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Or, Vegas continues to free-fall and drops out? One can dream, right? It would be delicious after the moves they made.
Nashville. I get 2009 St Louis Blue's vibes from that team. Solid team and peaking during the regular season, but their top 6 forwards are average (aside from Forsberg). I remember we were all dreading the Blues because they only lost once in their final 11 games...Playoffs are a different beast. It's why I expect Vegas to just flip the switch in April.
Very fishy. Now we await the following news:
"Kladno Knights announces it plans to distribute Jagr bobbleheads to all their fans after their relegation to the Chance Liga."
Looks like Sutter, Eriksson, Virtanen, Gudbranson.
sorry catching up on old conversations
his mom’s account, obvs. she posted everytime she finished ironing his canucks bedsheets and pyjamas
i always felt like ryjo was what jason bonsignore would have been if he’d been 5% more talented and was drafted by an organization that wasn’t actively trying to sabotage him
gary was here during peak white guy plaid shirt with beard times. like homemade pomade and bikes with no gears and craft beer pop ups in mt pleasant and corner stores rebranding as old timey convenience shoppes or some shit in hastings-sunrise.
the whole city looked like the johnny canuck logo and garrison was the alpha.
the league’s history is basically carnies and crimebosses. i think in the gordie howe times the norris family owned half the teams and ted lindsay’s lucky he never woke up with a dead octopus on his pillow.
continuing the mob movie theme
(content warning: the N word at 1:05)
his mom’s account, obvs. she posted everytime she finished ironing his canucks bedsheets and pyjamas
i always felt like ryjo was what jason bonsignore would have been if he’d been 5% more talented and was drafted by an organization that wasn’t actively trying to sabotage him
gary was here during peak white guy plaid shirt with beard times. like homemade pomade and bikes with no gears and craft beer pop ups in mt pleasant and corner stores rebranding as old timey convenience shoppes or some shit in hastings-sunrise.
the whole city looked like the johnny canuck logo and garrison was the alpha.
the league’s history is basically carnies and crimebosses. i think in the gordie howe times the norris family owned half the teams and ted lindsay’s lucky he never woke up with a dead octopus on his pillow.
continuing the mob movie theme
(content warning: the N word at 1:05)
I think OEL has to be here, worst move of his tenure and one of the worst trades in NHL history.
Virtanen over Juolevi is a tough one but I agree with Virtanen given his propensity for SA.
absolutely not
saros is the scariest player on any of the three teams. could singlehandedly steal a series
agreed with the "can't control who you play" narrative, but if we're just speaking hypothetically on here, give me st.louis or minnesota stealing 8th, then la, followed by the 9 figures/nashville
i think sutter and gudbranson represent the same thing (identifying middling "high character" aka square jaw canadians with not much talent, as "foundational" players) so i'd pull one of them
oel represents the same thing as eriksson - god awful pro scouting and placing a premium on the wrong player based off of reputation
virtanen is the pinnacle of the amateur scouting blunders - an absolute brainless dick head, both on and off the ice
we're missing a pillar still; the clown show that was somehow considered a front office for a $800m organization. this could be benning himself (with an hm to chris gear), but assuming he isn't on there, there's only one other person who can be the face of the subban tampering, running out of time at the deadline, the hemorrhaging of talent (brackett, gilman, etc.), overruling scouts, terrible media relations, etc.
my final four: sutter, oel, virtanen, weisbrod
I'd put OEL over Sutter purely for the acquisition cost - sending away a decent second line centre and a failed reclamation project is peanuts compared to losing 9th overall and an insane amount of cap space for an old defenseman.
At this point, there's too many names and faces...You may as well draw up a landfill featuring Benning's crap signings and mistakes with diaper hill being OEL.
Don't worry @Jyrki21. I'm not requesting it.
selfishly i want the canucks to meet the knights in the first round so i don't need to choose between attending knights games or watching the canucks
