OT: Around the NHL: Free agency is upon us

[EightyOne]

Shocked

 

[Peat]

Well, holy shit there. I'm sure this will end in a calm manner where everyone is happy.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Kane to Chicago or Montreal??

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Seriously though, abandoning your kid and pregnant wife?? Jesus....there are no words.

It’s like the old saying. Any schmuck with a dick can make a baby, but it takes a real man to raise his children.”

 

[AlphaMikeFoxtrots]

 

[Coachcorner]

Do you think Malkin will be ready for the first regular season game? Or if ain't, is he gon be back like during the first two weeks no?

 

[EightyOne]

Do you think Malkin will be ready for the first regular season game? Or if ain't, is he gon be back like during the first two weeks no?

No

 

[Peat]

Do you think Malkin will be ready for the first regular season game? Or if ain't, is he gon be back like during the first two weeks no?

Sounds like he's probably not back for the first two months.

 

[Coachcorner]

No

Thank you for the answer sire. I would like to see him playing kapanen again sire. Maybe it'll take a bit more longer like you stated there..... I know I can count on the knowledge of pittsburgh fans here, period.

 

[TNT87]

Kane is a circus.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Kane is a circus.

More like an assclown.

 

[66-30-33]

Kane to Chicago with the other clowns (including the other Kane).

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I told you idiots for years Kane is a loser. The stuff his wife said is sad and awful for her.

 

[JaegerDice]

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

Nevermind, looks like he's reporting to the team, so off-season trade is very unlikely.

However, I don't think the Blackhawks are going to be any good this year, so decent chance he might be traded to you guys at the TDL, lot less cap hit and salary to pay too.

 

[mpp9]

Nevermind, looks like he's reporting to the team, so off-season trade is very unlikely.

However, I don't think the Blackhawks are going to be any good this year, so decent chance he might be traded to you guys at the TDL, lot less cap hit and salary to pay too.

Eh. Jones is overpaid but better than Keith at this point. Plus they’re getting Toews back last I looked.

They’re a bubble team at worst IMO. Especially with Fleury being an awesome regular season goalie.

 

[Pens x]

Nevermind, looks like he's reporting to the team, so off-season trade is very unlikely.

However, I don't think the Blackhawks are going to be any good this year, so decent chance he might be traded to you guys at the TDL, lot less cap hit and salary to pay too.

Oh good, more MAF trade talk until the deadline.

MOVE ON

 

[Gurglesons]

Eh. Jones is overpaid but better than Keith at this point. Plus they’re getting Toews back last I looked.

They’re a bubble team at worst IMO. Especially with Fleury being an awesome regular season goalie.

Pacific is awful so Central like gets five teams through. Probably St. Louis, Minnie, CHI, Colorado, Dallas and WPG all battling it out.

 

[Jacob]

Would there be a way that Fleury could void his contract and become UFA? Or do both parties have to agree to that (player + team).

Weird situation but it’s not like Chicago is Buffalo. I’d just.. play a game in a (mostly) nice city for a decent team and collect the 7 million bucks.

 

[Peat]

Full season of Dach for Chicago too. I'm thinking they'll be in the mix around the playoff.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I told you idiots for years Kane is a loser. The stuff his wife said is sad and awful for her.

To add to this...

Notice how the narrative on HFboards when a woman has done something to a player is like oh why would she do that to him or that she's also as guilty or she's a liar or a crazed person. They are so quick to disparage the woman or try to minimize it before they ever admit that yeah you know maybe the bloke that literally has an entire career of indiscretions might actually be a shit person capable of this, after all.

I imagine most of these are those celibate wankers that aren't that way by choice but because most women are repulsed by them.

 

[Peat]

To add to this...

Notice how the narrative on HFboards when a woman has done something to a player is like oh why would she do that to him or that she's also as guilty or she's a liar or a crazed person. They are so quick to disparage the woman or try to minimize it before they ever admit that yeah you know maybe the bloke that literally has an entire career of indiscretions might actually be a shit person capable of this, after all.

The main board thread is wild for this. I swear people were going "you shouldn't automatically believe her just because she's a woman" twenty posts in, when every post preceding it was "holy hell, let's see what the investigation finds" and "yup, sounds like Evander" and nothing about believing the source because of who the source was at all. Tilting at windmills.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Uh, it ain't the main board. It's society as a whole.

Big surprise as to why victims stay silent for years. "If it happened why didn't you speak up right away?" I don't know, maybe the infinity number of victims who were immediately labeled gold diggers, opportunists, or whatever other vile shit dumpster people want to throw around.

Kane's a scumbag. He's not on the same level of scumbag as some of the numerous sex pests around the game, or the bigots sprinkled in around the league, but y'know. There's enough room in the dumpster for a lot of different kinds of scumbag.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Uh, it ain't the main board. It's society as a whole.

Big surprise as to why victims stay silent for years. "If it happened why didn't you speak up right away?" I don't know, maybe the infinity number of victims who were immediately labeled gold diggers, opportunists, or whatever other vile shit dumpster people want to throw around.

Kane's a scumbag. He's not on the same level of scumbag as some of the numerous sex pests around the game, or the bigots sprinkled in around the league, but y'know. There's enough room in the dumpster for a lot of different kinds of scumbag.

Athletes get away with a ton starting at the grass roots level where towns/cities/etc will chastise the woman and make them feel like trash and then society wonders why women don't speak up. Read about the woman that Harry Zolnierczyk and his shitty mate, felt about how the town made her feel like trash because poor Harry and his career were ruined.

The same benefit of the doubt should be given to both sides.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

For the first time in his career, I will be actively hoping Fleury fails because no one should want to see the Chicago Blackhawks do anything good ever again.

 

[Andy99]

For the first time in his career, I will be actively hoping Fleury fails because no one should want to see the Chicago Blackhawks do anything good ever again.

He might except against the Pens who can’t ever beat Chicago…guaranteed win for MAF in the Pens home opener lol…