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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

MindzEye said:
After a strong start, they've lost the fuck out of the plot the last few years with their cap and personnel management. They're still living off of a legitimately historic performance at the expansion draft table. The whole thing was genius, even if it looks to have been a fluke in retrospect. But did they ever fuck the rest of the league up the ass in their first opportunity.
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I think an issue is that owner. I've seen interviews with him and he seems pretty hands on and would be vocal in what he wants. But they are very close to having to rebuild.
 
leafman101 said:
I mean this is usually how that trader cliff style of building goes. Windows are short and mistakes are made, but it’s fun so I won’t knock ‘em.
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Yeah, and I don’t really get the hate on. They were immediately a good hockey team and now they’re just doing their thing. Like the franchise frankly.
 
Yeah i never got the hate for Vegas.

The only thing that bugged me of course is that the hockey world took way long to realize that the Pacific has sucked balls for a long long time, and gave all the Pacific teams including Vegas way too much praise.
 
I wouldn’t say I hate Vegas, but I was definitely cheering against them during their inaugural season Cup run, and to a lesser degree in their seasons since. And that mostly comes down to spite and jealousy.

Leaf fans have experienced decade-long periods of absolute playoff-less futility, the franchise has never won more than two playoff rounds in a single season in their entire 100+ year existence, and we haven’t even won a single playoff round since the internets was still a fairly newfangled thing.

But then these newbie bandwagon fans get to celebrate a Cup win right off the bat? Fuck that. Very glad they didn’t win.

Vegas also gets a lot of hype for what a great hockey market they’ve been, but the true test will be how much support the team still gets when it’s no good.
 
zeke said:
Yeah i never got the hate for Vegas.

The only thing that bugged me of course is that the hockey world took way long to realize that the Pacific has sucked balls for a long long time, and gave all the Pacific teams including Vegas way too much praise.
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Can't do that because it would require the Canadian hockey media admitting that half of the Canadian teams are perennial clown shows and that finishing within 10 points of the Leafs means that they're better.

The rule is that trolling leaf fans is good for business and all narratives have to revolve around trolling us.
 
LeafGm said:
I wouldn’t say I hate Vegas, but I was definitely cheering against them during their inaugural season Cup run, and to a lesser degree in their seasons since. And that mostly comes down to spite and jealousy.

Leaf fans have experienced decade-long periods of absolute playoff-less futility, the franchise has never won more than two playoff rounds in a single season in their entire 100+ year existence, and we haven’t even won a single playoff round since the internets was still a fairly newfangled thing.

But then these newbie bandwagon fans get to celebrate a Cup win right off the bat? Fuck that. Very glad they didn’t win.

Vegas also gets a lot of hype for what a great hockey market they’ve been, but the true test will be how much support the team still gets when it’s no good.
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Holy fuck, why did you just tell me that, how depressing.

I definitely didn't want Vegas to win off the bat either. An expansion team should be crap for a while, but I was impressed they did what they did.

I like that they're players in the trade and UFA market though. They're one of the few teams that keep things interesting in the league. The trade for Max, getting Pietrangelo, going for Eichel. I mean, I wish there were more teams like this, not fewer. The league has gotten incredibly boring on the transactions front. This Leafs offseason has maybe been the biggest bore of an offseason that I can remember.
 
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