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Ahhhh. Ok

This is strange. Didn't know preseason games were on the clock this fantasy season. I'm currently beating yave 10-1 due to preseason games

Trade between @Math and frank?(who is frank on this forum?) Verg for Lee straight up. Lw for lw, similar stats Love to get some discussion going because I'm jonesing for hockey discussion lol

Gino is excellent if healthy. Which is usually 50% of the time. Ppg player with ppp and shoots more. I lost a lot of faceoffs though and Toews is 2 years removed from his peak. He could bounce back and I might regret this.

Massive faceoffs and a declining offense Toews for injury prone Malkin? Both pure c

I'm not terribly worried about it. Salaries in 2005 were back when minimum wage was like $7 here. Now minimum wage is near $14 an hour and the price of everything has doubled or more since 2005. 9 million in 2022 money is like 5 million in 2005 money. The salary cap more or less forces the frugal teams to meet a cap floor more than anything and hamstrings richer teams from just throwing $20million contracts at UFA's Given that Gretzky was the leagues highest paid player in 1991 at 3 million a year, and less than 8 years later Theo fleury was making 8.5 million a year, I'd say Barzal making near Theo fleury 1999 money isn't the end of the world. All things considered

Maybe. Well see how the first month goes and what the needs will be lol Im pretty happy with my team though. I suspect I will be hunting SOG and points

I just realized there is a big "RIVALRY WEEK" banner above the overview and we play each other week 1 LOL

How dare you draft my favorite goalie! Well, its a 1 year league, so I forgive you lol

For the Record, a few of yall did this to me during the draft I was at the point where I was like "Time to Draft Boldy. I need dual eligible wingers", then DUmba drafted him 2 moves ahead of me. Next round i was like, "Ohhhh Chabot is still available!" Math Drafts him 1 move ahead of me. Then i was like "ohhh Toffoli" and Dumba drafts him 2 moves ahead of me. LOL

I am reasonably happy with the team I drafted despite being near the arse end of the draft. I sacrificed offense for the sake of shoring up my goalies and may have overdone it in net, but my modus operandi has always been Peripherals and goalies lol. Time will tell if it was a good decision or not. I would rather have 1 too many than to have to spot start the Coyotes goalie just to make my weekly minimum. My best guess is workhorse goalies will easily be the hardest commodity to acquire a month into the season. 16 teams mean 32 goalies just to have 2 per team. A single injury is devastating. Supply and demand will be like the Halifax Housing market. My house doubled in value in the last 3 years because of how crazy low our housing stock has gotten and because of population growth.

Wait, is that DeAngelo lying on the ice? LOL If they made a Netflix miniseries out of this, I would watch it

I was oping to see **** like this after Tortz took over LOL

When did he "take less"? His contract previous was signed when he was a 50 point player lol. It was comparable to scheifele at the time. He got so good that he was criminally underpaid In any case, good for him. He deserves this contract.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/34604714/evander-kane-san-jose-sharks-settle-contract-grievance An NHL source tells ESPN that the settlement is expected to bridge the gap between the money owed Kane by the Sharks and the money he's making on his new deal with the Oilers. Kane was due $19 million in salary for the last three years of his San Jose contract. The first three years of his new deal with the Oilers pay him a combined $16.5 million in salary. An NHL source believed the settlement will generate a cap hit that will be retroactively applied to the 2021-22 Sharks' salary cap. They finished last season with around $4.9 million in cap space. Pinterest Email print The San Jose Sharks and former forward Evander Kane have settled a grievance over his contract termination last season before the matter would have gone to arbitration. The NHLPA filed a grievance on behalf of Kane in January after the Sharks terminated his deal, citing a breach of his contract and a violation AHL COVID-19 protocols. Kane was in the fourth year of a seven-year, $49 million contract that paid him $7 million on average annually. Kane signed a free agent contract with the Edmonton Oilers last season and then signed a four-year extension with the Oilers this summer. An NHL source tells ESPN that the settlement is expected to bridge the gap between the money owed Kane by the Sharks and the money he's making on his new deal with the Oilers. Kane was due $19 million in salary for the last three years of his San Jose contract. The first three years of his new deal with the Oilers pay him a combined $16.5 million in salary. An NHL source believed the settlement will generate a cap hit that will be retroactively applied to the 2021-22 Sharks' salary cap. They finished last season with around $4.9 million in cap space. "The agreement has been approved by the NHL and the NHL Players' Association," the Sharks said in a statement. "We are satisfied that its terms will not adversely impact the team, either financially or competitively, in this or future seasons."

Its not exactly a secret that locker room wasn't the best and Wheeler/Scheifele kinda ruled it and excluded a few people and even had fist fights with some. Wheeler actually half heartedly apologizing for how he dealt with Laine tells me where there is smoke there is fire. But we knew that when Wheeler got ejected from practice for dropping the gloves and going to fight Chiariot after Scheifele cross checked Chiariot at practice and he shoved back. hell, Paul Maurice resigned as coach and walked away from the team saying he's taken them as far as he can and they need a new voice to take control.

Im ok with giving a former 1st round pick in the deepest draft of all time a shot. Most jets fans say he was better than his numbers last year and wanted him back

The look of shock on the guy who thought he scored a goal's face

That was sick. I was sure it was in and amazed when i saw the replay that he saved that

Calgary deserves a media just for making summer interesting lol

So johnny hockey, Tkachuk out, Kadri, Huberdeau and Weegar in. Calgary came out of losing Gaudreau to UFA and T%kachuk not resigning quite well I must say.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/34419289/nazem-kadri-finalizing-deal-calgary-flames-sources-say

Thompson was outplayed Lehner by seasons end last year. My guess is they knock on the sharks door and ask for an Adin Hill or James Reimer?

Yeah its a good read. Makes Bertuzzi hitting Moore and the tragedy after seem like something that could have happened to Lemieux that night for the exact same type of reason. McCarty sucker punched him with his glove on, just like Bertuzzi did to Moore, and then beat the crap out of him until he was concussed and then waited till the ref wasn't looking and kneed him in the head as hard as he could crushing his head between the knee and boards, and sounds proud of it lol As Iconic as this brawl is, it could have turned out very very badly just as easily as the Bertuzzi/Moore incident did

We should take bets on what age he is at when the decline begins. Im going with 31 or 32 lol