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07-03-2025 , 05:24 PM

#7376

lozen

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Sorry I was on hold with the dufus store

He is going to Carolina

Hmmm

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07-03-2025 , 05:31 PM

#7377

scottc25

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When the Wild finally get out from under the Parise and Suter contracts they can't sign anyone. $10 mil in cap space wasted.

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07-03-2025 , 05:49 PM

#7378

Hammerhands

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This sucks.

And Brind'Amour is going to hate him.

How does that get him out of the spotlight?

He'll be a superstar [or super-hated] soon.

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07-03-2025 , 05:57 PM

#7379

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

Formerly philurivey

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3,696

Brent Burns is the only active pre-2005 lockout player remaining in the NHL. He'll be the last player in NHL history to have played with no salary cap.

Ahhh the memories.

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07-03-2025 , 06:10 PM

#7380

rickroll

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Originally Posted by scottc25

When the Wild finally get out from under the Parise and Suter contracts they can't sign anyone. $10 mil in cap space wasted.

get an extra year to savor the cap space

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07-03-2025 , 06:53 PM

#7381

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

Formerly philurivey

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Was going to say you guys are cheering Phil Ivey on final table right?

Ooops not looking good.

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07-03-2025 , 07:35 PM

#7382

Malucci

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Ehlers is hurt a lot isn’t he? I don’t think this really clears up any of what’s keeping them from winning the cup. He seems like a similar type guy to what they already have.

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07-03-2025 , 08:04 PM

#7383

Hammerhands

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I think Ehlers has been relatively healthy, recently.

69, 82, 45, 62, 47 games played. Has only played 82 games 3 times.

He's free-flowing, pass-first and loves a no-look pass.

He can score from anywhere, one man break-out, is a playmaker, really great speed and elusive skating.

He really hasn't been used with other highly talented players in a while, he's been generating most of that by himself and on the PP.

Last edited by Hammerhands; 07-03-2025 at 08:26 PM.

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07-04-2025 , 10:28 AM

#7384

Fossilkid93

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How are Habs not top 8 in East odds when they already playoff'd last year after a horrible start and return the youngest playoff team ever + added a top 30 defenseman?

They basically add Demidov too since he wasn't really a factor in the reg. season.

Decent chance they're a 100 pt. team.

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07-04-2025 , 11:37 AM

#7385

Malucci

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Because people aren’t betting them enough to put them there.

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07-04-2025 , 11:38 AM

#7386

Malucci

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Relatively healthy means he’s missed half the season 2 out of the last 3 years?

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07-04-2025 , 11:52 AM

#7387

housenuts

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Originally Posted by Malucci

Because people aren’t betting them enough to put them there.

perfect answer. more sellers than buyers.

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07-04-2025 , 02:57 PM

#7388

Hammerhands

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Originally Posted by Malucci

Relatively healthy means he’s missed half the season 2 out of the last 3 years?

Only 13 games last year, and not the year before.

He looked kind of off when he came back, until the playoffs.

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07-04-2025 , 05:55 PM

#7389

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

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Tie Domi deciding on 1997 contract offer.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16uWBjvrJM/

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07-05-2025 , 01:00 AM

#7390

72off

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somehow i totally forgot that the kangz hired lol kenny holland, it all makes sense now. anyway, this is vicious and totally accurate:

https://defector.com/the-kings-did-t...at-a-bin-store

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The Los Angeles Kings entered free agency with one mission: to build a team better than the Oilers, who've eliminated them in the first round in each of the last four postseasons. Enter new GM Ken Holland, who in his post–Red Wings career has a pathological fetish for signing veterans and depth guys and then expecting too much from them in a cursed chimera of a lineup. Seriously, this guy hasn't met a roster he couldn't make older. He's testing the limits of how much he can pay a third defensive pairing and still find employment. He hasn't changed his opinion of what makes a useful NHL player since the Bush administration. He acts as if the salary cap is just a phase, and the league will toss it out any day now. He recoils from the word "rebuild" like a rabies patient from water.

So it was with both glee and trepidation that the world watched the Kings head into free agency with a whopping $23.5 million in cap space, and mostly bare shelves to spend it on, after nearly all the top available guys found homes before the store opened. True to form, their Day 1 spending spree proved to be extremely funny.

Dumoulin 3 years, $12M
Perry 1 year $2M (+$2M bonuses)
Ceci 4 years $18M
Forsberg 2 years $4.5M

A veteran backup goalie, two veteran third-pairing blueliners who will probably be asked to be a second pairing, a 40-year-old fourth-line winger who the fans have spent more than a decade despising, and a relatively spry 32-year-old fourth-line winger. Oh, and they extended Andrei Kuzmenko for one year.

I am not trying to be mean to any of these players, who are what they are and are capable of making NHL contributions (in Ceci's case, his talents are two: eating minutes and convincing GMs to pay him). I am just observing that there's probably not as much added value in all these guys combined as there is in Vladislav Gavrikov, the defenseman the Kings let walk on an entirely reasonable deal. But this is classic Ken Holland

i wonder how many more teams he'll get to ruin... (out b4 canucks)

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07-05-2025 , 01:12 AM

#7391

72off

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only thing the article got wrong is this being the post-wangz holland reality; he's always been like this

from 2017:

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Is it time for the Red Wings to go through a full rebuild?

nah, they're doing grate

it's really kind of crazy how bleak their situation is

Zetterberg (36) - $6.08M x4
Nielsen (33) - $5.25M x5
Abdelkaeder (30) - $4.25M x6
Franzen (37) - $3.95M x3, lucky break for Holland that he's essentially retired afaik
Helm (30) - $3.85M x4
DeKeyser (27) - $5M x5
Kronwall (36) - $4.75M x2
Ericsson (33) - $4.25M x3
Daley (33) - $3.17M x3
Howard (33) - $5.29M x2

Tatar (26), Nyqvist (27), Sheahan (25), Glendening (28), Mantha (22), Athanasiou (22), Ouellet (24), Mrazek (25)
even their "young" guys aren't really that young [or good]

they failed to run Mrazek out of town
they just botched their highest draft pick since 1990
their prospect pool is quite meh
the only expiring UFA trade chip / cap relief for this season is Mike Green, which will weaken an already shaky defense, and that "relief" will only be eaten up by extensions for Larkin & Mantha

but hey, at least they picked up Dylan McIlrath

wangz are almost out from under all that; the last year of abdelkaeder's buyout is the final piece of that mess. unfortunately, yzerman doesn't seem to be much better. gods bless the 200 good hockey men

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07-05-2025 , 03:04 PM

#7392

NhlNut

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Kangz need new ownership. Anshutz doesn't give a **** anymore

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07-05-2025 , 04:09 PM

#7393

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

Formerly philurivey

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3,696

Wanted to get a hobby box of the newly released OPC Platinum, but price is up there. Card store guy said the tariffs are what it is. I am sad

Probably just get couple or 3 blaster boxes I guess.

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07-05-2025 , 07:26 PM

#7394

GusJohnsonGOAT

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Just rewatched the game 7 Rantenen highlights. What a performance.

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07-08-2025 , 08:51 PM

#7395

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

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"Ratified" Cba was signed today, no clue what was ratified lol.

Supposedly July 16th, the schedule will be released for the upcoming season.

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07-08-2025 , 09:43 PM

#7396

housenuts

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Originally Posted by philurivey

"Ratified" Cba was signed today, no clue what was ratified lol.

Supposedly July 16th, the schedule will be released for the upcoming season.

Have not verified for authenticity but seems right. Cap compliant playoff game rosters is big.

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07-09-2025 , 09:14 AM

#7397

Maple_Leaf_Hockey

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Ahh o.k. the original changes stuff they agreed on.

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07-09-2025 , 05:14 PM

#7398

lozen

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anyone see this fight former NHL player Nick Tarnasky at a Alberta Course

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07-09-2025 , 09:26 PM

#7399

housenuts

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Originally Posted by lozen

anyone see this fight former NHL player Nick Tarnasky at a Alberta Course

He's a Midget AAA Red Deer hockey coach. League is investigating. But he dummied that idiot. Bang bang!

Edit: I guess it's called U17 now, not Midget. I'm old.

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/alberta-golf-...tion-1.2333373