John
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John
@92In82
1/3 of @BigAppleHockey - check us out on YouTube/iTunes/Spotify/FB/IG. NYR, NYY, NYG, NYK, NJPW, AEW, Marvel, GoT, Anime, Video Games, Music & Food.
Long Island, NY Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@92In82 John you know this it doesn’t count if it wasn’t for wwe
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WWE is still telling everyone that they were the ones that started the women’s revolution when they were 6-7 years behind TNA.
𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐕𝐞𝐧@WrestlingCovers
18 years ago today, the TNA Knockouts “Cross The Line” hype video first aired on iMPACT. 🔥🔥 “We’re not Barbies playing wrestling dress-up. That’s for Divas.” “Bikinis and lingerie? Screw that!” “We embrace physicality.”
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All of this from both of you is correct.
As a former avid EA NHL Hockey game fan, I used to look forward to the new release, partially because of the menus, the music selection and the gameplay being fun.
Now they’re focused on card packs, DLC and other ways of milking players of money. They put too much realism into the game and forgot that players just want to have fun with it.
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@ByDanielOwens @joonlee @Kofie Older games would give you things like European hockey leagues, the OHL, etc. In football you might get the old European league teams and uniforms. Now you don’t even get the full gamut of professional team’s historical jerseys.
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I’m happy for Shawn Spears for being happy in the role that he’s in, but this is as tone deaf and stupid as when Evander Kane took that picture of all of that money in the hotel room during the 12-13 NHL lockout.
Really dude? Right after your cohorts got released for budget cuts so Ari Emanuel, Nick Khan and the boys could enjoy massive pay spikes?
Do better.
Shawn Spears™️@ShawnSpears
… right to the bank 😉
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@brockpierson Winamp was way better lol.
I used it as late as the early/mid 00’s.
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You are only allowed to engage with this post if you are older than RealPlayer (released 31 years ago)
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@MikeHoncho6915 I literally said on my post game stream after game 6 against Florida that they needed to rebuild and that they wouldn’t get any closer.
It was all too obvious, others said so too.
They should’ve traded him that summer.
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@92In82 💯 they are better constructed teams but a team that went to the ECF on the back of Igor was obviously going to pay him and had no clue that the team would fall off as drastically as they did. Hindsight is 20/20 and at the time they had to pay Igor.
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This is exactly why they should’ve never signed Igor.
Too much work to do to this team to become a contender again and it never made sense to sign a goalie whose window didn’t align with a team that needed a re-tool/re-build.
There’s also the fact that you don’t win in the cap era by building around a goalie, a mistake this team made previously with Lundqvist. #NYR
Shayna@shaynagoldman_
@domluszczyszyn @ByScottPowers Rangers Cup Checklist with @vzmercogliano what the Rangers have to retool around + what this team needs to contend again after two lost seasons nytimes.com/athletic/72558…
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This is probably the trade in all honesty. I don’t even like Stramel but 1st and Stramel has to be the foundation. Yurov is now a must too. Guerin’s on the clock with Hughes’ contract.
I can see a cap dump going back to NY too.
Chip23@NYRChip23
If we assume the trade on the table at the deadline was Stramel and their 2027 1st and the sticking point was the inclusion of Yurov, does Guerin include Yurov now?
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@Paptherockies @BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey I said it on the podcast that it was the right move to hold onto him there, as disappointing as it was.
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@92In82 @BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey True, they are in a win now mode. Interesting predicament they put themselves in.
Trocheck should get a nice return as well. As much hate Drury was getting for not selling at the trade deadline I think he'll get more this summer than he would at the deadline.
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The Minnesota Wild went after Robert Thomas and offered up Danila Yurov and Jesper Wallstedt at the deadline, but the Blues passed 👀
(via @RussoHockey)
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The issue with Edmonton is that they have McDavid for 2 more seasons if he doesn’t ask out this offseason. The more I think about it, it might even be one more season, as if he stays and they don’t win, then he does the nice thing and tells Edmonton ahead of time he doesn’t plan to stay and they deal him after next year.
If you’re Bowman, do you gamble on the younger, albeit better but lesser experienced goalie or the guy that has won a cup and has a reputation for playing up to the stage?
I completely agree on St. Louis, he’s probably the one piece ahead of Trocheck on the center market, provided that McDavid and Matthews don’t go anywhere.
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@92In82 @BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey 100% Edmonton should be going after Wallstedt. I'd pass on Binnington.
I think they can get more this summer with the weak FA class. Someone will overpay.
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@Paptherockies @BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey Edmonton should be going after one of Wallstedt or Binnington and the Blues should move Binnington either way.
I’m not saying St. Louis should’ve accepted the deal, but it’s not a bad package by any means.
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@92In82 @BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey I don't disagree on that, but it's not a position of need. I would get a better package than that if I were in the Blues position too. Lots of teams looking for a player like Thomas.
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That doesn’t mean they built around them or they were their best players.
Kucherov has been Tampa’s best player hands down for about a decade now. He led them in scoring in 15-16, when Vasi was still a backup to Bishop and has been their best since. There’s no argument against it either.
Bobrovsky’s contract was considered an albatross so badly to the point where Alex Lyon had to get them into the 22-23 playoffs. Florida built around Barkov, Huberdeau and Ekblad and the Tkachuk trade changed their entire culture.
They also had Forsling, Reinhart and Verhaeghe making a combined less than $14m against the cap in 23-24 (lightning in a bottle) and Bobrovsky almost blew that series for Florida. Then Florida tied the record for most 20+ point players on a postseason roster last year.
Bobrovsky has been maybe their 5th most important player. Acting like he’s the reason they won is disingenuous at best and revisionist history at worst.
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@92In82 Florida and Tampa’s highest paid players by AAV are goalies.
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@BR_OpenIce @RussoHockey Blues already have Hofer, no need for Wallstedt.
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@MustacheVickers 1. C
2. D
3. W
4. G
That’s why you’re seeing more teams win with goalies who aren’t considered elite.
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@92In82 I agree with this.
I was talking to someone yesterday about the positional order-of-importance. All things being equal, I put Center as 1st. Maybe Left Wing last. Not sure how to rank 2nd-4th, but maybe all situation D-man is 2nd.
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I will say it again.
YOU. WIN. BY. BUILDING. DOWN. THE. MIDDLE.
Look at all of the winners in the cap era and they all had depth down the middle and/or a franchise/elite type center.
Brian@DonChytil2dot0
Tied for 2nd in postseason points and 40 goals in the regular season being centered by Ryan fucking Hartman.
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Hellebuyck isn’t underpaid.
Igor is overpaid. No one was going to rush to give him that type of money. The market afterward shows you this.
His contract was supposed to “reset” the market. It hasn’t.
You don’t pay goalies to be your best player. You don’t win that way. That’s why no team since Montreal has won by building around the goalie.
Not NJ, not FLA, not TBL.
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@92In82 Rangers were coming off ECF and he’s obviously their best and most important player and should be paid as such. Just because Helly is underpaid doesn’t mean that Igor shouldn’t have gotten his. Elite goalies are rare and the Rangers are lucky to have gone from Hank to Igor.
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The rangers down the middle currently gulp
John@92In82
I will say it again. YOU. WIN. BY. BUILDING. DOWN. THE. MIDDLE. Look at all of the winners in the cap era and they all had depth down the middle and/or a franchise/elite type center.
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@CeeBeeJeebies I don’t know if it works for them either, but I do know with Coyle off the market, the center market this offseason is bone dry, which only helps the Rangers.
Does Detroit sweep in?
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@92In82 So that’s another $5.6mm against $13mm in projected space. What is going back? Can’t see NYR retaining for multiple years without significant pieces, and MIN has no 2026 picks till round 3. How do they make this work? Genuinely curious if I’m missing anything?
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I just wonder how the Wild finally address center. Trocheck is probably the best option that’s realistically available for them, let’s see if Guerin tries to get a discount again from his buddy Drury.
Jonny Lazarus@JLazzy23
Even knowing how it ended, I still respect the move. Colorado and Dallas aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Minnesota couldn’t afford to just sit back and hope for the future. He tried to make the team as good as it could possibly be and at the very least, the Wild are finally in that conversation now after years of being average.
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@HockeyHotstove No one said it wasn’t.
If Edmonton has even slightly above average goaltending, they win one of those 2 years.
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@92In82 Being strong at other positions is just as necessary.
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@MikeHoncho6915 Neither have won a cup.
Also, one year later doesn’t justify a $3m difference. Hellebuyck has 3 Vezina’s and a Hart.
Igor hasn’t been the same since 21-22.
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@92In82 Igor’s play in the playoffs, when the game matters most, is far better than Helly’s. .928 and 2.41 vs .903 and 2.9. Also Igor signed his contract extension a year later when the cap had risen.
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Yes and they went to back to back SCF’s with having not much else outside of that center depth.
Subpar defense, goaltending and forward depth, especially on the wing.
Imagine if their management could’ve managed their cap well enough to add legitimate snipers on the wing, a legitimate top pairing d-man and an above average goalie.
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