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Add Hawerchuck, and I’m going Mogilny for the should be HOFer.

I think a bunch of us are going to be disappointed. I don’t see KA spending assets on a goalie for a year or two. Not a “good one” anyway. And it will annoy me.

With the huge payment to join the club, there is no way the league can go back to a system that makes it harder for new markets to be successful early. Noone would pay that fee if they can’t start off with a team that is at least competitive immediately. Besides, who did Vegas and Seattle screw by using these rules to their advantage? The teams that didn’t get in the playoffs because Vegas and Seattle were in didn’t deserve to be there anyway.

Vegas is going out and proving alot of hockey fans wrong. Alot of us criticized Vegas heavily for departing from their original roster makeup and upgrading to high priced, high skilled vets at the expense of depth and prospect pool. Well, they are on the brink of a cup parade after the management team worked a conversion from high effort castoffs to high skill vets that bought into what the high effort castoffs built. Id gladly take Vegas’ now plus Vegas’ future. The future is always unknown. I couldn’t give a ***** about Jack, or whether the ***** team created the Jack we had, or if he’s just naturally built to be an *****. But I am genuinely jealous. That team was hell bent on winning and they made it happen. As an expansion team they had every excuse to slow play things and didn’t. They started out refusing to accept losing and are on the brink of something special in half the time Buffalo has been suffering. God, I hate typing that out.

Umm, we didn’t trade Ulmark away. He left of his own volition.

Winner, winner, @curt dinner.

If we can make drones, they sure can.

Anyone with half a brain could have predicted this.

Actually, a great example of a goalie that thrived in chaos was probably ex Sabre Grant Fuhr.

Curtis Joseph. I seem to recall he thrived in high chance environments.

And we absolutely should be in win now mode……

Apparently I still need to learn reading comprehension. I read that 3 times and still came up with the wrong ratio.

1/5 less expensive for 1/4 smaller is apparently where Woody draws his line LOL.

But that isn’t a poll choice, and not what the thread discussion is about.

Goalies tend to age gracefully, so I am not worried about Helle’s age unless his next contract puts him into his late 30’s. Even then, that’s alot of time to make changes. For those saying Helle, yeah to the trade, are you more OK with… Helle plus UPL/Comrie or Levi plus some other mid tier starting goalie. If choice 3 is Levi plus UPL/Comrie, I am 100% on the Helle bandwagon.

Me too. Pro wrestling became a disgusting display to watch at some point. On the other hand, it forced me to watch more grown up TV. 😂

That is an extreme take. Although if we are talking about Helle with a contract extension, I’d call it less extreme because one of the “con” variables is removed. This team needs to win now. The team can move a prized prospect to make that happen, or it can find a reliable goaltender to pair with that prized prospect to make that happen. I don’t think either is an inherently wrong answer to winning now. If the alternative were to stick with the 3 goalies we have now and the majority were on board with that, yeah, I think your statement would be totally warranted.

I’m glad noone is paying me to make the right decision on a deal like this. Levi has way more risk than Helle. His ceiling is a big unknown. Helle has way less time at peak performance than Levi, but his ceiling is obvious. And what is Helle’s next contract going to cost in cap and time? Why can’t I have both?

I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. 😁 /pedant

I’m open to the possibility, but skepticism is high. Definitely in the “show me” category. I’m open to the possibility, but skepticism is high. Definitely in the “show me” category.

IMO its terrible. Lets take another job away from someone who doesn’t have the marketable skills to upgrade.

Spoiler alert!

First thing I did was scan the teams that made a final to see where we were at. Didn’t realize NYI and Tor were the only two “made it befores” with a longer drought than us. Every other team that has made a final was there in the 2xxx’s.

We didn’t have to cut them down. They already burned.

I’d rather they were deep enough that he plays 20:00 per game and leave 25:00 per game to the playoffs. But I am sure we all do.