Rolex
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I feel like Rolex has been told that like 5 times already.....
Rolex will settle for any top end center....Rolex has been harping at this for decades.
I feel like Rolex has been told that like 5 times already.....
No one is salivating.
And they're not .500 - They've lost 15 games and have won 12.
12-12-3.
With that said, they are playing much better. Price is a god.
They have 27 points out of a possible 54. That's .500 . Points are the # 1 determining factor.
Skills competitions and 3 on 3 gimmicks do not count as losses, they are ties where other team is given a welfare extra point.They have lost more games than they've won. Full stop.
Skills competitions and 3 on 3 gimmicks do not count as losses, they are ties where other team is given a welfare extra point.
This team is playing themselves right into the dead zone.
Too good to get a good pick, too bad to make the playoffs.
This team is playing themselves right into the dead zone.
Too good to get a good pick, too bad to make the playoffs.
They're not too good to get a good pick. They only beat the Buffalo's and Ottawa's of the world. People got excited by the 5 game winning streak, but that's been negated by the 3 loses.
This teams defence has them well capabable to finish in the bottom 8.
They were bottom 5 for a while
This road trip makes or breaks the season
This road trip makes or breaks the season
Your entire off season was pretty amazing for me.
No real interest in Markov back at anything close to a reasonable rate for a guy who seemed to refuse to get old and go away (and a guy who made your PP so much better by himself) and then getting cheap with Radulov (who has 25 points in 30 so far). Then trading your best trade chip (who was apparently way more ready for the show than anyone thought) for a small french winger.
Oh, and then you signed a younger, lesser version of Ron Hainsey for a long time and a fairly big chunk of money
****ing beautiful
This might have been a problem:
XXXXXX-Galchenyuk (4.9)-Radulov (6.25)
MaxPac(4.5)-Danault(.9)-Gallagher (3.75)
Shaw(3.9)-Plekanec(6.0)-Byron(1.16)
Hudon(.65)-Froese(.65)-Carr(.725)
33.4
Benn(1.1)-Weber(7.9)
Markov(5.5)-Petry(5.5)
Sergachev(.9)-XXXXX
20.9
Price(6.5)
2 legit scoring lines (the overall quality of which would depend on who XXXXX) is, a handful of offensively dangerous defenders who can move the puck up ice quick and support the offence. All for the low low price of 60.8 million. More than enough money to have signed a FA winger (Vanek, Jagr, Marleau, Vrbata, Cammalleri....or even sign Hanzal and move Chucky over) and a minder for Sergachev on the 3rd pairing (Beauch, Franson, Hainsey, Kulikov, Hunwick, Alzner, MDZ, Girardi) and still have about as much cap space as they have today to take on someone's contract at a position of need either short term (Stastny, Filppula, Bozak) or longer term
(Giroux, RNH, Turris, Duchene, Nielsen) for varying player costs in return.
The bad offseason came up on the leafs board and MindzEye posted this.
Getting back Markov, radulov and not trading away Sergachev may have made this team better.
But we would still be on track for another early playoff exit with those centers and I take into account that under Julien Galchenyuk would never be a center.
So technically we would have Danault as our #1 and Pleks as our #2...that didn't cut it last year and it sure as heck would not cut it this year.
This team will go nowhere until they address the situations at center
Getting back Markov, radulov and not trading away Sergachev may have made this team better.
But we would still be on track for another early playoff exit with those centers and I take into account that under Julien Galchenyuk would never be a center.
This team will go nowhere until they address the situations at center
Would have, I don't think there should really be any questioning that.
Fair enough, but you'd have the asset to go get one. Or if you're not trading Sergachev (which I wouldn't blame anyone for doing after watching him bust out this young) you could make due until you can get the right deal for at least an overpaid decent #2 to come available. Nashville didn't exactly give up a boatload for Turris, for example.
I agree, but given the situation MB was in, his choice of paths was the worst one he could have taken. The Habs are stuck right now, either go balls out and try to fluke your way into the position that a hot Carey Price can maybe win your a trophy, or blow it up. MB wants to waffle in between the two paths that actually make sense and that only makes the situation worse (as a Leaf fan, I lived a decade of that bullshit).
Look at last year's Sens. Somehow managed to get themselves into a ECF game 7. If they had a hot Carey Price in net, history might have been different. That is the shot MB needed to be aiming at. Do his best to cobble together a decent group of centres by the deadline and take as many runs at it as he can before Weber becomes completely immobile or Price's knee starts to push him into decline.
Basically, he's your John Ferguson Jr.
Would have, I don't think there should really be any questioning that.
Fair enough, but you'd have the asset to go get one. Or if you're not trading Sergachev (which I wouldn't blame anyone for doing after watching him bust out this young) you could make due until you can get the right deal for at least an overpaid decent #2 to come available. Nashville didn't exactly give up a boatload for Turris, for example.
I agree, but given the situation MB was in, his choice of paths was the worst one he could have taken. The Habs are stuck right now, either go balls out and try to fluke your way into the position that a hot Carey Price can maybe win your a trophy, or blow it up. MB wants to waffle in between the two paths that actually make sense and that only makes the situation worse (as a Leaf fan, I lived a decade of that bullshit).
Look at last year's Sens. Somehow managed to get themselves into a ECF game 7. If they had a hot Carey Price in net, history might have been different. That is the shot MB needed to be aiming at. Do his best to cobble together a decent group of centres by the deadline and take as many runs at it as he can before Weber becomes completely immobile or Price's knee starts to push him into decline.
Basically, he's your John Ferguson Jr.