Around the League 2018-2019 Part 3

[KingsFan7824]

Hayes might get $7m a year for 6 years. 20g, 29a, 49pts on average for his career. 45% on faceoffs for his career too.

 

[KingsFan7824]

The Flyers have lost their ****ing minds. $7 million per year for Kevin Hayes?!

4 goals in 40 playoff games.

 

[King'sPawn]

Friendly Sharks fan here...

I'd trade it all for 1 cup, let alone 2.

Being a Sharks fan is tough on our hearts. Its all fun in the regular season (which, by many accounts is still fun hockey to watch), but the playoffs drain us. Hard.

DW has done a great job. No complaints. Not every team can win it all. Its hard enough to attract players to California and DW does a fantastic job selling it.

And lastly....

Some of you may remember, but before your cup many of us were super friendly posters on here. Dance off threads, friendly Nor/So Cal bickering, and no cups. Once ya'll won, things changed. My honest perspective was the humility that brought us together was shattered after you won it all. You guys had the upper hand and everyone knew it and some slammed it in our faces. Oddly enough, many of us actually get along with more Ducks fans (yuck) now...

Here's hoping we can get our own cup so we can go back to where we were. I enjoyed the friendly rivalry of the past...

FWIW, a lot of my annoyances with some Sharks fans are, like someone mentioned above, when they act like Brown tried to ruin Hertl's career.

And I've seen a few over the years where they just troll on general boards, and frankly throw shade their way to shut them up.

But to me, whether it's Ducks or Sharks, I like having hockey fans in California and I like being able to have an honest and respectable conversation with any of them.

If you ever want to have said conversation or good fun, feel free to find me on this or the main boards. I rarely post on team's boards, unless it's to wish them good luck in a playoff matchup, etc. So you won't find me on your boards until we're good enough to make the playoffs.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

Thunderously awful contract for Hayes.

I guess they felt they had to balance out the reasonable Eberle contract, or something. Yikes.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Yet we have some people on here who blame the players for these ridiculous contracts. Get real.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Now here's a potential trade partner.

 

[johnjm22]

That's a good contract for Hayes IMO. He's a quality center. Those aren't easy to come by. 7M really isn't that much anymore.

The contract DL signed Handzus to was 6.6M in today's money, and he was coming off major knee surgery.

 

[kovacro]

The Flyers have lost their ****ing minds. $7 million per year for Kevin Hayes?!

I have to think @deeshamrock is going nutty over this deal

That is some serious cake for Hayes. Jeebus.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Can't blame players for contracts, but then we also blame players for not producing, and actively hurting the team, because of the contracts handed out by management. If management doesn't pay up, fans usually call them cheap. Granted, nobody really wants to see Kevin Hayes play, but he's part of the overall group that gets paid 50% of revenue. Fans get nothing out of this deal, unless the team wins. If they don't get the players, it's tougher to win. Teams also must use a certain amount of cap space. Not that the Flyers wouldn't give Hayes $7m with no cap. They would, and wouldn't even think twice.

It's really a vicious cycle. Players get money, owners have money, fans give money. Someone is getting the raw end of that deal.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

San Jose lost me when couture took out his full page ad. Jumbo Joe’s slide before that. Beat LA ad nauseam.

Wait, he did what?

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

7 x 7.14 for Hayes is an unmitigated disaster

 

[LAKings88]

Wait, he did what?

Can’t find it but it was after their cup run.

Ad in the paper talking about how satisfied he was to beat LA as part of it. Just thought it was strange after coming up short in the finals.

 

[kovacro]

That's a good contract for Hayes IMO. He's a quality center. Those aren't easy to come by. 7M really isn't that much anymore.

The contract DL signed Handzus to was 6.6M in today's money, and he was coming off major knee surgery.

Yep, it’s a great deal for him no doubt. For the Flyers, not so much.

I didn’t like that Handzus deal back then so at the very least I am consistent in not liking this one either.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Can’t find it but it was after their cup run.

Ad in the paper talking about how satisfied he was to beat LA as part of it. Just thought it was strange after coming up short in the finals.

God yeah, I wasn't even aware of that, but exhibit A to exactly what I've been talking about

smug sense of undeserved superiority, hang that 2nd place "at least we beat the Kings" banner

 

[Reclamation Project]

Wait, he did what?

 

[Bandit]

God yeah, I wasn't even aware of that, but exhibit A to exactly what I've been talking about

smug sense of undeserved superiority, hang that 2nd place "at least we beat the Kings" banner

Live look in to the San Jose locker room after they beat the Kings in the first round:

No longer will we use blindfolds when we jerk each other off.

 

[deaderhead28]

I dislike political correctness and a rebel my whole life,so San Jose sucks,that is all.

 

[johnjm22]

Flyers now have Couturier/Hayes/Patrick down the middle with Giroux, Voracek, JVR, and Konecny on the wings. They have a really solid forward group.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Flyers now have Couturier/Hayes/Patrick down the middle with Giroux, Voracek, JVR, and Konecny on the wings. They have a really solid forward group.

If the defense can gel in front of Carter Hart, that's a sneaky darkhorse team

 

[SettlementRichie10]

The best is when he talked about how he and DD are such good friends.... only for Doughty to say its not really the case.

I forgot about that lmfao

It’s like Doughty was nice to the ugly unpopular kid in the hall and the kid told everyone they were best buds

 

[Vamos Rafa]

The Sharks have 2 Stanley Cup wins. 2011 and 2016 for beating the Kings.

 

[Reclamation Project]

I forgot about that lmfao

It’s like Doughty was nice to the ugly unpopular kid in the hall and the kid told everyone they were best buds

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I forgot about that lmfao

It’s like Doughty was nice to the ugly unpopular kid in the hall and the kid told everyone they were best buds

I imagine their friendship went something like this, with Drew being Todd, and Butthead being... Butthead.

 

[Herby]

Friendly Sharks fan here...

I'd trade it all for 1 cup, let alone 2.

Being a Sharks fan is tough on our hearts. Its all fun in the regular season (which, by many accounts is still fun hockey to watch), but the playoffs drain us. Hard.

DW has done a great job. No complaints. Not every team can win it all. Its hard enough to attract players to California and DW does a fantastic job selling it.

And lastly....

Some of you may remember, but before your cup many of us were super friendly posters on here. Dance off threads, friendly Nor/So Cal bickering, and no cups. Once ya'll won, things changed. My honest perspective was the humility that brought us together was shattered after you won it all. You guys had the upper hand and everyone knew it and some slammed it in our faces. Oddly enough, many of us actually get along with more Ducks fans (yuck) now...

Here's hoping we can get our own cup so we can go back to where we were. I enjoyed the friendly rivalry of the past...

I would agree with just about all of this.

A little of the seeds may have been laid with Thornton's little slide across the Kings logo in 2011, I thought it was in bad taste to do in a series that SJ was heavy, heavy favorites. But anything left of the good relationship ceased to exist after the Kings won the cup. Kings fans became a little arrogant and Sharks fans became a little miserable.

 

[kingsfan28]

7 x 7.14 for Hayes is an unmitigated disaster

If you have cap space, why not use it.