Looking at the Habs cap situation...Eugh, I honestly think they're in a worse situation than Ottawa. Weber+Petry+Alzner+Price all signed for at least the next 3 years, taking up @28.5M...
They'd need to retain about $5M between Price and Weber to get anything of value for them, and that would take up 2 slots until July 1, 2026...
That's still probably their best bet though, because with Price they'll be stuck in a cycle of mediocrity until it's too late to move his contract (which is also buy-out proof).
And I thought we were in a bad place in 2014...
Hot damn, the Islander fans are one crazy, angry bunch!
Our Leafs should just forfeit the only game against the Islanders in NY on February 28, 2019.
Booing Tavares is fine, but threatening to throw objects, and urine, at Tavares on the streets, and on the ice, is not.
The Islander fans need to realize that their own team's management, past and present, are much more to blame than Tavares. It was well known when he was drafted that his dream was to be a Leaf! Maybe a trade might have worked any time between 2009 and now.
Their management should never have let him get to free agency either! He should have been locked up early, like a year ago!
They're all hot air. I can understand their frustration, as I remember the anger at Sundin not waiving his NTC and then signing with Vancouver half way through the following season, but the shit they're saying is ridiculous. They're basically Cleveland when LeBron made his "Decision", which is fairly BS. They also act like he lead the Islanders on, when he definitely let Lou know on Saturday what his decision was. Lou not leaking that is pretty typical, and that's really where they should be directing their anger at not knowing JT was gone until his announcement on twitter.
The Oilers have been surprisingly quiet... not many major moves considering their season and comments from Chia
Meh, they have $8M in cap space, and have to re-sign Nurse and Strome. That will eat up most of their space, so it's not like they can really afford anyone, and even if they could, the only D on the market they should have been after was DeHaan, and they've got 4 LHD already lol.
Basically, they're in Cap Hell, and will be for at
least 3 more years, when RNH+Sekara+Russel+Larsson are all off the books. Even then, they're still going to have another 2 years of Lucic (whose contract is buy-out proof). Essentially devouring most of their chance to compete with relatively fair-value contracts for McDavid+Draisatl.
I'd just like to say how happy I am that we have Dubas running this team with Pridham and Gilman as his cap-geniuses.
