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Around the League 2018-2019 Part 2- Everyone is having fun except us

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3firstnames said:
I want Vegas to have NOTHING. I want them swept. All their fans have experienced is success and have no humility. Last night at staples, the arena was overflowing with Vegas hubris and it made me sick. I was asked if I preferred a SJ or VGK win out of the first round. While a difficult choice, my hatred for the Vegas fan base forces me into an unpleasant desire to see SJ move on.

I want them destroyed. I want them to know that their best opportunity...the closest they will ever come to the cup came last season and they will never return.

Now what I want probably won't happen. Jones has one of the worst save percentages in the league and has not been looking good.
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I agree! I hate them more than any other team, even more than Anaheim, San Jose, Arizona, Vancouver and soon to be Seattle. These expansion draft rules are overkill on being at least reasonably competetive.
 
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Eh, we'll see what happens with Seattle. Ownership in Vegas did an incredible job getting the right people together to take advantage of the system. They got handed a starter goalie. They got handed so much from Florida. Then some of those cast offs from other teams decided they were gonna break out. Is Seattle gonna get the right GM, coach, and personnel like Vegas? Or will they end up being a more typical expansion team?
 
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You can bet all the front offices learned from the Vegas expansion. Just submit your protected lists and don't try to get fancy with trades in order to protect a guy or have Seattle take a guy off your hands by offering a 1st and/or multiple draft choices.

Keep it simple and don't give Seattle any extra ammo.

Vegas really cashed in on some of those deals, most notably the Minnesota, Florida, Columbus and Anaheim (Theodore) deals.
 
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kingsboy11 said:


Housley let go too. I'm surprised, but I'm also not at the same time. The Sabres had an awful end to the season, but I didn't think he'd be let go this soon. That's a team that seems to go through coaches like chewing gum. Get the most out of it for a while and then when it loses it flavor dump it in the trash.
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Housley wasn't the issue, Pegula is. For the young talent they've drafted over the last several years, they don't progress because he doesn't know how to develop a championship team. You have world class young talent in guys like Eichel and Dahlin and no stability behind the bench. 5 coaches in the last 6 years and 8 years w/o a playoff berth. It might be Vigneault's job next, that is the rumor. But you need to keep a coach in place.
 
Is it just me, or is there still no series talk thread in the playoff boards for Tampa Bay/Columbus? Is there a reason for that?

You'd think with all the TB chest thumping they wouldn't pass up on the opportunity
 
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You can bet all the front offices learned from the Vegas expansion. Just submit your protected lists and don't try to get fancy with trades in order to protect a guy or have Seattle take a guy off your hands by offering a 1st and/or multiple draft choices.

Keep it simple and don't give Seattle any extra ammo.

Vegas really cashed in on some of those deals, most notably the Minnesota, Florida, Columbus and Anaheim (Theodore) deals.
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There will be GMs forced into making those kinds of moves again for one reason or another though. You don't have as much cap available as an expansion team and not get something out of it. Having to expose a certain % of the cap, and the expansion team having to have a certain % at the end of the draft, lends itself to those kinds of moves. The cap changed everything. If previous expansion teams had it, then previous expansion teams likely would've had better teams. Plus the NMC's, which again, previous expansions didn't have to deal with. If certain guys didn't have to be protected, what do Minnesota or Anaheim do instead?
 
Read a Lebrun article that Dean Lombardi has turned down the Ottawa gig. Seemed like he could have been offered the Vancouver gig last year.

Edmonton job is open and not sure DL will be interested. Sounds like he’s content with his role in Philadelphia and they’ll work on renewing his contract even though Hextall isn’t there anymore.
 
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