Wednesday and Saturday games are national broadcasts, so yes to an extent Sportsnet has influence on which match-ups are in those slots. They obviously wanted to have national broadcasts for the season openers. Sportsnet also pays a ton more $ to the NHL than RDS/TSN do for regional rights, so while RDS likes to have the Habs play Tuesdays as much as possible, they get second priority on matchups.
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Oh I know they were trying, that's why I said it doesn't look great.
Preseason just isn't usually the best indicator of how the season will play out. Sometimes scrubs play like stars and fizzle out pretty quick, none of the vets are trying much in general so they look like crap.
We will see I suppose.
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It also looked like the dumbest configuration possible or MSL was intentionally putting people in odd spots to try to see what other options can be used outside of what should work.
Let's see what practice shows, cause no more farting around today.
Absolutely Wednesday Saturday used to be a tradition on CBC long before the advent of sports channels.
The so called "National" game is grandfathered in due to the CBC/SportNet affiliation but as we all know they don't really have to differentiate.
It's really a business as usual game featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Joshua Roy! There you go, traîne tes pieds -> retourne à Laval.
Hopefully the attitude problem ain't coming back..
Would it mean we will see 2 of ABB, Heineman and Kapanen on the team? Or there's room for all 3 of them?
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I knew it, Roy played like crap during this camp, he doesn't deserve to be part of this team for now.
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I think the 2nd line will be Newhook-Dach-Armia unless they want to try ABB in an offensive role?The bottom 6 is alot order to predict....
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For those who understand the cap better than I do, what would be the hesitation on using offseason LTIR for Laine?
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Ok, i'm not too happy about that. The camp was a shit show, no chemistry and all... dont lose more practice time that could help....
I'm definitively exiting my honeymoon phase with MSL.
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If you put a player on LTIR in the offseason you accrue only enough of the LTIR to meet the cap, example, we are right now we are 1.187 over the cap, if we put Price on LTIR right NOW we would only accrue 1.187 because that's what we need to meet the cap and the rest of it would be "wasted".
That's why its better to send Xhekaj down in a paper move, his salary 1.3mill and then tomorrow put Price, Laine and RHP on LTIR officially, accruing 8.7(laine) + 1.1 (RHP) + 10.5 (price) which is 20.3 mill of LTIR and we would be 200k under the cap.
Then we recall Xhekaj and use up the 200k under the cap and 1.1 mill of the 20.3 which would leave us with 19.2 of LTIR space which we would use up part of whenever Laine and RHP come back.
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You can't accrue cap space if his LTIR was started offseason.
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Did Gallagher seriously weigh in at 156 lbs this year? WTF happened? I know the guy's on the decline but holy shit.
That has to be a mistake, ESPN has him at 184, which is his "normal" weight. 180-185.
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A lighter Gallagher might not be a bad thing. Instead of being slow as a snell, at least now he'll have turtle speed.
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NHL.com has him at 156. He's always been pretty stocky so when I saw that number my eyes popped.
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