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Montreal's 2nd win in 15 games lol. But man, what a disaster for the Stars. That's a game you just cannot lose when you're fighting for a WC spot
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Montreal's 2nd win in 15 games lol. But man, what a disaster for the Stars. That's a game you just cannot lose when you're fighting for a WC spot
leafsfan5
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Their splits are actually insane
Home: 21-3-0
Road: 5-5-5
I don't understand why it's such a big difference. Good news for us is that they have a lot more road games than home left on their schedule
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Oilers are 6th in the division by percentage... So, not too much difference. Particularly with how poorly they've played.
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Felt sorry for Hart. He made some amazing saves in OT, and then eight straight in the shootout, only to lose on a perfectly placed shot.
ToneDog
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How can one shit on the team that has won back 2 back SCs and kutcheroved the league last season ?
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zeke
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zeke
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Yep - Oilers are 11th in the conference now, with a tough stretch of games coming up.
I don't know about you guys but I would much rather face Florida in first round. So i'm actively cheering on lightning to win the division.. if not us lol
ACC1224
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Honestly, the things you read in here.
The Podium
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A) Success doesn’t absolve criticism…
B) I am assuming the comment was tongue in cheek as a rebuttal against all the trolls that gave Dubas a hard time when they were caught dressing an EBUG for cap reasons.
The Podium
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Im very curious how the Leafs match up with Florida. It’s wild they haven’t played each other yet.
ToneDog
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A. Maybe but they got away with murder by going millions over the cap in the playoffs.
B. no doubt. Both/many teams are in cap hell. The difference between the Leafs and Lightning is that the Leafs have 1/2 the cap invested in 4 guys who have not been able to win a round while the Lightning have too many good players to fit under the cap (even though they underpay their elite stars for whatever reasons) and have won back 2 back cups. Personally I don't think you can use the way TB do business to justify the way the Leafs do business. Which reminds me of the guy who thought TB was more pissed off at what they gave up for Savard than the Leafs were for Foligno. Yikes.
zeke
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If you shit on one team for not being able to ice a full roster due to cap restrictions, you have to shit on all of them for the same reason.
Of course in this case it's not even the same.
The Bolts actually were forced to play 2 men short.
The Leafs were never in that position - they could have iced a full roster if they wanted, but instead they exploited a loophole, and used an ebug as backup for one game to get themselves a free roster spot for the next few weeks. The Leafs' choice was actually an example of their cap expertise, not something to criticize them about.
So if anyone is being honest about what being short players due to cap restriction says about a team's cap management, they would be criticizing Tampa (and col, and others), and not be criticizing the Leafs at all, because it never happened to the Leafs.
That's only if you care about being honest ad objective about your Leafs critiques, though.
The Podium
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Yup, a lot of people don’t realize they could’ve have sent Lilly down and ice a full roster, but then they’d be stuck with Lilly in the minors and no emergency recall.
It was actually a very shrewd move, but Dubas and Co will never get credit for the little things.
ToneDog
56 years and counting. #FireTheShanaClan!
Playing short two players due to cap hell is not a good look and that deserves more flack than the Leafs for dressing an ebug but as a Leaf fan I could care less what Tampa or any other teams do to deal with their cap hell.
As far as the cap goes, I was more pissed off at the league for allowing Tampa to kutcherov the league.
Seath The Scaleless
Paledrake
Hard to get a read on the Panthers. Fun team to watch with all out offense. Great home record but atrocious on the road when Brunette doesn’t have first line change.
They’re in need of a top 4 d man as much as we are.
They’re in need of a top 4 d man as much as we are.
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Short answer is yes.
They are currently just under the cap and accruing cap space, even with a 23 man roster and another 4.37 million on LTIR. So today they could add a player making 5 mill and still run a 23 man roster but they'd have to clear that space as players come of LTIR. I think it's fair to assume they are doing paper transactions to maximize cap accrual with the two waiver exempt players on their 23 man as well, which basically means they will have enough cap space to add anyone they want at the deadline.
So to summarize the longer answer, yes for right now, no once players come of LTIR (Nutivaara may be done for the year though), and yes again at the deadline.
They do, next year looks a bit dicey for them cap wise though. 6.5m in dead cap space with buyouts.
Larrybiv
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sorry about the snow, maybe you can watch it melt? Might be more entertaining. Rhetorical question;
Is this the same Canadian team that went to the finals? lol
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