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Peasy

Peasy

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Evilhomer said:
It's hard to imagine that Ottawa could screw up yet another goalie contract, but here we are. I said at the start of the season that Ottawa would sign him to a big contract and that he would then probably crap the bed through injury and mediocre play. All boxes checked so far.
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Never played 50+ in a season. Other side of 30. Was a bold contract. I agree with what Boston did though, got way more faith in Swayman to be a top 5 starter.
 
Gary Nylund

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Evilhomer said:
Yawn. Didn't they do the same thing last year and the year before that? They are going to fizzle out and lose in the first or second round again.
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I thought this was the around the league thread, go trash the Leafs somewhere else.

All 3 teams in action tonight, I didn't even know that ever happened. Cool!
 
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Evilhomer said:
It's hard to imagine that Ottawa could screw up yet another goalie contract, but here we are. I said at the start of the season that Ottawa would sign him to a big contract and that he would then probably crap the bed through injury and mediocre play. All boxes checked so far.
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You hate to see it. I'm expecting big things from Playoff Warrior this season.
 
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Evilhomer

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Peasy said:
Never played 50+ in a season. Other side of 30. Was a bold contract. I agree with what Boston did though, got way more faith in Swayman to be a top 5 starter.
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The one smart thing Ottawa did is limit the deal to a 4 year term.
 
Voodoo Child

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Evilhomer said:
It's hard to imagine that Ottawa could screw up yet another goalie contract, but here we are. I said at the start of the season that Ottawa would sign him to a big contract and that he would then probably crap the bed through injury and mediocre play. All boxes checked so far.
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Ottawa has no and has never had any business giving out some of the deals they have. You're obviously not telling Tkachuk, Sanderson and Stutzle to find their money elsewhere but some of their other deals are bad.

First off, they don't have a number one center. They're the only team in the division that doesn't have one. Stutzle isn't defensively responsible enough to run C full time and if Norris misses 25 games it's a healthy year for him.

Chabot at 8, he's not as good as Mo and he's injury prone.

Zub gets 4.6 but he's worth like 2.5. Him and Jensen at 4 are textbook RH bonus cuts and both have term. Jensen is okay.

Norris looks better this year, but he's played 130 games in the last 4 seasons and makes 8. He got that deal after getting 35 goals (66 gp), good for 25th in the league that year.

He's lived up to his 6.5 but why exactly do they need Giroux? Why did he go there, to win? Ha! To get paid more like it.

Ullmark has never played 50 games and gets the Swayman. They should at the very least have let some of the year play out before paying him.

The Leafs gave out rich money but at least they aren't currently 7 years into a playoff drought. This is why I respect Montréal build more and think they will be better quicker, if, they don't shoot their loads and hand out big money to guys like Norris and Chabot who really aren't all that.
 
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Evilhomer said:
It's hard to imagine that Ottawa could screw up yet another goalie contract, but here we are. I said at the start of the season that Ottawa would sign him to a big contract and that he would then probably crap the bed through injury and mediocre play. All boxes checked so far.
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I'd call them a cursed franchise but it's mostly all self inflicted.
 
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It really stings sometimes that ROR didn't want to stick around. Despite Nashville's rough start he's carried over his strong play from last season and is PPG to start the season again. His contract and AAV is quite reasonable too and it would've kept us really strong down the middle, plus with Berube here now he would've known exactly how to deploy him. Too bad...
 
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Legion34

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1specter said:
It really stings sometimes that ROR didn't want to stick around. Despite Nashville's rough start he's carried over his strong play from last season and is PPG to start the season again. His contract and AAV is quite reasonable too and it would've kept us really strong down the middle, plus with Berube here now he would've known exactly how to deploy him. Too bad...
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Yep. Dubas should have traded for him with an extension or not at all we gave up too much for rentals with him.

Knies. Matthews. Domi
Mcman. ROR. Marner
Robbie. JT. Nylander
Lorentz. Kampf. Reaves

Could have been something.
 
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