Just Nuge as our closest. It's a nice story. But nice stories don't field competitive rosters, cap management does. We're up against it now with very little relief from the hometown discounts we were always going to need to continue being a Cup contender.
Fun fact. The Leafs have never played a 3rd round game, in their history.
A superstar for the first time in history choosing Edmonton for their entire career isn’t a huge win because of 500k? Please.
Well, we are a bit off topic here so I won't go on too long but its interesting how having 4 long term (assumed) very high priced contracts (Nurse, Bouchard, Mc-D, Drai) doesn't take too long before it has a profound impact on the rest of the lineup. Without a significant cap increase it becomes even more profound. This is not to say that there won't be significant cap increases but again, revenue projections are just that and nothing more.
Does anyone even take Staples serious anymore?
A Hometown Discount would have been nice. Still a win, could have been a huger win. I stand by the statement. But yes, also nice to have a Superstar here for the long haul, maybe I'm getting greedy as the Decade of Darkness goes further away in our rear view mirror. But practically, we want a Cup and this is a competitive League, hard to do that without Cap.
When they won in 67, how many rounds? 2?
Yeh no 3rd round existed in 1967. Which I just found out recently, which makes 1967 even more hilarious.
They have played in the 3rd round they have never won 3 rounds in 107 years
Stopped listening to his s***. Like McCurdy but not him...
Hard to do it without cap, probably impossible to do it without Drai.
Valid point. I just wish we could have McDrai AND Cap Room from Discounts. That's the huger win in my books that I was hoping for.
I knew he wasn’t going anywhere, despite what eastern conference fans were hoping would happen! Listening to some of the posts online over the years about how he (and Connor) “can’t wait” to leave Edmonton were absolutely laughable!!
