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NHL Off-Season 2013 |OT| Celebrate Good Times Come On
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I really hadn't either before 2012 (the only other thing I remember where drafting Carey Price in 2005 and Louis LeBlanc in Montreal in 2009), but it was exciting as fuck to watch finally having a really high pick.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
Yeah except now we're in that period where they're gonna want to do something stupid. Homer never really got me worried until the Richards/Carter/Bryz debacle. Ever since just about everything he's done has come out of left field. I don't worry as much about the rumors about Homer, but rather the random stupid thing out of left field that he's about to do.
The fact that we haven't heard anything about Couts getting traded actually worries me a little more even....
Yeah, that and all the talk about Laughton competing for a roster spot next year has me extra on edge.
yankeehater
Member
I have no problem with them trading guys if they can improve the team with the moves. They could trade G tomorrow and I wouldnt bat an eye as long as they got good stuff back for him.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
Well obviously.... the chances of Homer pulling that off in this market seem unlikely though.
yankeehater
Member
I think he got good return for Richards and Carter. I agree it would be much harder to trade a guy like G though.
Exactly. I wouldn't mind them doing it if I thought we would get the better end of the deal. I just don't see that happening though.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
MacKinnon CHL combine on ice drills:
http://youtu.be/ErFvsP36-qE
His brute strength in the opening strides and smoothness laterally is amazing.
I saw an article that said Cats front office already had an offer before the lottery:
EDM: 1st overall
FLA-: 7th overall, Yakupov
Very tempting deal, not sure Tallon would've passed that up.
http://youtu.be/ErFvsP36-qE
His brute strength in the opening strides and smoothness laterally is amazing.
I saw an article that said Cats front office already had an offer before the lottery:
EDM: 1st overall
FLA-: 7th overall, Yakupov
Very tempting deal, not sure Tallon would've passed that up.
Coldnoodle
Member
Is the city of Edmonton going to cease to exist if they don't get the first overall pick or something?
Mac or Droiun >>> Yaks. I would have said no.
Good god...
take Mac.
Coyotes update time
NHL is going to sell the coyotes to renaissance entertainment or whatever on the condition they can get a decent AMF from Glendale
If Glendale says no, team is going to elsewhere (likely quebec)
Per bill daly
An RFP has been tabled for colisee upgrade to NHL standard
The way the new nordiques will start (if they move) is by doing the ticket holder program much like Winnipeg did
NHL is going to sell the coyotes to renaissance entertainment or whatever on the condition they can get a decent AMF from Glendale
If Glendale says no, team is going to elsewhere (likely quebec)
Per bill daly
An RFP has been tabled for colisee upgrade to NHL standard
The way the new nordiques will start (if they move) is by doing the ticket holder program much like Winnipeg did
BigJonsson
Member
Interesting
Coldnoodle
Member
Nordiques vs Canadiens...so much salt.
BigJonsson
Member
Add Quebec to the Northeast or whatever it's called next year and the Atlantic can have the Bruins and the BJs can go back to the Central!
Kinda funny considering who you have in your avatar and Clarke forgot his name.
That was pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcmdnFvM4w8
I always watch, it's good fun.
I still think Snider had more to do with that than Homer.
It would make more sense for the Atlantic to get Florida and Tampa, and for Pittsburgh to move to the Northeast.
Columbus and Detroit go to the Central and then you have balanced Conferences.
It would make more sense for the Atlantic to get Florida and Tampa, and for Pittsburgh to move to the Northeast.
Columbus and Detroit go to the Central and then you have balanced Conferences.
The NHL seems against splitting up the Pens and Flyers, and damn that Northeast would be stacked.
BigJonsson
Member
It would make more sense for the Atlantic to get Florida and Tampa, and for Pittsburgh to move to the Northeast.
Columbus and Detroit go to the Central and then you have balanced Conferences.
No, you guys can keep Crosby and Malkin
I doubt that offer is true, but I figure Edmonton would have been after Jones if it were
And holy shit at his skating. That was before his knee injury - I wonder if he's been affected at all. I guess at his age he'd heal 100% extremely quickly
MacKinnon and Drouin might have more potential than Yakupov, but they're still huge risks. At least Yakupov has proven that he can be dynamic offensively at the NHL level. Plus, there's only a one-year age difference, and Florida would also be getting a high pick (in a strong draft) back from the Oilers. If Tallon had retained the #1, I think that (probably fake) deal would have made a lot of sense.
Zod the Bear
Member
First tickets for next season acquired--going to the Caps' exhibition game in Baltimore in September.
Ice kinda sucked last year, hope they'll have it in a better state this time.
Ice kinda sucked last year, hope they'll have it in a better state this time.
Unhandled Exception
Member
I guess fans of Kronke's soccer team are echoing the exact same complaints that Avs fans have with his ownership. The fuck is the point of him owning sports teams if he does nothing for them?
Edit: Apparently I can't link what I wanted to link
Edit: Apparently I can't link what I wanted to link
This is what I see happening. Glendale will say no and the league can blame them for everything.
With the playoff thread moving as fast as it is, I figured this is the more appropriate place to leave this:
http://www.youtube.com/momentzero
Core Zero ad featuring Jordan Eberle, Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole.
http://www.youtube.com/momentzero
Core Zero ad featuring Jordan Eberle, Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole.
NOT YET
Lets be real did we ever really leave?
Zod the Bear
Member
Offseason beard mothafuckassssssssssssssssss
They'll be here soon enough too
yankeehater
Member
Oh fuck I just realized Tabris will be posting in this thread soon.
Fuck you and get out of here.
ESPN magazine article on life after hockey for Lindros.
http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/page...ed-nhl-culture-playing-injuries-espn-magazine
http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/page...ed-nhl-culture-playing-injuries-espn-magazine
That was a really good read. Great to hear that he doesn't have any real setbacks after all those concussions.
Fata1moose
Banned
Lindros has pretty bad sense, no wonder he didn't see Stevens coming. Of course had the team stayed in Quebec there's no way Montreal trades Roy to the Nordiques, even so he still ended up with zero cups.
You never know, if they hadn't traded Lindros they might have ended up with zero cups as well.
IIHF World Championships start Saturday (for Team Canada anyway, I think tomorrow for some teams) and I'm pretty pumped. Our team may look a tiny bit thin on D and merely OK in goal, but the forwards.... hnnnnnnnnnn.
Stephane Robidas is the other assistant.
That's a quality group of forwards! I'm very happy Ladd get's an A, I really really hope he has a great tournament - he absolutely deserves serious consideration for Sochi, he was one of the most underrated guys in the NHL this season.
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Matt Duchene 5'11 Colorado Avalanche
Jordan Eberle 5'11 Edmonton Oilers
Claude Giroux 5'11 Philadelphia Flyers
Taylor Hall 6'1 Edmonton Oilers
Andrew Ladd [A] 6'3 Winnipeg Jets
Ryan O'Reilly 6'0 Colorado Avalanche
Matt Read 5'10 Philadelphia Flyers
Wayne Simmonds 6'2 Philadelphia Flyers
Eric Staal [C] 6'4 Carolina Hurricanes
Jeff Skinner 5'11 Carolina Hurricanes
Jordan Staal 6'4 Carolina Hurricanes
Steven Stamkos 6'1 Tampa Bay LightningThat's a quality group of forwards! I'm very happy Ladd get's an A, I really really hope he has a great tournament - he absolutely deserves serious consideration for Sochi, he was one of the most underrated guys in the NHL this season.
Can we have him back yet?
Unhandled Exception
Member
AWWW SNAP
bonesmccoy
Banned
The real bleu-blanc-rouge in the words of the Quebecois guy I met in Seattle the other day (I was wearing a Nordiques shirt).
DAT HOVERHAND