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Chicago just got sued again for the sexual abuse scandal, so they are definitely guaranteed now to be "penalized" by winning the lottery and picking #1 again.
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I thought the Turris trade was fantastic at the time. The guy was just coming off an Ottawa run to the Eastern Conference Final as their #1 center and looked like he'd be a fantastic 1-2 punch with Johansen. I really felt like Poile had made a great move.In the end, these are some the things I tend not to hold against Poile too much. I remember also being a bit "stoked" about acquiring Turris, and a lot of us bought into the hype at the time. Because we were soooooo desperate for help at C.
It might have been nice if our pro scouting had been a little smarter than us fans, though. But it really was such a "desperate" situation for a while there. When you are a GM and are hunting a solution long enough, I can also see how you get a little excited when something seems to FINALLY materialize. Whups.
And then he just vanished. I've rarely felt that let down by a player.
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It's amazing the team that actually got punished the most in all of this was the Florida Panthers.
but did they? Bruno helped them be the best team in the league that season.
I remember being psyched about the Turris trade initially. It seems like he scored early in either a shootout or penalty shot with a little deke and then a laser. I remember thinking "man it's nice to have a guy that can score like that"...que up the Curb Your Enthusiasm gif.
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Maybe. Hard to know how much he persisted with what Quenneville had set up and how much he changed--they had done pretty well the season before and started off 7-0 that season. That they then elected to hire Maurice instead of making Brunette the permanent coach is...strange, after their success that season.
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That is literally his 1 game this season where he didnt allow 4 or more goals.
There are far worse gigs in life than fired NHL coach
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And if you are him you know that is a job you keep til they start getting good and then they find someone else.
Im still hoping Edmonton fires their coach and brings in Hynes
McDavid and Draisaitl better find that two hundred foot, hard to play against game!
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Can you even imagine? Asking McDavid to slow his game way, way down so you can have tighter, group breakouts, and lug the puck up the rink with lots of short, crisp passing. Oilers fans would leave their hats in the seats and throw themselves over the glass.
Armourboy
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This is why it must happen. I'm not sure even Hynes is crazy enough to jump into that mess.
101st_fan
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The sounding board correlates with the fishy win streak.
Just to remind me, who was the Preds coach the only time the franchise had a 40+ goal scorer (or two)?
Just to remind me, who was the Preds coach the only time the franchise had a 40+ goal scorer (or two)?
I don’t think McDavid fully recovered from his injury and chose to play in the heritage classic before he was ready. I also think he’s continued to play even though he hasn’t recovered because of how things are going.
As far as Drai, I have no idea what’s caused him to fall off a cliff.
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The Oilers are just trying to tank for the #1 pick since that's the way to win the Cup.
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Armourboy
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At this point its your option outside of trading one of them and you only do that after you fire the coach and it doesn't work. Truth is though I can't blame them. That team has so many holes and the only way to fix it is move some cap and move one of them to try and fill them. They essentially have 3-4 guys on the entire team that I think you find on a cup contending team.
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Edmonton has a flawed team but it’s basically exactly the same team that got 109pts last year. It’s fun to watch somebody else panicking though. They should clean out the bloated front office and get a new GM to work on the flaws. But they won’t do that, of course.
Armourboy
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Problem for them is that they have wasted so much cap and draft capital for nothing already they don't have much to offer. Its gotta make a former GM like Poile shake his head, can you imagine what he could have built with two players like that?
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