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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

Bought tickets to the fan fair that weekend. Taking a few non hockey fan families and their kids. Hoping it's fun enough to make them hockey fans. I didn't go to any type of event last time around so not sure if it'll be good.
 
I don't think he's been great or anything, but a fluke Cup win is a decent legacy and he took over a team that was led in scoring by David Backes. He had some nice kids in house that he semi inherited (he was in the org already before they promoted him), AP, Oshie, etc but most of the cup winning pieces were his adds (O'Reilly, Taranseko, Binnington, Schwartz, Schenn, Bozak, Dunn, Thomas, Parayko, etc).

Now, he would be leaving some caphell behind but most of it is moveable. A new GM would have the choice of retooling around Thomas/Kyrou/Buchnevich or just tearing it all down. Could get a bucket load for Thomas & Kyrou (both are on long term, decent money contracts), a few others moveable by themselves like Hayes, (Fuck...Hayes would be one of my favourite 3C targets if they made him available), Saad, probably Parayko as well and the shitty contracts they have are either moveable with retention (Schenn, Krug, Faulk, Leddy) with a decentish return, or dumpable imo with the cap finally starting to rise fairly quickly year over year. Binnington is maybe the only one they're stuck with but he's rebounded to not being terrible this year, so he might even be moveable in the off season.

Not so sure if he wouldn't have been a better play than the Glasses gang we've rolled with. Biggest trap he fell into was clinging to a group of veterans that won him a cup for too long.
 
I dunno it seems his biggest mistake was trying to pro-actively move on from his best player Pietrangelo and not overpay him out of loyalty.
 
Regarding Armstrong, it’s tough to find a more puzzling managerial decision in recent memory in the NHL than booting Pietrangelo out the door unceremoniously immediately after a Cup win, then turning right around and giving big-money long-term deals to Torey Krug & Justin Faulk.
 
LeafGm said:
Regarding Armstrong, it’s tough to find a more puzzling managerial decision in recent memory in the NHL than booting Pietrangelo out the door unceremoniously immediately after a Cup win, then turning right around and giving big-money long-term deals to Torey Krug & Justin Faulk.
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that was probably a real nerdies fail there.
 
Record by Division:

ATL: 218gms, 251pts, .576pts%, 94pt pace
MET: 218gms, 246pts, .564pts%, 93pt pace
CEN: 221gms, 235pts, .532pts%, 87pt pace
PAC: 225gms, 239pts, .531pts%, 87pt pace
 
Man, Colorado has scored 3 in the first and had shots advantage 15-0 with 1.5 minutes left (in first) and then Buffalo scored on a rebound (their second shot).
 
Doesn't look like a sure fire contender core anymore, does it?

Starting to look like Dahlin on an island surrounded by kids trying to find their way but some of those kids are already getting paid and they're running out of their cheap years on a bunch of guys already. Dahlin and Power are 19.35 million as of next year, Cozens is already 7+ million for being an okay middle 6 C, Mittelstadt is back from the dead just in time to get paid this summer.
 
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