Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
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Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Holy fuck lol!

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Uncle dans leg wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:40 pm
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Holy fuck lol!

How is chirelli still employed
He’s been an unmitigating disaster since arriving there - first drafts McDavid and then every move he made after ends up an absolute disaster
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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RoyalDude wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:48 pm
Uncle dans leg wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:40 pm
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Holy fuck lol!

How is chirelli still employed
He’s been an unmitigating disaster since arriving there - first drafts McDavid and then every move he made after ends up an absolute disaster
Yeah, but you can't even give a guy credit for drafting McDavid. Anyone who passed on Connor should have been handed their walking papers before the 2nd round started.

Speaking of Chiarelli's prowess.....he just inked Koskinen to a 3 year extension at $4.5M per. That's $300K more than they are paying Talbot whose contract expires this year. Safe to say Talbot is traded or let go.....way to build the chemistry and make guys feel wanted.

What a hack. If he had half a brain he would have negotiated the contract and found a way to bury the news of it until the end of the season or something. :lol:
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Mëds wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:23 pm Speaking of Chiarelli's prowess.....he just inked Koskinen to a 3 year extension at $4.5M per.
Yeah that's brutal, Koskinen is 30 and has played a grand total of 31 NHL games with a .905 sv%

Obviously Jimbro was the brains in building that Cup team in Boston.

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Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Obviously Jimbro was the brains in building that Cup team in Boston.

Brains Benning. :)
Looking more and more like it, innit?

This is the time for Jimbro to apply the finishing move on his old boss.
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Mëds wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:23 pm
RoyalDude wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:48 pm
Uncle dans leg wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:40 pm
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Holy fuck lol!

How is chirelli still employed
He’s been an unmitigating disaster since arriving there - first drafts McDavid and then every move he made after ends up an absolute disaster
Yeah, but you can't even give a guy credit for drafting McDavid. Anyone who passed on Connor should have been handed their walking papers before the 2nd round started.

Speaking of Chiarelli's prowess.....he just inked Koskinen to a 3 year extension at $4.5M per. That's $300K more than they are paying Talbot whose contract expires this year. Safe to say Talbot is traded or let go.....way to build the chemistry and make guys feel wanted.

What a hack. If he had half a brain he would have negotiated the contract and found a way to bury the news of it until the end of the season or something. :lol:
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Brains Benning. :)
I used to have these detective books as a kid called brains benton....close enough
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Uncle dans leg wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:07 am
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Brains Benning. :)
I used to have these detective books as a kid called brains benton....close enough
So did I... in the '60s Brains Benton had all of his classmates' fingerprints on file and whatnot! :lol:
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Strangelove wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:20 am
Uncle dans leg wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:07 am
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Brains Benning. :)
I used to have these detective books as a kid called brains benton....close enough
So did I... in the '60s Brains Benton had all of his classmates' fingerprints on file and whatnot! :lol:
Sounds like Encyclopedia Brown gone stalkerish, lol.
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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5thhorseman wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:29 am
Strangelove wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:20 am
Uncle dans leg wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:07 am
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Brains Benning. :)
I used to have these detective books as a kid called brains benton....close enough
So did I... in the '60s Brains Benton had all of his classmates' fingerprints on file and whatnot! :lol:
Sounds like Encyclopedia Brown gone stalkerish, lol.
He was a teen-aged Columbo! :D
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Even worse: Pronger --->Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.

But hey, they locked up their back up goalie for 3 years, so they got that going for them!
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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Strangelove wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:20 am
Uncle dans leg wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:07 am
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:25 pm
Brains Benning. :)
I used to have these detective books as a kid called brains benton....close enough
So did I... in the '60s Brains Benton had all of his classmates' fingerprints on file and whatnot! :lol:
No way! They were handed down to me from my uncle with those big Boys Life annual things.
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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ESQ wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:23 am
Strangelove wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:50 pm
Lancer wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:52 am Guess they couldn't give Spooner away.
Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.
Even worse: Pronger --->Eberle ---> Strome ---> Spooner ---> Nothing.

But hey, they locked up their back up goalie for 3 years, so they got that going for them!
And promoted him to starter from the looks of things.
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Re: Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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We all know EDM is in crazy trouble, but how on earth are they going to ice a team next year? Looking at Cap Friendly, they have 6.5 mil in cap space with only 15 players signed.

Cap is going up by 3 so now they 9.5 in cap space

Klefbomb and Sekera will be off IR and they eat up 9.6 of that 9.5 space so now they are essentially capped out with only 17 players signed.

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