ZachaFlockaFlame
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Panthers/Canes would be my East pick with a gun to my head right now, Boston isn't doing anything with Zacha and Coyle as their top centers
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Sharangovich traded a stick for a Lego set during the warmup today. I’d live to bring him back to NJ. And of course Pickles too.
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Let's go Flames and possibly our goalie in 24-25 lol
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The NHL app has longer than 4 second goal highlights up today for the first time in what feels like months.
Markstrom looks like crap today against Detroit. He’s mentally checked out for Calgary today. I’m guessing he’d gotten excited to go to NJ and got his hopes dashed. At what point does his agent call Conroy and tell him to stop being a Jack ass and get a deal done that doesn’t involve trying to bend NJ over since Markstrom is now ruined in Calgary?
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There is an NHL linesman named Shandor? Is he on the same crew as Zuul?
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Florida for me.
I think they’re the team to beat in the East.
I do think Carolina can possibly take them.
Tampa has looked better recently. They started out the season with some pretty poor underlying numbers, which have gotten better in the last month or a little more.
He’s been around for quite some time.
Looks like 10 years now. I thought it may have been 15 years.
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If Canes get a goalie, they're winning the East. I think Rod peeled back on their game this year to relax a bit more during season to be ready for playoffs.
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People really thought Blake Wheeler was a better value signing than Matt Duchene at one point, LOL
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Yeah, they're the scariest team to me. Carolina may be able to beat them. The Oilers may be able to beat them. I've never wavered on being high on the Oilers the last couple of years, despite their fanbase being very disillusioned with the state of them. Their turnaround after the horrid start is in no way surprising.
I'm not sold on Boston as a contender. I don't wanna call them a pretender. A pretender is some team like Philadelphia or to a much higher extent Detroit. I just think they need a lot more things to go right for them to win the cup than a few of these other East teams.
Toronto? The goalie situation ain't much better than the Devils. But they had Woll to start the year, who was better than what we had. It looks like he's coming back soon.
Ehhh, they've been hot lately and have really gotten it going, but they looked really miserable to start the year.
Even when they were winning games, they were sometimes being outshot the way they outshot us in the most recent Tampa game before the break. Even with Johansson (who is not NHL caliber and has never shown to be) when Vasi was hurt, they won some games in spite of him and in spite of being cratered a bit.
The best hockey they've played has probably been post New Years/maybe post-Christmas.
I would consider it a massive disappointment and step back if Florida faced Tampa in the playoffs this year and lost.
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Florida looks like a buzz saw and they've gotten better when the East has progressively gotten worse over the past year.
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I mean theyre not bad bad, but far from the days of them being a contender. Hedman has lost a step, Vasi looks like a human. Whats gonna happen with Stamkos, is he gonna walk? Now with Sergachev out their top-6 D looks horrible and it wasnt great before. The depth is pretty much gone, they only have 6 players with atleast 10 goals.
Kucherov is having one of the more underrated Hart trophy caliber seasons though. 37 points more than 2nd scorer Point. Crazy stuff.
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If they don't keep Stamkos then they need to use his money to replace him.
They can't just let him walk and replace him with nothing.
They were right to let Palat and Killorn go, but I think Stamkos is a good you keep.
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Stamkos seems like a lifer even if it f***s you over in a few years, same with Hedman/Kuch
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I think Stamkos definitely wants to stay, but they seem like they've been having to let guys go every year.
Again, they made the right call in letting Palat and Killorn go. Not sure if they would have even wanted to keep them if they could.
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Palat they wanted to keep for his playoff record alone, Killorn was the one I think they legit didn't care for and made plans for guys like Hagel to take over his role once he left. It's similar to our early coming out of lockout teams where Lou trusted the old guard too much and the value depth pieces got squeezed out. The cost of winning championships in the salary cap era. Happened to Chicago, Pittsburgh, LA and now TB is suffering from it. Hell, even the Avs lost some good players off their Cup team recently in Kadri and Kuemper
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I think Ryan McDonagh ended up being a big hit to their top 4 depth.
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