Stanley Cup Final, Game 6.
Bruins (2)-Blues (3), 8 PM start, TV-NBC.
Could be the last game of the season. I definitely hope so. We can watch the Cup raised first time in St. Louis. And then talk about buyouts, QOs, trades, draft etc.
Stanley Cup Final, Game 6.
Bruins (2)-Blues (3), 8 PM start, TV-NBC.
Could be the last game of the season. I definitely hope so. We can watch the Cup raised first time in St. Louis. And then talk about buyouts, QOs, trades, draft etc.
258 responses to “It’s Go Time!”
TomK- I have a post waiting until after the playoffs are over about buyouts with some numbers.
I would take DuBois over Laine and I would take Tkachuk over Laine as well.
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Laine has an elite talent; shooting and scoring goals which is very very importante. While he man not be one-dimensional player, I am curious what other parts of his game that make him better than a more well rounded palyer are??
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Almost always take a center over a winger if they are close enough in the rankings.
Except Dubois is nowhere near Laine’s talent. Now, I would still take Matthews before Laine because he’s a center. Is Matthews a two-way player? No, but he may become one. The talent level of Matthews and Laine are much closer than Laine’s and Dubois’
Like in chess, controlling the center is vital.
Unless you’re a fan of Benko opening 😃
Not sure why Winnipeg is rumored to open to trading Laine. Being a prime talent; one would want to pay him on Matthews level ($11M) to keep him in house.
Flank openings are always good against the unprepared. I like the Bird especially….
Would be very surprised if any buyouts are offered as this league is less a free market enterprise than an oligopoly focused on labor cost control to maximize profits. If nothing else it would guarantee a lockout so the owners could squabble amongst themselves to address any deviations from the bottom line.
Rumors, eh? Negotiations. Let’s see where he ends up. And his $ amount.
Interestingly enough, when I know someone will play 1…g6 to my 1.f4, I will play 1. b3 to get in 2.Bb2. But, 1.g3 will usually transpose to a queen pawn opening imo…
$11.6M per for 5 seasons for a PP specialist would be a first.
Talking about chess. Tried to teach my little one how to move in chess. She got bored. Couldn’t do it. Had to get an elementary school teacher who teaches chess on a side to come over last Saturday. As per our conversation, he is a below average chess player, never learned any theory, and rarely plays. I doubt he’d last more than 10 min against me, but he knows how to teach kids. Go figure. She learned half of the pieces in one hour. I’ve been trying for months.
Along those lines, many a successful and revered Sports Manager or Head Coach was himself a mediocre player at best.
And Ted Williams was never able to teach anyone how to hit.
Finns>Vikings need I say more?
Don’t remember which famous NHL coach said it, but it was along the lines of “I got good at coaching because I watched a lot of games from the bench.”
James, in my opinion we aren’t far enough along in the rebuild and nor is there an RFA available this offseason that warrant us giving up four first round picks. Now if Point was 6-3 and 200+ lbs I’d be singing a different tune, but unfortunately he’s 5-10 and 166 lbs!
The system was set up this way by the owners intentionally so that there would essentially never be an offer sheet to a team’s top player(s). Maybe Toronto loses one of Kapanen or Johansson to an offersheet, but more likely one would just be traded instead
SN,
Dubois wasn’t drafted as a center. You knew that much about him that you could predict him as a center and take him over Laine?
No offense but.. HA!
I didn’t mean to make it sound like an attack, SN. I’m not even in disagreement with your point.
But looking at a draft retrospectively makes it a little easier than was in June of ‘16. Maybe you were knowledgeable on Dubois. It wouldn’t shock me. But you can’t just insinuate that Kakko will be a mistake or a franchise player for someone even if you think Cozens or Dach is the right move.
They’re all just a bunch of kids with a ton of talent and promise. There’s no hidden strategy for deciphering who will be the most valuable. Only opinions.
Come June of 2023 it may be a bit clearer like it is now in regards to the ‘16 draft.
Pete I don’t necessarily disagree with your point about the draft picks.
But I never mentioned the Rangers.
All I said was that all it would take is one offer sheet to get the ball rolling on multiple offer sheets.
And who knows, maybe if it happens in one off season it happens in the next and then it becomes less taboo.
I guess my point is that at the rate we’re going , there’s a good possibility that sooner or later GMs are going to say to themselves ‘we have two choices: 1- hand out bloated contracts to 29 year olds on the open market or 2- offer the same money to these younger guys who are RFAs.’
The only athletes who claim to be 5’10 are 5’8 1/2.
The money isn’t really the issue tho for most teams in a vacuum, it’s the 4 first round picks. To do so as a GM you have to be very confident that 1) your current roster and system is essentially stocked for the next 4 years such that you won’t need those picks in any facet (ie not to directly draft players or as trade chips to address other roster needs), 2) the player you are giving the offer sheet to is more valuable on his own than either four other first round picks or the player or players you could acquire using those first round picks in trades (on their own or with other assets) and 3) that same player is worth the largest cap hit on your team (and likely the NHL). Not a primary concern, but also shouldn’t dismiss the fact that you’d be setting a crazy $ precedent for your own RFAs and future UFAs.
Think very few teams with smart GMs would get past 1 and 2 such that they’d be ready to ask their owners to approve a contact likely at or above $100m all in. Marner is the only guy that comes close in this year’s class to me (but again not for the rangers)
I’ve been playing some good chess lately..,mostly G/10
Easiest to teach chess with K v KQ, then K v KRR, then K v R,,,, learning mating patterns
James – DuBois was a C/LW draftee. Nobody really knows which is my point about everyone buying into the hype, whether justified or not. The herd mentality runs rampant every draft.
If the 1C of the future is available at #2, I would take him over a winger. No guarantees with any player.
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I just know that without a 1C, no Cup will be hoisted at MSG. 79 years and 1 Cup… (long trombone sound)
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Mating patterns? Who knew chess got its sexy back??
I love when my Bishop pins the queen
Whoever NY picks #2, they will say they would have taken him #1. Deliver this to the bank.
Bishop Sheen pins Freddy Mercury.
Freddy was naughty
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Hmmm 👍
Get it done JG the return is irrelevant!
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