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Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
I hope the Las Vegas TBAs enjoy Jay Bouwmeester, #1 defenseman.

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Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
I can see Vegas succeeding the same way the Thunder have in Oklahoma City. Only game in town.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Desert (K)Nights is the best one out of the given options.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Just do Las Vegas Nights. It's not any stupider than the Wild.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
I had a hard time believing that and then I looked at the Hawks roster and yep, everyone worth protecting already has a NMC except Panarin who will be their 8th protected skater. I hope Vegas doesn't take Kruger because that would be a gift to the Hawks cap management.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Did this poo poo happen yet?

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
The perfect time for absolutely no one to give a poo poo

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

whatis posted:

half of them will peddlers pushing those card advertisements to extremely gross nightclubs

Those are strip clubs and escorts actually

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Is it finally over? Did the Creator speak?

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
How terrible would a Quebec City team be in terms of on-ice product? I imagine they would be even more stupid about wanting on Francophones on-ice and on the bench, which would seem to severely limit their competitive ability.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

Jamwad Hilder posted:

I believe the two options they've discussed are loaning their AHL players to other AHL clubs that are nearby or an ECHL partnership. Eventually the AHL will expand. It doesn't cost half a billion dollars (only a paltry 5 million I wanna say) but they also need to find a market for them or build a stadium or something.

Edit: here's an article from a few months about it if you're interested: http://thehockeywriters.com/vegas-golden-knights-goal-to-name-ahl-affiliate-this-month/

Apparently my information is all wrong, they might be affiliated with the Chicago Wolves:

As far as I know, the Blues are staying with Chicago, at least for another year. The KC deal fell through as the Mavericks owner said he doesn't want to do the AHL or something. I'm not entirely clear, but I thought Vegas might be trying to get an AHL team in Salt Lake City (the Grizzlies?).

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Stephane Robidas is technically not retired?

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Wasn't he supposed to be like the big international FA this summer? Kind of funny that Vegas just swooped in and undercut all of that.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks

ThinkTank posted:

I'm pretty sure they're sharing with Vegas

I actually think it's exclusive with Vegas? I don't know at the moment.

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
The Blues protected Ryan Reaves for some loving reason ("We don't have a replacement for him").

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Do they realize you can just follow like Bob McKenzie or any number of other hockey writers to get the same information without having to watch that crap?

Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
lol with all these lovely loving trades, the Blues couldn't convince them to take loving Jori Lehtera??????

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Mike_V
Jul 31, 2004

3/18/2023: Day of the Dorks
Obviously they were not going to be good, but let's not pretend this team isn't significantly worse than what it could have been.

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