HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition

[Team_Spirit]

Coaches buyouts don't impact the cap these guys are making bank. Keefe is gonna make more than 98% of players.

 

[Gravity]

Coaches buyouts don't impact the cap these guys are making bank. Keefe is gonna make more than 98% of players.

Horrible twitter post. Now let's see the same map for Dallas/NYR/Florida.

 

[windycity]

AND chucky too. to big fails

That was a terrible draft year and Chucky went where projected. I'm gonna give the Habs a pass on that one

 

[Weltschmerz]

Keefe to NJ sounds like

Fake news

 

[morhilane]

Horrible twitter post. Now let's see the same map for Dallas/NYR/Florida.

Dallas has around 11 Canadians players.
Panthers only have 8 Canadian players, but only 2 Americans.
Rangers have about 5 Canadians.

FYI, Toronto has 10 Canadians players. Nash has like 9. Islanders about 8. Avs, TBL, Jets and Caps around 7. Kings and Boston have like 5. Vegas had 11.

 

[Beer and Chips]

You just know that the Breadman doesn’t wear flip flops.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1792789239798878361

What a waste of good crusty bread

 

[Tyson]

That was a terrible draft year and Chucky went where projected. I'm gonna give the Habs a pass on that one

Where they don't get a pass is the vetting process. During the interviews I am convinced there were visible red flags regarding his family and how they controlled things. That's why interviewing is so important. Galchenyuk was mishandled by both the Habs and his meddling father.

 

[angusyoung]

Down to the final four,been pretty much a yawner till now. Would not object to seeing a new playoff format.
These playoffs have illumined some players for the good and some for the worst.

 

[Leto]

 

[Gustave]

This is OT but Weekes schtick in getting old…

 

[angusyoung]

everywhere Nicokeshkin

Yup! all players do smelling salts and who knew that El Chapo produced some

 

[Whitesnake]

Let say JK is bought out.....maybe...just maybe....he's worth it on a 4th line salary?

 

[The Real Timo]

Coaches buyouts don't impact the cap these guys are making bank. Keefe is gonna make more than 98% of players.

I wish someone bought me out. I could really use it.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Let say JK is bought out.....maybe...just maybe....he's worth it on a 4th line salary?

He would be but he won't come back here and he shouldn't, the fans take on the poor kid for doing what was right for him is insane.. the fact they still drag on him and follow his failure around like a victory lap is just awful.

 

[Nashy]

Let say JK is bought out.....maybe...just maybe....he's worth it on a 4th line salary?

Had his chance....acted like a dick.....not even worth league minimum. Recycling coaches was bad enough....dont need to see it with players.....just my 2 cents.

 

[Paddyjack]

Let say JK is bought out.....maybe...just maybe....he's worth it on a 4th line salary?

I would take back Drouin before I would KK

 

[sampollock]

I would take back Drouin before I would KK

pass on both.. seen that movie

 

[Heffyhoof]

It's interesting reading this and thinking back to Marner's gods comment. Gotta think their locker room is cliquey.

It's awful enough working at a job where you do more than your fair share of the hard work, imagine making 1/10th of the salary of the lazy guy at work who gets all the glory and compares themselves to a god.

 

[Whitesnake]

He would be but he won't come back here and he shouldn't, the fans take on the poor kid for doing what was right for him is insane.. the fact they still drag on him and follow his failure around like a victory lap is just awful.

I still wonder what he could with limited expectations.....I still feel he could be serviceable on a bottom 6. I hope they buy him out. And he does out west somewhere. We might be surprise.

 

[The Great Weal]

I still wonder what he could with limited expectations.....I still feel he could be serviceable on a bottom 6. I hope they buy him out. And he does out west somewhere. We might be surprise.

I'm sure he could bounce back somewhere, maybe Chicago/San Jose. I don't really want him back because he seems very entitled, doesn't work hard enough to improve, and can't take criticism well.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[Paddyjack]

pass on both.. seen that movie

Oh me too, it just helps to illustrate what I think about KK

 

[McGees]

what did the $20 signing bonus for KK represent again?
Aho's number?

 

[Tyson]

And this does not make it more enjoyable. A simple enforcement of rules consistently is what fans want.

 

[Laurentide]

Down to the final four,been pretty much a yawner till now. Would not object to seeing a new playoff format.
These playoffs have illumined some players for the good and some for the worst.

The reason it's been underwhelming is because too many teams are allowed into the playoffs. It will only get worse if they expand the playoffs. This year there were, as usual, 16 teams in the post-season. But some of them were so fraudulent they really had no business being there at all. The Isles, the Preds, the Caps and the Kings were all frauds. Not one of them stood any chance of winning the Cup. They could have just cut those teams out of the mix entirely and nothing would suffer.

Were it up to me, I'd go to a quicker and more brutal format. 12 teams make the playoff. Only 12 teams. The four 1st place division winners get a bye while the remaining 8 teams (2 seed vs 3 seed) play a best-of-5 series, with 4 games in 5 nights. Even if a series goes the full 5 games it only takes 7 calendar days to get done. The winners of those series play the division winners in a best-of-7 followed by a best-of-7 conference final and a best-of-7 final.

Having more than that isn't good, it's simply "more".

I realize that the NHL will never do this. In fact, I expect them to do the opposite and actually add teams to the playoffs. All that's going to do is make the playoffs drag on even longer and it will be just as tedious. But allowing more teams in generates more revenue by keeping fraud teams relevant.