RainyCityHockey
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With the Blackhawks winning against Arizona(like everyone else but us), we're now in 15th place in the western conference....
BTW: After their win in St. Louis the Coyotes are now only four point behind us...
The fight for Wright.
Maybe for #2
Given that the Penguins are not good this season, have aging superstars and kept their own pick...
Well, we know how this goes....
Any team that perpetually sucks does not garner sympathy from me. Edmonton was one of the teams a few years back. Its AZ now. I cannot imagine where Edmonton would be if they didn't luck into McDavid.Wish I didn't. I remember all their decent players being traded away or not re-signed, other than Mario himself trying to keep some butts in the seats. Was so obvious what they were doing and it made me sick, but it got them their Big 4 and some cup wins.
Seattle's situation is different; they have the roster granted them by the other teams. I sure hope they can draft Wright because they deserve to more than tanky-ass Arizona, or one of these other teams that have already done that.
Maybe for #2
Given that the Penguins are not good this season, have aging superstars and kept their own pick...
Well, we know how this goes....
This post hasn't aged wellI know we bitch and moan quite about our current situation and the guys in charge.
Though, I'd hate to be a Canucks fan, even with the young talent they have.
After trading for yet another crappy contract(OEL) and giving away any cap flexibility, their owner's giving their GM the green light for more trades yet again.
And all of that after those trades, so far, have resulted in them being no better than last season when they were last in the north division..
Yikes....
BTW: After their win in St. Louis the Coyotes are now only four point behind us...
This post hasn't aged well
Bennings gone, Rutherford is in, cap going up. Your predictions of our demise are greatly exaggerated. How's that Grubauer contract looking there? OEL has actually been pretty good, sure he's a tad over paid in cap hit and term but he's still a good player for us so far. We will see about Boeser getting resigned lots of time for that plus he's still restricted so its not a panic.You mean a post about a situation that included a GM making stupid moves who now finally got fired?
Even with them winnning a couple, Benning has totally fu''''' up their financial situation with that OEL deal given that they'll still have to trade one of their better players in order to be able to re-sign Boeser.
Bennings gone, Rutherford is in, cap going up. Your predictions of our demise are greatly exaggerated. How's that Grubauer contract looking there? OEL has actually been pretty good, sure he's a tad over paid in cap hit and term but he's still a good player for us so far. We will see about Boeser getting resigned lots of time for that plus he's still restricted so its not a panic.
Oh i guess i misunderstood your sympathy for " we suck but at least we dont Canucks level suck". Yes we had to endure 8 years of dim Jim who mostly screwed things up but had some successes in drafting and trades.The cap is going up by $1M, which won't do much.
I guess you're a Canucks fan so that's kind of strange too given that everyone over there was crying back when I wrote that message and basically said the same thing.
Overall it's certainly nice to win a couple but that team's still not great defensively and has five more years of OEL at $7.25 million on their cap which doesn't help with other contracts.
Also, this post was actually with sympathy for Canucks fans who had to endure the crap Benning pulled for eight years.
BTW: Grubauer hasn't been great but at least he's at $5.9 million, can bounce back and we actually still have a lot of cap flexibility.
So, yeah....
32 Arizona |
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31 Montréal |
30 Ottawa |
28 Buffalo |
27 Seattle |
Would be BONKERS if he wasn't picked up.