2018-2019 Around the league thread #3
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SaltySkywalker
Bushes of Love
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I know it sucks when a good player leaves, but they should remember how dysfunctional their team was during Tavares years, not to mention the problems with Arenas etc. Too many problems and no great future (at least that's how it looked).
The same thing with Duchene, although he loved Colorado when he first came here, at the end things didn' work out. Why would you stay in a place where things clearly don't work out? It would be god damn suicide.
Alex Jones
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I do think that JT used the Islanders so that he could go to FA and sign with the leafs, so it's not like they are 100% wrong.
Foppa2118
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Isles fans have Charles Wang and Garth Snow to blame for turning the Islanders into a perennial clown show, and not building a good team around him. Not Tavares. Not everyone is Shane Doan.
While I think it's nice what Shane Doan did, but at the same time, I feel bad for him. Great career in a way wasted. IMO.
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CB Joe
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Foppa2118
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Wow, I made the Roy comparison earlier. Didn't expect a mini Trembley moment a few hours later.
The Wild are surpassing my expectations for competitive play, given their recent trades. They do not appear to be as strong on paper as in prior seasons. Losing Granlund, Neiderreiter, and Coyle to trades and losing Dumba and Koivu to injury. They brought in Donato, Rask, and Fiala, but Rask has been injured.
klozge
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That's the power of good coaching. Being Avs fans we don't know this kind of thing.
Edit: Correction. We know it but we fear it according to way too many posters here.
Avs_19
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On one hand, the Isles have been mismanaged for so long I don't blame JT for leaving and playing for the team he's always dreamed of playing for. That's his choice.
On the other hand, the Isles wanted to know at the deadline if he was gonna stay or not, otherwise they were trading him and he convinced them not to deal him away, thereby losing him for nothing. And I don't believe him when he says it was a tough decision. It wasn't.
But what's done is done. Fans can do what they want. If you want to boo him, boo him. The line gets crossed when you do shit like what Kings fans did and heckle Rob Blake's wife.
On the other hand, the Isles wanted to know at the deadline if he was gonna stay or not, otherwise they were trading him and he convinced them not to deal him away, thereby losing him for nothing. And I don't believe him when he says it was a tough decision. It wasn't.
But what's done is done. Fans can do what they want. If you want to boo him, boo him. The line gets crossed when you do shit like what Kings fans did and heckle Rob Blake's wife.
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The Islanders could have traded Tavares to Toronto with an 8 year deal in hand if they wanted to, but Lou elected not to. So, it shouldn't be on Tavares that he left the Isles with nothing. The Isles (both Snow and Lou) had a part in it.
I don't disagree, but Islander fans also have the right to boo him severely tonight as well.
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dahrougem2
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For all the good Charles Wang did to fight like hell to keep the Islanders in New York, he's also the guy who hired Neil Smith, fired Neil Smith within a month when he refused to sign Rick DiPietro to a gaudy 15-year contract, hired Garth Snow to replace him when Snow was STILL technically an active player, and then ended up having to buy out that massive contract in payments that'll last an even more absurd amount of time.
It's quite something when you think about it--Garth Snow, a guy who had precisely ZERO experience as a general manager or coach or anything prior to taking over the New York Islanders, managed to hoodwink Harvard-educated lawyer Peter Chiarelli not once, but twice.
It's quite something when you think about it--Garth Snow, a guy who had precisely ZERO experience as a general manager or coach or anything prior to taking over the New York Islanders, managed to hoodwink Harvard-educated lawyer Peter Chiarelli not once, but twice.
Foppberg
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I don't agree with Islander fans outrage, but I'm looking forward to this game because of how upset they are 
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dahrougem2
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The Islanders are paying DiPietro until 2029
Avs_19
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I've got no issue with booing and chanting stuff at a former player but the people throwing plastic snakes and jerseys at him should be thrown out or at the very least smacked around by some large security personnel.
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