Crying about everything until the playoffs game thread.

Dummy Hoy

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Get it all out here. Cry, complain, moan, wet yourself with fear.


I don’t really like the way the Bs are going right now and Carolina is playing really well. That said, I saw more positives today that look like their overall game is rounding into form. They’re a better team than Carolina, and I’m hoping that once they pop a couple, the dam will break.

I’d say one of CShea, Kenney, Nap, or Salem’s Lot should hit us with a real game thread.
 

Salem's Lot

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Well according to some game threaders we should be starting the offseason thread now because Carolina is just so unbeatable. I wonder what the opinions of those posters would be if we got to beat the bag out of a Rags team that had no business being in that series, and Carolina played three essentially meaningless games against the top teams in the league.
 
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McDrew

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I had literally 0 expectation this season would restart, so using that as a baseline I'm exctatic I get hockey.
 

Dummy Hoy

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12.5% chance at landing a potential MVP guy ain’t awful.

I feel liked Minnesota could use a break...wouldn’t mind seeing them or Winnipeg win that lottery.

Rags winning would be annoying. Pitt winning would be infuriating. TOR winning would be insufferable.
 

cshea

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Rags winning would be annoying. Pitt winning would be infuriating. TOR winning would be insufferable.
The Rangers have never bothered me so I’d be indifferent towards them winning. At least they were actually mediocre this year so it’d be a somewhat realistic outcome, a 12/13 winning the lottery.

The idiocy of this lottery really dawned on me last night. What was the urgency to do the phase 1? Was it really just got put on a half hour show in the middle of July? They should’ve just waited until today and added the 8 qualifying round losers and set the lottery odds by regular season points percentage.
 

Kenny F'ing Powers

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Get it all out here. Cry, complain, moan, wet yourself with fear.


I don’t really like the way the Bs are going right now and Carolina is playing really well. That said, I saw more positives today that look like their overall game is rounding into form. They’re a better team than Carolina, and I’m hoping that once they pop a couple, the dam will break.

I’d say one of CShea, Kenney, Nap, or Salem’s Lot should hit us with a real game thread.
Shame on you, you Goddamn coward.

Bruins are sweeping through the playoffs. Two U's, two K's, two cups. Protect the Civic. Fuck the Habs. All that fun stuff.

Lets goooooo!
 

The Gray Eagle

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The Bruins had a bit of a cakewalk in the regular season.
Like a little angel food cake, with the top glaze, had their moms mix up the eggwhites and the vanilla. Cut it with a knife or a small spatula, through the batter, releasing air bubbles and bake, light as air, virtually fat-free? FUCK YOU PHEASANT!
Oh the Bruins got something to say? What kind of cake are they rockin', huh? A little lady Baltimore? A little date and walnut loaf? A NAPOLEONSHATTE?

Cakewalk's over! All right Johnny Cheechoo and Chuck Huddy? Gonna have the boys tossing suis up the middle all night, just tossing hot sui sauce! You know why? Because you skipped LEG DAY!
You think you can skirt legs and crack the Czech Extraliga? You couldn't even crack the Hockey Allsvenska, let alone the Deutsche Eishockey Liga! Fucked! You plugs are gonna learn some jam. It is FUCKING EMBARASSING!
 

The B’s Knees

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In the spirit of the thread title, which team will we cry about the most should they land the first overall pick tonight?
I rank them in 3 categories:

1. Nooooo!
EDMONTON – squandered too many recent #1 picks (except McDavid)
PITTSBURGH – Lemieux, Crosby, Malkin (#2, close enough). Those are enough riches.

2. I hate you and you don’t deserve it, but you suck so it's a bit less annoying
TORONTO – the hype would be unbearable
NEW YORK – see above
FLORIDA – I just don’t like this franchise

3. Meh – not my conference, and your team means little to me, so it’s OK
WINNIPEG
MINNESOTA
NASHVILLE
 

McDrew

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Toronto has approximately $4.5m in cap space and their top 4 highest players accounting for about 50% of the cap. Good luck next year Leafs.
Austin Matthews will not be a leaf next season. Tavarez has a no trade. Marner is seen as much less of a problem. Matthews is the tolerable subtraction they will make in trading for a right side D under cost control.
 

McDrew

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Its going to be at least one of those three, but Nylander is only 7M/yr, and Matthews had his "hotel" incident last summer and is the easier "he wasn't fitting into the culture" departure. That's why I say him over the other two.
 

cshea

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He’s a 50 goal, 90 point franchise center at 22 years old. The incident probably cost him the captaincy but that’s it. They aren’t moving him, he’s the face of the franchise. It’d be like the Oilers moving McDavid. Just from perusing twitter and reading some articles, a lot of the fans ire seems to be directed towards Marner. He’s probably got the worst contract on the team and he went through a very contentious and public negotiation.

They were Jekyll and Hyde all season. Got off to a terrible start that got Babcock fired, rebounded for a long stretch after Keefe took over, then hit the skids again. They probably deserved a better fate against Columbus, but they shot something like 1.6% at even strength in the series. There’s just *something* bad in the mix, although it’s worth noting that this core has been an underdog in each series they’ve lost (Washington, Boston, Boston) until this one which was more of a coin flip. They just seem to always make back breaking mistakes at the worst possible time each and every time. Tavares hitting the post in the first period. The circus line change and Andersen softy that made it 2-0.

The flat cap hurts them more than any other team, in my opinion. They already have $76.9 million committed to 17 players next year. They’ll need to replace Barrie (what a disaster of a trade that was) and Ceci who weren’t any good but played in their top 4. They have internal options like Sandin and Liljefren on ELC’s still but those guys haven’t really broken in as regulars so counting on them in top 4 or 6 roles isn’t ideal for a team that wants to be a Cup contender. Flat cap in 2021/2022 too which is when they’ll need to extend Rielly and make a decision on Andersen.

I think they’ll resist doing anything to the big 4 right now. They’ll try some LTIR shenanigans again and I think move out some of the depth guys making decent money like Kapanen, Johnsson and Kerfoot. If they win the lottery here in a few minutes, maybe that frees them up to move Marner or Nylander. Their depth with suffer though. They don’t have a great farm system and if they lose the lottery tonight they won’t have a first round pick for the 2nd consecutive season which isn’t ideal. Nick Robertson is promising and could probably replace one of the middle 6 wingers, but I don’t think they have much else up front to be excited about.

It is going to be an interesting summer (fall, I guess?) up in Toronto.
 

McDrew

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I see their need for a significant upgrade (a soild top-2, or 2 decent top-4) on D as so significant that they will be unable to address it without moving one of the big 3. Jettissoning the lower-line guys or Nylander won't free up as much to do so. The Leafs were 3rd best in GF/G and 6th Worst in GA/G this season. Dubas might get the hook mid-next-season if the Leafs start out 10-12-4 with a bunch of 5-4 wins and 6-3 losses.

I think we're both in agreement about the problem and that significant changes are needed, but I think we differ in how significant the deals need to be. Let's see what Dubas actually does.