HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition

[1909]

Don't hold your breath

Right. Weber never really accepted to be traded. He always was a Predator in his heart.

 

[Guy Larose]

Right. Weber never really accepted to be traded. He always was a Predator in his heart.

The picture itself is a big clue as well

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Weber is going into the HOF. Congrats.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805686652905427078

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805687065985556763

First ballot. Well deserving. Long career, killer shot, dependable blueliner.

Still hated that trade. PK's career ending early helped take the sting out but still a brutal trade.

Anyways, he's well deserving of the HOF.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

First ballot. He was great player. Terrible his career cut short. He's reason we got to finals

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

This Jake Walman trade is really strange. I'm a bit lower on him than the analytics guys but he's still a perfectly good 4-5 type. No idea why he would have negative value with 2 years left at 3.4M.

I guess we have to assume that Detroit wouldn't have paid a 2nd to dump his contract without exhausting other options but even with his 10 team NTC I can't imagine that there wasn't any other team out there who would have taken him for free at the very least. Going to be funny to see how many teams sign worse defencemen to more expensive contracts than Walman.

Maybe Walman was caught dating Corey Perry's mom...

(Excuse me while I go infract myself)

 

[Scintillating10]

No way! Habs were dead meat until Weber called that meeting before Game 5 in Toronto.

Some fans like to say that, but players way rallied around Weber. It was Weber.

 

[Team_Spirit]

That's what happens when you do the griddy on the road like a moron.

Walman! Pack your shit! Enjoy being caved in every night in SJ

L

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

No way! Habs were dead meat until Weber called that meeting before Game 5 in Toronto.

Some fans like to say that, but players way rallied around Weber. It was Weber.

 

[salbutera]

Utah Coyotes it is…

 

[MD thaivuN]

What the hell is Stevie Y doing?

Walman averaged like 20 minutes per night and is actually a very decent defenseman with a decent aav. To give up a good asset in a 2nd rounder just to have SJ take him off their hands? Huh..?

If Yzerman plans on making a big splash in Free Agency, I’d be very nervous if I was a Wings fan because I thought their off-season was awful for the most part last year.

I haven’t been impressed with Stevie since leaving Tampa.

i'd give a 3rd round pick to grab Walman if we didn't have a logjam in D. It's insane he's giving up asset to dump him.

 

[dcyhabs]

I just read an interesting stat. The Panthers are now 15-0-1 in the last 16 games with Dan O'Rourke officiating. He seems to be a good luck charm for that franchise.

The antiChris Lee for them. It doesn’t impress me that you have refs with records of impacting play and making certain teams win. It’s not quite the Flyers’ pet refs in the’70s, but it’s not good.

 

[the]

No way! Habs were dead meat until Weber called that meeting before Game 5 in Toronto.

Some fans like to say that, but players way rallied around Weber. It was Weber.

The players knew it was Weber's final moment and did all they could to end his career on a high note instead of submitting to Leafs when they were down 3-1.

Supposedly he was in so much pain that he was crying between periods. His legendary intangibles were on full display during that run. Not sure they go this far without him.

 

[Ezpz]

No way! Habs were dead meat until Weber called that meeting before Game 5 in Toronto.

Some fans like to say that, but players way rallied around Weber. It was Weber.

Much like how media tried to play up that the boys scored ten for Lafleur when it was obvious as hell they knew it was Carey's last game. Everyone put their all into that meaningless game to send him out on a high.

 

[Team_Spirit]

AHL cup went Game 7 OT

H.Lapierre was named mvp

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805440644111851720

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805710085588664331

 

[dinodebino]

Stamkos to Detroit.
Marner to Detroit.
Something crazy like that.


It’s such a bad return that something must be brewing. I can’t make sense of it otherwise.

Stamkos is very doable.

 

[Scintillating10]

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No way man, you malarkey. might be able to fool some. But I've been around too many dressing rooms. I know 22 players grown men in dressing room not going to be wrong.

He's just somebody relation to Price or trying to discredit Weber.

 

[dinodebino]

Utah Coyotes it is…

What a fraud.

 

[CharleyHorse]

I hate oilers fans couldn't enjoy them winning. Kinda like 2011 where Vancouver fans made me hate them more than Boston

Why hate on Oiler fans? Not that you can't, I'm just curious why. Winnipeg, Toronto, Boston fans, I get it, but Edmonton.

 

[Rapala]

Sad they didn’t win. Unfortunately, all it does is perpetuate this scary thought: as a hockey player, you need to live in a tax haven in a Southern State to win or be competitive.

Nothing good in there for our market. Simple as that.

Something the league could easily fix if they really wanted to.
It doesn't take a genius to come up with an average tax per player in terms of deductions at source which while not being perfect would show some semblance of fair play. What players then do with their incomes is totally up to them park it offshore for all I care. Capped league all paid American dollars
it's the next logical step. Either that or simply give the disadvantaged teams more cap to work with in consequence.

Habs might as well trade Reinbacher now. The pressure on him will be too high.

Yeah cause Michkov tore up the K and is now doing the same in the NHL.
How about we wait and see if he survives Torterella first?

 

[Leto]

Something the league could easily fix if they really wanted to.
It doesn't take a genius to come up with an average tax per player in terms of deductions at source which while not being perfect would show some semblance of fair play. What players then do with their incomes is totally up to them park it offshore for all I care. Capped league all paid American dollars
it's the next logical step. Either that or simply give the disadvantaged teams more cap to work with in consequence.

Friedman & Marek have brought up in the past few months, some executives/owners of American teams have expressed some concerns about the tax-free states advantage. It might be something that could be on the agenda for the next CBA.​

 

[Adam Michaels]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805733861533663242

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805733861533663242

He's fairly well connected and respected, he won't have to wait long if he doesn't get the Columbus job.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

go in as a hab Weber

It isn't baseball it doesn't work that way. He'll go in as both a Predator and a Canadien.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805733861533663242

Oh goody, they get to play the 1-3-1 system that should drive offense!

 

[MarkovsKnee]

That's what happens when you do the griddy on the road like a moron.

Walman! Pack your shit! Enjoy being caved in every night in SJ

L

Something happened with him for sure. I don't think it was the griddy, but he missed some games down the stretch for wings without a reported injury. So maybe off-ice stuff.