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Rumor: 2023-24 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Season Thread
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henchman21
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More or less the issue here is overworking George and getting .375 hockey out of the backup.
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The Bednar special.
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Most any Avs backup should be able to put up .500 stats with this team in front of them.
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This is still a top 5-6 team in the NHL. A decent backup should easily be able to pull off a .500 record.
NFL drafts are done professionally and you don't have dementia patient front office staff heading up to the mic and can't even pronounce names properly. Now Bettman should 10000000000% not be the one to announce the draft picks as Goodell does, but get somebody like Alan Roach and it is a step in the right direction. NHL draft takes way too long because of all the shout-outs each team has to do for their buddies in other organisations.
Mark Stone gets another regular season back injury, they sign Kane, and boom you heard it first here.
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Yeah it makes no sense. We are pretty loaded at the moment.
You mean it's not fair? Hah
Detroit is starting out pretty good this year with this STL style roster..
Beat Toronto, and is running CBJ out of their own building tonight.
Beat Toronto, and is running CBJ out of their own building tonight.
Columbus is a mess though
Yeah, Fantilli is gonna be good, but also that coaching change has to be about as good for them as when Roy left us lol.
I'm a little irritated having to watch JT in Detroit, but he's been the better version of himself so far.
You’d be less irritated if his replacement wasn’t absolute garbage, but somehow he’s made us miss JTC.
I don’t miss JTC. We would’ve lost the game if JTC was out there for the 6 on 5 instead of RyJo.
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Boy I’m not sure where rock bottom is, but getting shut out at home by the Corpse of James Reimer has got to be pretty damned close.
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I feel like the NHL is entering a weird phase of teams catching up and standings will be insanely tight this year. Since around 19-20 you've had downright dominant teams in the league with Tampa Bay, Colorado, Vegas, Toronto, Boston, Carolina, and to a lesser extent Edmonton and the New York Rangers. They've consistently been upper-echelon teams and by a fairly large margin.
It seems like most - if not all - of those teams are losing their grip of dominance on the rest of the league while up-and-comers/average teams close the gap.
That's not to say those teams listed won't still be the best teams. I think there are very easily 4 potential division winners there - but it's not going to be the same walk-in-the-park or dominant showing it has been over the last 4 seasons.
It seems like most - if not all - of those teams are losing their grip of dominance on the rest of the league while up-and-comers/average teams close the gap.
That's not to say those teams listed won't still be the best teams. I think there are very easily 4 potential division winners there - but it's not going to be the same walk-in-the-park or dominant showing it has been over the last 4 seasons.
On a cracker crust, cut into squares and covered with provel cheese?
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JTC had many a point last year playing next to Moose, but that did not make him a good hockey player.
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Pronman's 2021 re-draft. Our friend Sean Behrens is in the very last tier (tier 8)...OO is in the second to last tier (tier 7). Not promising.
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Re-drafting the NHL class of 2021: Beniers takes the No. 1 spot, Hughes rises
Corey Pronman re-ranks the top prospects from the NHL Draft class of 2021.
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I always liked Compher, and defended him in here. Always felt he was pretty decent at most things, terrible at nothing. Liked him on the team.
But the way he disappeared in last year’s playoffs (and the month + leading up to them)….. good riddance.
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The only thing I'm hanging on to that RyJo might actually work as the 2C in the postseason is if Landy comes back and they drop Rantanen down to the second line, which essentially buffers the shit out of that guy.
Drouin - MacKinnon - Nuke
Landeskog - RyJo - Rantanen
So far through 2 games RyJo has been exactly what some of us thought he'd be; a big ball of nothing at 5v5. I will give him this though, he's a f***ing wizard in the face circle.
I really do think come the trade deadline the #1 priority again, f***ing somehow, is finding a real 2C.
Drouin - MacKinnon - Nuke
Landeskog - RyJo - Rantanen
So far through 2 games RyJo has been exactly what some of us thought he'd be; a big ball of nothing at 5v5. I will give him this though, he's a f***ing wizard in the face circle.
I really do think come the trade deadline the #1 priority again, f***ing somehow, is finding a real 2C.
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to be fair to JTC, the one and only time both he and the Avs were on the same page was the 2022 postseason. There, he was playing as the 3C they always envisioned him as AND had the proper depth above him to allow him to play that role. But right after that Kadri left and he was forced to be the de facto 2C (I’ll never understand how management thought Newhook was the answer, clearly the coaches knew better).
Anyway, what’s done is done. I don’t blame the Avs for not paying him but I also don’t blame him one bit for getting paid. Hopefully it works out for him, he’s a good player despite some rather frustrating tendencies.
Anyway, what’s done is done. I don’t blame the Avs for not paying him but I also don’t blame him one bit for getting paid. Hopefully it works out for him, he’s a good player despite some rather frustrating tendencies.
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