The NHL (Hockey) Thread: 2015 - 2016 (Let's see how Kessel does on a real team)

SoVi3t · December 2, 2015, 1:31am

You mean those 1st rounders that have all been failing miserably for the better part of a decade?

odin · December 2, 2015, 1:32am

Sorry, I fail to see where you defended your point about our players leaving or demanding a trade in RFA status.

SoVi3t · December 2, 2015, 1:34am

RFA’s can get bought out, if another team beats the contract offered to them. It happened back when Burke was on Vancouver. It’s considered a dick move by GM’s, but since when have the Leafs cared about public perception?

Also, like I stated, and as evident by Eberle offers, nobody wanted your picks. And still don’t. Maybe you can dump Eberle’s salary for some water bottles and stick tape.

odin · December 2, 2015, 1:36am

And again. Where is proof that McDavid will be snatched by another team?

SoVi3t · December 2, 2015, 1:38am

He isn’t RFA yet.

A realistic strategy is to keep an eye on McDavid and strike in three years time when the first opportunity presented itself. Three years from now, McDavid becomes a restricted free agent assuming that Edmonton does not resign him before he completes his entry level contract. By that time, the Oilers may well have difficulties getting itself under the salary cap as Edmonton have already committed $22,000,000 to just four players for the 2018 to 2019 season: Jordan Eberle ($6,000,000), Ryan Nugent-Hopkins ($6,000,000), Taylor Hall ($6,000,000), and Benoit Pouliot ($4,000,000).

Even if the Oilers is willing to spend the maximum allowed, i.e., at the salary ceiling, for the 2018 to 2019 season, it would be a tall order to fill out the reminder of the roster (totalling 19 players, especially with players such as Nail Yakupov expecting a big raise on his second contract) seeing that the team has already tied up so much money on just four players.

As such, Edmonton could face major challenges trying to free up enough cap space to resign McDavid by that time, much like how the Pittsburgh Penguins have little salary cap room to manoeuvre now having devoted a significant percentage of its salary cap to five players: Crosby, Marc-André Fleury, Phil Kessel, Kris Letang, and Evgeni Malkin.

In fact, the Oilers could find itself in cap jail, a situation that is reminiscent of how the Chicago Blackhawks had to dispatch key members of its Stanley Cup-winning teams in 2010, 2013, and 2015 having spent a large portion of its cap space to lock up Patrick Kane, Ducan Keith, Brent Seabrook, and Jonathan Toews.

odin · December 2, 2015, 1:49am

HAHAHAHAHAHA

You are taking one of the worst articles ever written to heart?
Did you even care to look at the comments to notice that you are the only one that believes that could actually happen? Or were other Leafs fans too embarrassed to post?

If that shitty piece of Leafs fan fiction is your reasoning for McDavid coming to the Leafs, then no common sense can change your mind.

Maybe you should concentrate on Stamkos. You may have a better shot with him lol

SoVi3t · December 2, 2015, 1:59am

Oh, we’ll get Stamkos this upcoming year, no doubt about that. But in 3 years, McDavid comes home to Toronto.

Who wouldn’t want a chance to be on a dynasty?

DGod205 · December 2, 2015, 3:14am

What I want to know is who is going to be desperate enough to take Daley’s contract from Chicago. Maybe they ship him to CBJ, the team where defensemen go to die?

Exodus_1 · December 2, 2015, 3:18am

Just want to say: fuck Dubinsky.

Reminded me why I hated him so much in the first place.

odin · December 3, 2015, 8:29pm

lol Sparks

Much different when he isn’t playing the worst team in the league.
Do we know if he cried after this game too?

SoVi3t · December 7, 2015, 4:42am

SoVi3t · December 7, 2015, 4:46am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i20v_diWFU

SoVi3t · December 8, 2015, 4:28am

Missing_Person · January 12, 2016, 8:32pm

So how much longer before Ken Holland gets off the bong hits and cuts the fuck out of Jimmy Howard?

Can’t win a game, a fucking choke artist since BEFORE he was re-signed, and now they’re essentially paying him $10m a year to play Flappy Bird on the bench while Petr Mrazek picks up his dead weight.

What a fucking joke. Holland either needs to do his fucking job or admit he’s getting senile and retire so Yzerman can come in and do it for him.

SoVi3t · January 13, 2016, 2:36am

Got damn, I would love to know what sort of dirt the Kings have on the Flyers, to get them to keep bending over to grab their ankles and handing over all their players.

great little article about Ryan Whitney going off to Russia to play in the KHL:

odin · January 13, 2016, 3:05am

You mean the Lecav/Schenn trade?
If so… I would love to know what dirt the Flyers have on the Kings!

SoVi3t · January 13, 2016, 3:36am

you mean besides most of the King’s are cokeheads?

DGod205 · January 13, 2016, 5:05am

So, LA was stupid enough to trade for broke down Lecavalier. LOL Kings. Also, Toronto’s having a fire sale. Phanuef trade eminent.

SoVi3t · January 13, 2016, 8:06am

I don’t think Phaneuf is going anywhere. Babcock loves him. We only have a few untouchables (Morgan Riley, our prospects, maybe Kadri). Everybody else will probably not even make the team in a couple of years.

Lecav still has enough in him for one more Cup run. He’s retiring after this year anyways.

dodgers2213 · January 26, 2016, 2:26am

4 goals for Vinny in a Kings uni, including a game tying goal last night against the 2nd place Sharks with only 12.2 seconds left in regulation LOL. Kings ended up winning in OT 3-2

BTW FUCK the classless Sharks fans for cheering when Dustin Brown went down to the ice after blocking a shot with his head…and then BOOING when he got up and was okay. That is some fucked up shit in any sport. I hope generations of Sharks fans continue to live through the pain of annual playoff chokes as they all die never seeing a cup hoisted over a player wearing teal’s head. FUCK them. IT WAS 0-3 C**KSUCKERS!