And? f he wanted to play in the NHL at some point, he wouldn't have a choice. Also he met us, as opposed to Arizona, so he understood that.
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there is always a choice
No chance he passes on all that NHL money during the prime years of his career. None.
he could have demanded a trade a la Lindros, and who knows, maybe he would get a nice Dacha on the black sea in Crimea for staying. Anyway, he isn't our issue now, and it is funny when he didn't score on the weekend, it was crickets, he scores and two pages about him. Is it going to be like that for the next 10 years? I do feel badly for you that you live in Philadelphia and you have to hear about his ass all the time. I wouldn't wish that on my enemy. I'm sure at each game in whatever their rink is called now, some Sirianni time will yell at you "hey froggy, you fucked up and didn't take MM"
Habsy
Not playing around anymore.
Sure but what's the point of scoring two if you're just going to give them back on horrendous D. One dimensional players are locker room killers.
I would have still drafted him but I'm telling you that he's going to give the Flyers fits.
worm
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Sure it was only one game but him blocking shots and being good defensively for 60 minutes tells me he won't give them fits.
east coast
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I was expecting the Avalanche to fall back this year, possibly right out of the playoffs. I also had Los Angeles and even Carolina on the outside. We'll see.
NHL is a tough sport , as soon as your contenders your fucked
Cap hell, departures , no flexibility
lecoqsportif
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Forced parity due to market imbalances. NFL is a coop too, but they are awash in money and don’t care. Everyone wins, even when they lose.
Market imbalance is s thing in MLB, but they don’t care (except maybe in Oakland.)
NBA is pretty much an individual sport.
Market imbalance is s thing in MLB, but they don’t care (except maybe in Oakland.)
NBA is pretty much an individual sport.
Sal_Butera
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You are a wise wise person East
GGpX
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The Avalanche are such a waste.
They had a potential dynasty on their hands and they fucked it up because they hoped for short-term gain instead of maximizing MacKinnon, Rantanen & Makar's primes.
Colorado, in their defense, had bad luck with Landeskog. They lost a first line player, in his prime, to injury and I don't think he's ever going to play another game, even if they insist he's working his way back. He hasn't played a game in two and a half years. I can't blame them for that.
However, the Nichushkin deal was dumb from day one, insisting on keeping Samuel Girard instead of trading him for young and cheap talent was dumb. Trading Newhook for picks and only to take the money you saved & spend it on Miles Wood was dumb.
Julien Brisebois made one of the wisest, simultaneous short-term and long-term thinking moves I've ever seen when he traded Sergachev to Utah. Legitimately brilliant thinking without any sarcasm. Colorado had the chance to do a similar trade with Devon Toews, but instead they re-signed him.
So, Colorado's one year away from either losing Rantanen for nothing or re-signing him to a $11M+ contract. They have almost no prospects of note and they're tight on money.
They're stuck with no way out... unless they start trading players, but even then, it's too late.
Sal_Butera
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Wonder if Habs can get Lekhonen back for Dipshit?
Afterall Nate’s buddy Sid did say he’s a terrific Dman! Who wouldn’t want such greatness?
Afterall Nate’s buddy Sid did say he’s a terrific Dman! Who wouldn’t want such greatness?
Other leagues are different animals with much more flexibility
MLB ...run your business anyway you want and nobody cares about the have and have nots
you got the player by the nuts for a big chunk of their careers through ELC and arbitration
No cap but the league is a joke overall
NBA ... ELC and most standard contracts are same length , easy to move money , and the league shits money
NFL ... a fucken money machine , you can manipulate the cap in many ways
no full guarantees , dump players overnight , and create millions of cap space with one key stroke
every team makes money , no advantages anywhere in a 250 mil cap
lecoqsportif
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The common denominator is that they all have waaaay more moolah than the NHL.
Agreed the Brisebois move was pure genius and came out of nowhere
You need to pivot and make cut throat decisions after you won a cup or are contenders
You simply cant pay everyone and most teams have gutted their prospect capital to win
This league has near zero flexibility trying to keep your expensive core
Now with stars taking no discounts its much harder to navigate the shit show
means nothing with no flexibility built in