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The Everything NHL Thread
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You know as well as I do that Shanahan is a joke and whiffed on both suspensions. Nothing else to say.
Holy crap, all the tradesssss
Funnily enough, by James Duthie's count, it matched last year's total of pre-Deadline trades.
You go ahead and believe that, I'm an Oilers fan, I have personal experience of how that works out.
Oilers built from nothing with a couple top picks. Sabres have a bit of a core to build on - Ehrhoff, Myers, Ennis, Hodgson; along with some pretty good prospects/youngsters. Actually having a goaltender in Enroth makes a difference too. I don't see how Oilers and Sabres are that similar in this regard.
Exactly. Feaster destroyed that franchise much the same way Regier destroyed ours. It will be a long rebuild (even Regier said there'd be "suffering"), but Tim Murray has us going in the right direction, and our pool of prospects was just rated at #1 overall in the league. The future is bright here in Buffalo... but good lord, do we suck right now.
I started playing this year, 1st place regular season in a standard league, 2nd place regular season in a /r/leafs league
In fashion following my baseball and football exploits i'm terrible (so far) at accurately predicting players in an auction draft but I'm an excellent season manager
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In fashion following my baseball and football exploits i'm terrible (so far) at accurately predicting players in an auction draft but I'm an excellent season manager
hmu if you need someone
The Flames are a joke, I don't think anyone except Calgarypuck users would argue otherwise. But the Sabres aren't going to just bounce back. It'll happen eventually, but it'll be a long, grueling process. When a team starts to lose like that, the players lose confidence in their games, and trading away veterans with means there's nobody there to mentor the young guys coming in. Even keeping a guy like Steve Ott around is better than nothing, but instead the Sabres opted for Stafford and Leino who are boat anchors if anything to a rebuild. The Oilers, for example, traded away basically every veteran on the team except Ales "Iverson" Hemsky. So instead of having a Paul Stastny to give a MacKinnon or Landeskog the opportunity to adapt to the NHL, guys like Hall and RNH were thrown to the wolves forced to carry the load from the start, while simultaneously being weighed down by the team cancer that is Hemsky.
Used to play, but stopped halfway through the year because I'm too depressed about the Edmonton Oilers "hockey team".
the oilers are just misusing all their talent and their defense is garbage yet they haven't been picking up any halfway decent defensemen along the way. their goalies are facing way too many shots per game, and that's really the main problem for them. and hemsky's gone now so!!
i think the sabres are purposely bombing to rebuild & to try and get reinhart this year & connor mcdavid next year.
as an islanders fan i'm just hoping we pick up a good goalie in the off-season and maybe a veteran defenseman or 2 (and a coach that isn't complete & total garbage) and i think we'd have a good team to play.
anyway, what teams do you guys think have a good shot at taking the cup this year? i'm really thinking it's finally time for st. louis to win!
and Royalty the canucks arent out yet!!
i think the sabres are purposely bombing to rebuild & to try and get reinhart this year & connor mcdavid next year.
as an islanders fan i'm just hoping we pick up a good goalie in the off-season and maybe a veteran defenseman or 2 (and a coach that isn't complete & total garbage) and i think we'd have a good team to play.
anyway, what teams do you guys think have a good shot at taking the cup this year? i'm really thinking it's finally time for st. louis to win!
and Royalty the canucks arent out yet!!
As much as I'd like them to make playoffs and take a run I think the canucks are, done which I'm not entirely sad about as maybe we'll see some more prospects come up. Jensen has really been fun to watch for me as the team really hasn't had anyone confident enough to do what he is trying to do in quite a while.
St. Louis is probably the favourite to win but I'm gonna say it's time for SJS to win it.
St. Louis is probably the favourite to win but I'm gonna say it's time for SJS to win it.
Plan the parade
It will probably be one of the Western powerhouses but I have a feeling that a surprise team like the Rangers will make it out of the East.
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If there were a team on the east that could pull out the win I'd think it to be boston or tampa as unlikely as it is for an eastern team to win, the western guys will probably beat themselves up quite a bit so whoever makes the finals would be more damaged than any team in the east.
While I don't disagree, keep in mind that NONE of those high picks are the problem on that team right now. Hall, RNH, Eberle, etc. are all playing VERY well. As for the Sabres trading vets and keeping shitty guys: well, yeah, obviously. Better to get something in return for expiring contracts of guys who weren't going to re-sign here! Also, not only do we need Stafford and Leino's bullshit contracts to reach the cap floor, but who even wants to trade for those chumps? (Forget that Stafford is PPG in his last ~20.)
But yes, in about a few years, the Sabres are going to be SCARY good.