Out of Town Thread - New Year’s 2025 Edition
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Team_Spirit
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Whoever gets them will be a better team. It will come down to goaltending. Ullmark was crap in the playoffs for Boston although didn;t the Bruins managed to get the flu in that series.
No punches landed.
Hins77
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- Apr 2, 2013
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Never understood the trade Cozens vs Norris. Norris is always injured. He signed his contract and then, The moment when he broke his shoulder. He never be the same. To me Norris was negative value. Cozens made 68 pts at 21 years old. He was a bargain that I would have tried
Team_Spirit
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The Gr8 Dane
L'harceleur
Dude this Aliaksei Protas guy is an absolute freak
sampollock
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Leto
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That would be 9 seasons without playoffs in Hockeytown, ooooof.
Grate n Colorful Oz
Pure Laine Hutson
Always hated that name. It should come with an asterix like this : Hockeytown (USA*). We're the f***ing hockeytown. The hockey mecca.
Victoire HuGo
Formerly le Barron de HF
Grate n Colorful Oz
Pure Laine Hutson
JianYang
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I think Minnesota calls themselves the state of hockey.
In terms of high school hockey and stuff, Minnesota is probably the state where it's the biggest deal.
They had 20k people show up for a high school championship game the other night. A state record, I think?
Canadienna
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Canadiens Ghost
Mr. Objectivity
Then the Habs are probably a better team earlier and then potentially miss out on drafting Hutson and especially Demidov... I'm good with the way things turned out.
The Great Weal
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Protas has 58 points in 65 games despite only having 4:33 minutes of PP time all season. That's absurd.
ReimanSum1908
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How do you get a 6'6" 30 goal-scoring center in the 3rd round? Man, what a gem. Freak season or breakout season - only time will tell.
The Gr8 Dane
L'harceleur
Don't look at his contract and the fact he gets no PP time...
I'm gonna go cry in a corner
HuGort
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Andrei79
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His skating has improved so much. We need that kind of steal. We got one with Hutson, but it would be nice to get one in front too, after the first round.
Crazy that he's 6'6, 225, and has only 18pim... And that's the most he's had in a season pretty much ever lol ...
Roy, Davidson, Rohrer & FloX all compare pretty favorably to Protas as far as later picks with similarly positive pro progressions since being drafted (2-4 yrs behind Protas), will be interesting to see if any of them are able to really push into NHL regular, let alone impact roles, the way he did in his D6 season
Team_Spirit
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Protas talk will not stop until we know why the Habs slept on them 
