GDT: Free Agency Frenzy - The Madness Begins!

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Wayne Simmonds would be a good addition.

Flyers aint trading Simmonds to us.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Flyers aint trading Simmonds to us.

I thought he was a FA. I was wrong.

 

[Turin]

Simmonds is literally the last player the Pens need at this point. Aging RW with injuries issues looming for a new deal.

 

[CertifiedLurker]

Really?

Geno was the best player in hockey last season with HMH and HMR, but it's better for Geno to have Kessel with him.

Okay . . .

What's with the "Okay..."? He literally played the majority of his season with Kessel, do you think they didn't combine on any goals? Malkin was a beast last year, but he was a beast with literally every combination basically. The facts are Kessel produced 2.17 points/60 last season at 5v5, Malkin produced 2.4 points/60 last season, those were the highest on the team. Hornqvist was 1.3 points/60, Hagelin was 1.5 points/60 and Rust was 1.5 points/60. If those combinations were so much better, it had more to do with Malkin just playing better than it had to do with any perceived advantage due to a Kessel-less line combination. Do you think they never shared the ice 5-on-5 and combined for a point after they started using these different lines?

Kessel and Malkin have always been a good combination, in 2017 they produced at a GF% of 73 in 400 minutes of game time (which is bonkers), and in 2016 they produced at GF% of 57 in 600 minutes. Those are solid numbers. Maybe you don't like the way it looks or something, but its kind of silly to suggest it doesn't work well or that it's somehow odd to believe the combination has success when the results speak for themselves.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

 

[JackFr]

Buffalo just added 3 top 9 players for ROR.

Bots should've gotten a Dman somewhere in that trade, imo. But still a great trade.

For getting 2 30-year old 3rd liners, a decent prospect, a late 1st and a 2nd three years from now for a top two-way centre?

St. Louis stole O'Reilly.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Sullivan is the low T version of Torts, so it doesn’t surprise me one bit. IMO, both are narcissistic adult toddlers who put their egos ahead of the teams that employ them.

The only difference is our version is way more successful, but way more mentally fragile.

It isn't often that a post leaves me speechless.