You cant extend Patches until July 1, but I believe you can work out a contract before then. When is that allowed .
Just thinking that if there is a team Patches likes that we could allow him and the team to working out an extension so we can get better value. Just not sure if that window opens up before the draft.
Hope we can revisit things with Florida and pick off Borgstrom.
I have to say I am really not ready for this Florida dynasty. Lightning are great, if Florida gets there too I will be a sad panda. The team should be in Quebec where the fans are.
I remember 1996 very well. Nordiques were up and coming. Moved abruptly to Colorado, who acquires Patrick Roy in their first year. Claude Lemieux too.
Watched with great sadness as Detroit eliminated Winnipeg, put our city into 25 years of hockey exile. Colorado-Florida Stanley Cup. John Vanbiebrouck and the rat pack. One of the worst years in hockey.
I am not ready to make the Panthers better, for the future.
Hostie, take a look at the Conference.
Buffalo sucks. Ottawa, I feel bad for them, if Bryan Murray was still alive, they'd have Turris, and a team in contention. Detroit has a defense that is the envy of any tank.
Rangers aren't going to be good next year. Isles have so many holes. And will be a black hole when Tavares leaves. Barzal will be like Mc David this year. Carolina is Carolina, they are not a winner.
So you need to be better than Columbus and Florida. Washington is sooner or later going into the crapper, maybe sooner. Boston? I f*****g hate Boston. They keep hurting us. Maybe Shae Weber shoots a couple of slapshots at Bergeron's foot.
I'm talking about playoffs.
Making Florida better, for Bjustad hurts. Maybe Borgstrom, maybe, but it still hurts.
I'm not ready for the rat pack. Montreal is a place for hockey playoffs. I get chills down my spine, when I watch the old timers come out carrying the torch. All that history. I can't think about being worse than both Florida teams two years in a row. It is blasphemous to hockey.