really like that for NYR - their window is closing rapidly, this was the year i thought they'd do it


seems like the wheels are already coming off kreider and zibanejad and meanwhile the young guys are developing into decent nhl players rather than the stars they hoped they'd become


panarin still good but at 33 he probably has 1-2 years left tops of being a top producer

I can see both fanbases being unhappy which is the ideal outcome

5v5 xg last 3 seasons:
adam fox 54%
quinn hughes 53%
elias pettersson 53%
artemi panarin 53%
filip chytil 52%
[gap]
jt miller 49%
tyler myers 48%
brock boeser 47%

was gonna say canucks win the trade simply because they won't be paying jimtim $8m until 2030, but chytil might straight up be a better player rn lol


also sort of just realized that the canucks should trade boeser, but i think they know that. they don't seem like massive fans of his

boeser was an analytics darling a few years ago - i thought he'd become a massive star

Not even gonna make playoffs this year. Window closed.

yeah i know it looks grim, but only 5 points out

this trade makes zero sense unless they thought they could make it

Not all teams will be able to spend the max

True, except our teams.

Who moved the trade deadline up five weeks?

Sharks getting a first for Granlund and Ceci seems pretty good. Although the Draft class seems to stink

people seem to say this every year, and i really doubt that basically anyone can say this with much certainty until some time after a draft. probably more accurate to just say that draft picks generally aren't that valuable. consensus seems to be that drafts fall off after ~15 picks, and as such pick 20 and pick 60 are pretty similar, for example

but at the same time, they are valuable, and you shouldn't fritter them away frivolously, as teams like the canucks love to do. these teams think they're so ****ing smart every time they trade a pick for a middling pro making middling pro money (~$2-3m/year), then they also wonder why they have no good, cheap depth or cap space. and obviously binking a pick and having big producer on a cheap contract is a cheat code, and there's basically only 1 way to achieve this; by having draft picks

Oilers /Leafs tonight

Almost a home game for the Leafs

Yup! HAHA Leon making a Leafs joke in interview! I forgot to relist a Draisaitl card as going through cards,lol Got some Mcdavid cards still.

Hopefully they don’t cut away for Dictator Trudeau speaking at 8:30 EST

rag$ fans experiencing one of jimtim miller's few remaining prime moments; scoring 2 goals in a loss. it'll only get worse from here

i actually legit feel bad for them. was listening to a canucks pod breaking down the moves and the host was saying that when he was looking around for reaction from their side, basically no one liked the trade. a mix of ehhh idk, maybe? and people hating it, the latter being correct. wild move in a vacuum, and really quite bad for where the nyr are specially. similar move to when the canucks traded a 1st+ to get him in the first place, except now he's several years older


in other news the canucks are apparently still pissed with pettersson. sounds like he has a no-move clause kicking in this summer and they might panic trade him before then. at this point i kinda hope they do, these morons don't deserve him. no surprise that smart teams like the canes have been after him forever. think it's probably close to 100% that they offered necas for petey, would lmao if they flipped rantanen for him

YAY!

Well I've seen enough. The Oilers stink.

*Paul Bearer OH YES!*

So bad

Funny Leafs fans in Edmonton louder than the leafs home crowd

Cause it is real fans and not stuck up corporate people,lol

is this card thing more hobby or more income generator - would love to hear more stuff on it if you don't mind

i'm an autist so the more details and background info the better

More of a hobby I would say, I have not opened any in like 6 months at least so behind on that,lol. Need to get a box to open soon. I kinda cut down and just get releases I like the most now.

Think numbered/low numbered cards and Autographs are still the most sought after and Rookie cards.

Joseph Woll looks solid

Booooo

Muahaha