Boom Boom Apathy
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- Sep 6, 2006
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Seriously thought you were referring to the Hurricanes at this year's draft.
Ha, that was my exact thought as well.
Seriously thought you were referring to the Hurricanes at this year's draft.
I'd say you're not wrong about that, but I'd also say if our enforcer is a 5'11 beanpole we're DEFINITELY doing it wrong.Seriously thought you were referring to the Hurricanes at this year's draft.
it said grinder/enforcer, so I took that as either/or rather than both.I'd say you're not wrong about that, but I'd also say if our enforcer is a 5'11 beanpole we're DEFINITELY doing it wrong.
Did a cheap owner pick Lindholm over Monahan? Or Fleury over Nylander/Ehlers? Or Hanifin over Provorov/Werenski/Rantanen? Or Bean over McAvoy? etc...
EDIT: I realize this has the benefit of hindsight, but that applies to EDM as well to some extent. No doubt, they have WAY more top picks than the Canes did over the past 10 years so it's not exactly apples to apples, but our team has been mired in mediocrity for 10 years now.
I mean this with absolutely no disrespect to you or any other mod, but there's a lot of stuff that certain fanbases get away with on here that others can't. I don't believe that same kind of asshattery would be allowed if it wasn't collectively coming from one of the larger fan presences on here. Which, I mean, I totally get, you can't put the screws on a presence that large.
I'd post something on that over on the support board so that the admins can look in to what might be causing it.Very odd but I've been getting a lot of Google Alerts about this site lately. Saying there might be a dangerous or deceptive ad running (i.e. there might be malicious code in it)
What’s malicious is the fact that it shifts my browser page about 6 times for about 10 seconds as the new page loads. And that’s with ad-block running.
This is why I sponser. 12 dollers a year is a minuscule sum if it stops a guy as nice as myself from being pestered daily.You're lucky. Without the ad-blocker, it just shifts the page at the last second to ensure you click on an ad.
We'd probably have to take on a cap dump for this to work to get us over the cap floor if we were doing a Faulk-Poolparty trade. Sadly Oilers don't seem to have any good candidates on that aside from Lucic which, yeah **** him and his contract. I wouldn't trade Faulk for Lucic even if they threw Poolparty in as a sweetener.
Well if they need to get to the cap floor after unloading all these contracts...why not Lucic to get there? He could be on the 4th line and just skate around being nasty to the other team, which I'm sure he's still good at.
Well if they need to get to the cap floor after unloading all these contracts...why not Lucic to get there? He could be on the 4th line and just skate around being nasty to the other team, which I'm sure he's still good at.
Those in glass houses.....
Adding to that, while he's never been a good skater for someone that played that style he's REALLY slowed down over the past couple years. He was drug to his production 2 years ago by being stapled to McDavid, and his fall following that was quite expected once he was off his wing. Last thing we need is a pylon making 6 million a year putting up 20-30 points. I mean I detest Tom Wilson but at least that goon can actually skate.For me, the bigger issue with Lucic is that he's a 30 year old power forward coming off of a 34 point season. For a younger player, you could easily write that off as an outlier and place value on his bounceback upside. That combination of age and player type, however, leaves you feeling uneasy about what's in store for his future; 17-18 could be the start of a decline that makes what is an affordable contract for a budget team, a cancer in the future. There's too much risk there to view him as anything other than a cap dump that a team in this market should only consider if it's offset, at least in part, with negative value contract going back the other way (i.e. Darling.)
Look at JRs thoughts on the draft, he was more prepared to trade the pick and hardly made an investment in drafting, which the philosophy changed under RF.
The Hanifin pick was the conscience pick except those who picked Provorov or Were, Prov was even said to be the most ready, and Hanifin was the most raw in talent. In hinesite I’d take Provorov every time.
Fluery is still projecting and was a position of need at the time, had we know Pesce and Slavin was going to be studs.
But looking at Edmonton, outside of the 1st round, their draft picks are bad, we’ve had more nhl talent out of the later rounds then they’ve had.
How does any of those excuses matter in this discussion? Canes haven't made the playoffs in 10 years, and consensus or not, we missed on a lot of our 1st round picks and made up for it with Aho, Slavin and Pesce in the later rounds. That's not really much different than Edmonton hitting on their 1st round picks and missing later on..thus the "those in glass houses" statement.
I agree, So not really any better than us.They made the playoffs 1 time in that span, after winning mcjesus.
I agree, So not really any better than us.
But historical references, picking 1st oa multiple times in a row typically leads to a contending team. Pitt, Hawks...
When did those teams draft 1st OA multiple times in a row? And all drafts are not created equal.
Look, I’m not saying Edmonton has been well managed, because they haven’t been. We’re just in no position to throw stones as we haven’t been either.