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The Mother-fucking goddamn Off-season Thread

zeke said:
can't spend over the cap. we were already spending Jake's capspace this year.

the interesting one there to me would be taking on Voracek's contract to save arizona money.

vegas might want to save that Lehner money too.

doubt philly cares too much about cashflow but maybe they do, though I think Ellis and Atkinson will try to keep playing.
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So his contract just doesn't exist for all intents and purposes. We can spend his money on someone else.

If he's here or not then, it doesn't make a difference for us, except that we're paying him actual dollars, and no cap benefit keeping him.

But then his hit being $5.6m but his dollars being $2m would in theory be attractive to a team that doesn't want to spend and needs to hit the cap floor? Or would it not matter to them either because he'd have to go on LTIR for them and not count either?
 
I don’t see how Bettman can be against more
teams in Canada with the Senators about to sell to Snoop for over a billion dollars. Ryan Reynolds LLC waiting in the wings.

Markham, London, Hamilton, QC, Halifax, Victoria, etc. Let’s go.
 
Let MLSE buy the team and merge the two franchises, add another expansion team out west.

Win-win.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
So his contract just doesn't exist for all intents and purposes. We can spend his money on someone else.

If he's here or not then, it doesn't make a difference for us, except that we're paying him actual dollars, and no cap benefit keeping him.

But then his hit being $5.6m but his dollars being $2m would in theory be attractive to a team that doesn't want to spend and needs to hit the cap floor? Or would it not matter to them either because he'd have to go on LTIR for them and not count either?
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yeah if he's LTIR that would be an attractive contract for a poor team to get to the cap floor for cheaper.
 
blkngldbabe said:
Could the maritimes not support a team?
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Halifax is a fair bit smaller than Hamilton is and doesn't have any cities surrounding it like Hamilton does (Metro Hamilton is almost double the population of Metro Halifax) and Hamilton couldn't support a team on it's own without nearby cities.

Throw in the stuff that's a relatively short drive though:

- St Catherines/Niagara : 450K
- K/W & Cambridge tri city: 600K
- Brantford: 150K
- Oakville: 200K
- Guelph: 150K

Shit, put the arena outside the west end of the city and London (550K) is within reach (pretty easy Go Train extension to run as well, would have 40ish minute travel times).

Halifax doesn't really have any of that. 500K population with a few hundred K scattered throughout the province.

Way too small.
 
MindzEye said:
Halifax is a fair bit smaller than Hamilton is and doesn't have any cities surrounding it like Hamilton does (Metro Hamilton is almost double the population of Metro Halifax) and Hamilton couldn't support a team on it's own without nearby cities.

Throw in the stuff that's a relatively short drive though:

- St Catherines/Niagara : 450K
- K/W & Cambridge tri city: 600K
- Brantford: 150K
- Oakville: 200K
- Guelph: 150K

Shit, put the arena outside the west end of the city and London (550K) is within reach (pretty easy Go Train extension to run as well, would have 40ish minute travel times).

Halifax doesn't really have any of that. 500K population with a few hundred K scattered throughout the province.

Way too small.
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NS is barely over a million as a province, and that’s with record setting population growth. And we’re the biggest out here
 
blkngldbabe said:
I was thinking if an owner would build a new arena. I know they love their hockey is all.
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This is true. Pretty sure the Mooseheads do real well.

My office is down the block from the Metro Centre and its been real fucking busy during the Mooseheads playoff run. And back when I was a student they often sold out too.
 
Wayward DP said:
This is true. Pretty sure the Mooseheads do real well.

My office is down the block from the Metro Centre and its been real fucking busy during the Mooseheads playoff run. And back when I was a student they often sold out too.
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Best part of a Mooseheads game used to be sub-$10 arena beers. But its been a few years since I’ve gone so that’s prolly no longer the case.
 
They're not expanding to anywhere else in Canada unless they start adding teams to provinces with them already, and that's just Ontario and Quebec.
 
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