Around the League Part 9: The Post-Tavareslyptic Hellscape

[garnetpalmetto]

The last one was going a little long and we're in the middle of the off-season so why not start afresh?

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[MinJaBen]

I was thinking "After the Travaresty" would have sounded nice.

 

[Lempo]

The last one was going a little long and we're in the middle of the off-season so why not start afresh?

Technically new season started yesterday, so it's apt time.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

new season same as the old season

 

[HisIceness]

Thank you for starting a new thread!

 

[DaveG]

new season same as the old season

same as it ever was. SAME AS IT EVER WAS.

 

[HisIceness]

Somewhere Gary Bettman is sitting on a beach laughing his ass off that his league is about to poach a small chunk of pissed off NBA fans.

 

[Unsustainable]

Eklund mentioned Carolina / Habs with Patches. Faulk for Patches could work, then Skinner for futures and sign de Haan

Patches - Aho - TT
Ferland - Necas - Svechnikov
Zykov - Staal - Williams
Foegele - Martinook - McGinn
PDG

Slavin - Hamilton
de Haan - Pesce
Fleury - TVR
McKeown

Mzarek
Darling

 

[FreshSeabass]

Leafs freeing up space to take/keep faulk

 

[Novacane]

Are we sure Lou isn’t a TML plant?

 

[SaskCanesFan]

Eklund mentioned Carolina / Habs with Patches. Faulk for Patches could work, then Skinner for futures and sign de Haan

Patches - Aho - TT
Ferland - Necas - Svechnikov
Zykov - Staal - Williams
Foegele - Martinook - McGinn
PDG

Slavin - Hamilton
de Haan - Pesce
Fleury - TVR
McKeown

Mzarek
Darling

Couple Minnesota fans seemed ok with Faulk for Nino. I think I'd rather have him than Patches at this point.

 

[Buenos Necas]

Lehner signs with the Isles, also 1-year for $1.5m.

 

[Unsustainable]

Lehner signs with the Isles, also 1-year for $1.5m.

We set the price of goalies needing a redemption

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

so you get to choose between goalie graveyards, one has a great defense on paper but is coached by an inexperienced wild card and managed by a guy who drove his previous team to relocation; the other has the worst defense on paper but is coached by the Stanley cup winner and managed by a legend. who do you choose?

 

[Highest Boss]

 

[Lempo]

But we are coached by a Stanley Cu... oh.

Anyways, I would choose the team with Sebastian Aho in it.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

so you get to choose between goalie graveyards, one has a great defense on paper but is coached by an inexperienced wild card and managed by a guy who drove his previous team to relocation; the other has the worst defense on paper but is coached by the Stanley cup winner and managed by a legend. who do you choose?

Are we seriously comparing which team we’d rather be right now, the Hurricanes or the Islanders?

We are having an A+ offseason, they just lost one of the best players in the league. We are the youngest team in the league.

 

[SlavinAway]

Are we seriously comparing which team we’d rather be right now, the Hurricanes or the Islanders?

We are having an A+ offseason, they just lost one of the best players in the league. We are the youngest team in the league.

What he said!

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Are we seriously comparing which team we’d rather be right now, the Hurricanes or the Islanders?

nah, its where you'd go if you were a goalie who needed a 1.5 prove it contract.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

nah, its where you'd go if you were a goalie who needed a 1.5 prove it contract.

Lol I’m sorry. It’s really hard to tell the point of lots of posts the last few days - lots of people getting angry at Waddell for having an excellent offseason.

 

[sabremike]

I think I've figured out the Isles strategy: they are going to copy the legendary Brian Burke era Whalers by compiling a roster of talentless grit guys and useless plugs. Barzal is a much better Geoff Sanderson as the team's only bright spot but Verbeek was a better good veteran who is going to be traded than Andres Lee. Of course Trotz is a better coach than Pierre LOL.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Lol I’m sorry. It’s really hard to tell the point of lots of posts the last few days - lots of people getting angry at Waddell for having an excellent offseason.

I think it's more getting angry at the organization as a whole for not being able to address a weakness that we knew was coming for a while. We knew Ward was getting up there in age, and yet we've never drafted a suitable replacement. We've made a few half-assed attempts at finding a replacement in FA/trade, but it's basically been "Let's hope this career backup is more than a backup!"

Now I understand Waddell's only been in charge for a bit, and certainly don't expect miracles overnight. But it's a bit frustrating to have a rich new owner, a new GM, and the same approach to our goaltending. Obviously, nothing can be done about it now, but that's where much of the anger comes from.

Oh, and hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but last offseason, Francis signed a Top 6 forward, acquired our new starting goaltender, added some much needed grit to our bottom 6, and added Cup experience with each one. I know, at the time, I wasnt the only one who thought that offseason was excellent too.

 

[HisIceness]

I think I've figured out the Isles strategy: they are going to copy the legendary Brian Burke era Whalers by compiling a roster of talentless grit guys and useless plugs. Barzal is a much better Geoff Sanderson as the team's only bright spot but Verbeek was a better good veteran who is going to be traded than Andres Lee. Of course Trotz is a better coach than Pierre LOL.

So by this logic, that means the Islanders are relocating then.

I don't want that by the way. But man JT leaving could kill them for the next decade.

Hopefully they get shovels in the dirt for the arena proposal soon.

 

[sabremike]

So by this logic, that means the Islanders are relocating then.

I don't want that by the way. But man JT leaving could kill them for the next decade.

Hopefully they get shovels in the dirt for the arena proposal soon.

The Belmont arena/development is the signature project of a governor who has that job for as long as he decides he wants to keep it so it's 100% happening.

 

[FlyingSquirrels]

The Belmont arena/development is the signature project of a governor who has that job for as long as he decides he wants to keep it so it's 100% happening.

Maybe. Not that it matters, but everyone above Westchester County hates that guy.