I don’t really believe Severson = Weegar. Weegar is a better player easily, also Severson is UFA this year so would be gone when we trade Meier.
Tkachuk is a better player than Meier with a far less onerous contract situation. Also NJ's 2023 1st is the most valuable asset in that package, significantly more valuable than Florida's 2025 1st.
I honestly expect him to get money in the Kevin Fiala range and certainly no more than the 9 million Kaprizov is earning.
Honestly I think Meir could land both Kakko and Lafreniere from the rangers obviously a draft pick would probably need to be involved and one of Griers many 3rd and 4th liners signed could go the other way
Yeah...that's never going to happen even with whatever draft pick you're adding to try to balance it out. That's worse than when posters thought the Sharks could trade Clowe for Couturier.
Tkachuk is way better than Meier too. In this scenario, the step down to severson is sensible. The rest of the package, nah.
Rangers are in win now mode, Mier has game breaking ability neither Kakko or Lafreniere have that. You’re trading an established upper tier player for 2 players with “potential” that’s it, it’s very possible
In my entire time watching hockey, I don't think anything has been as validating as seeing the entire league turn on the Knights in a couple short years.
Petulant entitled child gets his comeuppance. All his protection is gone and what’s left is just a turd.
It was kinda nice seeing the internet discourse realize that we were justified to complain about them from the start.
well everyone still hates the Sharks, they just hate VGK also... have yet to see anyone acknowledge the fact that we were right to call them assholes this entire time
What Pacioretty said isn't going to change anything. The bulk of the people in attendance at a Vegas game are not 1) hockey fans or 2) Vegas fans. They're just a bunch of drunks stumbling over from whatever casino and catching a show. Will never be accountability when you don't have a real fanbase.
Oh I don't particularly know or care if anything changes, that's nothing I can change myself, but being able to say I told you so is very fun
I hate the Knights but that's not really true.
Yes. It’s a quick and easy way for laziness to appear. Players are good or bad based on those cards alone in some people’s eyes despite the fact that sometimes they include very limited sample sizes, have wildly different outcomes between models, and have extreme outliers all over the place. The WAR model is in its infancy and frankly people using it as gospel to argue over the internet are a little off their rocker.
Heard countless tales from various people on podcasts that talk about how basically the entirety of the lower bowl portion of that stadium is filled with out of towners in for business or leisure that are just showing up to their corporate purchased seats like its another show on the strip. There are true fans, but they make up probably a smaller percentage of the arena capacity than any other team in the NHL and are basically all relegated to the mezzanine level.
Toronto is pretty similar in terms of their lower bowl being more corporate in nature.
Pretty much every big named franchise, boston, montreal, rangers.
As someone who lives in Vegas and goes to about half the games, it’s not true. If anything, the Vegas fans are obnoxious about how much they “love” hockey and the Knights. Will it continue when they start losing? Probably not, but for now if there’s one thing I can say it’s that the city has a lot of love for that team.
