OT: Around the NHL: Free agency is upon us

[Buddy Bizarre]

Crazy how far Neal has plummeted. From being a 40 goal guy with Geno to....this.

When we first traded for Neal I was pumped. People loved his goal scoring and that was great and all, but for me he came across initially as a power forward. He was always around the net being annoying, not cheap but a hard nosed guy.

Then he started getting really good at scoring goals and then he became a major dbag. He wasn't playing hard, he was flat out dirty. I threw his jersey in the trash after the whole Boston/kneeing game.

 

[dogthateats]

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

When we first traded for Neal I was pumped. People loved his goal scoring and that was great and all, but for me he came across initially as a power forward. He was always around the net being annoying, not cheap but a hard nosed guy.

Then he started getting really good at scoring goals and then he became a major dbag. He wasn't playing hard, he was flat out dirty. I threw his jersey in the trash after the whole Boston/kneeing game.

To be fair, it was f***ing Brad Marchand he kneed. No loss there.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

f*** Vegas and f*** Chicago.

 

[dogthateats]

f*** Vegas and f*** Chicago.

And Carolina

 

[vikingGoalie]

Vegas just cap dumped the reigning vezina goalie
Odds that Fleury retires? if he does that's a totally crappy way to end your career.
I think there are some bit though that this might fuel him to have a screw you vegas I'll show you what kind of goalie I am kinda season...

Lehner was GARBO last season, he put a few decent games together but Fleury was clearly the best player on the team during the regular season.
It will be interesting to see if Lehner can put together a good entire season for vegas next season.

Fleury is not only a great human being who embraced his role in Vegas, he is, arguably, the face of the franchise. This is almost akin to trading Crosby (or Malkin) to a crap-hole team and letting them find out in twitter they got traded. What a trash move by Vegas.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

And Carolina

I brought enough f***s to share with the class.

Wait, that sounds weird.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

And Carolina

What’d that bunch of jerks do now??

 

[dogthateats]

What’d that bunch of jerks do now??

Rumored to be signing DeAngelo and possibly Virtanen

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Rumored to be signing DeAngelo and possibly Virtanen

Isn’t DeAngelo the Twitter meltdown guy??

 

[vikingGoalie]

other random thought. what are the odds that chicago aquired Fleury just to flip him to pittsburgh? Chicago, unlike vegas, can retain a little salary, which might make a flower return to the burgh possible.

 

[Al Smith]

Being traded is normal.
But not being told you've been traded is an absolute shit thing to do.

Especially to that awful franchise.

Owners in every sport and in every business do absolute shit things all the time. Unlike a lot of people who are the victims of shit activity by their bosses/owners, MAF can choose to say screw it, I'm retiring to feed the hungry or become a politician or whatever he wants, or he can choose to go play in Chicago (seems like he's still got same game despite the most recent playoff faux pas). And unlike nearly everyone else in the world, he has nearly limitless choices, because he's made a ton of money before the age of 40 playing hockey. Doesn't change what/how Vegas did what they did, but the fact that Vegas acted like shit doesn't really get me feeling sympathetic for MAF.

Guess I'm just getting old and cranky.

 

[JaegerDice]

What would you guys be willing to part with for your old boo?

 

[vikingGoalie]

What would you guys be willing to part with for your old boo?

Jarry + Pettersson for 50% retained Flower.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

What would you guys be willing to part with for your old boo?

Atta boy MAF. f*** the shit franchise Hawks and that fan base.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Jarry + Pettersson for 50% retained Flower.

Yeah f*** no. DeSmith is a Chicago blackhawk type of . He belongs there with Pettersson.

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrots]

I don’t know which thing disgusts me more.

The Vegas organization not even having the guts to tell Fleury about the trade in person, or the fact that a nice guy like MAF has been traded to such a slimy franchise like the Hawks.

Porque no los dos?

Just ugly all around

 

[EightyOne]

Lol that contract is not going to end well.

Come on man. He's gonna LTIRetire with lower back pain, just after he gets his 165 goals. Book it.

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrots]

And Carolina

Canes really leaning all the way in on "Bunch of Jerks."

In the exact opposite way one would hope.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Canes really leaning all the way in on "Bunch of Jerks."

In the exact opposite way one would hope.

Canes won't pay talent.

But they'll happily pay a known racist and piece of trash human being.

This league has no morality.

Enjoy that garbage Carlolina.

Line Change: The Problem With Tony DeAngelo

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Poor Bergevin, he's now scouring the league to find at least a rapist or racist to add to his squad of characters.

 

[EightyOne]

Poor Bergevin, he's now scouring the league to find at least a rapist or racist to add to his squad of characters.

Im making a suicide squad

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Poor Bergevin, he's now scouring the league to find at least a rapist or racist to add to his squad of characters.

Has he scoured Philadelphia yet?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Has he scoured Philadelphia yet?

They're too busy eating horse shit.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

They're too busy eating horse shit.