Celebrini for Calder

[Crewouse]

Nice, this will be the image I cry myself to sleep to if someone else yoinks Schaefer

 

[PattyLafontaine]

 

[weastern bias]

Celebrini jersey for Christmas, hot damn

 

[Wheatens]

This is far too good. GIGACELEBRINI

 

[Hogde]

Someone has to do the Gigacelebrini vs virginmichkov meme now

 

[tiburon12]

Lol my flyers friends are telling me torts is to blame for michkov playing 10m and going - 3/-4 in games in the same week.

All torts for sure....

 

[LadyStanley]

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Celebrini on one pundit's nice list

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

Getting Celebrini makes not getting Lindros forgivable

 

[coooldude]

Getting Celebrini makes not getting Lindros forgivable

You watch your mouth!!!!!!!!

 

[matt trick]

Getting Celebrini makes not getting Lindros forgivable

Such epic bullshit

 

[TheBeard]

Getting Celebrini makes not getting Lindros forgivable

But Fat Balloon!!

 

[Shark Finn]

This thread has taken an unexpected turn.

 

[LadyStanley]

First HNIC for Mack, I believe.

 

[Levie]

Getting Celebrini makes not getting Lindros forgivable

I'm only calling it even if we get Schaeffer and McKenna

 

[Celly4Celebrini]

I'm only calling it even if we get Schaeffer and McKenna

im greedy its only even if we get dupont too

 

[Shark Finn]

im greedy its only even if we get dupont too

That's not being greedy. That's being completely neutral.

 

[Hodge]

Michfraud held off the scoresheet for the 7th game in a row.

Less than 10 minutes of ice time tonight. Time to go back to Russia?

 

[TheBeard]

That's not being greedy. That's being completely neutral.

I can’t imagine wanting to sacrifice not one not two not three but four years of your life rooting for the team to fail.

 

[Star Platinum]

I can’t imagine wanting to sacrifice not one not two not three but four years of your life rooting for the team to fail.

I've been fortunate enough that every team I've ever rooted for has failed over a four year period without my encouragement

 

[Cas]

I can’t imagine wanting to sacrifice not one not two not three but four years of your life rooting for the team to fail.

The thing is, this team was going to fail for four or more years when Grier was hired, no matter what Grier did.

Tank or no tank, this team was doomed to be a bottom-feeder for years after Wilson was finally pushed out the door, whether management wanted to go all in to try and compete or not, because the cupboard was full of expired or pointless crap, leaving no room for improvement without throwing just about everything away first.

There was no way to build a playoff team, or even a team capable of having a slim chance of reaching the playoffs, by 2025, given the situation the Sharks were in during the summer of 2022. We were legitimately that bad. We still are, but now there's light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[Star Platinum]

The thing is, this team was going to fail for four or more years when Grier was hired, no matter what Grier did.

Tank or no tank, this team was doomed to be a bottom-feeder for years after Wilson was finally pushed out the door, whether management wanted to go all in to try and compete or not, because the cupboard was full of expired or pointless crap, leaving no room for improvement without throwing just about everything away first.

There was no way to build a playoff team, or even a team capable of having a slim chance of reaching the playoffs, by 2025, given the situation the Sharks were in during the summer of 2022. We were legitimately that bad. We still are, but now there's light at the end of the tunnel.

The odds of players actively wanting to sign as free agents with the Sharks has gone up significantly with Celebrini being as good as he is. If we get lucky and Smith has a strong second half stapled to Celebrini's wing and Warsofsky doesn't pull any more bullshit putting Smith with grinders, we might have an even better chance.

 

[TheBeard]

The thing is, this team was going to fail for four or more years when Grier was hired, no matter what Grier did.

Tank or no tank, this team was doomed to be a bottom-feeder for years after Wilson was finally pushed out the door, whether management wanted to go all in to try and compete or not, because the cupboard was full of expired or pointless crap, leaving no room for improvement without throwing just about everything away first.

There was no way to build a playoff team, or even a team capable of having a slim chance of reaching the playoffs, by 2025, given the situation the Sharks were in during the summer of 2022. We were legitimately that bad. We still are, but now there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Expecting it is different than wanting it is my point. I wouldn’t mind getting McKenna and DuPont but I would also be disappointed that we had an additional two more years of absolute bottom of the barrel failure.

 

[Barrie22]

The odds of players actively wanting to sign as free agents with the Sharks has gone up significantly with Celebrini being as good as he is. If we get lucky and Smith has a strong second half stapled to Celebrini's wing and Warsofsky doesn't pull any more bullshit putting Smith with grinders, we might have an even better chance.

If nobody wanted to sign in san jose with thornton, marleau, pavs, burns, karlsson, boyle on the team then Celebrini really isn't going to change that either.

 

[TheBeard]

If nobody wanted to sign in san jose with thornton, marleau, pavs, burns, karlsson, boyle on the team then Celebrini really isn't going to change that either.

I do wonder how much of it was Doug not trying to lure any of the marquee names or them not wanting to, or perhaps his unwillingness to go max term?

 

[Cas]

Maybe Wilson just wasn't very good at negotiating with free agents. There could be many, many reasons.