When will Tony DeAngelo situation get resolved?
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How much? ZERO. There is no impetus for Gorton to be willing to eat any salary whatsoever
HatTrick Swayze
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At this point, have to think buyout is most likely.
Hard to imagine a contender wanting to add him to their locker room at the deadline.
Hard to imagine a contender wanting to add him to their locker room at the deadline.
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Might have to wait for somebody to lose a defenseman to injury before they engage in serious talks.
The Rangers should have tried to trade him before putting him on waivers and announcing he was causing trouble
Player big P
no more striptease no more flashes
There's no great mystery about Tony DeAngelo, he simply disappeared. Now let's have no more curiosity about this bizarre coverup.
Chimpradamus
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What is so bizarre about it? DeAngelo was warned by Gorton his toxic behaviour was on its last straw and if he did something moronic and toxic again he wouldn't play again. Then he couldn't stop himself from hacking on Georgiev and he was done for. DeAngelo was officially warned and he still couldn't stop himself from being an idiot.
Trying to trade him would've solved nothing. The guy was waived and not one single team wanted him.
Zats Muccarello
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Irishguy42
Mr. Preachy
The situation will get resolved when the next appreciation thread for him that I post doesn't get taken down after a day or two.
I know many dont want to hear it, but we could really use his offensive skillset right now. Putting everything aside, need that offensive output.
While I agree that TDA had his warts, he played with passion, he got under the opposing teams skin and prior to the altercation, it was widely publicized that he was well like in the locker room. Its unfortunate that he lost his cool and got into the altercation with Georgiev, bc the team literally has no spark without him in the lineup. He reminds me of a Sean Avery lite.
I think he's dealt for a modest return ( 3rd round pick or so ) at the deadline.....maybe with the rangers eating a million of the contract.
I think he's dealt for a modest return ( 3rd round pick or so ) at the deadline.....maybe with the rangers eating a million of the contract.
With the number of raging coke heads GMs seem willing to take chances on, ADA should be manageable, but they don't want the PR nightmare. By the trade deadline, I think someone bites if the price is right. It's a shorter period to spin the move, for ADA to remain on good behavior, and the cap hit is minimal. You tell me if the Leafs get within contender range they don't add this guy? Or any other contender who loses an offensive guy to injury for that matter.
after last nights debacle tony should be reinserted into the lineup immediately
he should of never been banished in the first place
the PP looks abysmal without him and the offense has dried up
this banishment has backfired on Quinn/Gorton and JD...this incident should of been kept quiet internally and dealt with
he should of never been banished in the first place
the PP looks abysmal without him and the offense has dried up
this banishment has backfired on Quinn/Gorton and JD...this incident should of been kept quiet internally and dealt with
Rather better not to think About. Sucks we lost almost a ppg talent from last season that could help this bottom 3 pp. we aren’t getting help from dealing him if he even gets dealt at this point. Probably better we just move on. Fox and miller are gonna have to pick up the points on the back end because Trouba is a black hole offensively
Crease
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I think Gorton played this one wrong. A team suspension would have given the Rangers more flexibility and trade leverage than waiving him and announcing he’s played his last game as a Ranger.
Cmox
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BAsed on posts like this it'll be a good reason.
I'm just carrying over what I put elsewhere:
Believing it's a conspiracy against ADA's politics and has nothing to do with anything else is about as delusional as it gets.
The funniest thing is the DEGREE to which ADA is delusional when pushing his politics online is exactly what we expect from angry little men who are disenfranchised and looking for a way to point the finger of blame anywhere but inwards. ADA is also known for an abnormally hot temper. Definitely an interesting coincidence that his personality type lines up with what could be expected from someone who pushes the delusional conspiracies he pushes.
ADA is not a paragon of virtue, in fact he's so far from it that NO ONE should be blindly defending him the way you and several others are. He's a gifted athlete with a unique history of losing his temper in ways that are not typical of a normal human let alone a normal hockey player.
He was the architect of his own demise bc of his consistent inability to control himself and conduct himself like an adult/professional both on the ice and off it. To blame the political boogeyman and controlling mods is pure nonsense.
This is not a conservative/liberal thing. This is an ADA thing.
Most conservatives are not like ADA. In fact, as is common knowledge on HF, a significant chunk of his teammates are also conservatives. As are a large portion of the players in the NHL
And I'm on the side of "We shouldnt have booted ADA" but he is what he is.
I mean if the situation was bad enough that Gorton felt like he had to threaten DeAngelo with the waiver wire, it stands to reason that backing off that threat wouldn't have set a particularly good precedent. Sometimes you just have to take the hard line with players and they'll either respond or they won't. Tony chose the latter.
Edge
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They did.
The board wouldn't have liked the offers and without the knowledge of what eventually happened, would've had a meltdown.
The concept of moving ADA, and where some of the discussions led, are not mysteries to HF Boards.
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it was a strange play.
It's almost as if the hierachy felt this was a really good team and TDA risked derailing it. As if his departure would solve everything.
or . . . maybe it was understood how fragile this team is and TDA couldn't help.
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