2023 Draft and UFA Thread
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Habsy
Not playing around anymore.
Exactly. The road was there. Geeman and Leafers like blaming covid but when the path opened, the Habs pounced. Weber on one leg, Price without knees, they all put everything they had into that run. I saw that in the first round in Tampa when the Leafs came storming back. I thought "ok, maybe their balls dropped finally". Fast forward to last night? Holy fuck two completely different teams.
Point? You have to bust your bloody humps. If they think they are they aren't and someone needs to tell them that. Can't help but also think Perry would have been good in the room.
Point? You have to bust your bloody humps. If they think they are they aren't and someone needs to tell them that. Can't help but also think Perry would have been good in the room.
GGpX
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There's a lot of things that can be said about that Habs team that went to the finals, but every single one of those players (minus KK) deserve respect. They gave it their all and then some. That playoff run finished three careers. Price, Weber & Byron never played a single meaningful minute of hockey after. Like you said, they had a shot, they dove head first and they went for it.
Brayden Point is smaller than Nylander, Marner and Matthews, but he's got more balls in his pinky than those three combined. Brayden Point will run through a fucking wall to win if he has to.
Toronto's got about one more year, and they need to find out whether Matthews is staying or not. If he doesn't seem warm to the idea of re-signing in Toronto next year? They need to trade him.
GGpX
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TV time is 8PM EST, but it should be announce around 8:15 to 8:20PM, followed by the usual interviews.
GGpX
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I've come to accept that Bedard won't be here and I'm kind of fine with it.
I just don't want him to go to Arizona. I can live with any other team, but not there. If he lands in Arizona, he's destined to become the next Marcel Dionne. An all-time great player who will probably never get the credit he deserved because he'll be in perpetual irrelevance with that Mickey Mouse franchise.
I just don't want him to go to Arizona. I can live with any other team, but not there. If he lands in Arizona, he's destined to become the next Marcel Dionne. An all-time great player who will probably never get the credit he deserved because he'll be in perpetual irrelevance with that Mickey Mouse franchise.
Starts at 8pm
legoalie
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Little Beaver started his career with the Red Wings... he had a huge impact on the Kings...
Like I said before , I am not taking away what Habs did in the playoffs , all guts.
My covid point is simple , without it there are no playoffs
A 24th place team got a lifeline and next year the team was still going to miss in a normal season after regime and other players are gone .
6 straight year of missing the playoffs was a guarantee .
You have to at least admit this , the 18 wheeler fell off the cliff 3 years ago , the rebuild was upon us .
Cant hope a once in a lifetime pandemic is what is required to make the playoffs
I know where the odds lie, duh. It's a just a "feeling" I have.
worm
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Bedard. He can start right away and will be our best player. Which is why I saw the rebuild is over if we get him.
Fantilli likely is in the NHL doing well but not our best player.
McDavid was injured his first user but had 48 points in 45 games. Matthews had 40 goals. So expect bedard to be better than both of those.
I don't think so. He'll be our best player by miles. I've seen him play in-person. He is DYNAMIC.
lecoqsportif
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#5 it is then.
lecoqsportif
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Are we locked in to #5 for subsequent rounds? #37, for instance. I assume so.
Because H said so?
Sal_Butera
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The fact of the matter, in the cap era, Habs have been the only team to have made Cup finals w a player who’s cap hit was $10M or higher (Price).
legoalie
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That was when we beat the Pens and then lost the 1st round... our run in 20-21 was based on 56 game season , and we made the playoffs in our division.. every team that year had the same format..
lecoqsportif
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Statistics. Nothing more, or less.
lecoqsportif
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Yep.
How often does the team with most ping pong balls actually draft 1OA? No too often. Last year was a bit of an outlier. And I get the whole 45% chance of drafting 6 or 7 . . . which also means that there's a 55% they won't draft 6 or 7.
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Sal_Butera
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All I want is for Gorton to be GOAT w his 4th NHL lottery win… that’s all