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Post by KSJ08 on May 21, 2018 17:33:05 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on May 21, 2018 21:04:30 GMT -5
Sometimes I feel better when I make fun of myself, I tried to delete the second one and failed ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Post by kjc2 on May 22, 2018 5:14:01 GMT -5
Riley Smith did Squat in Dallas, Boston or Fla.! Same as Brett Connelly in Tampa or Boston, But In Was. he's playing great!?!?! Yup Marchy and Bergy had career years with him on the wing for the majority of the time. Caps got him for 3 years at 1.5 mil/per, a steal. I think Brett Connolly is still a third line winger, no more no less, when you expect more you tend to be disappointed. I didn't mind Reilly Smith, never understood moving him. We got absolute garbage coming back but I got the feeling Donny just wanted to get bigger.
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Post by KSJ08 on May 22, 2018 5:37:15 GMT -5
I think the fact that Vegas has Reeves and Engelland has had a huge impact on Byfuglien. Those two would have no issue with making him accountable and Byfuglien has the added pressure of not parading to the box. The Reeves pick up from Pit was genius. IMHO Or stupidity on the part of Pittsburgh. BUT there's one move between Vegas and Colunbus that blows everything else out of the water. How they obtained William Karlsson!! On 21 June 2017, Karlsson was exposed by the Blue Jackets and selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft. The Blue Jackets traded a first-round pick, a second-round pick in 2019, and the contract of injured forward David Clarkson to Vegas with the agreement that the Golden Knights would select Karlsson.
Karlsson went on to have quite a season and I'm sure they'll enjoy the 2019 1st and 2nd round picks. ALL for taking the contract of David Clarkson.. He had 43 goals 35 assists for 78 points. This is a player that the Jackets even gave up a 1st and 2nd rd pick to get rid of!! I have no answers to why Vegas ended up with the players they have, Theodore, Karlsson, Riley Smith, Marchessault. Marchessault went from Jackets to Tampa to Florida to Vegas. From Wiki >>>>> After three seasons within the Lightning organization, Marchessault left as a free agent and signed a two-year, one-way contract{his 1st one way contract} with the Florida Panthers on July 1, 2016.[35] In the 2016โ17 season, Marchessault got off to a quick start offensively with the Panthers, and enjoyed a break out season. In becoming one of the best value signings from the previous summer, Marchessault in his first full NHL season led the Panthers with 30 goals in recording 51 points in 75 games. He was the first Panther to reach 30 goals since David Booth in 2009.[36] Vegas Golden Knights[edit] On June 21, 2017, having been exposed by the Panthers, Marchessault was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft.[36] On January 3, 2018, Marchessault signed a six-year, $30 million extension with the Golden Knights.[37] In becoming one of the best value signings from the previous summer, Panthers STILL left him unprotected. Their 1st 30 goal scorer since Booth in 2009 and they dont protect him.. Fuck sake, none of this or a dozen more similar to it makes zero sense to me.. Riley Smith scores 25 for Panthers and they let him go too!! Make no wonder they're one game from the finals. They had so much handed to them on a silver platter and they'll soon have that Silver Platter!! All those players except MAF were just extra pieces (even MAF was an extra) that were taking up Cap space & were NOT producing for their teams or teams had younger, cheaper prospects.Look at their career stats. That's why they were exposed. BUT hey Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20 Go figure:-0. If Caps make it I want them, If bolts get the reffing calls to get in I'll begrudgingly go for Vegas.Another year NO CUP for You Canada.
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Post by madmarx on May 22, 2018 6:18:39 GMT -5
Caps bring there physical game again tomorrow they move on .
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 7:05:30 GMT -5
Change of scenery does wonders sometimes for a Player??
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 7:08:28 GMT -5
Or stupidity on the part of Pittsburgh. BUT there's one move between Vegas and Colunbus that blows everything else out of the water. How they obtained William Karlsson!! On 21 June 2017, Karlsson was exposed by the Blue Jackets and selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft. The Blue Jackets traded a first-round pick, a second-round pick in 2019, and the contract of injured forward David Clarkson to Vegas with the agreement that the Golden Knights would select Karlsson.
Karlsson went on to have quite a season and I'm sure they'll enjoy the 2019 1st and 2nd round picks. ALL for taking the contract of David Clarkson.. He had 43 goals 35 assists for 78 points. This is a player that the Jackets even gave up a 1st and 2nd rd pick to get rid of!! I have no answers to why Vegas ended up with the players they have, Theodore, Karlsson, Riley Smith, Marchessault. Marchessault went from Jackets to Tampa to Florida to Vegas. From Wiki >>>>> After three seasons within the Lightning organization, Marchessault left as a free agent and signed a two-year, one-way contract{his 1st one way contract} with the Florida Panthers on July 1, 2016.[35] In the 2016โ17 season, Marchessault got off to a quick start offensively with the Panthers, and enjoyed a break out season. In becoming one of the best value signings from the previous summer, Marchessault in his first full NHL season led the Panthers with 30 goals in recording 51 points in 75 games. He was the first Panther to reach 30 goals since David Booth in 2009.[36] Vegas Golden Knights[edit] On June 21, 2017, having been exposed by the Panthers, Marchessault was selected by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft.[36] On January 3, 2018, Marchessault signed a six-year, $30 million extension with the Golden Knights.[37] In becoming one of the best value signings from the previous summer, Panthers STILL left him unprotected. Their 1st 30 goal scorer since Booth in 2009 and they dont protect him.. Fuck sake, none of this or a dozen more similar to it makes zero sense to me.. Riley Smith scores 25 for Panthers and they let him go too!! Make no wonder they're one game from the finals. They had so much handed to them on a silver platter and they'll soon have that Silver Platter!! All those players except MAF were just extra pieces (even MAF was an extra) that were taking up Cap space & were NOT producing for their teams or teams had younger, cheaper prospects.Look at their career stats. That's why they were exposed. BUT hey Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20 Go figure:-0. If Caps make it I want them, If bolts get the reffing calls to get in I'll begrudgingly go for Vegas.Another year NO CUP for You Canada. Right... The luck of the draw and who the teams thought they wanted to protect. Florida has so much young talent they could only protect so many. Nobody thought any of these guys that Vegas got were going to be this good....and they might not have if say they were traded to some other team. I just think the chemistry, they first year thing, the fans are all making the Vegas season amazing.
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 7:11:55 GMT -5
Right... The luck of the draw and who the teams thought they wanted to protect. Florida has so much young talent they could only protect so many. Nobody thought any of these guys that Vegas got were going to be this good....and they might not have if say they were traded to some other team. I just think the chemistry, they first year thing, the fans are all making the Vegas season amazing. I will be interested to see how they all do after this season. Several are due new contracts.
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Post by KSJ08 on May 22, 2018 8:08:56 GMT -5
Caps bring there physical game again tomorrow they move on . I said that to a co-worker 1st thing this morning, If the Bruins hit the Bolts would've folded like a euro trash team!!
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 8:22:02 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 8:23:18 GMT -5
Is it too early to be thinking about next year.
Bruins development camp will be June 26 to June 29 at Warrior Ice Arena. Main training camp opens Monday, Sept. 10.
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Post by fforr on May 22, 2018 8:30:33 GMT -5
Yup Marchy and Bergy had career years with him on the wing for the majority of the time. Caps got him for 3 years at 1.5 mil/per, a steal. I think Brett Connolly is still a third line winger, no more no less, when you expect more you tend to be disappointed. I didn't mind Reilly Smith, never understood moving him. We got absolute garbage coming back but I got the feeling Donny just wanted to get bigger. Think Smith was mentioned in the same light as Hamilton. Not a very happy camper in the room. Wasnโt there something about them being the only two who blew off the season ending team trip to Vegas or something?
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Post by nfld77 on May 22, 2018 11:17:43 GMT -5
Is it too early to be thinking about next year. Bruins development camp will be June 26 to June 29 at Warrior Ice Arena. Main training camp opens Monday, Sept. 10. Never too early bud..Give er!!
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Post by nfld77 on May 22, 2018 11:55:05 GMT -5
Right... The luck of the draw and who the teams thought they wanted to protect. Florida has so much young talent they could only protect so many. Nobody thought any of these guys that Vegas got were going to be this good....and they might not have if say they were traded to some other team. I just think the chemistry, they first year thing, the fans are all making the Vegas season amazing. I agree that some of the players got caught up with all the excitement in Vegas and it showed on the ice. But Marchessault is an exception as well as Karlsson. Last season in Florida, Marchessault lead the team in goal scoring {2016-17]. The closest player to him was Trochek with 23 and Barkov with 21. Even Reilly Smith was 5th in goals and year before he had 25 goals. Looking down through the Panther players list, They could of easily protected both those players. Instead they give up Marchessault who played just 70 games and scored 30, and Smith who scored 15 goals 37 pts but had 25 goals season before. www.hockey-reference.com/teams/FLA/2017.htmlI know you cant compare this expansion to other seasons cause there's only one team this time and teams like Florida isnt a team that goes near the salary cap. It also fell on the same year they had to resign Ekland,Barkov and Hubrdeau. So maybe the timing was perfect for Vegas. Jackets are an entirely different story and maybe even Annaheim.. Vegas got Karlsson, Jackets 1st rd pick and 2nd round pick. Man that is one hell of a gift and well worth taking on Clarkson's idiotic contract Leafs gave him just cause he scored 30 goals one season for Jersey.. HOW did Leafs manage to ponder off that contract to Jackets in the 1st place?? Was it in exchange for the Horton contract? Horton just popped in my head. Imagine if Bruins lost a defeseman better than Carlo but not as good as McAvoy? Well Vegas managed to get Theodore from them. I knoe it was a complicated situation for the Ducks but giving up a highly touted {maybe Franchise player} defenseman like Theodore, I dunno.. But it'll be quite interesting to see what all those players does in the seasons ahead. They all pretty much had banner seasons in front of all the excitement of Vegas. It was bad enough losing Colin Miller, but I would still keep Kevan Miller today..
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Post by SeaBass on May 22, 2018 14:26:37 GMT -5
If I recall correctly Anaheim had to keep Bieska. That left them with saving 2 of the following. Fowler, Lindholm (they think he is the future) or Theodore.
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Post by kjc2 on May 22, 2018 17:40:25 GMT -5
If I recall correctly Anaheim had to keep Bieska. That left them with saving 2 of the following. Fowler, Lindholm (they think he is the future) or Theodore. They also had Vatanen to protect so yeah they were up against it and Bieksa did have the NTC/NMC.
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Post by SeaBass on May 23, 2018 6:52:16 GMT -5
If I recall correctly Anaheim had to keep Bieska. That left them with saving 2 of the following. Fowler, Lindholm (they think he is the future) or Theodore. They also had Vatanen to protect so yeah they were up against it and Bieksa did have the NTC/NMC. Right, I knew I was forgetting someone.
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Post by SeaBass on May 23, 2018 7:02:46 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on May 23, 2018 7:49:44 GMT -5
My biggest concern/curiosity is, who actually projects as a future top 1-2-3 center. I mean where do we project Donato, JF Karlsson, Fitzgerald, Frederic and Studnicka, are they NHL centers or better suited for the wing. I've only seen Donato play for the big Bruins so not too much and he'll be a good one but I see him as a left winger. As for the other four centers I couldn't even guess if they project as NHL centers or wingers.
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Post by nfld77 on May 23, 2018 9:02:55 GMT -5
They also had Vatanen to protect so yeah they were up against it and Bieksa did have the NTC/NMC. Right, I knew I was forgetting someone. Well that explains the Theodore situation plus maybe I exaggerating a little thinking he was a possible franchise player..I know there was alot of talk about him 2-3 years ago. But thanks for the explanation from both of you..That's all I'm looking for.. If I asked more questions when I was younger, I probably wouldn't be as stun as me arse today!!
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Post by nfld77 on May 23, 2018 10:05:14 GMT -5
Love reading about our future, thanks Seabass.. The player I liked since day 1 is Jack Studnicka. Maybe it's his name,lol I dunno..He's tried to prove the skeptics wrong since Sweeney picked him late in the 1st round 2017. He captained his junior team before putting up 5 pts in 5 games with Providence. I think he'll have a big year in Providence and the Bruins will bring him along like they did DeBrusk. Go to Providence for a season, prove you belong with the big club. Have a great camp following year and prepare for the season opener!! My hope is he goes this route, the one Jake did.
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Post by nfld77 on May 23, 2018 11:40:41 GMT -5
chowderandchampions.com/2018/05/21/boston-bruins-wayne-simmonds-interesting-target/?utm_campaign=FanSided+Daily&utm_source=FanSided+Daily&utm_medium=emailSorry if this was already posted. I would absolutely love Simmonds wearing the Black&Gold, I always thought he could be the perfect Bruin, but I have to laugh at Haggerty's return to the Flyers. You'd have to catch Hextall on a "Just take Simmonds off our hands day" and that's not gonna happen. Haggs: What would it cost? Again the Bruins would have to really impress the Flyers with their offer. Haggerty suggests giving up Anders Bjork, David Backes, and a 2nd round pick. I am fine giving up those players since Backes is coming off a rough postseason, and the Bruins have plenty of young talent. Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson could step up and fill Bjorkโs spot on the roster.{end of quote} Backes is a salary dump without a doubt,so it's "take Backes and we give you Bjork and a 2nd".. Now start a package besides that for Simmonds or rule out the above altogether cause Hextall isnt as stupid as Haggerty.
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Post by madmarx on May 28, 2018 17:37:22 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Jun 6, 2018 20:19:28 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Jun 6, 2018 21:34:27 GMT -5
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Post by orym on Jun 8, 2018 9:08:30 GMT -5
That's terrible to see. Really dirty hit. I hate to see guys go out like that. I'll never forget his Stanley Cup Game 2 OT winner in Chicago in 2013 when I was there. One of my favorite Bruins moments for sure.
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Post by nfld77 on Jun 8, 2018 11:23:51 GMT -5
Over the last 20 years, teams coming off a Game 7 win in the Conference Final (like the Capitals) playing against a team that won its Conference Final in less than 7 games (like Vegas) are 10-0 in the Stanley Cup Final.
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Post by madmarx on Jun 10, 2018 9:46:21 GMT -5
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Post by fforr on Jun 10, 2018 11:06:20 GMT -5
๐บ canโt wait for camp!!
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Post by madmarx on Jun 10, 2018 14:09:36 GMT -5
๐บ canโt wait for camp!! Cheers ๐บ
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