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Miscellaneous NHL Talk 2017/18 Regular Season
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Hurricane28
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Its more of Niemi being terrible than anything else
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FLYguy3911
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Magua
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Hey, if the Habs want Galchenyuk for Morin or something, fine, but it doesn't have to be him. And I agree he's not Hextall's type.
Just call up Bergevin and see how eager he is to deepen the hole he is in. Prospects, picks, whatever. Desperation makes for wonderful trade partners.
Just call up Bergevin and see how eager he is to deepen the hole he is in. Prospects, picks, whatever. Desperation makes for wonderful trade partners.
LegionOfDoom91
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Teams are getting to Murray right now too. Pittsburgh’s bleeding goals against in general. Niemi is terrible though & it’s making matters worse. You know Murray & the guys in front of them will get it sorted out soon but Niemi is just terrible & has been for years now. It was a dumb signing from the start & I highly doubt he’s their backup come seasons end.
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But aside from Poehling, who would you want from them? Would you want Chucky here? I'd be interested to hear what you think of him - I just don't think I've ever seen him really play that well (not that I have watched all that carefully or anything).
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Do you have any idea how happy all of this makes me? It makes me happier than whatever (drugs) made Journey slap-happy enough to make this video:
See this guy playing air keyboards? That's me, mentally. He looks like he's about to pounce on a ball of string.
Magua
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Yeah mostly Poehling lol.
I don't know more about him than anyone else, but Chucky's contract sucks. Montreal f***ed that up, and frankly it makes trading for him more suspect. There's no long term certainty. He is what he is: a scoring winger with his flaws. Somewhat like Schenn but probably better 5v5, and he still has some potential. Montreal loves dicking around with him, and if a team just put him in a scoring winger role with some 200ft guys (hey, we have those) in a fresh start, there's potential there. I'm sure his lefty shot would play well on our PP. I'm not advocating trading for him though because I can imagine the cost, and I don't think we need him, and he could impede other signings. And he's so not a quintessential Hexy player.
Peacekeeper
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Yeah, when we're at the point of upgrading I wouldnt look at a player like Chucky. Dont like the contract, seems to be a risk with his personality, apparently doesn't play defense.. The time for upgrading is coming soon though so the incoming rumors will be interesting.
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BackToTheBrierePatch
Nope not today.
I hope we dont play Tampa soon. Goddamn are they rolling right now.
Captain Dave Poulin
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This is the third year in a row that I have picked them to win it all, but this time Vasi might really be ready to make a splash.
In other news, it sounds like Jagr is day-to-day with arthritis.
I'm not being serious.
GKJ
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Niemi is completely finished. No idea what the Penguins were thinking on that one. Between that and trading for Ryan Reaves, I just think they were trying to bump up the difficulty slider.
LegionOfDoom91
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Niemi’s only played three games on the year & Tampa’s had two cracks at him. They scored 5 & 7 goals on him in those games. Niemi gave up 4 goals in the other game against Chicago but got pulled within 10 minutes of that one. 
BackToTheBrierePatch
Nope not today.
I figured they would of went with Jarry as a backup.
didnt know they had Casey DeSmith as well down in the AHL.
didnt know they had Casey DeSmith as well down in the AHL.
I hear that. Kucherov is singlehandedly murdering me in fantasy. Worse I had the opportunity to keep him a few years ago. Whenever I see that name an image of a noose appears in my head.
LegionOfDoom91
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If they don’t make a trade I’d imagine that’s the end game. I figure going into the offseason they didn’t want to limit his usage by pigeonholing him into the NHL backup role with Murray getting the crease full time this year. So they started him out in the AHL to get more work in.
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Tripod
I hate this team
We really should help Montreal out. I heard Weise was good 3 years ago there so he makes sense.
Tripod
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Dustin Brown has 11 points in 7 games!
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