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Bgav said:
Sabers are awful. Thompson had one sick year and he looks so meh now
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He signed in 2022. So last year of old deal was 22-23. New deal began last season.

He signed after his 68 point year then got 94 the next and like 57 last season.

So important year to see what he will be for Buffalo. $7.1 mill if he is a 70 point guy is about fair. That 94 year might be a career year that he will never hit again.
 
Watched the Pens @ Red Wings game and I remember having better defensive structure in my pillow fort as a kid than the Wings had in this game. Debut for Joel Blomqvist in Pens net and first career W for the kid!
 
supercanuck said:
I know there was "generational" talk with Bedard, but if his career turns out to be "Patrick Kane", I don't think Hawks fan would be really sad about that (3 Cups, Art Ross, Hart, Conn Smythe, Lindsay, Calder).
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He will IMO easily be "better" than Kane as individual players when we view him in 10 years time.
 
Brookbank said:
Bedard is an exceptional status player who had better PPG than Mcdavid in junior and international play on worse teams. And he was being compared to Crosby and McDavid. Because he's at that level.
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He was at their level in the juniors sure and I'm a huge Bedard guy but there is zero shame in being a step down from Crosby/McDavid and I think Bedard will break out this year but he is still behind those 2 on a career arc and probably will never make up the difference.

That being said he is still going to have an excellent career and some people are still sleeping on him as he will end up significantly better than Kane IMO.
 
wetcoast said:
He was at their level in the juniors sure and I'm a huge Bedard guy but there is zero shame in being a step down from Crosby/McDavid and I think Bedard will break out this year but he is still behind those 2 on a career arc and probably will never make up the difference.

That being said he is still going to have an excellent career and some people are still sleeping on him as he will end up significantly better than Kane IMO.
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Kane is nothing to sneeze at. Currently the best American born player to have played. Though Matthews has the potential to catch and pass him if he can ever get Toronto deep into the PO.

Kid is a goal scorer. Something to be said about being able to pick a corner on a G.
 
StreetHawk said:
Kane is nothing to sneeze at. Currently the best American born player to have played. Though Matthews has the potential to catch and pass him if he can ever get Toronto deep into the PO.

Kid is a goal scorer. Something to be said about being able to pick a corner on a G.
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My view is that Kane is an excellent offensive player but that Bedard will be a better one and a better overall player.

Just watch him this year he is breaking out.
 
Breakers said:
Healthy scratching Jiricek for Jack Johnson is so embarrassingly stupid

What a joke organization
Just fold the team
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I'd look at it as they dressed Christianson ahead of Jiricek. I mean, they were not going to pair Jiricek with another Dman with just 44 NHL games under his belt.

Werenski played 26 minutes, then Severson at 21. That's your top pairing and Werenski plays PP.

Then there is Provorov and Gudbranson.

CBJ carrying 8 dmen for some reason. Trying to manage waivers to keep Harris/Christianson.

CBJ needs to have a guy whom they trust to play with Jiricek. Should have gone out and acquired someone to do that. Provorov won't be there past the TDL either. And Cbj fans wanted them to have a break from meeting the cap floor. Ice a roster to develop your players.

Jack Johnson won't cut it either. And I don't think they'd pair 25 year old Christianson with him.
That leaves Harris unless they upgrade.
 
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The funny Guenther thing is that so many fans needed that threshold for it to be one of fhe worst deals of all time and not the fact that they paid to acquire a top 3 bad liability contract in the NHL

People focus way too much on the result and not the process
 
Peen said:
The funny Guenther thing is that so many fans needed that threshold for it to be one of fhe worst deals of all time and not the fact that they paid to acquire a top 3 bad liability contract in the NHL

People focus way too much on the result and not the process
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The moment FA decided to bring that crew back after that disaster in 20/21 it was inevitable that JB was going to make a stupid short term move to try save his job.
 
Peen said:
The funny Guenther thing is that so many fans needed that threshold for it to be one of fhe worst deals of all time and not the fact that they paid to acquire a top 3 bad liability contract in the NHL

People focus way too much on the result and not the process
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It's truly a deal that has and should go down in infamy as one of the worst of all time in the NHL.
 
StreetHawk said:
Kane is nothing to sneeze at. Currently the best American born player to have played. Though Matthews has the potential to catch and pass him if he can ever get Toronto deep into the PO.
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I'd take Matthews over Kane. Matthews is a truly great goal scorer who also plays a strong two-way game at centre. Kane was an excellent offensive winger but a bit of a slacker defensively.
 
It's one thing to grab an early 4-1 lead then completely blow it, before rebounding to get the game into OT.

But imagine if you were the Oilers on opening night? A 6-0 beatdown by the Jets, and on home ice, no less. Despite all the spin-doctoring from Mark Spector, you'd have to be a hopeless optimist to see this team being anywhere close to last year's squad that went to the Cup Finals.

Canucks blueline was shaky last night, but that Oiler blueline was a borderline catastrophe.
 
Peen said:
The funny Guenther thing is that so many fans needed that threshold for it to be one of fhe worst deals of all time and not the fact that they paid to acquire a top 3 bad liability contract in the NHL

People focus way too much on the result and not the process
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Fair except the process was to aquire an aging OEL for several seasons and the price paid might have made sense when there was initial interest but not at the time of the trade.

It was a crappy telegraphed trade like taking your hot GF in your late teens to a used car dealership where she is telling everyone how much she wants that red convertible and the salesman has that creepy smile knowing he has you bent over.

VanJack said:
It's one thing to grab an early 4-1 lead then completely blow it, before rebounding to get the game into OT.

But imagine if you were the Oilers on opening night? A 6-0 beatdown by the Jets, and on home ice, no less. Despite all the spin-doctoring from Mark Spector, you'd have to be a hopeless optimist to see this team being anywhere close to last year's squad that went to the Cup Finals.

Canucks blueline was shaky last night, but that Oiler blueline was a borderline catastrophe.
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If only 82 game seasons were decided in game 1 eh?
 
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