Rumor: Rumors & Proposals Thread | Vegas Claim & Somehow Assign Lavoie to Farm... because Oilers.
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CanadasTeam99
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I can't even watch anything game 7 related. I still have some days where I cannot believe we could have won the damn cup. Same as 2006. I have never ever watched any videos or highlites of that game 7 lol.
I turned the game off this year as soon as the horn went. Have not seen handshakes or cup celebration
CantHaveTkachev
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I refuse to watch the handshakes or cup celebration personally. But this? Gave me chills.
Not sure if I'm ready to see the captain crying though.
CanadasTeam99
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I can see McDavid crying a lot. All of that hard work to lose in one game. There is never a guarantee they will get back to the cup finals. It's hard.
bellagiobob
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Hopefully it’s enlightening for JJ as he evaluates his pro scouts as to which one of them pushed for this player.
brentashton
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Watch Vegas flip Aidin Hill to Boston for you know who….
There wouldn't be anything more Vegas than swinging a massive deal for a star player right after the NHL twisted themselves into a pretzel to make special exceptions to accommodate their cap situation.
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popo
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McLeod was replaced with Henrique.
I know Henrique was here last year as a rental but we committed to him with 3rd line Centre money that McLeod would have otherwise taken. This is a big upgrade. Henrique can do everything better than McLeod except skate fast. Henrique has proven he can contribute points without being on Draisaitl's wing - McLeod has not been able to do that.
Foeggle was replaced with ArvidssonArvidsson was given the 2nd line winger money, a higher price than Foeggle. Foeggle is a great energy third liner, but a guy who couldn't think the game or pass the puck effectively to play with Draisaitl. Don't think Foeggle hits 20 goals again, but think Arvidsson should out produce him.
Kane was replaced with Skinner.Until Kane returns from Long Term injurry, Skinner gets to play top six and provide some goal scoring. Something he has proven he can do.
Holloway was replaced by _____.By committee really. It could be Perry, it could be Lavoie, it could just be Brown/Janmark paying more minutes and having better seasons. Holloway was going to play 3rd to 4th line minutes here. I will miss him and will be a challenge to replace his potential, but we can easily replace his 6 goals.
PositiveCashFlow
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So if there's someone we want to get off our books can we just feed them a bunch of donuts and have them fail their physical? 
So if there's someone we want to get off our books can we just feed them a bunch of donuts and have them fail their physical?
As soon as Bettman hears that its the Oilers on the phone, he'll just say "Nope, and if you do, you'd have to forfeit a 1st round pick to the Calgary Flames" and then hang up.
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I hope so too. If this happens, great. Something that doesn't really hurt them all that much, can teach them a lesson, to hopefully help in the future.
Don’t forget Podkolzin. He has scored 14 goals in a season, granted he hasn’t hit that for the last couple of seasons.
Hopefully he can get his confidence back.
I don't know man.
Holloway's 9 points in 38 regular season games and 7 points in 25 playoff games is going to be really, really, really tough to live up to.
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Connor wants it so bad.
f*** this series is gonna be heart wrenching.
Such f***in bullshit man. I hate this f***in league.Shocked that the league helps out their precious golden bitches again.
Maybe MTL should try doing the same thing with Carey Price.
Oilers out here losing 2 first round blue chip prospects due to cap reasons, but the Knjghts just cheat their way through e same cap issues.
Watch Mark Stone get on LTIR so they can exploit and grab 2-3 more players.
guymez
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Gary has been coddling the Vegas franchise ever since the purchase went through. I am quite convinced that the Vegas franchise was purchased with the understanding that Gary would do everything in his power to ensure success for Vegas as quickly as possible.
It started with the new rules for the expansion draft. The NHL created a scenario whereby Vegas could skip the steps previous expansion teams had to go through to build a potential winning team (steps that took years building through the draft) and just start in the League from day 1 with a playoff competitive team.
Vegas has been given preferential treatement ever since.
The Golden Knights are the NHL's golden child. Thats never going to change.
I cant stand that franchise for that reason,
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The only concern was his sudden increase in physicality. If that carried over to next season and he managed to turn into a Foegele clone in terms of productivity, that's a tough player to replace.
But odds are that Holloway's injury history makes it likely that he'll miss time in the future. So maybe Podkolzin may be able to fill in the gap left by Holloway over the next two seasons.
Sounds like my wife as I'm trying to do the renos on the house myself.
Podkolzin has some underrated physicality to his game.
Ultimately, Holloway is a bottom six player who should be easy to replace.
His speed was nice but 2.3 mill for that speed is an easy pass.
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Feb 15th announcement: "Mark Stone is suffering from a broken heart after watching The Titanic for the first time. We take the mental health of our players very seriously and will be playing Stone on LTIR for at least 2 months to give him time to recover"
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