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Official NHL Off Season Thread
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ForzaItalia
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fallout said:
Good point. It worked well with Wendel Clark and Gary Leeman.
Mike Works
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Yeah, really brought those cups home.ForzaItalia said:
ForzaItalia
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Mike Works said:
Vancouver knows that motto full well....
Kabuki Waq
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wendel Clark for Sundin was a great trade......until we traded for him again:lol
ForzaItalia
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Manics said:
Everything is in good fun my fellow "paisans"
ForzaItalia said:Everything is in good fun my fellow "paisans"
Good attitude man. Even though I argue with Michael, there's a great love and respect there between us with the Italian heritage. We're as close as brothers because brothers fight all the time, but then would put their life on the line for each other when push comes to shove. That's how it is with us.
Kabuki Waq
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Manics said:
:barf
ForzaItalia
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fallout said:
Who cares?! Ask the Buffalo Bills how much that counts :lol
Mike Works
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I'm not the one using winning the Stanley Cup as a litmus test for whether or not you should trade a good player- you are.ForzaItalia said:
Chris Pronger emerges as Edmonton's best player in the playoffs- a playoffs where they got to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals- and according to you they should trade him because they'll get some good picks or young talent (since they obviously have no chance of winning the cup next year even though the main reason they didn't win it this year was because their all star goalie got injured in the first game of the final).
That logic makes no sense, absolutely no sense whatsoever. If your team makes the Stanley Cup Final, you absolutely do not gut your roster in the off season to prepare for the future. Sure the Oilers could get a great young player or high draft pick(s) for Pronger, but why? What's the point? So they can contend for the cup maybe in 7 years, and then if they don't win it all in the first season they try, they'll trade an emerged Kessel for, what, future considerations?
I understand that as a Leaf fan you must have been screaming for your team to trade veterans for young players over the past 5 or so years, but your strategy of trading Pronger now makes absolutely zero sense.
STFUManics said:
forza azzurri
:lol @ "trade Pronger"
Nevermind the fact that he has been perhaps the best hockey player in the world in 2006, but he doesn't even make the max under the salary cap. $6.25M is a lot, but if he can keep up his play, it'll be a bargain...especially considering his ability to turn his defensive pairing partner, whoever it is, into an allstar looking dman.
Also, the Edmonton media has done nothing but praise him since ~November 2005. His offensive game took a couple months to get going this season, and he took some flack the first month; but since then, nothing but praise.
It's hard to say whether or not Edmonton will be true contenders next year.
Actually, with the biggest free-agency market the off-season has ever seen, it's kinda early to judge how ANY team (including the Hurricanes) will do next season.
Nevermind the fact that he has been perhaps the best hockey player in the world in 2006, but he doesn't even make the max under the salary cap. $6.25M is a lot, but if he can keep up his play, it'll be a bargain...especially considering his ability to turn his defensive pairing partner, whoever it is, into an allstar looking dman.
Also, the Edmonton media has done nothing but praise him since ~November 2005. His offensive game took a couple months to get going this season, and he took some flack the first month; but since then, nothing but praise.
It's hard to say whether or not Edmonton will be true contenders next year.
Actually, with the biggest free-agency market the off-season has ever seen, it's kinda early to judge how ANY team (including the Hurricanes) will do next season.
Unresponsive Bee Victim
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very sad day for those who like the Ducks. As a Ducks/ Sabres fan, I feel very sad to see a cool color scheme and logo become this...
BEHOLD!
BEHOLD!
Unresponsive Bee Victim
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R_GILL said:
I didn't see it so I posted it.
Anyways,
I'm hearing that it will be Gold and Black.
soundwave05
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Karakand said:
Well at least it's not the early 90s craze of teal.
Besides
Black >>>> purple/green.
It could've been worse. They could've renamed the team to the O.C. Ducks and had orange/blue jerseys with a duck riding a surfboard as the logo :lol
soundwave05
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As for trading Pronger .... :lol :lol :lol
The guy made both Lidstrom and Neidermayer his b-tches during these playoffs, he's the best defenseman in the world and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Sure I'd trade him ... if there was a package featuring Ovechkin or Crosby on the table, but obviously neither of those guys are going to be availible in a trade.
As for trading Pronger .... :lol :lol :lol
The guy made both Lidstrom and Neidermayer his b-tches during these playoffs, he's the best defenseman in the world and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Sure I'd trade him ... if there was a package featuring Ovechkin or Crosby on the table, but obviously neither of those guys are going to be availible in a trade.
TemplaerDude
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Wordizzle.
Mike Works
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Fake.
(photoshops)
(photoshops)
yodathesoda
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New Duck colours ain't bad, better than those ****ing purple helmets.
Does anyone know what came of switching to the new sweaters that were being demo'd at the owners meetings a few months back? Apparently Reebok had come up with something they were trying to push... were supposed to be slimmer looking or something along those lines.
I wouldn't expect them for a while if at all, some ppl liked them but the vast majority of the GMs/presidents who saw them hated them with a passion. Especially teams with traditional jersey's that have stripping along the bottom - any new style jersey that is tucked in the pants (like the prototypes were) would change the whole look of the jersey and a lot of teams are very against that.
dem
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"Chris Pronger: Once again, this is a player Keenan acquired in the past. Apparently, Pronger feels that he has served his sentence in Edmonton and should be released for good -- in fact excellent -- behaviour. But he has a monster contract with four more years at $6.25 million and Panthers owner Alan Cohen is not known as one of the league's free spenders. Still, if the Panthers keep Luongo, they will be in the same salary range. "
I really hate Al Strachan.
I would like to **** him in the eyesocket.
I really hate Al Strachan.
I would like to **** him in the eyesocket.
Bonus asshole marks to Strachan for sliding in some of his patented anti-NHL and anti-CBA bullshit about how "sadly" now powerhouse teams will be immediately dismantled because of that damn salary cap. Of course that happened before the cap era all the time, and it ignores the fact that some historically stacked teams continued being elite clubs this year, but Big Gay Al doesn't let pesky facts stand in the way of his Goodenow-era PA cock sucking.
:lol Good ol' Al. Everyone (should) know that most of the proposed rule changes have been around forever - Mario used to demand an anti-obstruction crackdown once a month pretty much every year from the late '80s on - but the lockout was *crucial* in giving the GMs the time to really study it and the league the clout to push it strongly.
ForzaItalia
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fallout said:
He is referring to teams like the Oilers.
worldrunover
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Here's a glimpse at the Ducks jerseys:
Not bad, a little plain, and a little Penguin-ish. But it could be worse.
Not bad, a little plain, and a little Penguin-ish. But it could be worse.
worldrunover
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Ummm... 1, The Flyers are orange and black and don't look like Halloween
2, there's virtually no orange in the jersey or logo to speak of. Champagne is the secondary color.
2, there's virtually no orange in the jersey or logo to speak of. Champagne is the secondary color.
soundwave05
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It's really not a shock that the Toronto press is hated pretty much everywhere else in Canada.
No offense to Leaf fans ... but Toronto hasn't won jack all in like 40 odd years and they still treat everything hockey wise outside of Toronto like it's the WHA.
No offense to Leaf fans ... but Toronto hasn't won jack all in like 40 odd years and they still treat everything hockey wise outside of Toronto like it's the WHA.
worldrunover
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Karakand said:
what
that didn't even make sense.
Anyway I'm a Ranger fan so I hate the Flyers regardless. Stupid Flyers!
I have to post this, it's too hilarious.
Full article here http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49761
:lol :lol :lol
Full article here http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49761
:lol :lol :lol
Mike Works
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Carolina's had the cup not even a full week and they already broke it...
You know, seeing Brindamour talk about his life, family ect.., I guess he's not so bad after all, seems like a grounded guy. God I hoped someone would Umberger him after the Montreal series.
So far Jagr takes the pearson, and deservingly so.
You know, seeing Brindamour talk about his life, family ect.., I guess he's not so bad after all, seems like a grounded guy. God I hoped someone would Umberger him after the Montreal series.
So far Jagr takes the pearson, and deservingly so.
I agree about it being a bit too MTV, but the kid was adorable with his kipperstache so I'm cool with that.Alucard said:
As for the Ducks naysayers, I don't think you understand, that airplane looking D is actually a webbed duck footprint.. get it?
Also, Rem was ****ing robbed. Selanne yea, that's great, but REM FN MURRAY comes back from neurological dystonia, plays solid and gets to the damn stanley cup finals and does all of this while LOSING MONEY to insurance just so he can play.
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