2018 Around the League III: The OTT players said WHAT?

[ErrantShepherd]

Toronto is winless since the Leivo trade

Username on point.

Clearly Nylander to blame.

 

[mossey3535]

Leafs standing up for each other, not like they have a bunch of heavyweights. More than we can say for our team.

 

[JT Milker]

If that’s another concussion for McAvoy he’s in trouble

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Man, Chicago really wants Hughes, don't they? Just peeked at the standings for the first time in a little while and had no idea they were that bad. Wowsers.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Bobby Lou still hasn’t figured out the shootout. All three shooters score on him as NYR beat Florida.

 

[Fire Benning]

Man, Chicago really wants Hughes, don't they? Just peeked at the standings for the first time in a little while and had no idea they were that bad. Wowsers.

4 wins in 20 games. Feels like just yesterday that they were the scary boogeyman in the west.

 

[GetFocht]

4 wins in 20 games. Feels like just yesterday that they were the scary boogeyman in the west.

the lame thing is that they still have a very strong core group of players that can turn it up easily next season.

 

[Breakers]

Nick Kypreos must have been doing Bath Salts to suggest a Alex Pietrangelo for Nikita Zaitsev in a trade.

You give me that brick of 24K Gold and I'll give you $5 in monopoly money............ Fair Deal?

 

[Fire Benning]

Calgary about to be first in the west. Cool, I see how it is.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

the lame thing is that they still have a very strong core group of players that can turn it up easily next season.

Well actually, they don’t
Their Defense is a bigger mess than us with both Keith and Seabrook regressing big time

 

[PM]

Anderson and Kylington both looking like NHL defensemen for them. Two second round picks, one from the Baertschi trade. Must be nice having an abudence of second rounders.

 

[mossey3535]

Anderson and Kylington both looking like NHL defensemen for them. Two second round picks, one from the Baertschi trade. Must be nice having an abudence of second rounders.

Which one was from the Baertschi trade?

Nevermind I see it's Andersson

 

[tantalum]

Houston still feels like a weird idea for a relocation to me... but I guess if Florida can have two teams? Hopefully fanbases in Texas are bigger too.

Houston actually has a very large hockey community thanks to minor league teams. For the South a surprising number of facilities and players.

 

[racerjoe]

Houston actually has a very large hockey community thanks to minor league teams. For the South a surprising number of facilities and players.

Mckenzie was talking about how Austin could be a dark horse location in the future. Says they need an arena first but growing market there.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

I hope Luongo do us a favor and just retire next season, even better, go on LTIR or something

The later he retires the cap penalty gets worse for us
If he retires in the last 2 years of the deal, the penalty can go up to 8m in cap hit for us if Im not mistaken

 

[Fire Benning]

I hope Luongo do us a favor and just retire next season, even better, go on LTIR or something

The later he retires the cap penalty gets worse for us
If he retires in the last 2 years of the deal, the penalty can go up to 8m in cap hit for us if Im not mistaken

This is 100% what will happen if he wants to stop playing before his contract is up. When was the last time a player legitimately retired during their contract? Luongo also has the built-in excuse to be LTIRd anyway because he seems to be getting hurt every other game.

He'll either finish his contract or go on LTIR until it comes off the books and nothing will happen. No worries about any potential cap penalty.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Max Domi....wow.....what a change for a player that was stagnating in arizona.

 

[M2Beezy]

This is 100% what will happen if he wants to stop playing before his contract is up. When was the last time a player legitimately retired during their contract? Luongo also has the built-in excuse to be LTIRd anyway because he seems to be getting hurt every other game.

He'll either finish his contract or go on LTIR until it comes off the books and nothing will happen. No worries about any potential cap penalty.

Is it in his benefit to LTIR or retire? If he retires does he lose the rest of his salary? If so then yeah I guess he would choose the LTIR option

I know he left on bad terms but would he screw over our franchise now that Gillis is gone or think he still hates the owners? He probably knows the fans here love him and wouldnt wanna screw us over

 

[Fire Benning]

Is it in his benefit to LTIR or retire? If he retires does he lose the rest of his salary? If so then yeah I guess he would choose the LTIR option

I'm not sure but he has one of those weird pre-lockout back-loaded contracts so he only gets paid 1 million in actual dollars in his final two years. He might just conveniently decide to stop playing once his salary goes down, similar to Zetterberg stopping this year when his salary went from 7 mil to 3 mil.

 

[Fire Benning]

Max Domi....wow.....what a change for a player that was stagnating in arizona.

Marc Bergevin seems to switch between making savvy trades and really poor ones with no middle ground. Such a weird GM.

 

[MS]

Marc Bergevin seems to switch between making savvy trades and really poor ones with no middle ground. Such a weird GM.

Outside of the stunningly bad PK Subban trade and the Price contract (and I think most GMs would have done that contract in that situation) he’s been pretty good.

 

[Soups On]

Outside of the stunningly bad PK Subban trade and the Price contract (and I think most GMs would have done that contract in that situation) he’s been pretty good.

Karl Alzner and his putrid contract. Alzner was waived earlier but still, just a horrible signing

 

[MS]

Karl Alzner and his putrid contract. Alzner was waived earlier but still, just a horrible signing

Ah yes, that one too.

 

[Results]

Wow, Keith's been so bad this year that Seabrook is the #1 PP guy. And Kane/Seabrook are eerily similar to Pettersson/Edler, just too immobile to do much more than play catch before taking long slapshots and praying for a good bounce.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Wow, lots of good things going the Avs way this year. Couldn't be happening to a more deserving fanbase!!!

Meh, I will always hold that 1st SC against them.