I think goalies getting into the HHOF are a bit funny. As much as I hate(d) Detroit, I can at least admit that Chris Osgood has a lot of Stanley Cups considering he's not in the HHOF. Sure, his stats weren't as stellar as say Patrick Roy's but it isn't the statistical hall of fame, it's the hockey hall of fame and Osgood won a lot of hockey.
Roy played in a tough era. His playoff performances are what got him in though. Nobody better then. Osgood was just Crawford. Good enough but not great.
Oh I don't doubt they'll try but what's the gameplan ?
Even when they were Arizona, they were more of the island of misfit contract that have significantlly lower dollar amounts than cap hits. Arizona, if they still existed, would never touch Nurse and his 12 million salary next year.
The have a year before me those extensions hit, so one more run with some space. It isn’t infrequent that the best team during a window doesn’t actually win a Cup. You’re fooling yourself if you think Edmonton is just going to fold up and be bad next year. The have some cap space to work with and some flexibility to get more. 2 seasons from now will be tough most certainly.Oh I don't doubt they'll try but what's the gameplan ?
Sign leon this summer to a contract extension that likely begins with a 12 (possibly and probably more) and then maybe you wanna get Bouchard done early so that's a contract that starts with a 9 with the numbers he's putting up and then they're looking at re-upping #97 to what 15 the year after that ?
#97 - $15
#29 - $12
#2 - $9
#25 - $9.25M
That's $45M+ for 4 guys.
My point is that this was their best opportunity to win and I don't see kenny being able to do what's necessary to put this team over the top. Unless he's going to hypnotize Barry Trotz into trading Josi for Nurse AND THEN STILL have to somehow address the goaltending to get an upgrade there, I just don't see how they'll be better next year.
Doesn't ring any bells. Obviously didn't happen.
Edmonton's best bet would have been to actually win the Stanley Cup this season so they could trade a Stanley Cup Champion defensemen instead now they are going to be just sort of stuck with a plain old, extremely overpaid, slightly used Darnell Nurse.
Buyout Campbell.Oh I don't doubt they'll try but what's the gameplan ?
Sign leon this summer to a contract extension that likely begins with a 12 (possibly and probably more) and then maybe you wanna get Bouchard done early so that's a contract that starts with a 9 with the numbers he's putting up and then they're looking at re-upping #97 to what 15 the year after that ?
#97 - $15
#29 - $12
#2 - $9
#25 - $9.25M
That's $45M+ for 4 guys.
My point is that this was their best opportunity to win and I don't see kenny being able to do what's necessary to put this team over the top. Unless he's going to hypnotize Barry Trotz into trading Josi for Nurse AND THEN STILL have to somehow address the goaltending to get an upgrade there, I just don't see how they'll be better next year.
There was nothing sneaky about that. I still am just ... wtaf? I assume it was a response to the possibly extra strict call on Foegele.
Nostalgia will be all time in a few years, everyone will finally realize what they had.
This is true, but also why they only lost four games (and it should have only been three -- or maybe two).
Dude did more to make the Thrashers irrelevant than Bettman himself.
But ... none of the big scorers had good playoffs this year, did they? I kinda stopped paying attention to stuff (including this board, so my apologies if this has been discussed). Kucherov, Mackinnon, Panarin, Pastrnak, Rantanen, Mcdrai, whoever, it wasn't just one team who suffered from their top scorers going flat.
