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disgusting stuff. Really soured on Fitz the past 9 months or so.
Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - offseason part III
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disgusting stuff. Really soured on Fitz the past 9 months or so.
Lucic? Wtf. Even if the domestic violence issue never happened. I’m not interested. Yuck. Even worse that it did happen and we’re giving it a chance. Terrible look.
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Doubt Lucic even makes the team, if that PTO story is even true. He’s not better than Bastian at this stage.
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What is Rob Skrlac up to? Be a better option than Lucic.
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I’m thinking maybe even as many as the last 3 games are played with guys that aren’t going to Europe.
I also think there will be an exhibition game for the players that went to Europe against some other team from a European league.
Like how we did against Bern in Switzerland in 2018 when we opened the regular season in Sweden.
I think every team that opens in Europe has a similar exhibition game against a Euro based team.
I’m surprised we’ve heard nothing on that yet, but maybe they normally haven’t announced that 4-4.5 weeks in advance.
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Had a feeling. I guess we can put the purge of the front office off for a couple of weeks at least?
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The fact Boston fans were that excited (I mean the ovation he got in the arena) when they signed him last year was super cringy.
And that was even before we had any idea he was a woman beater.
They may as well have signed 60-something year old Ray Bourque, who is probably better at hockey at 63 than Lucic at 36.
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Because he was in NJ training a couple weeks ago which random players always seem to do. There was never a legitimate link.
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That's what I was wondering too.
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That's right. Now I remember.
I forgot about that. I'm hoping that's why that Stauffer guy even put it out there that he was getting a PTO and that it was an assumption that he was on a PTO because he was working out at the team facilities.
I did find that odd, because he's not from the area, never played any closer than Boston and usually the guys that skate there are either local guys from either Jersey or Staten Island, or guys that are either active or former Devils players.
I do hope that there's no handshake deal that he'll get a PTO if the NHL will okay him coming back.
Either way, there's a multitude of reasons not to have Lucic on this team. The fact that he's a woman beater is the most important, but he was washed even before we found that out. The guy played 5 games last year, all in October. Even if he only played 5 games, with the last coming in the first month of the season for any other reason, we still shouldn't even think about it. Boston should have never even brought him in.
He's old, washed up, slow, can't even score at this level anymore. And we've known that for years now.
And he's a woman beater, which we haven't known for years, but that's reason enough to stay the hell away from him.
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Jesus lol glad (and not shocked) that it is untrue. Lucic is cooked as a player regardless.
Just had flashbacks to the preseason game I went to when we had Tomas Kaberle and Mike Komisarek on PTOs.
If only for the excuse to talk about Lucic, I'd love to ask Dean Lombardi some questions but I imagine he'd just glare at me.
2006 Draft: Lombardi is hired by the Kings about a month before the draft. So he has to proceed with the incumbent scouts.
Lombardi had been doing pro scouting for the Flyers, so he didn't have any specific input on the prospects. With LA, he inherited a bunch of young forwards but they didn't have much on the blue line.
With two picks in the first round, Lombardi lets the scouts take who they want (Jonathan Bernier and Trevor Lewis). But in the second round, Lombardi allegedly put his foot down and vetoed the scouts taking Milan Lucic. Lombardi insisted that they take a defenseman and the scouts wound choose Joe Ryan. Lucic would go a couple picks later to Boston.
Lombardi's obsession with building up the Kings defense would lead to the Thomas Hickey pick in 2007 as well.
2009 Draft: Lucic is fresh off of a breakout sophomore season. Lombardi is locked into the Kings taking a Lucic-esque prospect in Kyle Clifford with the #35 pick.
As the first round winds down, LA's scouts are shocked that Ryan O'Reilly is still available. They implore Lombardi to trade up to get him. Lombardi tries but the Islanders (#31) understandably want #35 as part of the return. Lombardi declines as he doesn't want to miss out on Clifford who he doesn't think would last until LA's next pick. O'Reilly goes #33 to Colorado.
2015: I believe the story was that some LA scouts happened to be in the same hotel bar as Boston's group the night before the draft. Eventually they talk shop and Lucic's name gets dropped. Talks get unexpectedly serious quickly and Lombardi is called from his hotel room. They'd finalize the deal the next day.
LA would give up pick #13, Colin Miller, and Martin Jones. Years later, (former) assistant GM Mike Futa said that Matt Barzal would have been their pick if they hadn't done the trade. Lucic played well in his one season in LA but left as a free agent.
Lombardi probably wouldn't lose sleep over it with his name on the Cup a couple times, but one minor misstep with Lucic in 2006 arguably led to them missing out on Ryan O'Reilly and Matt Barzal which could have extended their window.
If only for the excuse to talk about Lucic, I'd love to ask Dean Lombardi some questions but I imagine he'd just glare at me.
2006 Draft: Lombardi is hired by the Kings about a month before the draft. So he has to proceed with the incumbent scouts.
Lombardi had been doing pro scouting for the Flyers, so he didn't have any specific input on the prospects. With LA, he inherited a bunch of young forwards but they didn't have much on the blue line.
With two picks in the first round, Lombardi lets the scouts take who they want (Jonathan Bernier and Trevor Lewis). But in the second round, Lombardi allegedly put his foot down and vetoed the scouts taking Milan Lucic. Lombardi insisted that they take a defenseman and the scouts wound choose Joe Ryan. Lucic would go a couple picks later to Boston.
Lombardi's obsession with building up the Kings defense would lead to the Thomas Hickey pick in 2007 as well.
2009 Draft: Lucic is fresh off of a breakout sophomore season. Lombardi is locked into the Kings taking a Lucic-esque prospect in Kyle Clifford with the #35 pick.
As the first round winds down, LA's scouts are shocked that Ryan O'Reilly is still available. They implore Lombardi to trade up to get him. Lombardi tries but the Islanders (#31) understandably want #35 as part of the return. Lombardi declines as he doesn't want to miss out on Clifford who he doesn't think would last until LA's next pick. O'Reilly goes #33 to Colorado.
2015: I believe the story was that some LA scouts happened to be in the same hotel bar as Boston's group the night before the draft. Eventually they talk shop and Lucic's name gets dropped. Talks get unexpectedly serious quickly and Lombardi is called from his hotel room. They'd finalize the deal the next day.
LA would give up pick #13, Colin Miller, and Martin Jones. Years later, (former) assistant GM Mike Futa said that Matt Barzal would have been their pick if they hadn't done the trade. Lucic played well in his one season in LA but left as a free agent.
Lombardi probably wouldn't lose sleep over it with his name on the Cup a couple times, but one minor misstep with Lucic in 2006 arguably led to them missing out on Ryan O'Reilly and Matt Barzal which could have extended their window.
Hey look - another odd angled picture we can use to debate Casey's height!
I'm signing a lot of you into an old folks home.
It was already said when it came up that he was practicing in NJ that he can't play in the NHL.
It was already said when it came up that he was practicing in NJ that he can't play in the NHL.
I'm signing a lot of you into an old folks home.
It was already said when it came up that he was practicing in NJ that he can't play in the NHL.
I'll take instant pudding and 24/7 of shitty ray J Johnson and Joe Namath Medicare commercials over Lucic being in this state.
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