Easy and incredibly accurate, based on the four goals I've seen.
Maybe Matthews isn't what you guys need? Any good goalies worth a first overall, like Fleury?
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NHL Off-Season 2016 |OT| My prospects are better than yours
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Easy and incredibly accurate, based on the four goals I've seen.
Maybe Matthews isn't what you guys need? Any good goalies worth a first overall, like Fleury?
Chicago? LA Kings? Pittsburgh? New York Islanders? Florida? Dallas? St Louis?
Simon Belmont
Banned
What in the hell has happened to the Marlies?
ElephantShell
Banned
Ouch.
Decade ago they went through their rebuild. Islanders were never in rebuild mode, they were in cheap owner mode. Florida has been wildly inconsistent season to season.
Pffft Marlies, we're into Mitch Marner and the London Knights now get with the program.
Yes, and what I'm saying is those rebuilds happened a decade ago. All the teams that have tried since to rebuild have failed trying to emulate them.
The truth is they just got lucky with being at the right spot at the right time, and those players not getting sucked into a loser culture like you see in so many rebuild teams trying to emulate those team's rebuild success.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Does anyone else think he looks like Ted Cruz?
Ouch.
Benning has been playing some GM mode I see
I don't agree with sir bat, but you're going to need to define full rebuild if you list those teams. I'd say only Hawks, Panthers and Pens went full rebuild. Panthers took forever and only this year were they finally successful. Took a number of top 3 picks for them, which are also now more randomly distributed.
I'm not sure that the Isles ever went full rebuild. They were just terrible without consistently trying to be.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
We need to throw Emelin to Vancouver.
The only teams that have attempted to emulate the blackhawks build is florida and toronto
LA Kings was just smart movement and deep drafting
Pittsburgh was all luck
NYI was sheer brute force followed by smart acquisitions
So far the only builds that have truly failed were Toronto 2009-2014, Columbus and Edmonton.
Lumbus keeps getting caught with a weird mixture of players but seems like they're slowly fixing it.
Rebuilding is always a correct thing to do... just look how dire the Flames looked when Iginla was still there.
So you're saying that the teams that won the SC in the last five years were successful because of luck?
Wow
That's one of the most stupid posts I've seen from you, and that's already amazing by itself.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
CAKEY
PHILLPS IS RETIRING
PHILLPS IS RETIRING
You don't think it's luck when you get Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, etc all within a couple of years and everything works out with their development?
You don't think it's luck that you get the first pick in the lockout year which leads to Sidney Crosby after having gotten Evgeni Malkin the previous year?
Full rebuild is definitely about luck with your draft picks. Sure, scouts and your farm team development matter, but in general, those are pretty even across the board. Rebuild is a luck of the draw situation often.
I don't think Willie Mitchell likes the trade.
https://twitter.com/Willie_Mitch33/status/735649353168257025
https://twitter.com/Willie_Mitch33/status/735649353168257025
It's not all bad, the BJs gotta cough up a 2nd round pick to the Nucks within the next 2 drafts
Still pretty bad
Edit: Red pulling gifs out of an archeological dig site
CreeperBlocks
Banned
At least the The Habs got a free 5 round pick from Vancouver
bonesmccoy
Banned
Chances the Leafs late 1st is spent on a goalie? Tehehehehehehehhee
wandering goat
Member
Pathetic by the Marlies in a must win. Though to be honest, they've looked shitty all playoffs long. I didn't really watch much during the regular season so I can't compare, but I had high hopes in the playoffs and they've just looked so dull and uninspired that it's kinda depressing. Luckily had the Knights to watch to get the taste out of my mouth all this time but man...
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
I get the feeling we'll just sign a free agent, get a young up and coming goalie that was off a lot of people's radars or just available, or use one of our late round picks.
The expansion draft is sure to knock a few goalies loose and there are a lot of average to above average goalies available and that's all you really need if the rest of the team is solid and a good system is in place.
Columbus is just gonna wait until 2018 to give away that pick like most other teams will be, which isn't terrible I guess but that whole rule for compensation for fired personnel was dumb in the first place. Glad they got rid of it.
Not really sure about that one in particular.
Perhaps with the Washington 2nd, leafs own 3rd, or devils 3rd.
This. Just stop.Seeing people responding to Tabris seriously in 2016.....
I expect the leafs to trade bozak, use that pick (2nd) and a later pick to upgrade the 1st
Both 2nds used on goalies, me thinks. Defense to be patched mainly through UFA and trades
Seeing people responding to Tabris seriously in 2016.....
Yep. Really best not to respond to anything he has to say.
Playin Life is Strange right now. Victoria's such a bitch. Damn girl, no chill.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
The Leafs should convert Bruno Caboclo into a goalie
Why not Nogueira?
cause he actually has a chance to be a decent NBAer lol
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
More stuff:
Surprised to learn this too.
Now that is a 🌶🌶🌶 take
Surprised to learn this too.
Now that is a 🌶🌶🌶 take
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Vancouver what are you doing
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Wait we got a second rounder too?!? Da fuck. How
Edit pick 33?!??
WAT
Edit pick 33?!??
WAT
Rebuilding!
Chevy better be calling Benning every fucking day just to ask him what's up and how's it going.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Celebrate Dubby. Benning lost his marbles
Dim Benning trades away as many second rounders as Dave Nonis
I kinda agree that tanking is unnecessary. People expect to get players like Crosby, Malkin or Ovechkin in the draft ("Pittsburgh model") but these guys are HoFers. Crosby is already top 5 in points per game and Ovechkin is probably the greatest goal scorer ever. Toews and Kane already have more cups in 6 years than Lemiuex, Sakic and Forsberg did in their whole careers. You can't expect to get guys like that.
Even franchise players like Tavares or Stamkos are by far in the minority. If you go back and look at the top 5 picks from 2005 to now, I bet you'll find just as many landmines/pretty good players as 1st line/top pairing players.
You can be just as good if you draft and develop properly without going through all the misery.
Obvs Benning is delivering both misery and no drafting, so whatever.
Even franchise players like Tavares or Stamkos are by far in the minority. If you go back and look at the top 5 picks from 2005 to now, I bet you'll find just as many landmines/pretty good players as 1st line/top pairing players.
You can be just as good if you draft and develop properly without going through all the misery.
Obvs Benning is delivering both misery and no drafting, so whatever.