SteveCangialosi123
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Two guys right up our alley. Damn. At least they’re out on Tuch so we can have that dream crushed by someone else in a couple days.
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Two guys right up our alley. Damn. At least they’re out on Tuch so we can have that dream crushed by someone else in a couple days.
ZachaFlockaFlame
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Been yelling for Bjorkstrand for years and, of course, a legit GM goes out and gets him when that team already has elite finishing as is.
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''I'm looking for no dickheads and guys who won't violate the dress code. Sexual offenders and rapists? That might be fine!''.
Let's wait and see what Tampa gave up. Bjorkstrand also had a partial no trade, so there's a chance we were on it.
Back in the day when Bob McKenzie did his podcast, he outlined how a player/agent could strategically have a 10 team no trade list that would cover most of the league so that the player would have more control. A few years back, I think Alex Goligoski's partial no trade got leaked and he had LA on it but not Anaheim. Some folks incorrectly interpreted that as Anaheim being a much better place to live than LA. But really it was because Anaheim already had two high salary LHD (Lindholm/Fowler), so it would be a waste of a spot to include Anaheim since they weren't likely to be looking to trade for Goligoski.
ZachaFlockaFlame
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Fair, most times though these guys put the Canadian teams and then another couple of random teams. He played in CBJ so I don't think he'd hate the East Coast to where they were on his no trade, but who knows.
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Was looking up our old friend and woof. 12 shots in his last 13 games.
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Zajacs Bowl Cut
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fun times this past offseason pining over this player
....even though he was the exact same guy in Calgary that he was in NJ, just riding a high shooting % and PP time.
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I'm really trying not to be biased here because Fitz at this point could do an interview while wearing an ugly colored suit and I'd probably bitch about the ugly suit he wore on camera. And all these stories are way more serious than a hockey executive doing a poor job constructing a team. These have real life implications and victims.
But I'm not completely sure if he knew about all that's went on. There's enough evidence to suggest he was at least thinking about it though, as we saw with the one year McLeod extension, two year Bastian extension. Maybe the one year McLeod extension was just supposed to be a bridge? I don't know.
Now if someone like me can watch McLeod's interview on camera during 2022 training camp and come to the conclusion that he looked like he was hiding something and very uncomfortable, questionable body language, etc, then I wonder if Fitz watched that interview and thought ''Hmmm, we may have a problem on our hands?''. He had to have at least thought about the McLeod situation and the possibility that he was very much a culprit in this.
But I know a lot of people were not happy with the timing of the ''State of the union'' address last season and extension announcement. And it definitely felt like a pattern interrupt.
A lot of people also hated that he signed Cal Foote to a two way contract at the time, as he was another one caught up in it and it probably should have been looked at as not the greatest PR move, especially since Cal Foote wasn't a useful player anyway. Not that being useful or not matters when you're a rapist or sex offender. That's definitely not of any importance what kind of player they are. Just saying that it doesn't look very good to sign him for the possibility he was in on this and he'd be here in the organization when the names came to light. With McLeod, at least we already had him in the organization to begin with and there wasn't much evidence that he was in on any of it that early on, but I'm sure the Devils braintrust thought about it either individually or possibly by committee.
I think our entire 3rd line from last night adds up to Sharangovichs cap hit
Now with that said, our bottom 6 is ASS. This wasn’t meant to he a discussion about NJ. I was just curious about how he was doing
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I'm this close to just saying "screw it" and advocating to bring back Mikey McLeod. So long as the players are fine with it, I'm willing to take the PR hit. We live in a post-shame world, might as well play along.
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I don't care about Sharangovich that much, but it's annoying that the guy we traded him for was merely a casualty of a lost, junked season.
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You should be ashamed of this post mate.
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At this point I'm not sure how big he can really go with no first round pick lol.
As I keep saying, I think he deserves more heat for the clear direction change and what he did or didn't do in the offseason more than now.
To be fair, Tampa spends firsts like candy.
SteveCangialosi123
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Probably worth it for Tampa with Kucherov and Hedman still elite. We are definitely not in any position for a move like that.
Calculated risk on their end, late firsts tend to be mixed results. Sharks had a similar mentality for their Thornton era teams but it caught up to them eventually.
Still see people harp on the Tanner Jeannot trade an all time bad trade. While I'm not arguing it was a good deal, it looks a lot less sexy when you swap in the names of the players that Nashville yielded.
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