BenningHurtsMySoul
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Quality afternoon delight. f*** Oilers fans. Most obnoxious group of dickbags in the league.
Around the League Thread | The one where the NHL once again is the worst.
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Quality afternoon delight. f*** Oilers fans. Most obnoxious group of dickbags in the league.
MarkusNaslund19
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We don't have a top five player ever on our roster?
Wait a second, what a scoop. Stop the presses!
SelltheTeamFrancesco
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Ryan S. Clark coming in clutch again picked the Canucks against the Oilers and now denied McDavid his unanimous Conn Smythe.
Bojack Horvatman
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BenningHurtsMySoul
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lawrence
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Trivia.
Didn’t know Shawn Thornton worked for the panthers.
They've been blaming the ice quality and the refs. They think drafting McDavid = special privileges to win the cup.
EpochLink
Canucks and Jets fan
Whoever wins the final game of a Finals, deserves the cup.
Checking all the UFA's on Cap Friendly (at least up for a few more days), it's really hard to say whether we're in a 'buyers' or 'sellers' market.
There's some pretty decent names on expiring contracts, but it just seems that most of the top teams in the league are locked into a salary cap vice.
It's about the only thing that gives you some hope that the Canucks may still be able to retain some of their more important UFA's. There's a lot of bottom-feeding teams with oodles of cap space, but not much chance of contending over the next few seasons.
A lot of UFA's--particularly the guys pushing 30 or over, are looking for situations where 'they can win now'. A lot of them have made their pile, and are looking a decent shot at a Cup before they retire.
So still a chance guys like Zadorov and Joshua might consider a bit of a home-town discount. I doubt the same applies to Lindholm--who's as good as gone.
There's some pretty decent names on expiring contracts, but it just seems that most of the top teams in the league are locked into a salary cap vice.
It's about the only thing that gives you some hope that the Canucks may still be able to retain some of their more important UFA's. There's a lot of bottom-feeding teams with oodles of cap space, but not much chance of contending over the next few seasons.
A lot of UFA's--particularly the guys pushing 30 or over, are looking for situations where 'they can win now'. A lot of them have made their pile, and are looking a decent shot at a Cup before they retire.
So still a chance guys like Zadorov and Joshua might consider a bit of a home-town discount. I doubt the same applies to Lindholm--who's as good as gone.
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I feel the need to pump my own tires today with a post from last week when everyone was doomposting about the coming decade of Oilers chirps.
And boy I was right. It really is the funniest.
And boy I was right. It really is the funniest.
Joshua's estimated career earnings are $1.58 million, Zadorov's are $20.57 million. The last thing Joshua should be doing is taking a hometown discount.
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I have your gold medal Zippy!
Probably posted already but worth a duplicate posting:
Probably right.....And if there's another team out there willing to pay him north of $4m a season, then for sure he's gone.
And I suppose if one of those teams is San Jose, Anaheim, Chicago or Utah, then you can hardly blame him for taking the money at the expense of winning anything. You only have so many contract opportunities or financial security.
I guess trips where someone steps on a stick blade no longer count either.
MarkusNaslund19
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They're different.
You see guys trip over a fallen player quite frequently, and it's never a penalty.
Now, if a guy leaves his feet lunging for the puck and another player trips over him, sometimes that is called.
But someone losing an edge and then another player (without the puck) tripping over him is a hilarious call that effectively never happens.
Tkachuk caused another player to trip. It’s tripping. It’s almost never intentional.
MarkusNaslund19
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This isn't the way the game is typically called. I don't know what to tell you.
Watch any game and you will see examples of a guy falling and someone else falling over him. I have never seen something like this called a penalty in 30 years of watching hundreds of games a year.
vadim sharifijanov
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the voting results, by voter
the one guy who kept mcdavid from winning unanimously? ryan s clark
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