HeyKurtz
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I agree with you 100%, but let's get more information before jumping to conclusions. There are multiple reasons why people struggle with mental health.
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2025-26 NHL Miscellaneous Thread
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SlapShots
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As a licensed mental health professional with over 30 years of experience, I’m pretty comfortable with my opinion.
CanadaCanes
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He hung himself according to the statement that was released today. Lemieux had 17 active player agent contracts for over $355 million dollars. That is a ton of players he touched, and those relationships are like family by all accounts between player and agent.
TheBigKahuna
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I know he wore numerous sweaters, but I'll always remember Claude as an Avalanche in those rivalries with the Red Wings.
Fayettenamcanesfan
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Draper remembers him as an Av too
Been so busy and distracted that I completely forgot to post mortem the Conference Finals losers … whoops.
Colorado
I feel like the fan base thinks somebody needs to pay for yet another playoff flameout, especially after the massive whimper they went out on. In truth, I’m not sure it makes sense. Yeah, I do think that Bednar has gotten a little stale behind the bench, and I’ve never been all that convinced that Colorado’s approach to roster building is as solid as everybody seems to think. The top end of that roster is special, but a couple of injuries to the wrong guys and that’s a really, really basic group. They need better depth, and more reliable goaltending but are so locked up in their salary structure that I’m not sure where it comes from. Meh. Not my problem.
Cap … they have a hair under $3 million available. Yup. That’s right. Drury is an RFA and they only have 4 defensemen under contract with next to no money to sign anybody. They’re now paying Landeskog $7 million a year to play what amounts to 3rd line minutes, and if you’re wondering why they traded for Kadri with term, so are the Avs. They were all in to win now and didn’t even make the Final.
Outlook … some stupid team or multiple stupid teams will probably play the willing dupe to help bail them out, but it’s going to take a lot of fancy footwork to rebuild that D.
Montreal
Polar opposite time. A young, relatively inexpensive team on the rise with pretty much all of their impact players locked in for at least another season and three NHL-ready goalies, all on reasonable to bargain basement deals. Yeah, they didn’t go out like you’d like but they’re at least a year ahead of schedule and have an easy road map to natural progression. They’ll be feeling good going into the summer in Montreal.
Cap … not a ton of short term wiggle room, as they have $10 million available on paper. But the current payroll is one forward shy of a complete team. A complete team with three goalies. Montembeault at $3.15 mil should be hard to move in the goalie desert that is the NHL and Xhekaj, Veleno, Dach and Bolduc are their RFAs. Nothing terribly expensive to bridge there. They should have the prospects and draft capital to make some deals if they want, and I do think they’ll probably want. They’ll want to feather the abition a bit though. Demidov, Newhook and Dobes are all RFAs next summer and they’ll need to budget accordingly.
Outlook … this is a good, fun team that’s well set up to get better.
Colorado
I feel like the fan base thinks somebody needs to pay for yet another playoff flameout, especially after the massive whimper they went out on. In truth, I’m not sure it makes sense. Yeah, I do think that Bednar has gotten a little stale behind the bench, and I’ve never been all that convinced that Colorado’s approach to roster building is as solid as everybody seems to think. The top end of that roster is special, but a couple of injuries to the wrong guys and that’s a really, really basic group. They need better depth, and more reliable goaltending but are so locked up in their salary structure that I’m not sure where it comes from. Meh. Not my problem.
Cap … they have a hair under $3 million available. Yup. That’s right. Drury is an RFA and they only have 4 defensemen under contract with next to no money to sign anybody. They’re now paying Landeskog $7 million a year to play what amounts to 3rd line minutes, and if you’re wondering why they traded for Kadri with term, so are the Avs. They were all in to win now and didn’t even make the Final.
Outlook … some stupid team or multiple stupid teams will probably play the willing dupe to help bail them out, but it’s going to take a lot of fancy footwork to rebuild that D.
Montreal
Polar opposite time. A young, relatively inexpensive team on the rise with pretty much all of their impact players locked in for at least another season and three NHL-ready goalies, all on reasonable to bargain basement deals. Yeah, they didn’t go out like you’d like but they’re at least a year ahead of schedule and have an easy road map to natural progression. They’ll be feeling good going into the summer in Montreal.
Cap … not a ton of short term wiggle room, as they have $10 million available on paper. But the current payroll is one forward shy of a complete team. A complete team with three goalies. Montembeault at $3.15 mil should be hard to move in the goalie desert that is the NHL and Xhekaj, Veleno, Dach and Bolduc are their RFAs. Nothing terribly expensive to bridge there. They should have the prospects and draft capital to make some deals if they want, and I do think they’ll probably want. They’ll want to feather the abition a bit though. Demidov, Newhook and Dobes are all RFAs next summer and they’ll need to budget accordingly.
Outlook … this is a good, fun team that’s well set up to get better.
CanadaCanes
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Colorado absolutely will need to move Kadri to get some cap space to play with! Is that it for Mr. Burns or one more kick at the cat…errr Cup? Could they move one of those goalies for some help on defense? That’s an aging roster overall that is not getting any younger, some hard decisions for McFarland unless he bolts for the Nashville job. A great regular season then those injuries hit…probably run it back for the most part minus Kadri.
Honestly, as badly as Burnsy played in that last series … when they really needed him to step up with Makar out or ailing … I can’t imagine Colorado wanting him back. Maybe he still has a shot with somebody, but I can’t see a contender going with Burns in their Top 6 and I can’t see him wanting to play with a bad team just to hang around or signing as somebody’s 7th D. We’ll see.