Confirmed with Link: Canes Sign Defenseman Jake Gardiner to 4 Year Contract

[zman77]

 

[zman77]

 

[zman77]

The signing of Jake Gardiner by the 'Canes was an absolute steal!!

 

[HisIceness]

I don't know what those charts mean but if Sean Tierney likes it then so do I!

 

[Roboturner913]

I wouldn't be surprised if the #7 D spot ends up being McKeown, Forsling or even Sellgren. Fleury is very tradeable and it won't hurt Bean at all to stay in Charlotte another year.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

The signing of Jake Gardiner by the 'Canes was an absolute steal!!

I have to admit. I clicked on the text of this post, convinced it was a link. Not sure what twilight zone I’m in when Zman isn’t posting tweets or links.

 

[WreckingCrew]

I have to admit. I clicked on the text of this post, convinced it was a link. Not sure what twilight zone I’m in when Zman isn’t posting tweets or links.

Link worked just fine for me...try again

 

[NotOpie]

Does this rub anyone else the wrong way or is it just me. It seemed like the whole point of the interview was to be like why would you want to go from being an elite super awesome maple leaf to being a ****ty carolina hurricane. Like media scrums are the most important aspect of hockey. Idk this just seemed stupid.

O'Neill is a pisser!

Nah, it just confirms that Jeff O'Neil is a dick, has always been a dick, and as he's gotten fatter, he's an even bigger dick.

Sure, he's not totally wrong about the market, but shitting on a southern, non-traditional market when it had hockey for about 5 years is a f***ing lay up. It is especially irritating given that this market embraced the guy and tried its best to make him something of a hero. He repaid and continues to repay it with dickish commentary.

If I never have to see or hear him again, it will be too soon.

 

[The Jerk Store]

Nah, it just confirms that Jeff O'Neil is a dick, has always been a dick, and as he's gotten fatter, he's an even bigger dick.

Sure, he's not totally wrong about the market, but ****ting on a southern, non-traditional market when it had hockey for about 5 years is a ****ing lay up. It is especially irritating given that this market embraced the guy and tried its best to make him something of a hero. He repaid and continues to repay it with dickish commentary.

If I never have to see or hear him again, it will be too soon.

I meant literally.
Canes Forward O'Neill Charged With Drunken Driving

 

[Navin R Slavin]

It's going to be delightful when Carolina has success over the coming years, and the org as a whole continues to tell Jeff O'Neill to f*** himself. I hope he hates us. f*** him.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Honestly, if Gardiner's back holds up, this could be one of the league's biggest bargains in a year or so. Rangers paid the other guy $8M AAV for 7 years and had to buy out Shattenkirk's bonus-laden contract and play 7 rookies/sophomores to fit it all in

 

[VAcaniac]

Not really? They laugh at the comparison between the zoo that is Toronto's hockey media and what they have in Carolina, that's it

People in the league definitely like to shit on the Canes but this board can be overly defensive sometimes. Im not calling out anyone in particular at all.

Pierre literally orgasmed himself about the PNC arena atmosphere in the 2019 playoffs. He did in 2006 too.

The Toronto media doesnt love us but the league isnt out for us either.

 

[Roboturner913]

Jeff O'Neill can go eat a dick, a 10-pound bag of dicks, in whatever weight-per-dick configuration you prefer.

He's clearly eaten everything else in North America, anyway

 

[Wolfpuck]

Jeff O'Neill can go eat a dick, a 10-pound bag of dicks, in whatever weight-per-dick configuration you prefer.

He's clearly eaten everything else in North America, anyway

But how do you really feel, Robo?

 

[My Special Purpose]

O'Neill lost his mind over something Dundon did. I forget exactly which transgression it was that got him on Jeff's sh!t list -- oh, I think it was the way Francis got booted out the door. That's right. Jeff is team Francis, and everything Dundon does from here on out will be crap. At the end of the day, his opinion means zero. Guys are signing here faster than we can print up SPCs. Somebody's doing something right. Jeff's just bitter. Let him have that. He's got very little else. He's Don Cherry Jr.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Jeff O'Neill can go eat a dick, a 10-pound bag of dicks, in whatever weight-per-dick configuration you prefer.

He's clearly eaten everything else in North America, anyway

I APPROVE OF THIS INSULT. IT IS VERY CREATIVE. AND VERY VENGEFUL.

 

[Vagrant]

we should all be used to this by now. the fundamental truth is that it's all they have to hold over us that there's more of them than there are of us, referencing hockey fans in canada. the response to that kind of tribalism should always come with the qualifier that we simply haven't been around as long as they have and we're just now starting to get the first wave of second generation fans. why do the facts have to be offensive, even when deployed as some false superiority? it's not helping any of these teams win championships to have every move dissected inside that fishbowl. it's made a lot of those teams pretty risk averse or at least risk aware.

jeff was here for the beginning stages of what this team was to become and every point of reference he has to what we are now is from an external perspective no more valuable than anyone else's. the things he's saying are true about how thrust upon this team was to the market when it first got here. nobody really knew how to handle it. as time passed, and as the organization went from a single digit million dollar company to a half billion dollar company, things started to change. the stories from the beginning should serve as reference points to how far we've come, not where we currently reside. if it makes jeff feel better to tell those stories as if they still have relelvance, that's no problem. we just installed a jumbotron that's worth more than the hurricanes were when they arrived. jeff's dial up internet era ruminations are only worth the amount of credibility you assign him.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

I WISH MR. GARDINER GREATEST OF VENGEANCES AGAINST ALL WRONGS HE’S HAD TO SUFFER AS A MEMBER OF THE PREPOSTEROUS PLANTS.

 

[AD Skinner]

I think it must really burn him up that the only NHL playoff hockey he ever got to play was in a hurricanes jersey. He had his chance as a maple leaf and did pretty much nothing with it

 

[NotOpie]

we should all be used to this by now. the fundamental truth is that it's all they have to hold over us that there's more of them than there are of us, referencing hockey fans in canada. the response to that kind of tribalism should always come with the qualifier that we simply haven't been around as long as they have and we're just now starting to get the first wave of second generation fans. why do the facts have to be offensive, even when deployed as some false superiority? it's not helping any of these teams win championships to have every move dissected inside that fishbowl. it's made a lot of those teams pretty risk averse or at least risk aware.

jeff was here for the beginning stages of what this team was to become and every point of reference he has to what we are now is from an external perspective no more valuable than anyone else's. the things he's saying are true about how thrust upon this team was to the market when it first got here. nobody really knew how to handle it. as time passed, and as the organization went from a single digit million dollar company to a half billion dollar company, things started to change. the stories from the beginning should serve as reference points to how far we've come, not where we currently reside. if it makes jeff feel better to tell those stories as if they still have relelvance, that's no problem. we just installed a jumbotron that's worth more than the hurricanes were when they arrived. jeff's dial up internet era ruminations are only worth the amount of credibility you assign him.

That's exactly right @Vagrant we were so "early stage" when he was here, yet we did have some success. There was no doubt that the ACC basketball media had no idea what to do with the emergent Canes franchise. Then, when it went to the playoffs and even the Cup finals, it was still a bit of an oddity. But the market continued to embrace the team and even recognized O'Neill as a bit of a celebrity. His stint as part of the Canadian hockey media really feels like the needless grinding of some imaginary axe.

I WISH MR. GARDINER GREATEST OF VENGEANCES AGAINST ALL WRONGS HE’S HAD TO SUFFER AS A MEMBER OF THE PREPOSTEROUS PLANTS.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

That's exactly right @Vagrant we were so "early stage" when he was here, yet we did have some success. There was no doubt that the ACC basketball media had no idea what to do with the emergent Canes franchise. Then, when it went to the playoffs and even the Cup finals, it was still a bit of an oddity. But the market continued to embrace the team and even recognized O'Neill as a bit of a celebrity. His stint as part of the Canadian hockey media really feels like the needless grinding of some imaginary axe.

TORONTO SHRUBBERY... THIS GOES ON THE LIST.

 

[My Special Purpose]

I think it must really burn him up that the only NHL playoff hockey he ever got to play was in a hurricanes jersey. He had his chance as a maple leaf and did pretty much nothing with it

I think it's funny that he considers himself the guardian of Hurricanes history and gets all butthurt when Francis is shown the door, but whenever he has an opportunity to use an image as an avatar or career highlight, he uses a photo of him in a Leafs jersey.

How's that for disrespect.

WE MADE YOU, PUNK.

 

[Lempo]

WE MADE YOU, PUNK.

AND WHEN WE SAY WE MADE YOU, PUNK, DO NOTE THAT WE MEAN WE MADE YOU, PUNK. WE DIDN'T MAKE YOU PUNK. YOU MADE YOU PUNK, PUNK.

 

[zman77]

What do you mean fat?
I'm still an athlete, look at my headband I'm legit fit!

 

[Svechhammer]

What do you mean fat?
I'm still an athlete, look at my headband I'm legit fit!

Good lord...