GDT: Around The League 24/25. Parity, blessed parity.

[CanadasTeam99]

Pasta beats Wolfe with a hard wrister

 

[TheNumber4]

Honestly, can't even clown on Buffalo. I just feel bad for them. We know all too well with our Decade of Darkness and small market, UFA wasteland, market.

 

[BlackDogg]

The hungry goalie wolfed down an overtime goal.

 

[On The Prowl]

Honestly, can't even clown on Buffalo. I just feel bad for them. We know all too well with our Decade of Darkness and small market, UFA wasteland, market.

Better them than us. When they lost McDavid in the lotto that franchise got screwed for another 10 years lol.

 

[TheNumber4]

Better them than us. When they lost McDavid in the lotto that franchise got screwed for another 10 years lol.

So many other teams and franchises I wish it on than Buffalo.

 

[North]

Eat shit Flames.

 

[TheNumber4]

Damn. Heard NYR lost earler, but didn't know it was the Preds. That's gotta be officially rock bottom now.

Same with MTL and Buff.

Offersheet boys got torched tonight, nice to see.

Flames once again stalled at their talent limited max of 3 goals.

 

[BlackDogg]

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

This guy inadvertently (and rather stupidly) exposed that the league was at least on some level corrupt. Of course the NHL was happy to fire him and move on as if nothing happened.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

let not forget they traded Eichel, Reinhart, O'Reilly, Zadorov, Middlestadt and have Tage Thompson and Byram to show for it

they've willingly bled a lot of talent

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

let not forget they traded Eichel, Reinhart, O'Reilly, Zadorov, Middlestadt and have Tage Thompson and Byram to show for it

they've willingly bled a lot of talent

They're just a badly run franchise stuck in the muck of having no McDavid to bail them out.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

This guy inadvertently (and rather stupidly) exposed that the league was at least on some level corrupt. Of course the NHL was happy to fire him and move on as if nothing happened.

Dom the Dumb and Tim the Idiot. Great pair.

 

[BlackDogg]

This guy inadvertently (and rather stupidly) exposed that the league was at least on some level corrupt. Of course the NHL was happy to fire him and move on as if nothing happened.

He must have gotten enough to satisfy him. I'll take your money and mock certain players and teams kind of thing....

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[McShogun99]

Honestly, can't even clown on Buffalo. I just feel bad for them. We know all too well with our Decade of Darkness and small market, UFA wasteland, market.

Buffalo is what Edmonton would have been if we didn't draft Mcdavid and get a hall of fame GM like Holland.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Buffalo is what Edmonton would have been if we didn't draft Mcdavid and get a hall of fame GM like Holland.

I agree with the first half of what you said, but not the second half.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Honestly, can't even clown on Buffalo. I just feel bad for them. We know all too well with our Decade of Darkness and small market, UFA wasteland, market.

Yeah I can still feel that but I'm an odd one that would rather live in Buffalo or upstate NY somewhere than NYC. At least they got Pro teams in Buffalo. It could be worse.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

not to get political but....yikes

 

[Drivesaitl]

Dom the Dumb and Tim the Idiot. Great pair.

Theres a sequel there to be had. Hollyhood is always looking for ideas. Nobody would watch it but whats the diff? I never really get these self appointed analytics gurus. Seems like people that have a choice between being an Uber or skip the dishes driver vs calling themselves experts of something. With some strangely heeding them as they refuse to vote for Drai as MVP. To not even have him on the ballot. Oh that guy. They're all trolls.

not to get political but....yikes

One wonders if one of the looks, again, is the NHL and NHLPA turning up their noses at some Canadian franchises. Winnipeg and Ottawa be very afraid.

 

[Gordy Elbows]

Theres a sequel there to be had. Hollyhood is always looking for ideas. Nobody would watch it but whats the diff? I never really get these self appointed analytics gurus. Seems like people that have a choice between being an Uber or skip the dishes driver vs calling themselves experts of something. With some strangely heeding them as they refuse to vote for Drai as MVP. To not even have him on the ballot. Oh that guy. They're all trolls.


One wonders if one of the looks, again, is the NHL and NHLPA turning up their noses at some Canadian franchises. Winnipeg and Ottawa be very afraid.

The other part of that is that players are paid in $US, so Canadian teams are earning Cdn revenue to pay those salaries. And the players have a spending advantage at the end of the day.
The $gap has huge consequences for the Cdn teams.

 

[Drivesaitl]

The other part of that is that players are paid in $US, so Canadian teams are earning Cdn revenue to pay those salaries. And the players have a spending advantage at the end of the day.
The $gap has huge consequences for the Cdn teams.

Seems as if Forbes evaluations of worth of teams like Oilers and Leafs doesn't fully capture that. In short I think the orgs are being overvaluated and that downturn revision is likely. Nor do I see the current situation being tenable. Can we keep use expecting fans here to dig ever deeper in their pockets to support the game here? Past playoffs several fans online have described how they couldn't afford playoff tickets and that they're having to pay it all off. Its like the Taylor Swift phenomenon all over. People pay whatever asking price is on tickets and then wonder how they pay it off. Recent poll 45% of people in Canada don't know how they will pay for this years Christmas. Strange times.

That mind seem to be a segue I went on but ultimately its about people that pay the gate, and that they probably won't continue to be able to indefinitely. Increasingly people are living on borrowing and thats always on borrowed time.

 

[McShogun99]

I agree with the first half of what you said, but not the second half.

I figured the second part would be controversial for some fans but Holland took a garbage roster and turned it into a Cup contender.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

I figured the second part would be controversial for some fans but Holland took a garbage roster and turned it into a Cup contender.

He certainly did acquire some good pieces (Hyman, Ekholm) but also made some huge blunders (Campbell, Nurse contract, AA trade) and left the cupboards bare with substandard asset management and drafting.

 

[TheNumber4]

And in that one sequence, Sheshterkin's GsaX just shot up a nice 3 points. Having shitty net front coverage can be great for a Goalie's pay grade.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Oetinger sucks...4 goals on 8 shots

goalies man