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I may have traded gibson for rantanen at just the right time lol. 6 goals and 5 assists in his last 6 games.

Traded gibson for some offensive help in Rantanen. Have 5 goalies, 2 coming off IR soon, so it makes sense to me.

Nope lol. We had a hardcore wings fan named Haliax. his name was Wingsnut19 over there. He hasn't posted since 2018 here tho....And Maddevil also came over and a few others, but few stuck

Thanks for having me My story was similar. I initially came from the old Sportsnet boards, and when they went down in 2002, a site called "hockeyforums" was born, except with a .com, run by a guy named Hockeyman. I made a lot of friends on that site. Some are even here lol. Looking at you @JR Ewing. our old friend Mushroom cloud tried to join too and was promptly banned hahahaha That site took a turn for the worst when Hockeyman sold it to verticalscope, a crap company that bought up forums and tried to network them by merging them and then forgetting they existed and not fixing problems. Overall it was like a corporate takeover ala AOL buying Time warner. The old guard slowly buggered off. We tried once or twice to keep in touch and see if we could reignite the spark, but it was doomed. Enter @hf101 sending me a message telling me to try this new forum in 2013. I basically said "F that place" and tried to talk as many into coming here as I could. The funny thing is, I banned HF101 at first because we had a spambot problem on that site and he asked me to unban him lol. before I left I took hundreds of threads and merged them into 1 enormous thread called "garbageball" and stickied it.

If they are too much of a wuss to handle a hard demanding boss, then they shouldn't be paid millions of dollars a year to play a game

Brooks wrote an article once after a freaking shutout win talking about how Lundqvist was saved by the post twice, crossbar once and was flopping wildly all night.

The team could go 82-0 and Brooksie would write the nastiest articles complaining about everything, dramatizing and making stuff up as he went. Half the players hated him too lol.

Lol. Dude, he was in new york answering brooksie and telling him off on a daily basis Something tells me the Toronto fan base, upset with their soft lacksidaisal corps wouldn't mind a boot commander in charge for a year or two after that embarassing Montreal loss in the playoffs

Torts is short term gain long term pain. The leafs should sign him for a year or two to kick their players into shape.

The sharks have 7 rookies on the team and we just had 8 people out with covid, including 3 of our top scorers lol.

Was a wizard winning the memorial cup with my Halifax Mooseheads. Was looking at the Roster to remember the Drouin/Mackinnon days and I just realized Mackenzie Weegar was on the team back then too. never expected him to be much but damn, he is looking good in Florida these days

Where is the "he catches covid while unvaccinated" option?

I think Ferraro might give him a run for his money there this year. Martinez seems a bit....Older this year. Hard to put into words. just noticed while watching Lehner games that martinez isn't quite 100%. His hits have been fewer and fewer over the past few years. He used to be a hit machine. But he just stopped throwing them one year. My all star team isn't great this year. Too many goalie injuries and top players underperforming. Kevin Shattenkirk is my best player for heaven sakes.

I would have given you way more for McDavid yave lol

How old and physically active were you at the time of the surgery?

You actually never offered me hellboy in all stars knowing I drool over the kid and would possibly overpay? You kept sending me offer with Holtby instead? Lol

Never trade hellboy. He's too good. But damn Shester is pretty solid

Years ago, I insisted Toews and Kane's cap hits would cripple the team and their ability to retain talent and compete. Some argued they were so good and clutch that they could play with a 3rd and 4th line of rookies and bad bottom 3 dmen and win. Time has been favorable to my views lol

No nhl player, but several people have had this surgery over the last 20 years. It's considered superior to the fusion surgery because, well, you will still have motion. Fusion surgery limits motion after the surgery in way 99% of athletes complain about.

Did all 4 rangers think "one of the other 3 will check him?" LOL The goalie watched that and said "wtf? He got through?"

Price and francouz, LTIR. But due back soon. Gibson just went down today and Bob last night That leave me with Lehner lol.....with the 2 best Vegas forwards on IR leading to losses that might have been wins

I drafted 5 goalies to protect from injuries and covid. 4 of them are out or on IR. Wtf lol

I pick up Tuch every year in fantasy and think he will break out and every year I drop him within 2 weeks. He's 25 and his best season is 20 goals and 52 points. That was 2 years ago. It's been "meh" since. He's a solid middle 6 option Ala donskoi, but not likely to ever be a top line player. He failed when given the opportunity at top line several times. Unless he is a super late bloomer. Peyton Krebs is a loss. Guy has offensive potential for days

I dunno. I haven't legally watched a game in years unless i was at a bar lol.

Kane is just trouble. He wants the basketball superstar life. He wants to be a badboy with an entourage, snorting coke and gambling millions and be an annoying personality as opposed to a role model. Most of them can get away with that crap in basketball. That sort of personality doesn't jive with hockey.