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[StreetHawk]

Darnell Nurse…9.5 mil of stupid.

How many Dmen Have a higher cap hit than him?
Doughty, Karlsson, Jones, Fox, Werenski? Anyone else?
Higher than Hamilton, Jossi, Pietroangelo, Makar.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Both teams suck

 

[geebaan]

That Jack Campbell signing might go down as the reason McDavid doesn’t win a cup

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Without Toffoli from last season and both Kadri and Hub sucking

Man the flames forwards group look weak

They need Garland

 

[arttk]

They need Garland

For a bargain price of a 1st

 

[Diversification]

For a bargain price of a 1st

a 1st and Tanev

What happened to Chad Kroeger's voice? Most of the gravellyness is gone and there's no range.

 

[nucksflailtogether]

Nickleback's still got it.
'It' being a giant turd. Painful. The sing alongs were the best, absolute silence from the crowd.

 

[Vector]

There are a lot of teams in the NHL where I look at them and wonder what the f***ing point of them existing even is.

Blue Jackets, Blues, Predators, Capitals, Jets, Flames, etc. All middling boring teams with management/ownership too cowardly to go hard in any direction. Just kind of wandering around in the middle making some moves but then taking steps back to go nowhere. Utterly useless.

I’d almost lump the Wild and Islanders in there but at least one of them made a big splash for Horvat and the other made the two biggest buyouts in history. Then neither have followed up with anything to further push them over the edge and are just upper-tier middling teams.

 

[Diversification]

There are a lot of teams in the NHL where I look at them and wonder what the f***ing point of them existing even is.

Blue Jackets, Blues, Predators, Capitals, Jets, Flames, etc. All middling boring teams with management/ownership too cowardly to go hard in any direction. Just kind of wandering around in the middle making some moves but then taking steps back to go nowhere. Utterly useless.

I’d almost lump the Wild and Islanders in there but at least one of them made a big splash for Horvat and the other made the two biggest buyouts in history. Then neither have followed up with anything to further push them over the edge and are just upper-tier middling teams.

To be fair, that was us until December 5th, 2021

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

There are a lot of teams in the NHL where I look at them and wonder what the f***ing point of them existing even is.

Blue Jackets, Blues, Predators, Capitals, Jets, Flames, etc. All middling boring teams with management/ownership too cowardly to go hard in any direction. Just kind of wandering around in the middle making some moves but then taking steps back to go nowhere. Utterly useless.

I’d almost lump the Wild and Islanders in there but at least one of them made a big splash for Horvat and the other made the two biggest buyouts in history. Then neither have followed up with anything to further push them over the edge and are just upper-tier middling teams.

Least the Blues and Caps won their cups.

 

[Bubbles]

Nickleback's still got it.
'It' being a giant turd. Painful. The sing alongs were the best, absolute silence from the crowd.

It's kind of funny that they rep Alberta but they cut their teeth in Vancouver and before they were big, they were known more as a Vancouver band. Kroger used to basically live at Gabby's in Langley.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

It's kind of funny that they rep Alberta but they cut their teeth in Vancouver and before they were big, they were known more as a Vancouver band. Kroger used to basically live at Gabby's in Langley.

I'm pretty sure they consider themselves as having multiple homes.

 

[WTG]

There are a lot of teams in the NHL where I look at them and wonder what the f***ing point of them existing even is.

Blue Jackets, Blues, Predators, Capitals, Jets, Flames, etc. All middling boring teams with management/ownership too cowardly to go hard in any direction. Just kind of wandering around in the middle making some moves but then taking steps back to go nowhere. Utterly useless.

I’d almost lump the Wild and Islanders in there but at least one of them made a big splash for Horvat and the other made the two biggest buyouts in history. Then neither have followed up with anything to further push them over the edge and are just upper-tier middling teams.

I still have no idea what the Flames were thinking with those contracts. Such a stupid move right from the beginning. Huberdeau trade/contract as well. WTF are you thinking?

Just feels like a team full of players just there for the paycheck.

 

[petterdaddy]

Had the Flames gotten a pure futures package for Tkachuk they’d be able to retool on the fly a lot more convincingly

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Signing a 32 year old Kadri (who had just who a cup on a stacked Avs team) to a retirement contract was such an obvious mistake at the time.

This guy flat out doesn't give a shit.

 

[Vector]

To be fair, that was us until December 5th, 2021

For all Benning myriad of faults, he went all in. Canucks pick a direction and went about it the stupidest way possible. My main criticism with the new regime is they haven’t done enough and have been too passive but have gotten actual results, that are hopefully sustainable, just by bringing stability to what was already here.

But, I probably would have had the Canucks in the same situation. They were basically the Blue Jackets.

 

[EpochLink]

It's kind of funny that they rep Alberta but they cut their teeth in Vancouver and before they were big, they were known more as a Vancouver band. Kroger used to basically live at Gabby's in Langley.

I still consider them from Vancouver, I actually had drinks with Chad Kroeger last year at Gothams Steakhouse. He said he was seeing his family at some place downtown.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Signing a 32 year old Kadri (who had just who a cup on a stacked Avs team) to a retirement contract was such an obvious mistake at the time.

This guy flat out doesn't give a shit.

They were all obvious mistakes at the time, both alberta gms are buffoons.

 

[DimitriL07]

Huberdeau is toast man, this guy has been turning it over almost every play he’s been on the ice

 

[ephmrl]

The flames just look so pathetic and listless. They're not able to create any sort of offense. Not a single-play driver on that team.

 

[canucksfan]

Holy shit the Sharks are awful. Averaging a goal a game. minus 26 goal differential and the next team is -13.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Huberdeau is toast man, this guy has been turning it over almost every play he’s been on the ice

Loui Eriksson was better defensively.

 

[DimitriL07]

Well the oilers can’t lose em all

 

[WTG]

Has the NHL schedule always been so shit? Why do they load up on 10 games on every other day?

 

[canuckking1]

Huberdeau contract is looking absolutely atrocious.

Flames are f***ed with that on the books