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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

thehabhater said:
The 1971 habs were a very strong and deep team. ( impossible to believe that they missed the playoffs the year before).

There were a lot of leaders on that team, and you had a few behind the bench in the stands who were leading as well. Imagine coming off the ice after a lazy shift and having Rocket Richard staring at you?

Marner's story reminds me more of Mike Walton than Mahovlich.
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The Habs missed the playoffs in 1969-70 with 92 points in a 76 game season. All the Original 6 teams were in the East Division while the 6 expansion teams were all in the West. This is how the Blues made it to 3 straight finals. Not because they were good, but merely just the best of the worst.

The Blues finished first in the West with only 86 points and they were the only team in that division with a record above .500. The Habs finished tied for 4th place in the East with the Rangers but missed the playoffs on tie-breakers. Chicago and Boston finished tied for first place with 99 points each, only 7 points ahead of the Habs.

And the Leafs, naturally, finished dead last in the East with 71 points; 21 points behind the Habs and the only Eastern Division team to finish below .500 because of course they were.
 
who cares which one it is

for this guy to be mad at anyone else given his performance is infuriating.

a person of any character at all would be burning with rage at how this has turned out and determined to bust their own tail to fix it

not Mitchy though, he feels like the victim and wants to move to Anaheim (doubt he'll sign in the Eastern conference)

I don't like what I see from him as a person, but from a sheer asset perspective this is another masterclass in how not to manage a hockey team, presented by the league experts on the topic.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
The Habs missed the playoffs in 1969-70 with 92 points in a 76 game season. All the Original 6 teams were in the East Division while the 6 expansion teams were all in the West. This is how the Blues made it to 3 straight finals. Not because they were good, but merely just the best of the worst.

The Blues finished first in the West with only 86 points and they were the only team in that division with a record above .500. The Habs finished tied for 4th place in the East with the Rangers but missed the playoffs on tie-breakers. Chicago and Boston finished tied for first place with 99 points each, only 7 points ahead of the Habs.

And the Leafs, naturally, finished dead last in the East with 71 points; 21 points behind the Habs and the only Eastern Division team to finish below .500 because of course they were.
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The habs were in it until the last day. They pulled their goalie early against Chicago as the playoff differential was goals for.
Chicago smoked them, so Chicago won the division.

( I went to my first game that year, so I knew about the east/west configuration. I saw St Louis and Jacques Plante was in net for the Blues)

As for St Louis, some of the games in the 3 finals were closer than the score indicated.
 
thehabhater said:
The habs were in it until the last day. They pulled their goalie early against Chicago as the playoff differential was goals for.
Chicago smoked them, so Chicago won the division.

( I went to my first game that year, so I knew about the east/west configuration. I saw St Louis and Jacques Plante was in net for the Blues)

As for St Louis, some of the games in the 3 finals were closer than the score indicated.
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Scores were close, but the Blues still went 0-12 in those 3 finals. The Blues were well coached (Bowman) and had some older gudpros like Plante, Glenn Hall, Red Berenson, Doug Harvey, Camille Henry and Jean-Guy Talbot.
 
worm said:
Marner will be the new Kessel
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Marner would never.
 
Volcanologist said:
who cares which one it is

for this guy to be mad at anyone else given his performance is infuriating.

a person of any character at all would be burning with rage at how this has turned out and determined to bust their own tail to fix it

not Mitchy though, he feels like the victim and wants to move to Anaheim (doubt he'll sign in the Eastern conference)

I don't like what I see from him as a person, but from a sheer asset perspective this is another masterclass in how not to manage a hockey team, presented by the league experts on the topic.
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Bingo
 
Mitch should sign with a team in the shitty Pacific Division, get on an up and coming team - won't have to worry about playoffs for a few years, and can then retire without having to do any heavy lifting.
 
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