Around The League 56: Edmonton Babs A Real ****
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Nikishin al Gaib
Did it all for the Bussi
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Brady Tkachuk was arguably the single biggest dumbass of the playoffs and he somehow manages to be even dumber when playing with his brother
I really think that's a mistake of a trade for Florida. If that's their big move, oof
I really think that's a mistake of a trade for Florida. If that's their big move, oof
If I’m them I don’t care. We’re probably going into next year with Bussi and Kochetkov. They’ll find someone.
EDIT: do the evilest thing ever and win with Stuart Skinner and Connor Ingram.
OG
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While I think we should and will make a shrewd move or two to keep up in the arms race, I’m not really upset at missing out on Brady especially with what the depletion of our stash would be. I’m also just not a huge fan of the player but of course he’s still good. Our top-6 is plenty right now, sometimes even when line 1 is nowhere to be found. We’ve seen that. Ok, so maybe you can get an upgrade on Hall eventually but he’s still who many would expect to be the 6th/7th-most offensively impactful forward on the roster over the next season or two. Doesn’t need to be now nor does it need to be Brady. Center depth or D is where I’d like to throw the chips. Goalie, sure, if you have questions on 32/52 for the long haul.
Nikishin al Gaib
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Anyone sleeping on Bussi after the year he had and winning the Cup with us is an idiot
And Gilmore Tuttle and Ogie Oglethorpe.
Ole Gil
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The fluke of having such an injury prone roster be healthy for the playoffs for that stretch is crazy.
And they're only getting older. Florida doesn't scare me at all going forward.
Nikishin al Gaib
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I mean he has nothing more to prove. All the guy does is win, had an extended layoff when Freddie balled out and then went blazing hot again.
And it was so good his name is engraved in metal for the rest of time. I wouldn't mind an upgrade, but I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this team can run it back with him as the starter
My point is we got him on waivers. Florida can cobble together a goalie situation. It’s not like we’re going out and getting Hellebuyck, you can put together a perfectly average goaltending core for cheap.
Nikishin al Gaib
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Not just that but also in the way they play. They excel in mucking it up physically and after the play. But now they're old, and their veteran players can't hold up to the physicality anymore.
Joe McGrath
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I for one am shocked all those guys missed time the year many of them had to drug test for the Olympics. What a wild coincidence.
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Good to see we were on the list and had the conversations. Gotta keep improving to win another one.
Nikishin al Gaib
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Who did we get him from on waivers again?
Florida chose to drop him so they didn't have to admit the Tarasov trade wasnt ideal. Outside of going with Bob I'm not really sure I trust their ability to evaluate goalie talent right now.
DaveG
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And until this year you very vocally didn’t trust ours either. Build a good enough team and it doesn’t really matter. That seems to be the plan.
Boom Boom Apathy
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C'mon man. Nobody knew what he could become. 28? teams passed on him on waivers.
It would be like saying you don't trust Carolina's ability to evaluate defensemen because we waived Forsling.
Well, he may still be in semi-seclusion ever since the unfortunate Denny Pratt tragedy.
Carolina is just saving up all their assets to get McDavid
Nikishin al Gaib
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I wouldn't say nobody. Schonfelder had long had him circled as a guy Tulsky needed to pick up should he become available because he saw that potential. And at the end of the day results matter, and our result was a Cup and Florida's result is, well at least for the time being a complete mess in net. Bob's play this year was worse than anything we've seen here since Brindy took over.
Boom Boom Apathy
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Yep. their hands were kind of tied.
The 9th OA could be a Jarvis type player.
As @Ole Gil said on the main board, the Canes turned the 26th pick, a 2nd round pick and a meh prospect into K'Andre Miller.
It's all what they do next.
Boom Boom Apathy
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He had him as a guy that we should pick up, but I guarantee you, he didn't see him coming in at 27 and going 31-6-2 and winning the cup. If they knew that, they would have traded for him sooner.
I'm not saying that Florida will figure out how to solve their goaltending hole easily, but using them waiving Bussi as evidence of that is silly.
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Apparently Minnesota was the 4th.
I do wonder how much tampering there's been from the fallout of Team USA. Friedman hinted as much a few weeks back
Boom Boom Apathy
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So Larkin’s list would be what now? Vegas, Minnesota, Carolina, Tampa?
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