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Awesome. I was skeptical that they would do it. It’s probably the right move.

Why is it better in the Detroit area?

Interesting. So probably either no real contender wanted him or would pay him a comparable amount. I know he is a big name and has had a great career, so it’s newsworthy, but I’m pretty skeptical that he is going to make a difference. Maybe he can help a power play, but I doubt he is helpful at even strength.

Not sure what was meant by debunked. My understanding is that it’s not as significant a difference as a normal person, because road games are taxed at the rate of the area they are played in. It’s still a relatively large amount of savings if you play for a team in a no tax state. For someone like Reinhart, he will be saving something in the range of 250k-500k per year by playing in Florida versus Canada. This a very rough explanation as I’ve forgotten the details and am not willing to look them up right now.

That should be a suspension somewhere between 10 and 40 games.

There is no one statistic that will tell you definitively who is better than who. This stat, just like any other, is one piece of a big puzzle.

Handing out gratuities to players? Thats a new one!

Krebs again put it on his linemate’s stick 6 ft in front of the goalie.

Power needs to get rid of that Austin Matthews mustache.

Who says Krebs doesn’t generate any offense?

.900 is right around league average. .902 as of yesterday.

I think that some combination of Benson struggling, Thompson and Quinn coming back, and maybe Kane signing, could definitely result in Benson being returned to the WHL.

I don’t see how it’s a two year commitment. He could still be sent back to juniors if he starts struggling later.

Power is 21 years and 2 days old. He is not a physically aggressive player. Maybe he can grow into it a bit like Dahlin did.

Possibly zero hips

It was an incident/accident where a couple people died and a couple others got hurt. Basking in the warm glow of the fear, confusion and changing reports is kind of perverse.

For significant stretches of their early career, Mitts and Thompson were as useless as anyone you could name. You can cite the points if you like, but whatever production they had, they more than gave back on the defensive end. They were both horrendous for stretches.

Need to make another Greenway type deal. Who else played for Granato at the US Development Program? Only half joking.

Lol, I didn’t say he has been good, fine, or even acceptable. Just that he hasn’t been THAT bad, treading water. By all means, replace him with someone better. I’ll be happy.

Krebs has not been that bad. He is producing almost no offense but also allows almost no shots or goals against. He is treading water out there.

Yeah, this is a surgery for when your hips are too worn out to do what you need them to do. So anyone one who gets this surgery is going to be an old worn out guy. The question is: Can this surgery successfully allow those hips to do what is needed to be a good NHL player for a couple more years?

Jovanovski, he played thirty something games then retired. Kesler, Bakstrom, Hagelin. Basically no one has had the surgery then come back to be a real player. Small sample size, but concerning.

Not trying to put words in your mouth. The original comment w was replying to said that he should be “out of the league for good”, and you seemed to say that you were in favor of “banning” him from the NHL. Banning sound rather permanent to me. Did you mean a temporary ban? As in a suspension?

“Because everyone is doing it” is not a justification. I do concede that in some circumstances, things like this make sense, but not for the majority of jobs.

That’s totally fine. I never said that Lucic should face zero league repercussions. I assumed that there was a clause like that as part of the players’ contracts. What I objected to was people saying that he should be banned for life.