Malkin will produce with whoever he lines up with, and Neal will suffer big time not having a guy like that playing as his center. I'll do an avatar bet that Hornqvist puts up more goals and points than Neal does next season. I do not understand why the Leafs wanted Roman Polak but this Gunnarsson fellow seems like a very solid bottom pairing guy. Since we needed a 16 min LHD, pretty good pickup. Polak probably has the best combination of size, strength and speed in the entire of the NHL but he's still pretty bad despite this. I dunno.
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So for the last few years I've had the opinion that Polak was an amazing stay at home guy who's been hosed by being paired with Jackman all this time. Is he actually legit bad?
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Goatman Sacks posted:So for the last few years I've had the opinion that Polak was an amazing stay at home guy who's been hosed by being paired with Jackman all this time. Is he actually legit bad? Honestly, I've become more and more wary of the "stay at home guy". If you can't handle the puck, why are you on the ice?
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Jun 29, 2014 00:52
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Austrian mook posted:Honestly, I've become more and more wary of the "stay at home guy". If you can't handle the puck, why are you on the ice? Was it about when someone linked the article saying exactly that?
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Austrian mook posted:Honestly, I've become more and more wary of the "stay at home guy". If you can't handle the puck, why are you on the ice? It beats watching lost forwards like Letang give up game-losing 2-on-1s on a nightly basis.
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Jun 29, 2014 00:59
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there are defensemen who don't contribute any offense who are still good (stralman and hamonic come to mind on teams i like) but i wouldn't necessarily call them stay at home. polak's possession numbers aren't good and i don't think it's because of who he plays with.
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Jun 29, 2014 01:05
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Polak is a fine bottom pairing d to play sheltered minutes, but he's been getting worse and worse. There's really no way to defend the trade Toronto made, despite what Blues fans on HFBoards will tell you.
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Mike_V posted:Polak is a fine bottom pairing d to play sheltered minutes, but he's been getting worse and worse. There's really no way to defend the trade Toronto made, despite what Blues fans on HFBoards will tell you. They say that Polak is big and strong and a good skater. Well okay then why do his possession stats suck so bad? I also can't remember him doing anything useful in the playoffs.
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eXXon posted:They say that Polak is big and strong and a good skater. Fighting is good and useful. He's a bad man you know.
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I think Polak is one of the best examples of why fighting is really more about technique than brute strength. He is probably one of, if not the, strongest guys in the NHL, but he can't really fight for the most part.
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Captain Geech posted:The Canucks DID fire Gillis and Torts, right? I didn't imagine that? Because I'm looking at what the Canucks have done over the last 24 hours and I'm feeling like I imagined that. dude, gillis hasnt done in a year what benning managed to gently caress up in a weekend bewbies posted:getting a pretty solid 2/3 center with a bit of upside is a reasonable haul. I'm not really sure what else the Canucks could have done in that spot. they needed to play hardball with kesler from the start, or just trade him for raw futures. bonino and sbisa are almost non-assets for the canucks right now if they turned bonino into picks or whatever right after id be 'onboard' with the trade. its keeping an, at best, middle-six forward on the roster when he has value thats gonna gently caress us now and later edit: ive also softened my stance on the vey trade. the potential value of a benning draft pick is somewhere around 10% of the norm so that pick would have guaranteed been spent on nothing. vey is at least a replacement level player, which is one roster spot benning can't fill with overpriced gritty garbage Verviticus fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Jun 29, 2014 |
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What is Mike Gillis doing right now?
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depends. hes either laughing his rear end off at aquilini's hires or cutting himself at how badly they're massacring the remainder of the teama false posted:there are defensemen who don't contribute any offense who are still good (stralman and hamonic come to mind on teams i like) but i wouldn't necessarily call them stay at home. polak's possession numbers aren't good and i don't think it's because of who he plays with. well... they dont get points. that doesnt mean they dont contribute to offence. stralman is a great example, i think
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The Vey trade was the only thing from the last two days the Canucks didn't completely gently caress up imo.tofes posted:What is Mike Gillis doing right now? Probably sitting on a beach somewhere not giving a poo poo. I never got the sense he was a career GM, he had some ideas he wanted to try out from his time as an agent and Aquilini decided to give him a shot. Sounded like by the end he was really fed up with all the politics and I doubt he'll be back in the league any time soon.
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Caps drafted Nathan Walker, first Australian to be drafted to NHL. There is still hope for me yet. 
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When I think of Roman Polak, I think of him getting pranked during a game by Marty Turco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXsN8-jCWk
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Hand Knit posted:What if I want the team to crater so hard that MLSE has no choice but to flush the system from Leiweke on through to Carlyle, and pick up Connor McDavid in the process? Buffalo has that poo poo on lockdown unfortunately for everyone else
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I never understood why that wasn't a bench minor. Like he could've gotten hurt from that (lesser poo poo has caused injury).
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When I think of Roman Polak, I think about how he's neither Roman nor a Polak.
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So this McDavid kid... what are we talking here? Crosby? Stamkos? Kane?
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Mr. Kite posted:So this McDavid kid... what are we talking here? Crosby? Stamkos? Kane? Afinogenov.
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Wilford Cutlery posted:When I think of Roman Polak, I think of him getting pranked during a game by Marty Turco: Ive had the gif of this for a while now I think.  Man I miss Turco.
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Mr. Kite posted:So this McDavid kid... what are we talking here? Crosby? Stamkos? Kane? Not Sid/OV good but probably just below that
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