Walmley_Villa Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Isles for me - went to a game v Tampa at the beginning of April in Brooklyn. Ironically they now have them in the current playoffs round! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 As the Rangers are now out I am rooting for the Stars as I went to see them in October Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Betting against Anaheim in a game 7 on home ice is easy money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Anyone want to explain the value in Phoenix trading for Datsuyk? He said he wants to go and play in Russia yet they've given up a 1st and 2nd round draft pick for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 4 hours ago, sexbelowsound said: Anyone want to explain the value in Phoenix trading for Datsuyk? He said he wants to go and play in Russia yet they've given up a 1st and 2nd round draft pick for him. From Arizonas view, they wanted to add the cap hit from Datsyuk on 7,5 million to get to the cap floor. Its not the first time they done like this, they added Chris Prongers contract in the same way Before. Arizona have a very Young team which will develop and want bigger contracts in the future. Arizona will have room to give them bigger contracts. Arizona also rated Jakob Chychrun who they picked with the 16th very highly. They overpaid quite much in my opinion but they have many prospects in their organisation so they probably see it as they can afford it. Still a great trade from Ken Holland who is a master in this business. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 16 hours ago, NoelVilla said: From Arizonas view, they wanted to add the cap hit from Datsyuk on 7,5 million to get to the cap floor. Its not the first time they done like this, they added Chris Prongers contract in the same way Before. Arizona have a very Young team which will develop and want bigger contracts in the future. Arizona will have room to give them bigger contracts. Arizona also rated Jakob Chychrun who they picked with the 16th very highly. They overpaid quite much in my opinion but they have many prospects in their organisation so they probably see it as they can afford it. Still a great trade from Ken Holland who is a master in this business. Cheers, I didn't realise there was a cap floor as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 19 hours ago, NoelVilla said: From Arizonas view, they wanted to add the cap hit from Datsyuk on 7,5 million to get to the cap floor. Its not the first time they done like this, they added Chris Prongers contract in the same way Before. Arizona have a very Young team which will develop and want bigger contracts in the future. Arizona will have room to give them bigger contracts. Arizona also rated Jakob Chychrun who they picked with the 16th very highly. They overpaid quite much in my opinion but they have many prospects in their organisation so they probably see it as they can afford it. Still a great trade from Ken Holland who is a master in this business. I know Datsyuk is still playing and still pretty good, but don't tell me Chris Pronger is still kickin it? He must be like 45 by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 2 hours ago, Keyblade said: I know Datsyuk is still playing and still pretty good, but don't tell me Chris Pronger is still kickin it? He must be like 45 by now. He got a bad injury think eye and had to retire but his contract was so long that he was still on Philadelphia books for a while. Think he works for NHL itself now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Post-concussion syndrome was the reason Pronger retired but he had many injuries. I checked, Pronger turns 42 in October. Pronger's contract runs through the 2016-17 season; he will not retire as a player until then. Flyers have had some crazy GM's the last few years. Looks better now with Hextall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 awesome intro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Patrik Laine have been having amazing season, feels good to have great finnish goal scorer first time really since Selanne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Rookie of the year for me but will probably not win it cause the biggest competition plays for the Leafs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 3 hours ago, NoelVilla said: Rookie of the year for me but will probably not win it cause the biggest competition plays for the Leafs. and he is also not North American Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 This expansion draft is going to be interesting. I'm assuming the unprotected players that get drafted don't have a choice whether they go or not? Ducks desperately need Bieksa to waive him no trade clause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 (edited) Not NHL specific but in finnish hockey league "my team" Ilves (Lynx in english) is leading the quarter-finals 3-2 in their set, four wins to advance, against their fierce local rivals who's been much more succesful in recent years. Most, if not vast majority of fans and pundits gave them very little chances to even win one game against their opponents, who won the championship in the last season and the regular season this year, while Ilves was the last team to qualify to "wild card"-playoffs (which they obviously won). Most of the Ilves' fans are just enjoying the ride as long as it lasts with the mentality "Let's see one game at a time". A little bit of background, Ilves has very similar history as Aston Villa, used to be one of the most succesful teams/clubs in the "ancient times", but the last championship was in 1985, they got silver in 1990 and 1998 and then bronze in 1989 and 2001. Beside those they've been in lower half or bottom of the league. They were owned by rich finnish-american businessman who's pumped in the money occasionally to keep the team running, but it's been mismanaged pretty damn horribly since the 90s, and most fans grew to be very disgruntled...sound familiar? Fortunately, he finally sold the team to local businessmen earlier this year, and the new chairman is legendary ex-player who's considered to know what he's doing, and there's whole new buzz and optimism around the place and fans. Let's hope both Ilves and AVFC will get back to the old success in the years to come (Sooner the better!) Note: I wonder why I seem to pick the teams or clubs who've been succesful in the past with rich history, but less so in recent years. Edited March 30, 2017 by Jarpie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 12 hours ago, sexbelowsound said: This expansion draft is going to be interesting. I'm assuming the unprotected players that get drafted don't have a choice whether they go or not? Ducks desperately need Bieksa to waive him no trade clause. Yes unprotected players don't have a choice. Ducks have another option which is interesting; they can trade with Las Vegas to not pick Bieksa for example. Look forward to the playoffs but as you say the expansion draft is interesting. Which goalies do Vegas pick and how many. Think I read that they could pick as many as 8 goalies and then use them as trade leverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I think they will go all in for free agency players. But I imagine you would have to do serious background checks before you sign a player for Vegas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 It's George McPhee who is GM in Vegas. Anything can happen. He is responsible partially for building the strongest contender to the Stanley Cup in my opinion. He also traded Filip Forsberg against Martin Erat which is considered as one of the all-time worst trades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Some interesting match ups this playoff. That metro division though.. Anyone who meets WSH or PIT in any of the later rounds are going to get caned. My NYR did the right thing in playing for the wild card spot in the metro as that division is crazy good the last few years. The Rangers meet Montreal in the first round, not too happy about that - but for the Rangers this is a transport year anyway. We need to offload some of the older useless defensemen and let the young guns (Skjei anyone) take over. If Skjei didn't have to constantly save Staal and Girardi's asses I'm sure he'd be defenseman rookie of the year. Great kid. I expect MTL to play like Boston did back when Julien managed them, borderline with a lot of ugly play. Hopefully New York's speed and offense (Zucc, Grabner, Kreider) can tear their slow Boston style defense a new one. I'm hoping that Las Vegas will take both Girardi and Staal off our books - and I'm also leaning on letting Henrik go. He's getting old and slow, perfect for that Las Vegas life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 On 4/29/2016 at 10:34, Walmley_Villa said: in Brooklyn. Why were they playing in Brooklyn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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