It's the anti-Leafs approach: devalue your players as much as possible on the way out
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NHL February 2016 |OT| Parlez-vous tankçais?
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"Based on Todd Mclellan's comments here's our offer for Schultz -- nothing. And we'd appreciate it if you threw in a 2nd round pick as well to ease the burden of us taking on Schultz"
lol awesome
*brofist* that's exactly the quote I was referencing.
just finished my yearly "lets watch both godfather movies split in a billion parts"
3 sucks tho, idgaf
SmackCrackleNPop
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Scott Niedermayer could have cheered up Schultz but Justin ain't answering the fucking phone.
Offer nothing for Schultz! Not like they drafted him or anything.
Lol
Offer nothing for Schultz! Not like they drafted him or anything.
Lol
Kuro Madoushi
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The perils of an impatient and shitty fanbase and management.
A lot of these picks and players they got always had good potential but Crapmondump doesn't seem to realize that you have to grow and develop players to reach their potential; not simply throw their carcasses to the wolves and hope they survive.
Suddenly, it's Lowe's fault and MacT's fault and the scouts' fault and Katz's fault and their past 6 coaches' (and who knows possibly 7) fault.
I grew up there and there were always some bad teams but they were never an utter disaster like they are now.
Godfather Part 2 is my favorite movie of all time, followed by Godfather. Nobody was more crushed than I at Part 3.
KernelPanic
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Plus, you can't put value on all that localness.
Need someone to push those cars out of the snow too.
This dumbass team will have me cheering for the blue team in a few years now that I live in TO.
Simon Belmont
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I've never watched a Godfather movie.
That's OK man, nobody is perfect.
uhhh
hm
"Begged" a GM to make a trade? This fucking guy.
Simon Belmont
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Ilya and Lou: reunited (and it feels so good)
FUBAR McDangles
Member
Damn wonder what he did.
He had 49 points in 50 games in the regular season. Second on the team in points. So it definitely isn't production related. Seems really strange.
Kuro Madoushi
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You nuts? I wouldn't want him here.
Russia explained in 3 words
can you believe 2 of the anti-doping agency chiefs died of heart attack in the past month? and one of them said he was going to write a book to reveal everything, man that's bad luck amirite
Man I really hope he's the next Habs GM.
Simon Belmont
Banned
I don't really think it'll happen. It was 90% joke.
Part 1 is on Netflix. Get to it. Then find a way to watch II. You can ignore III.
Simon Belmont
Banned
I'll try! Since I've had a kid I've managed to keep my band and my video game hobby going. That time had to come out of somewhere!
No, you need to watch 3. Your appreciation of 1 & 2 increases significantly after you see it.
Negotiations!
He's expecting the Jays to lowball, so he probably set a high bar for his contract before Atkins can get a chance to say anything.
MultiJhonny
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Damn the Oilers are pretty bad. They are tied with the Leafs at dead last in the league with 50 points.
The Leafs have just started their rebuild and have pretty much stripped their team down to almost nothing (Kessel gone, Phaneuf gone, among others, and Bozak, JVR, and Lupul are all injured). Meanwhile Edmonton can't do anything even with Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, Eberle, Yakupov, McDavid, Nurse.
What the hell. How bad has the supporting cast been that with those 6 players you can't do anything as an organization? Even without Nurse and McDavid, in previous years I'd still expect a half-decent supporting cast to complement just Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, Eberle and Yakupov.
The Leafs have just started their rebuild and have pretty much stripped their team down to almost nothing (Kessel gone, Phaneuf gone, among others, and Bozak, JVR, and Lupul are all injured). Meanwhile Edmonton can't do anything even with Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, Eberle, Yakupov, McDavid, Nurse.
What the hell. How bad has the supporting cast been that with those 6 players you can't do anything as an organization? Even without Nurse and McDavid, in previous years I'd still expect a half-decent supporting cast to complement just Nugent-Hopkins, Hall, Eberle and Yakupov.
FUBAR McDangles
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Hall and RNH have been injured for large stretches of time, Eberle gets many small injuries every year, and Yakupov has been the biggest #1OA bust in like 10 years.
Can't really get anything going getting legitimate free agents without overpaying for declining or underperforming players - Ference, Pouliot - and have had terrible management and coaching until this year.
Terrible organization. Just horrid.
Oilers are the perfect example of what not to do in rebuilding your team. Constant tanking doesn't always work, you still need the right mix of players / free agent signings. Hopefully the Leafs have learned from the disaster that is the Oilers.
Forgot about that, they should have cleared out the old ex-Oilers management club years ago. Kevin Lowe, Craig McTavish and the rest really didn't do that team any favors.
538 talking hockey, and specifically about Canada, today: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/canada-still-cant-win-the-stanley-cup/
Coldnoodle
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Yeah the Oilers are honestly the only team I'm truly concerned about in this great tank war.
Teams like the sabres, BJs, canucks, habs, flames, coyotes, have all been picking up points here and there and will continue to do so. The BJs in particular have been red hot in their last 10 games.
The leafs need that last place finish since we all know they aren't to win any of the 3 lottery picks, and then the lowest they can draft is 4th overall which is pretty good. I'm sure they will happily take another Mitch Marner caliber player at 4th
Teams like the sabres, BJs, canucks, habs, flames, coyotes, have all been picking up points here and there and will continue to do so. The BJs in particular have been red hot in their last 10 games.
The leafs need that last place finish since we all know they aren't to win any of the 3 lottery picks, and then the lowest they can draft is 4th overall which is pretty good. I'm sure they will happily take another Mitch Marner caliber player at 4th
Klefblom has missed months with injury, as well.
Preview of the Team North America World Cup jerseys
idk bout you guys but I'm cheering for them rather than Canada in this tourney
I'll also be cheering for the team with Ghost and Couturier on it.
Love that big guy behind the coach just about to sip his drink. Zero fucks given.
When Toronto tanks, it takes the rest of Canada down with them
it's tough being the centre of the universe
I'm remain happy with my decision to ignore III.
MultiJhonny
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