Worst takes you've had on this site?

[orby]

The infamous Prucha vs Crosby thread from the old board comes to mind.

 

[Mandar]

Someone thought Boo Nieves should have centered the Rangers first line.

/thread

 

[Hockeyholic]

I made a poll in October 2018 asking who was the better player: Draisaitl or Lakin.

I thought Lafreniere would be as good as McDavid...

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Someone thought Boo Nieves should have centered the Rangers first line.

/thread

Edit: ah ha!

Confirmed with Link: - Rangers sign Artemi Panarin (7 years, $11.64M AAV)

"This 11.6 cap hit is better than what I was expecting" is definitely a fascinating combination of words for me but yet I agree I am happy We have overcome the Panarin shot-handedness photoshop bungle

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[Peat]

I remember in the middle of the 2005-2006 season, Pierre McGuire was asked who he would build around. The choices were 3 super rookies - Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, and Dion Phaneuf.

"No disrespect to the other guys but this has to be Dion Phaneuf."

Wonder if he regrets that take?

He'd probably do it again with a big smile and biographical details of Phaneuf's family to the 10th generation.

 

[AvroArrow]

Where's all the other people that said Toews > Crosby ? That takes the cake.

 

[SEALBound]

I thought Alex Galchenyuk would be good for Pittsburgh. Not Phil Kessel good, but a decent top 6 wing.

 

[hamzarocks]

I proposed around late May 2015

Phil Kessel for Alex Barkov + Aaron Ekblad + 2015 1st rounder from panthers

I was like 15/16 at the time but sheesh that was some f***ing terrible valuation by me haha

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Where's all the other people that said Toews > Crosby ? That takes the cake.

This isn't "cherry pick opinions of other posters from years back" (that's flaming).

Feel free to offer up YOUR worst take.

 

[AvroArrow]

This isn't "cherry pick opinions of other posters from years back" (that's flaming).

Feel free to offer up YOUR worst take.

That was my worst take, that's why I asked where the OTHER people were that said that. Because it was like 50% of these boards, just surprised no one else mentioned it yet.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

That was my worst take, that's why I asked where the OTHER people were that said that. Because it was like 50% of these boards, just surprised no one else mentioned it yet.

Gotcha, amigo.

 

[Laphroaig]

After his first rookie camp I opined that Mark Stone's skating was so deficient that he'd never play a game in the NHL.

 

[Dr Aidonis Bison]

Zach Parise will never be better than Mike York

 

[mattef]

I was so sure Tage Thompson was a bust.

 

[MessierII]

This goes way back but I thought Sam Gagner would score 80 points. More recently I didn’t think Quinn Hughes offense would translate as well as it has.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

I proposed around late May 2015

Phil Kessel for Alex Barkov + Aaron Ekblad + 2015 1st rounder from panthers

I was like 15/16 at the time but sheesh that was some f***ing terrible valuation by me haha

Dear god lol. Don't worry, you're not alone. All teenagers are stupid.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I don't know if I shared it much, but I was pretty convinced that Boston was going to miss the playoffs last season.

 

[SomeDude]

The infamous Prucha vs Crosby thread from the old board comes to mind.

Yeah, can you believe some people actually thought Crosby was the better player?

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

I thought Boston would miss the playoffs this year.

I thought Eichel and Cassidy would be a poor mix and Vegas would miss the playoffs or be out in the 1st.

I thought Gudbranson would shore up our top 4 D.

I thought Loui Eriksson would be good for at least his first 3 years with the team.

I talked myself into thinking OEL might be a decent acquisition (though I have been funnily prescient in my prediction that Garland was more of a tweener type than a guy worth targeting).

There are some reactionaries on the Canucks board who were calling for us to trade Petey and Hughes when each of them struggled in the last 3 years, but I don't expect to see them in this thread.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

There's a whole lot of Red Wing fans who were totally sure we'd make the playoffs this year.

I tried to tell them.

 

[SensontheRush]

Jakub Culek was going to be a good 2nd line centre

 

[David Bruce Banner]

I initially urged fellow Canucks fans to have patience with Benning.
I liked Virtanen's tool kit and thought he would eventually develop into a speedy scoring winger who was tough to play against.

 

[Mischa]

I was planning an entire series of Scott Pilgrim themed GDTs based around Beau Bennett becoming the top 6 winger that the pens needed after all the failures. Had to scrap it when he got injured. Then he never really stopped getting injured. It was pretty much a gamble whether the GDTs would make sense by the end of the year even if he didn't get injured.

 

[Dirty Dan]

When Oilers signed Drai that 8 million deal I thought it was a bit of a risk

 

[norrisnick]

Apparently disagreeing with the elite status of Ottawa's top 6 forwards and top 4 defense...