News Around the League: 2017-2018 During and AFTER THE CUP

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Nubmer6

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The hate against Bettman stems from the whole CBA "Spirit of the Rule" garbage that ended up punishing the Devils while letting teams like Chicago continue to get away with cap circumvention to this very day.
Umm... not sure if you were around back then, but a lot of blame was placed by Devils fans on Bettman because it seemed he WANTED us to move to Nashville. At the very least, he wasn't against it.

If we didn't win the cup in 95, it's almost a sure bet the franchise wouldn't be here now.
 
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Umm... not sure if you were around back then, but a lot of blame was placed by Devils fans on Bettman because it seemed he WANTED us to move to Nashville. At the very least, he wasn't against it.

If we didn't win the cup in 95, it's almost a sure bet the franchise wouldn't be here now.

Nashville?

I thought it was Kansas City. :huh:
 

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Umm... not sure if you were around back then, but a lot of blame was placed by Devils fans on Bettman because it seemed he WANTED us to move to Nashville. At the very least, he wasn't against it.

If we didn't win the cup in 95, it's almost a sure bet the franchise wouldn't be here now.


 

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In fact, here's a pic of Terreri at the 95 victory party.

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its crazy how they went from the best jerseys in the league to probably one of the worst

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The fact that Adidas made it a flat collar really screwed some teams up. Nashville's isn't even the worst of the bunch. Some teams had to adopt that toilet seat look (Habs, Rags) looks really bad.

Devils, Predators, and Oilers all took a step back with their uniforms with this rollout
 

blood gin

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Philly is just a goalie graveyard. Sure they've had seasons where goaltending hasn't been their main downfall. But also plenty of seasons where it has. They have just never had that solid stable 6-7 year run of good to great goaltending out of one workhorse. Mrazek won't be that guy either.

Mason looked decent there for few years but he was never the answer. He's just never been that good.
 
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Philly is just a goalie graveyard. Sure they've had seasons where goaltending hasn't been their main downfall. But also plenty of seasons where it has. They have just never had that solid stable 6-7 year run of good to great goaltending out of one workhorse. Mrazek won't be that guy either.

Mason looked decent there for few years but he was never the answer. He's just never been that good.
Mrazek sucks.
 

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We need him to suck enough to have the bottom drop out of Philly
He's been abysmal. How anybody can say he's good, they can't be serious, but people also think Wedgewood is better than Kinkaid and that Andrew Hammond wasn't just a fluky one trick pony a few years ago, and was indeed a late bloomer.

Mrazek as a Flyer now has an .887% in 10 games players/starts. You might have been able to get that from Alex Lyon.
 

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He's been abysmal. How anybody can say he's good, they can't be serious, but people also think Wedgewood is better than Kinkaid and that Andrew Hammond wasn't just a fluky one trick pony a few years ago, and was indeed a late bloomer.

Mrazek as a Flyer now has an .887% in 10 games players/starts. You might have been able to get that from Alex Lyon.

Hammond had an incredible fluke run. One of the craziest I've seen a no-name have. 20-1-2, .941 save percentage. Saved my fantasy season that year. But people were nuts thinking he was going to be some established late blooming solid goalie. I mean even in the minors before being called up he was nothing special. Sometimes you just get that perfect storm that settles around you. Confidence, great D/shot blocking, bunch of goalposts and a team that scores for you and you go on these runs
 
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Hammond had an incredible fluke run. One of the craziest I've seen a no-name have. 20-1-2, .941 save percentage. Saved my fantasy season that year. But people were nuts thinking he was going to be some established late blooming solid goalie. I mean even in the minors before being called up he was nothing special. Sometimes you just get that perfect storm that settles around you. Confidence, great D/shot blocking, bunch of goalposts and a team that scores for you and you go on these runs
Hammond's NHL numbers actually look better than his AHL numbers. He's been a TRASH AHL goalie. Even this year with Colorado's team.

He may be better off going to Europe after this year, as he'd probably make more money than the $150k (or whatever it is) to play in the AHL.
 

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If Garth Snow and Doug Weight went out and robbed a bank in broad daylight would they actually be fired? I think Generalisimo Garth has the Marvin Lewis job for life deal. Weight said he thought his team played well tonight. For the record they lost 7-3.
 

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If Garth Snow and Doug Weight went out and robbed a bank in broad daylight would they actually be fired? I think Generalisimo Garth has the Marvin Lewis job for life deal. Weight said he thought his team played well tonight. For the record they lost 7-3.
well, if the town were run by sheriffs malkin and ledecky, and the citizens all put up gigantic wanted posters of snow and weight... maybe...

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