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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

LeafGm said:
Amazing to think how differently Bergeron and that Bruins core would be perceived in retrospect if Tim Thomas hadn’t swooped in out of nowhere and dragged them kicking and screaming to a Cup in 2011 with one of the greatest playoff goaltending performances of all-time.
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It’s always weird to be reminded that they only won once. Because they’ve been nonstop competitive for so long and bounced us a few times, it feels like they won 3-4 cups in the past 20 years.
 
zeke said:
but non-stop competitive is also "only made it past the 2nd round once in 10yrs, and didn't make the 2nd round in half those years".
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They’re like the NHL’s Night King. All the hype of his legend and yet some little girl took him down the same day he showed up for the big fight.
 
The thing about being competitive yearly is you have to look back on failure of not winning it all after so many chances.
add to that the 2015 draft and lots of missed cups
 
I don't feel the need to bash a good hockey player that rarely said the wrong thing on his way out the door.

Hope he enjoys the rest of his life.
 
Habsy said:
I don't feel the need to bash a good hockey player that rarely said the wrong thing on his way out the door.

Hope he enjoys the rest of his life.
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GOAT 2 way C , class act , ended his career with no major drop off

A truly gem to watch for 2 decades
 
It was a real pleasure to watch the guy play - just always seemed to make the right play. Not a guy that would wow you with speed/skill, but maybe one of the best true centres of his generation. I wish him well in retirement, seems like the kind that could do well in a coaching role.
 
They all want to see us get raped. And they usually get what they want.

It's weird to be a Leafs fan. Either you have shit teams with barely any talent, or great teams with lots of talent and zero luck. And local media at the throats of the players at all times when we need them to be nice to them, and nice to them when they should be critical.
 
LeafGm said:
I get what Dom is saying, but he’s also been irritating the fuck out of me this off-season with his cheerleading for Matthews to get paid as much money on as short a term deal as possible.
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more inefficiency in NHL markets = easier columns for him to write
 
It is weird that Sergei Fedorov made over 14 million 26 years ago and revenues were 1/8th what they are today.
It's also depressing MLS is passing NHL and they didn't exist when our tiny commissioner took office.
Gary is in office cause he's owned the players, but holy fuck what a horribly run league.
 
If the players agreed to not be free agents until age 31 again, those free agents could get way more money.
 
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