Around The NHL - The Craig Morgan Vacation Watch
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LA will not qualify Toby Reider, who now becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Somebody tell the main board that this superstar is available!
Somebody tell the main board that this superstar is available!
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That trade still looks bad. Kuemper sucks
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I don't know that is was bad, but underwhelming return. Did not do well on value, imo. But it wasn't a trade I lost sleep over either.
I think it was more to do with moving a guy that saw his role reduced by the new coach who wanted different things from him. I think both sides were frustrated, and we trimmed an extraneous branch off the trunk. Add in headed to free agency with a pain in the ass agent, and ...
We've been doing a lot of that over the past year. Whether it's work habits, playing habits, altitudes, compete level, expectations, buy-in whatever. A lot of guys have been moved in trades that seemed pointless or undervalue in a vacuum. It doesn't mean they all had the same bad habit or attitude, or whathaveyou. Or that the new management/coaching is right or better. Just that the team has clearly decided for one reason or another that moving people out and replacing them with fresh faces was a better idea than keeping the same faces, attitudes, habits, culture, etc
I think it was more to do with moving a guy that saw his role reduced by the new coach who wanted different things from him. I think both sides were frustrated, and we trimmed an extraneous branch off the trunk. Add in headed to free agency with a pain in the ass agent, and ...
We've been doing a lot of that over the past year. Whether it's work habits, playing habits, altitudes, compete level, expectations, buy-in whatever. A lot of guys have been moved in trades that seemed pointless or undervalue in a vacuum. It doesn't mean they all had the same bad habit or attitude, or whathaveyou. Or that the new management/coaching is right or better. Just that the team has clearly decided for one reason or another that moving people out and replacing them with fresh faces was a better idea than keeping the same faces, attitudes, habits, culture, etc
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Gonna agree to disagree on that one. Rieder wasn't gonna work here in AZ anymore and apparently not even LA. Yotes got a backup goalie for him. Debateable how good he's going to be but to that point in the season his numbers were solid.
At minimum... Yotes walked away with something instead of nothing. I'm cool with that. This next season we will all find out how the trade actually looks for the Yotes with Kuemper. He did underwhelm me at the end of the season, though.
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Probably at center given historical trends.
Congratulations to Uncle Gary on his well-deserved HHOF induction.
I'm OK with a guy like Lamoriello, but I see it different when the guy runs the League. A GM could literally work until death, I don't think Gary stats that long.
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I haven't gone and checked this but is this real? Or is this a joke that's over my head haha.
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Haha yeah it was believable enough to check about!I mean I wrote it as a joke, but knowing Sidney Crosby it's possible.
Not sure if the video will work in 'Merica but watching the call where Uncle Gary hears he's been inducted is pretty cool. Really genuine reaction.
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/nhlf-bettmancall-062618~1426713
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/nhlf-bettmancall-062618~1426713
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