VoidCreature
Before you see the light, you must die.
As soon as I got on board with him being a bad coach Nashville started winning. You guys can blame me.
We clearly needed a change though.
We clearly needed a change though.
100 points in 53 games for McDavid.
40 goals in 53 games for Matthews.
Some crazy shit going on this year. Unbelievable.
Adding on...
They are paying Logan Couture (32) $8m AAV for 6 more years, Brent Burns (36) $8m AAV for 4 more years and Marc-Edouard Vlasic (34) $7m AAV for 5 more years. Christ are they in a bad spot.
John Hynes made the playoffs, guess it wasn’t just his fault
One bright side is when these contracts get lower in years you could make an argument that they will be able to ship these pieces off for better quality assets
So it’s a positive that they have no hope of being good for years because their most expensive players aren’t good but in 3-5 seasons they can flip some of these guys for a 3rd round pick?
Edit: Though they likely won’t be able to get anything for those guys ever. Contracts are so long that they may be actively bad at a high dollar once the contract is short.
No they aren’t. So they will be bad with a high cap hit as opposed to being bad with a low cap hit like us. There really isn’t a difference. Did us being a bottom cap team during all these years change our ability to not be bad? Nope just as being a high cap team won’t change theirs. Only difference is their billionaire owner has to pay more. One bright side is when these contracts get lower in years you could make an argument that they will be able to ship these pieces off for better quality assets
John Hynes made the playoffs because of Juuse Saros
thats basically it
Not sure what happened with Dallas too this year, weird year for them. In any case let's see how Hynes does in the 1st round, will he make proper adjustments or panic and have his team lose handily in 5?
Hell, Shero deserved to be fired just for sending Fitz down to observe Hynes for a month as an extra assistant HC instead of firing him after the awful start killed the team’s spirit. (And after Hall clearly checked out, played like garbage and was likely a locker-room cancer.) I don’t know what Ray thought the various future scenarios were other than him having to fire Hynes when it got ugly again.i don’t doubt he’d be good in certain situations with certain players but he was awful for us and should have been canned after the first week of last season. with all the hype going into the season he squandered it all in 3 games and it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention
Everyone overrated Dallas because of the bubble playoffs. We scored more goals then Dallas last season.the schedule and injuries happened to Dallas. They missed the start of the season due to Covid, and then lost more games because Texas can’t manage its power grid properly. Combine that with guys like Seguin out a significant time and they barely missed.
Only on HF would someone try to make the argument that having $40 million tied up in six hideous long-term contracts that aren't exactly going away in 2-3 years makes no difference in the speed or efficiency of a rebuild in a world with an $80 million cap.
You pretty much have no margin for error in drafting when your main pieces are contracts you can't trade and the Kings seem to have hit on just about every pick, but we haven't seen these guys on the pro level yet either.
So it’s a positive that they have no hope of being good for years because their most expensive players aren’t good but in 3-5 seasons they can flip some of these guys for a 3rd round pick?
Edit: Though they likely won’t be able to get anything for those guys ever. Contracts are so long that they may be actively bad at a high dollar once the contract is short.
Only on HF would someone try to make the argument that having $40 million tied up in six hideous long-term contracts that aren't exactly going away in 2-3 years makes no difference in the speed or efficiency of a rebuild in a world with an $80 million cap.
You pretty much have no margin for error in drafting when your main pieces are contracts you can't trade for one reason or another, and the Kings seem to have hit on just about every pick - but we haven't seen these guys on the pro level yet either.
It also makes it harder to bottom out completely if you have too many vet players who are good enough to keep you from bottoming out but not good enough to justify their contracts or have trade value.
if that was the case how are we currently going on year what 8 of our rebuild when we had no cap
there are actually a lot of differences between our situation and theirs but it’s hardly worth engaging
Because it's year six of actually trying to rebuild and I have criticized Shero for not taking enough advantage of using the cap space we had to expedite the process in the first four.
No they aren’t. So they will be bad with a high cap hit as opposed to being bad with a low cap hit like us. There really isn’t a difference. Did us being a bottom cap team during all these years change our ability to not be bad? Nope just as being a high cap team won’t change theirs. Only difference is their billionaire owner has to pay more. One bright side is when these contracts get lower in years you could make an argument that they will be able to ship these pieces off for better quality assets
This is absurd
how can you possibly think that a bad team with no cap space is the same as a bad team with a boatload of cap space?
They didn’t have those prospects 6 years ago when they started the rebuild just like the sharks now.