Why did Ron Francis do that?
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Why did Ron Francis do that?
bleedgreen
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I’m flabbergasted. He was at best…..”pretty good”.
I’m presuming they did enough pre scouting on him they have a lot of confidence but….we’re a couple of months from the deadline. They didn’t have to do it today!
After the Georgiev disaster, Blackwood looks like a Vezina goalie
Boom Boom Apathy
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True, but remember, Georgiev looked good in year 1 also. .919SV%, 40-16-6.
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LATVIA f***ING WINS IN ROUND 8 OF THE SHOOTOUT!!!
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Vancouver blew a 4-1 lead with 5 minutes left in the game. Lost in OT, 5-4
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sabremike
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Today is one of the reasons I don't bet on hockey.
Buffalo beat the Blues
Montreal beat Tampa Bay
Anaheim beat Edmonton
Detroit beat Washington
If you had asked me to predict the results at the beginning of the day, I would likely have gone 0/4
Buffalo beat the Blues
Montreal beat Tampa Bay
Anaheim beat Edmonton
Detroit beat Washington
If you had asked me to predict the results at the beginning of the day, I would likely have gone 0/4
TheReelChuckFletcher
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I understand that NHL GMs will do stupid things for center help because of positional scarcity, but that contract was never going to age well considering that he was basically carried at 5-on-5 by Mark Stone in his last season in Vegas. To Stephenson's credit, he is still scoring at a good clip, but too much of it on the PP and not enough in the bulk of the game.
bleedgreen
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I’ve never understood the negativity. They had almost no centers, and he’s a pretty good uptempo player. This contract hasn’t aged badly at all yet. He’s putting up pts on a struggling team. Way too much has been made of Stone with this guy.
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Team USA has a player named Teddy Stiga in the U20 tourney. What's next, a soccer player named Frankie Foosball?
hangman005
Have I told you I miss Logan Thompson
I think a piece of string dangling from the crossbar would too
We made the right call there. Actually aside from Logan Thompson, management seems to know exactly when to move on from someone.
Boom Boom Apathy
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Agree
Kotkaniemi gets offer sheet from Hurricanes; Canadiens can match | NHL.com
Contract for forward is one-year, $6.1 million; Montreal would get two draft picks as compensation
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Canes Sign Kotkaniemi To Eight-Year Extension | Carolina Hurricanes
2018 third overall pick signed through 2029-30 season
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TheReelChuckFletcher
Former TheRillestPaulFenton; Harverd Alum
Agree
Kotkaniemi gets offer sheet from Hurricanes; Canadiens can match | NHL.com
Contract for forward is one-year, $6.1 million; Montreal would get two draft picks as compensation
Canes Sign Kotkaniemi To Eight-Year Extension | Carolina Hurricanes
2018 third overall pick signed through 2029-30 season
Oh, you laugh, but giving $4.82M a year to a 21 year old mystery box is fundamentally different from giving a 30 year old with major statistical warning signs $6.25M a year!
LakeLivin
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Kotkaniemi is still only 24 years old. There are plenty of NHL players who've kicked it up a notch later than that, and I have no doubt he'll do the same, making him a relative bargain. It's just a question of when, and the answer to that question is: immediately after the Canes trade him to another team.Agree
Kotkaniemi gets offer sheet from Hurricanes; Canadiens can match | NHL.com
Contract for forward is one-year, $6.1 million; Montreal would get two draft picks as compensation
Canes Sign Kotkaniemi To Eight-Year Extension | Carolina Hurricanes
2018 third overall pick signed through 2029-30 season
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HisIceness
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Oh, you laugh, but giving $4.82M a year to a 21 year old mystery box is fundamentally different from giving a 30 year old with major statistical warning signs $6.25M a year!
And let's be real, no one can resist the temptation of the mystery box!
AD Skinner
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A boat is a boat, but a mystery box could be anything- it could even be a boat!
HisIceness
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I guess I missed that Jeff Skinner was a healthy scratch in Edmonton last night. And the guy who replaced him in the line-up was Derek Ryan. I have only seen 1-2 EDM games so have no idea how he's done there other than stat watching.
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Talking to the guy that works with Edmonton’s truck, he said Skinner started off good, but has been very bad lately. He was basically relegated to the 3rd line shortly after the season began, because he couldn’t be trusted defensively to handle Top 6 minutes. Except Edmonton wants their bottom 6 to be the physical, grind it out kind of lines, and Skinner doesn’t do that either. So he’s kind of stuck in no man’s land there until he either improves his defensive game or until McDavid/Drais decide they want him on their wing again.
Oh, and speaking of former Canes who were supposed to do better with their new team:
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