MartyOwns
thank you shero
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come on dude. i know your schtick is to act exasperated and play dumb with comments you don't agree with, but you know exactly what i meant. of our pending UFA's, there were the most valuable.
Confirmed with Link: Palms and Zajac traded to Isles for 2021 1st, AJ Greer, Mason Jobst, 2022 conditional 4th
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come on dude. i know your schtick is to act exasperated and play dumb with comments you don't agree with, but you know exactly what i meant. of our pending UFA's, there were the most valuable.
Lou made Palms shave his beard.
It'll grow back in full by the end of the first playoff game.
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I am actually not a fan of him saying “I hope we get the 32nd pick” either. I thought that part was unnecessary.
I do think it will become joke fodder down the line if the Fitzgerald era is an awry one.
“Remember that time he said that he hoped the Islanders first round pick he got for Zajac and Palmieri was the 32nd overall?”.
I do think it will become joke fodder down the line if the Fitzgerald era is an awry one.
“Remember that time he said that he hoped the Islanders first round pick he got for Zajac and Palmieri was the 32nd overall?”.
SteveCangialosi123
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I would say Kulikov is just objectively more valuable because of his salary and lack of an NMC.
Just seeing a clean shaven Palmieri is the most bizarre part for me.
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Thanks. I’ll especially have fun watching them in three years when they turn into the 2015 Devils because they mortgaged all of their draft picks for a 38 year old Andy Greene, a 37 year old Travis Zajac and a consistently declining Kyle Palmieri, and an overperforming J.G. Pageau. We’ve lived what they’re doing now.
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You can pick up new veteran leadership too. Guys like Boyle or Lovejoy filled that role immediately.
I don’t care that we lost Zajac for his “vet leadership”, I’m upset purely due to my emotional attachment to the guy which is a valid reason. (Well, all he was playing well at center which leaves a bigger void these last ~20 games.) Hell, it’s a more valid than the veteran leadership thing. We can get that from other players but I was looking forward to Travis passing Holik on Devils All-Time Career Goals list but now he’s tied with him at 202. For some dumb reason our broadcast crew didn’t acknowledge it.
Fitz probably could have just said "We wish them well" instead of going as far as he did, but it's still much ado about nothing.
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I still amuses me that Trotz had to shave for Lou too.
Upset Travis had to go
He was a great vet and I doubt his value was almost anything at all
wanted him to retire a Devil damn it
He was a great vet and I doubt his value was almost anything at all
wanted him to retire a Devil damn it
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This is why we can’t have nice things. I know that every single thing a person says has to be picked apart and judged but this is the weirdest thing for people to be hyper-sensitive about.
I can’t wait for the call back to this comment months (or even years) later and have people still whine about it. It’s like Hall saying we lacked talent or some shit, damn, these guys should stop speaking publicly at at all because they might hurt fans feelings forever with one random sentence that came out of their mouth.
13BearerOfHope
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Just a side thought regarding the trade.
Why not get a Bellows back here? Did we just not want him? Or were the Isles reluctant to trade him.
Also why are Bellows penalty #'s so high? Especially his first year in the AHL, but even back in the WHL? Does he scrap a lot?
Why not get a Bellows back here? Did we just not want him? Or were the Isles reluctant to trade him.
Also why are Bellows penalty #'s so high? Especially his first year in the AHL, but even back in the WHL? Does he scrap a lot?
Poppy Whoa Sonnet
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The "I hope we get the 32nd pick" quote was a bit over the top I thought, laying it on too thick. But it's just meaningless PR, don't care about it.
I like Fitz as GM, but he doesn't seem like the smoothest speaker. In hindsight, perhaps he would've wanted to phrase it differently, but this is much to do about nothing. He was basically wishing two important players from this franchise good luck.
Fitzgerald's rooting interest isn't going to have any impact on where the pick winds up, so who cares.
AfroThunder396
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It says a lot when a harmless and cursory attempt at class is met with rage.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that in 2021 people on the internet are looking for irrelevant things to pretend to be outraged out.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that in 2021 people on the internet are looking for irrelevant things to pretend to be outraged out.
Count me in as someone who thinks this is a nothing comment by Fitz, but thought the Hall comment was a negative.
Think they are the polar opposites really. On the one hand someone is saying good things about player he just traded, on the other a player is saying his team mates are not good enough.
What's worse is I think people do get a little outraged by these benign comments.
