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Hilarious revenge! However, the funny thing is Montreal did a the canes a favour with that Aho offer sheet because it was such a good deal people were scratching their heads why they offered a fair value contract and didn't expect carolina to match, so it was a waste of time. Aho is underpaid now with that contract.
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[Buyout] Canucks terminate Virtanen’s contract
FireGillis replied to Where's Wellwood's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Jake is the classic example of the player who is just happy to be in the NHL, so he can party like a rock star. So much potential wasted because he never had the work ethic or desire to improve his game. Not sure if this will be his wake up call or not. -
They will keep re-signing Mike Smith until he's 50.
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Indefensible pick! Exhibit A of "hockey culture." There's no getting around it when people try to defend hockey culture as they can always point to this pick now. Just shameful and classless by Montreal!
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Protected list from teams around the NHL
FireGillis replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
I think they should take Price. It's a bad contract, but they can make him the face of the franchise like vegas did with Fleury and make up a lot of value in tickets and merchandise sales. They should also take a flyer on tarasenko since there's only 2 years left on that deal. Giordano is a no brainer with only 1 year left too. Gourde should be the tampa pick. Lots of intriguing names on this list compared to the list vegas chose from. I'll be very interested too see which underperforming big name contracts they choose to take. -
https://theathletic.com/2672134/2021/06/25/former-blackhawks-player-every-guy-on-the-team-knew-about-video-coachs-alleged-sexual-assault/ Another article out today about it. Despicable by blackhawks management to ignore Vincent's request to report it to the police. I saw someone comment doubting the story thinking it was a money grab, but there's too many people saying it did happen for that to be the case.
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[Speculation] Finnish sniper Laine on the board
FireGillis replied to NHL'er's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
A pipe dream since he would cost too much and we can't afford his next contract, but he would score 50 with petey easy. The jets have mismanaged him so badly and I hope he gets traded to a team that treats him better. They got so lucky in that lottery draft and they just bungled the handling of Laine since. This is a different situation than trouba who wanted out for family reasons. Laine would have been content to stay in Winnipeg if they handled things like his ice time and giving him consistent top line minutes more. Winnipeg has no one to blame but themselves for this situation and isn't a situation of a player not wanting to play in Winnipeg. He wants out for legit hockey reasons.