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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

MindzEye said:
The NHL is just different. In no other league would the biggest media markets in the league struggle with some players because they don't like the attention of being a professional athlete.
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The NHL is also different in that in only a few cities are you an actual celebrity.

In most you are just a white athlete that looks like the other white athletes.

Sorry, but these guys are mostly fucking boring, only in Toronto will the numbe 6D be recognized. Alot of guys want no part of that.

John Tavares is a relic, and or robot who has no feelings to hurt
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
Also, Florida has proven themselves to be one of the best run franchises on the ice in recent years, with excellent drafting/trades.

Can the Leafs even call themselves average?
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I mean, this is kind of silly. If we're looking at results on the ice the Leafs have been the 3rd best regular season team in the NHL over the last 5 years. There aren't too many organizations who start the year knowing that they're in the playoffs short of a plane crash or some shit.

We have a playoff stink, definitely. But average teams over that time period (St Louis, Pittsburgh, Washington) would happily murder a goat in satanic rituals to trade their last 5 years for ours.
 
MyNameIsJonas said:
There seems to be this myth that winning a cup in Toronto or Montreal is more special than winning one anywhere else.

The majority of athletes are cool, winning, waking up in a nice city ( ideally with sunshine), working out, and being left the fuck alone by the general public.

Expensive housing, shit traffic, being hounded by the horde at a restaurant and critiqued for anything you do and do not do in a game by every muppet analyst and slack jawed fan is not fucking appealing.
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Winning in Toronto or Montreal may indeed be "more special" but it isn't more special than all those other things you mentioned, and when combined with winning it in a no tax jurisdiction? Yeah, I think pretty much all of them will "settle" for winning a Cup in a slightly "less special" place.
 
MindzEye said:
The NHL is just different. In no other league would the biggest media markets in the league struggle with some players because they don't like the attention of being a professional athlete.
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Because in no other league are the biggest (or at least, the most important) markets, and the ones with the highest level of fan engagement located in Canada. In other sports, the richest teams are also the ones in the media hubs: NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago. In the NHL, Winnipeg is a "bigger" hockey market than LA.
 
MindzEye said:
I mean, this is kind of silly. If we're looking at results on the ice the Leafs have been the 3rd best regular season team in the NHL over the last 5 years. There aren't too many organizations who start the year knowing that they're in the playoffs short of a plane crash or some shit.
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Which is why I am forever baffled by the Marner ball-lickers when they say that without Marner's regular season production the Leafs might miss the playoffs, as if they had no other good players.

The fact is that the Leafs, with or without Marner, can make the postseason just by falling out of bed. They don't need Marner for that. And what they do need him for is what he does not deliver. Ergo, he is useless, other than as a trade chip. But management fucked that up too.
 
MindzEye said:
The Euros don't seem to mind at all when they're here. Shit, even Auston seems to embrace it. It's the Canadian kids who seem to dislike it the most.
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Same in Montreal. An anglo Montrealer like Matheson, who is bilingual to boot, has no issues but francophone star players would rather have root canals done on every tooth in their heads than sign with the Habs. Only when they're basically washed up and just looking for a retirement contract do they suddenly express an interest in fulfilling their childhood dream of wearing the bleu, blanc, et rouge.
 
MindzEye said:
Toronto's financial advantages only exist if you want to be in front of cameras on your days off.

There's nothing lazy at all about pointing this out, you just continue to be wrong on this while insisting that you're not.
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Marchand we can agree loves to be on camera. Even awkward Mitch made a ton. And he can barely make any sense when he speaks.
 
JackBurton said:
Marchand we can agree loves to be on camera. Even awkward Mitch made a ton. And he can barely make any sense when he speaks.
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Marchand appears to be able to get commercials and ad work wherever though. He's one of the few guys in the league that doesn't really need Toronto for that.
 
MindzEye said:
Marchand appears to be able to get commercials and ad work wherever though. He's one of the few guys in the league that doesn't really need Toronto for that.
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He appears to have had a lot of deals in Boston, but the overall $ doesn't seem too high.
 
commercials are nice but the salary is also a status thing....the money in the contract represents something fundamentally different than the money you get from being a celeb
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Which is why I am forever baffled by the Marner ball-lickers when they say that without Marner's regular season production the Leafs might miss the playoffs, as if they had no other good players.

The fact is that the Leafs, with or without Marner, can make the postseason just by falling out of bed. They don't need Marner for that. And what they do need him for is what he does not deliver. Ergo, he is useless, other than as a trade chip. But management fucked that up too.
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Careful what you wish for

Unless that money is properly allocated 16 will be missed big time

100 point scorers dont fall from a tree even if he is flake or a playoff choker
 
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