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IllaZilla

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  1. Technically they got one. Because Smashville got the loser point. This team just can’t get out of its own way…
  2. Huh. Wild tie it up at the end of two and no responses. I think we’ve given up on the Wild…
  3. Either everyone’s given up on the Wild or are suffering from Daylight Savings Time. Maybe both…
  4. Sounds like Marat Khusnutdinov is in St Paul and skating with the staff. Potential debut against Arizona or Anaheim this week…
  5. I’m following along on the Athletic because I’ve heard better announcing at a high school hockey game. Where did TNT find their announcers?
  6. Well if you want to take it a step further, what was the rush signing all those players before the off season? It’s not like they’re up and coming rookies or high end scorers. They’re all pluggers, with the exception of Zuccarello. With the crappy seasons they’ve all had, he probably could have gotten them for half of what he paid.
  7. Yes, but the Wild have played one more game than the Blues and Kraken, and two more than the Flames...
  8. Maybe he didn't underpay. Could be more of the devil you know. But I agree with you. Not sure why it was necessary to give out all those NTC's to average players...
  9. He had to give them the NTC/NMC because of the dead cap space. He couldn’t give them as much as other teams salary-wise. So to compensate he throws in the NTC/NMC. Maybe if the team had stayed healthy all season long they might have made the Playoffs. Hard to say what they would have done. I don’t think they would have done much. But that’s just me.
  10. Maybe. But a 2026 draft pick won’t get paid until at least 2026. He got what he could get. The biggest issue was that he shot himself in the foot with the pre season extensions. No reason whatsoever to do that. If Foligno et al had a bad season, he could have traded them. Or signed them for a lot less than he did. But now, he got a bunch of mid round picks for some role players. And we get the same team next season, only a year older.
  11. They probably weren't going to sign him or be able to afford to sign him for what he was going to get in arbitration...
  12. Dewey #2 gone... Connor Dewar to TO for a 2026 4th round pick...
  13. Looks like a conditional late round draft pick. 2026 6th rounder and LW Luke Toporowski.
  14. Speaking of NMC's/NTC's, the Athletic just had an interesting article on the explosion of NMC's/NTC's being given to players over the last decade or so. Basically it came down to all the expansion and the salary cap. More opportunities for players to move around. So if a GM wanted to keep a guy, it wasn't just a matter of money anymore.
  15. That’s the problem with the Wild. They are stuck in a cycle of mediocrity because they refuse to rebuild. They keep shooting for the Playoffs every season and then get bounced in the first round, which results in a lower teen pick. They then draft a nice player. Not a great player, but a nice player. So they have a team filled with nice players. Nice players don’t win Stanley Cups.
  16. Apparently he was scratched at the last minute for a “personal reason”.
  17. Is it televised? Has to be better than this game…
  18. My God, is this team even going to show up tonight?
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