Thorny
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Pens should have called McPhee's bluff.
Definitely.
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That doesn't make sense.. if VGK signed Fleury he'd be considered the pick from the penguins right?
LeBrun saying on Twitter that since the list if available goalies is strong, Pens had to entice Vegas with the added Pick.
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I'm not a fan of the numbers on the front. Those were the product of the same Larry Quinn focus group sessions that gave us the slug, and they still remind me of that era. It seems like it was an attempt to promote fans/TV viewers associating players with their number by sticking the number right next to their face. However, the number on the front of the jersey became completely unnecessary once they added numbers on the helmets in ~2011. They seem redundant now and clutter up an otherwise clean design. I'm surprised to see the support for the numbers here, given the prevalent desire to go back to a more traditional jersey design. Would you all be alright with them going to old jersey designs and throwing the front numbers on there?
I'm disappointed they decided to maintain the status quo with the jerseys (especially the striping on the whites), besides the obvious move to get rid of the pit stains and piping. I agree that they are likely waiting for the 50 year anniversary to do a more thorough overhaul of the jerseys. I wonder if part of the decision is waiting for the team to be better, so that they can launch new jerseys when people are more excited about the team, and so that people associate new jerseys with a better product. It would be interesting to hear the decision making process that goes into the timing of team aesthetics, with considerations for branding, etc.
I'll jump on the bandwagon that the WC whites are some of the best.
Smart.
Let's hope the people in charge of this are, too.
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Montour is my man crush in Anaheim
https://www.fanragsports.com/news/lebrun-non-vegas-nhl-trades-ready-unleashed/
https://www.fanragsports.com/news/dreger-avalanche-strongly-market-defenseman/
@mattsekeres (Vancouver Radio Host)
Not sure if this is out there, but rumblings that #VegasGoldenKnights could acquire #2 overall pick from #Flyers via their expansion bounty
Yea I'm good with losing one of the unprotected guys. These deals being announced are nuts.
If the Flyers give up #2 to protect a player, they are nutty.
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I have been wondering too. I'm not saying Gorges and Bogogo are going to turn it around, but HHDCRGDDB's style of play certainly was a good way to expose some players weaknesses. Bogogo had gaffs but I hope he can make the right decision when it's just to make a 10 foot pass to any of a couple skating forwards. Gorges is in the same boat, although I'm not sure he'll be able to skate well enough to truly attack as a 5-man unit.
If Beaulieu and Antipin can hold down the second pair, I'm willing to give Bogo a shot on pair 3. I'd preferably still like to upgrade Gorges, though.
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There are many worse things in this world than losing out on Capuano.
He's got a mullet, anyways.
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all the other side deals (getting picks/prospects to lay off a player) announced tonight after being processed by Central Registry today...
Per Le Brun
And I believe they said that any three-way transactions, I.e. Vegas trading players they've claimed to other teams, will be announced tomorrow.
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That all may be correct. I tend to think, though, that we'd be stunned at how low his value actually is. That's not a slag on the player - just an observation on the market.
I believe this to definitely be true.
Those two things don't go hand in hand though. If you can't resign him for what you want, then you're forced to trade him, and you're not going to get what you want for him
Continuing on from Smell's point, I honestly think right now the return on Kane would be something like a Pick and b-level prospect. Pass. I'd rather keep him as a season long rental, if that's the return.
Greater value in that, for me. Especially given the fact that that'd be the worst case scenario. Maybe he signs a reasonable extension, maybe a team overpays at the deadline.
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People y'all need to relax about this expansion draft. For the most part, teams ahead of us in the standing are either losing a good player or are losing future assets to keep the current squad together. This is great news for us. All we are going to lose are possibly overpaid vets we don't want or need or a backup goalie or a ham handed LW prospect. Sure Vegas may get a decent initial club out of expansion. Great! They play out West and for $500 mill and in a new market they should get a decent club to help the survive and prosper.
In addition, maybe just maybe Jbot will be able to use this environment to further improve this team in addition to Baloo.
Ask yourself a serious question. If Jbot had traded Carrier and a 3rd for Baloo, a 24 yr old former 1st rd pick who can play top 4 minutes and help QB the 2nd PP, in a normal off-season would you have really been to upset?
Even that trade would still have been a steal.
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Every time I see a photo of McPhee on a sportscast he has a shite eating grin on his face a la Dr. Evil minus the pinky to the mouth. What a glorious time to be an expansion G.M.
It's what $500 Million gets you.
$420 Million more than the last expansion teams paid. No surprise Vegas is getting the red carpet treatment.
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Kane for Kane and another assett?
Then they'll have lost 2 right wings.
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Per Friedman Talks between the Sabres and Kings about Kane have cooled
Extension?
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Along Came Polly was a bad movie but Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in it
Basketball scenes!
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It's pronounced Bool-you, right? That's what I hear the Montreal announcer say, anyway
Close? I think of Beau Bennett. So it's Bo, with an L, then "you", like you said.
Bowlyou.
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Probably the notion that it'd be the last time any GM ever dealt with you again.
Yup. It would just eventually get to the point where a GM "had no one left in the galaxy to swindle".
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I haven't seen lotsa Shia, but I heard he was good in American Honey.
I stayed away from young actors on my list. I thought about Kirsten Stewart, Brie Larsson, and Emma Stone.
My favorite of Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles was in The Master. 5 seconds into his screentime I knew that this was something I'd never seen from him before.
Joaquin Pheonix deserves to be on the list too.
Will have to check this out.
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I'd like one more Beaulieu type acquisition and one more depth signing, and would be pleasantly surprised for a bigger acquisition (like, Scandella level d-man or higher).
I'm close to this, but I'd say the depth signing (Gorges/Falk to press box) is the only one I'm actively looking for, and the additional Beaulieu-type acquisition would be less likely, but a welcome bonus.
See very little chance of a larger acquisition.
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Is arbitration eligible now. CBA says UFA status at 27 or 7 NHL seasons. Baloo has played 3 full NHL seasons and parts of 2 others (4 full pro seasons) and turns 27 Dec 2019. My guess he is a UFA after 2018-19 season, which means either a 1 yr deal this season and then long-term if earned or a 3 or 4 years deal to buy one to two years of UFA time.
He'll be UFA after the 19/20 season then. That'll be both 7 seasons and 27 years old.
Isn't an NHL UFA eligibility 27 years old or 7 years in the league??? If so he's got 3 years left.
Yup. So let's give him a 2 year deal.
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Change the title from something that isn't buzzfeed level click-bait
Speaking of experts:
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Philip Seymour Hoffman!!
He was amazing. Loved him in Charlie Wilson's War with Hanks.
You know who is a legitimately very good actor that no on mentions cause he's crazy? Shia LeBeouf.
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I am. Because I think he's going to be exposed as a fraud under Housley's system.
The Gilderoy Lockhart of the Buffalo Sabres.
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TSN has twittered that the Islanders are giving up their first round pick as the method of protection.
Strome.
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Alan Rickman is my favourite.
Tom Hanks.
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Why expose him if you don't have to? We will probably lose Dano...rather lose him than Myers. I still want to see Myers traded but not until he shows he is healthy and his return is decent. How much time is he going to get after Trouba and Buff?
Bogo being exposed and Beaulieu being protected shows how much Bot thinks of Bogo.
And also what he thinks of Bowlyou.
Expansion draft and league-wide wheeling and dealing
in The Aud Club
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Makes more sense.