Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCIV: From Ghost to Hakstol and all things in between

[DancingPanther]

I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. While it's pretty cool that they're finally looking like a competent and decent baseball team, they had stockpiled enough assets by like 2019 that they already could have opened their window, but they stayed in sell/stockpile mode until a few months ago. It f***ing sucked. I think I watched like 6 games last season. They're 16-8 and hosted the Dodgers last night in front of maybe 8,000 fans, a third of them in blue, because they more or less destroyed the little fanbase they had left after all this time. Home runs landing in an ocean of empty seats. It's bad. Rebuilds that take that long aren't worth it.

I want the Flyers to rebuild correctly and not jump the gun on adding any veteran talent. But I also don't want them doing what my baseball team did and "rebuilding" for nearly a decade. There needs to be a trajectory and something tangible added from time to time. Still stock up on 1st and 2nd round picks where you can, but I'm totally cool with 22 and 23 year olds, guys in their 2nd or 3rd or even 4th seasons who still have more to offer.

Right but the Pirates are a poverty franchise. My Flyers wouldn't be. Besides, this is Philly. The fans always come back. Look at the Sixers and Phillies.

The Sixers would be my Flyers. You stockpile, you finally hit the big-time in Embiid, who puts people in the seats again. Then you strike with trades, FA, and continue to draft smartly.

I'm just telling you what I'd do, which would piss a lot of people off. Maybe including the NHL! The sixers pissed off the NBA after all. I'm not telling you what they "should" do, or what they will do, or what's better than what.

 

[DancingPanther]

Nobody who is currently in the NHL will be under 35 by the time the Flyers are relevant again.

Therefore, we should retain our core. That would enable them to be the next crop of good soldiers we can promote to the front office or into player development

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Cousins shot the puck directly into Ullmark who was floundering around like fish

And he had time to lift puck as well

 

[Strawberry Fields]

 

[FLYguy3911]

Right but the Pirates are a poverty franchise.

 

[BiggE]

His annual salary is Bryce Harper’s pocket cash.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan.

Not that I've watched baseball in years until last October, but I do forget that some franchises exist lol. Remember that episode of Home Improvement where Tim and his son came up with the "How bout the Tigers" code as a way to say I love you? I member. Also the last time I've heard of the Detroit Tigers.

Agree with the rest of your post though. I'm totally fine taking a player who should be in their prime about ~5 years from now. If I can turn Hart, TK, and Provy into 1st round picks this year, I'm all for it. If I have to take some trash back that's off the books in a couple years, that's fine. If I can also score a young, promising player who lines up with my timeline? I mean, yes please. I like bonuses.

Side topic: Should it be boni? Bonuses sounds like Octopuses. Holy smokes my phone let that go. It actually presented Octopuses. Am I that far behind the times? Have language rules changed?

 

[Striiker]

Therefore, we should retain our core. That would enable them to be the next crop of good soldiers we can promote to the front office or into player development

Or, alternatively, I put them all in a wood chipper.

 

[tictactoe]

Bob and big games...

 

[Cody Webster]

B's heading to the power play with 4 minutes left. Need a goal!

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Cody Webster]

Oh man....the rat could have walked it off.

 

[FLYguy3911]

What a breakdown.

 

[GKJ]

Bobrovsky has been great in this game.

 

[Beef Invictus]

My wife just saw Sean McDonough on the broadcast and started yelling about there being a corpse on tv

 

[Tripod]

Cap will be happy.

 

[GKJ]

Matthew Tkachuk scores and we got a game 6. The third playoff OT winner in panthers history.

That means Tampa Bay could be the first team eliminated

 

[tictactoe]

yeah that last save by Bob on big nose in the end of 3rd,,, wow.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Nothing good happens when the goalie plays the puck.

 

[Cody Webster]

Hey Ullmark, go f*** yourself you f***ing loser

 

[Cody Webster]

Ullmark looked shakey all night. Knew when rat boy didn't score on the breakaway the B's weren't winning. Shouldn't ever count on the Bruins to help win a bet.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Nothing good happens when the goalie plays the puck.

Says a known Hexy Hater. Sweet post, thanks!

 

[FLYguy3911]

Says a known Hexy Hater. Sweet post, thanks!

Mostly someone that plays with a lot of goalies in Chel who f*** up a lot of puck touches.

 

[DancingPanther]

Taijuan Walker has a higher aav by 4.5 mil

 

[GKJ]

Hak loses his 40-goal scorer, inserts a guy who has never played (he scores the winner) and wins game 5 in Colorado. Ron Hextall has a good career ahead of him of being nothing more than an advisor.