Top 4 Under 24 - Who has the best young core in the league

[worm]

damn

that is funny

stuff the ballot for bozak

 

[Artnes]

Allstar appearance is one of the ELC performance bonuses, no?

I can't see them being that petty over 600k (200k each) in bonuses

 

[zeke]

Lou after signing Larsson:

We do not have any individual bonuses in any player’s contract and never had it including our picks that we’ve drafted over the years. This was established after a couple of years that I came (to New Jersey). I saw something that in my mind is not team-first philosophy when players have bonuses that if they score goals, they get more money, or if they get more ice time than another player, they get more money.
I am not one who is a believer in the rookie bonuses that is in the National Hockey League CBA — the A, Bs and Cs as they’re called. Yet, everyone in the league that are drafted certainly in the top areas seem to get them. Nobody (with the Devils) has not gotten them and our conversations have been that this would not be something that’s advantagous for us to do and the reason is because every player in our locker room that we have drafted have bought into that philosphy and nobody worries about individual things and only the team and it’s a commitment that’s made. Getting a young player who his peers who have been drafted below him and above him, for him to understand and agree to that — and also his representation — this young man is as mature as he can get at his age.

 

[Artnes]

Didnt we already go through it this summer with Matthews and Lou claimed bs

“I don’t like the thought process sometimes of, because something was done somewhere else, there are assumptions that are made and I think this is maybe a good time to bring this forward,” Lamoriello said. “When Mike (coach Babcock), Brendan (president Shanahan) and I got together, we said we would not be operating the New Jersey way or the Detroit way. We’d be doing it the Toronto way. And there are always reasons for what you do. It’s not to throw anybody off or to make anybody feel uncomfortable. Sometimes there will be questions why, but there’s no deceit involved, there’s not trying to pull a fast one. In this situation here, there was nothing unique about it.”

 

[zeke]

well we need an explanation why the 1st overall pick isn't on the ballot.

 

[Volcanologist]

Not only is our best player not on there, our 3 best players aren't on there.

 

[worm]

it is the all star game
who cares

they should replace it with the world cup

 

[Aberdeen]

They should be on the ballot, but at the same time I think some time off, away from the limelight and with families is actually probably good for them.

 

[number17]

Not like the ASG is in Toronto either ... so it can be a nice break for the kids too.

 

[Preston_Mizzi]

i like klefbom more than draisaitl.

draisaitl has some andrew brunette to his game, imo. he has some tools to be productive but heès pretty unspectacular.

Whiny little bitch (and downright wrong)