The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

[CH1]

I got it too!

 

[CH1]

oh brother.

Jeeze. I thought Stan retired 10 yrs ago.

 

[CH1]

So where did the "family stress" come from? I'll wait.

for how long? It’s been almost an hour

 

[zeke]

So where did the "family stress" come from? I'll wait.

There's a lot of degrees between "family stress" and "wife is taking the kids and leaving".

 

[thehabhater]

Jeeze. I thought Stan retired 10 yrs ago.

I thought that he was dead..

 

[axlsalinger]

we will have more to go on once Mrs. Dubas gives her press conference

 

[Volcanologist]

Stan appears to think the Islanders are a good team(???) so I would consider his take pretty suspect

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I mean you describe him as a smart guy but also your theory is that this smart guy did something really fucking dumb out of... greed? ego? And made it most of the way through his press conference without specifically about the thing he scheduled it to talk about? I'm not buying it.

Also, from everything you've seen and heard from Dubie you really think he's the type of person to schedule a press conference so he can (convincingly) pretend to get emotional and straight up make up a family issue to then use as leverage for more money? You must think highly of his acting skills and lowly of his humanity and integrity.

Stress is a real thing and people can only handle so much of it without any impact. Everyone has their breaking point. Sure looks like he had reached his.

He's a smart guy that made a dumb move. That happens plenty. And I think out of greed and arrogance. He thought he was more important than he was, and was shooting for the moon on comp.

I fully subscribe to impact and important roles of stress, and family, and everything else we're discussing. I just flat out don't believe they were issues with Dubie to the extent he's claiming, and I think he tried to build the perception of it into something much bigger than it was for personal gain.

I didn't even see this crumbling mess of a man in the presser as most of you seem to see. He seems pretty normal to me, very calm and collected. He didn't break down in a mess of tears - he simply paused and made the family statement and then went into saying he might just walk to go ponder life for a while.

But then wanted $2M more a couple of days later. Come on, gang. That's the fucking smoking gun here.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Evidence please.

Revised financial package asking for $2M more.

Case closed.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

4 AGM's, but they all handle different things. I keep seeing people say 5, but I think they were counting Spezza who was the assistant to the GM, which is different.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Shanny was/is a piece of shit but the Leafs are a billion dollar plus entity so even if what you say is true why do you think Dubies superiors should give a fuck about his home life? When they pay an employee 7 figures all they care about is how he performs, keeping his wife happy isn't their responsibility.

I'll also say, this doesn't seem that the job took to much of time away from his family but more that he cracked under the pressure and was a bitch to live with.

No doubt. The back and forth with Tampa fans in the first round, the tossing of the water bottle. These were clear indications that the man was imploding along with his team. A boy trying to do a man's job and failing miserably. And no, I don't expect anyone but him to care about his home life. When you make that kind of dough, it's pretty much implied that your job comes before everything else and your wife needs to know that. The money isn't free and no one makes a 7 figure salary to do a 9-5 job. Work/life balance? Fuck your work/life balance. You are paid to run the team. Take care of your own business on your own time. But just remember that the concept of having your own time doesn't really exist once you cash your first paycheque.

 

[BG]

Maybe he feels like Matthews is "his guy", and will ask the moon of any team willing to hire him on the idea that Matthews will sign a max offer wherever he's GM?

 

[thehabhater]

Stan appears to think the Islanders are a good team(???) so I would consider his take pretty suspect

When he was alive, he didn't think that hockey existed outside the metropolitan New York area

 

[Wayward DP]

Revised financial package asking for $2M more.

Case closed.

Of which we have zero evidence beyond a random tweet.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Of which we have zero evidence beyond a random tweet.

Shanny too? Or do you think the increase was more along the line of $50k?

 

[Habsy]

Revised financial package asking for $2M more.

Case closed.

We'll see in discovery. Please provide proof that the number was $2m higher. Actual proof not speculation.

 

[Habsy]

for how long? It’s been almost an hour

Zeke uses an old political trick and is quite good at it. Throw something out there like raw meat and let the dogs eat while you rob the place.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

We'll see in discovery. Please provide proof that the number was $2m higher. Actual proof not speculation.

Oh I plan to spring it in the middle of the depo.

 

[thehabhater]

We'll see in discovery. Please provide proof that the number was $2m higher. Actual proof not speculation.

Well, we know from Shanny's presser that there was a "change in the financials". I am going out on a limb here, and I will say that the new offer wasn't for less money..

 

[Habsy]

Shanny was/is a piece of shit but the Leafs are a billion dollar plus entity so even if what you say is true why do you think Dubies superiors should give a fuck about his home life? When they pay an employee 7 figures all they care about is how he performs, keeping his wife happy isn't their responsibility.

I'll also say, this doesn't seem that the job took to much of time away from his family but more that he cracked under the pressure and was a bitch to live with.

I know you said plus but the senators will sell for a billion. If the Washington CrapNamers can get 6b then Toronto is worth 3 easy.