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Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Once you reach a certain Rangers saturation point your Cup chances hit zero.

You'll probably make the ECF but you won't win.

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Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
It's gonna be hilarious when the ECF is like Bruins-Devils

Wamsutta
Sep 9, 2001

Eric the Mauve posted:

It's gonna be hilarious when the ECF is like Bruins-Devils

That's the hockey equivalent of being in a public restroom one stall away from a morbidly obese man with mudbutt

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe
Boston is pretty damned good, it would not surprise me at all to see them beat Tampa.

Wonderllama
Mar 15, 2003

anyone wanna andreyfuck?
Tampa is stacked on LD. what a world. How did we not trade koekkoek?

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
Also don't forget the Hurricanes, they aren't dead yet! They only make the playoffs about once per presidential administration but when they do they go to the ECF. :getin:

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



https://twitter.com/ryanbiech/status/968220234657054720

Jordan7hm
Feb 17, 2011




Lipstick Apathy
Pierre Dorion's press conference:

what are you talking about, everything is great, I don't see any problems with anything. Erik married a girl from Ottawa obviously he'll stay here

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007


https://twitter.com/Sportsnet650/status/968224375538249728

Shout out to the 2% of people huffing paint and scrolling through twitter

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

ThinkTank posted:

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet650/status/968224375538249728

Shout out to the 2% of people huffing paint and scrolling through twitter

How could you grade them an A?

They didn't even acquire Luca Sbisa

The Dirty Burger
Aug 24, 2007

1st team all star
+
2nd degree manslaughter
=
3rd world clothing line

Jordan7hm posted:

Pierre Dorion's press conference:

what are you talking about, everything is great, I don't see any problems with anything. Erik married a girl from Ottawa obviously he'll stay here

https://twitter.com/tsn1200/status/968231002865795073

Erik Karlsson will be a Senator For Life. If he’s still here on July 1st

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

Hey, whoever outlined Detroit's remaining lovely contracts a few pages back, that was amazing. I was just browsing cap friendly and I totally loving forgot the Wings are paying Stephen loving Weiss' buyout for 4 more years :laffo:

e: loving fire Holland:
https://capfriendly.com/teams/redwings

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
https://twitter.com/JSportsnet/status/968232431328272384

that's far more than he did for Brian Leetch...

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007

Remember when people said that the reason Benning didn't trade Vrbata and Hamhuis is so they wouldn't be forced to make lovely trades at the deadline in the future? :lol:

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES

i think the rangers have 7 now after the mcdonagh deal, for what it's worth

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Hey, whoever outlined Detroit's remaining lovely contracts a few pages back, that was amazing. I was just browsing cap friendly and I totally loving forgot the Wings are paying Stephen loving Weiss' buyout for 4 more years :laffo:

e: loving fire Holland:
https://capfriendly.com/teams/redwings

There are so many bad contracts, at least Weiss' buyout is only $1.66 million for the next three years.

The Dirty Burger
Aug 24, 2007

1st team all star
+
2nd degree manslaughter
=
3rd world clothing line
https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/968234962200571904

Not bad, could regret the last couple years

Eric the Mauve
May 8, 2012

Making you happy for a buck since 199X
Hornqvist extended 5 years at $5.3M per year. Like every Penguins fans I love Hornqvist but woof, that's a heinous overpay that they're going to regret for years. Dude's 31, already pretty slow and increasingly fragile.

But whatever, they won two loving Cups :toot: That's a big reason why it's so hard to stay on top, the pressure to be loyal to the guys that won for you in the past by devoting too much cap space to them in the future is really intense.

Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 26, 2018

Jordan7hm
Feb 17, 2011




Lipstick Apathy
Seems like one you're going to bank on LTIR to get you out of.

Or retirement.

corn on the cop
Oct 12, 2012

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

― Corey Dostoyevsky
everyone, let's take a backseat and admire that jim benning trade. that deal is incredible.

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe
I love me some Hornqvist. Our powerplay always sucks when he gets hurt so he's a necessity imo.

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007

corn on the cop posted:

everyone, let's take a backseat and admire that jim benning trade. that deal is incredible.

He claimed not a single pick was offered for Vanek. Erik Fehr was moved for a pick.

corn on the cop
Oct 12, 2012

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

― Corey Dostoyevsky

ThinkTank posted:

He claimed not a single pick was offered for Vanek. Erik Fehr was moved for a pick.

it's the worst deal of the day and im not really sure it's close

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

The Dirty Burger posted:

https://twitter.com/tsn1200/status/968231002865795073

Erik Karlsson will be a Senator For Life. If he’s still here on July 1st

that would imply that melnyk wants to pay him

Ginette Reno
Nov 18, 2006

How Doers get more done
Fun Shoe

Levitate posted:

https://twitter.com/JSportsnet/status/968232431328272384

that's far more than he did for Brian Leetch...

Hey kid you're outta here. Goin' to Tampa with all the sun tanned blondes with big honkers. Now go get me some cigars from the back before ya go.

i am the bird
Mar 2, 2005

I SUPPORT ALL THE PREDATORS
Holland collected a bunch of picks the last two years, which makes it imperative that Holland is not the GM at the draft.

Beat writers saying Green’s injury scared teams away but that seems like bullshit. He was only willing to waive his NTC for Tampa (who got McDonagh) and Washington (who apparently didn’t have the cap space). Not much Holland can do there (except NOT GIVE OUT A NTC TO EVERY GODDAMN PLAYER). Still looking for confirmation that he tried to trade Nyquist to Winnipeg, though. Detroit could probably unload him at the draft.

Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)
March 8th Rangers vs Rangers South

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
That's not a huge raise for Horny and they have both a lockout and expansion draft coming up to unload that deal if it goes south so OK

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


Oh good god! Stop signing aged grindy wingers to giant contracts. His body is going to be splinters of bone in 3 seasons

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007

corn on the cop posted:

it's the worst deal of the day and im not really sure it's close

Tommy Wingels returned a pick

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES
callahan and mcdonagh going to win a cup this year :unsmith:

Rotten Cookies
Nov 11, 2008

gosh! i like both the islanders and the rangers!!! :^)

https://twitter.com/FitzGSN_/status/968234966244044800

I guess in whole that doesn't seem bad? I don't know if Hajek or Howden are good, though.

Whatever, gently caress it, let's see how it plays out

Jamwad Hilder
Apr 18, 2007

surfin usa
Who the gently caress is wingels

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

he's probably the most important forward after the big three so i'm ok with this, it's gonna suck in a couple years because his specialty is getting crosschecked and beat up a lot but it seems pretty clear the penguins are going as all in as they possibly can for this year and next and then they'll worry about the fallout later

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007

Jamwad Hilder posted:

Who the gently caress is wingels

A more valuable player than Thomas Vanek.

The St. Louis Blues made a bigger rebuilding move today than Jim Benning has made in his entire tenure as Canucks GM.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

jakes did this?
If you take out Namestnikov/Miller that McDonagh return reminds me of the Kovalchuk deal.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Jamwad Hilder posted:

Who the gently caress is wingels

this is literally the only thing i can remember tommy wingels for and i think its because i thought his name sounded funny as much as anything

Glambags
Dec 28, 2003

a false posted:

callahan and mcdonagh going to win a cup this year :unsmith:

And dan girardi lol

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES
i really like hajek and howden the more i read about them. howden is on a stacked whl team but putting up way over a ppg and was excellent in world jrs. hajek was also great in world jrs (and a teammate of chytil's). i have dreams of drafting zadina and kaut (at least kaut, who should be easily available with one of our later 1sts or a 2nd). lindgren i don't really feel any type of way about but i like rykov. having 3 1sts loving owns.

as far as the pieces we got rid of, we all knew nash was well past his prime, grabner was great for us but easily expendable, mcdonagh i don't think has that much juice left as a top defenseman because of all the injuries he's played through (though with all the cushion he has in tampa he should do great). miller stings a bit but i don't really see him becoming much better than he already is. and we got a 3rd round pick for nick holden who loving sucks.

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Matt Zerella
Oct 7, 2002

Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Glambags posted:

And dan girardi lol

Everyone always forgets Stralman.

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