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NHL February 2017 |OT| Alternative Stats
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2nd round of the draft? or are you like... implying Sens are actually making the playoffs lmaolol
ElephantShell
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If you don't think the Leafs will make it (fair) and don't think the Sens will make it (less fair), who IS gonna make it? Boston and...... Florida?
Zombie James
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There aren't any shootouts in the playoffs, though.
Leafs have to make it, that way they'll draft high AND get rekt in the first round, making everyone relevant happy
Boston will make it because changing a coach always works out!
You gotta cut imbask some slack, he's a very bad troll. He's gone from "Leafs won't even make the playoffs once in the next 6 seasons" to "oh sure they might make it but will get swept in round 1"
Wut m8
Dubbedinenglish
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lol Better chance of Buffalo slapping their pee pees up the standings.
Im ok with this.
ElephantShell
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Eichel is gonna slap his pee pee all over that Stanley Cup while Tim Murray watches.
CreeperBlocks
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Save all that salt for the playoffs folks
Im ok with this.
Dubbedinenglish
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We're slapping salty pee pees
making the playoffs won't give you a good defenseman, it'll put you in midpick limbo
I left so many avenues of attack with my statement and this is what you go with? It's like you managed to shoot yourself into a work. Amazing.
it's friday and i'm a bit tired, please understand
Marvie and I were referring to the Red Wings, not the Laffs
Yes all of us already know that the Laffs have no D.
ElephantShell
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Drafting a defenseman wouldn't really help them in the short term either, D men in their first year post draft are rarely good.
do you plan on contending soon?
ElephantShell
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I don't think they'll realistically contend for the cup in the next few years but they're at the point where they might as well take steps to improve the team they have now to try and make progress year over year.
I'm not saying they should get rid of future assets but if they could make that JVR deal people have been talking about forever then that makes sense to me.
Like they can't just ice this D next year and say "yeah this is good"
well I mean no, but you could get a dman and develop him as part of your core
and GMs aren't dumb (at least some of them), no one's going to give you a top 2 dman for JVR when they can get him for free... it's Nylander or better if you're not going the draft route
Bergevin is too busy scouting Burrows and Hanzal
How can you get JVR for free? He's under contract through next season. If you want him and his good contract for this playoff run, you have to trade for him.
Fine, we'll give you a fourth because we like you guys. Dopey is always calling him terrible so I can't go any higher than that.
The truth and we all know it. We aren't landing a Duchene calibre player.
Dopey also said Ho-Sang was the next coming of Gretzky. (Keith Gretzky maybe)
ElephantShell
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Whenever I think GMs aren't dumb enough to do something they always end up doing something dumber.
I guess all I'm saying is if you aren't bad enough to truly tank you kind of have to try to get better or else you'll just chill in the middle forever. Besides It's not like a player drafted in the middle of the first can't become part of a team's core.
huh I was sure he was gone this summer
still, if you're sending him somewhere as a mercenary on a cup contending team, you can't expect a top dman back... maybe a prospect I guess, sure. Why not
He's been leaky, lately.
Zombie James
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They have easy D.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Would anyone take Burrows for a 3rd?
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Simon Belmont
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Lol. When did that happen?
Every game, it happens every fucking game
CreeperBlocks
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Can you take Desharnais back
#2 should have really stopped that, not like it was super fast by him. Dive and throw the stick out.
Simon Belmont
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I'd pay a 3rd for the privilege of burying him in the minors.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the heat of the moment he thought that would be a penalty. Would it be? Can you throw your stick?
Edit: I misunderstood what you meant by dive and throw the stick
KillerMan91
Member
Which is why I find mocking the goalies all the time little weird. Dallas is probably the worst team in whole NHL to play as a goalie. Overly offensive tactics and horrible defense. Of course both Lehtonen and Niemi has let too many soft goals too but part of the reason is that in team like Dallas it's impossible to try to build confidence after bad games when everyone blames you and you know that in next game the opposing team will again have a billion great goal scoring chances. At least last year you made enough goals to win games.
Unhandled Exception
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The beautiful thing about Duchene is that we don't have to trade him, so unless the value proposition is fair he's not going anywhere.
Bruh, allow me to remind you that in this scenario you would be getting the Rangers in the first round.
You're right, but I feel like Avs fans won't be happy with any return they get for him, especially after the Hall - Larrson trade.