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DrJockitch

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  1. Hi Rick, these are all the guys we are trying to get rid of.
  2. Everyone thinks they know more than the professionals, they rarely do. ‘This is based on the most basic fallacy about sports fandoms that fans of a team speak with a single voice and one fans opinion matches everyone else’s. We do it all the time here when we talk about other teams fans. ‘We don’t have one voice, we have a variety of assorted bad opinions. ‘Last thing a club needs is a yahoo off the streets stinking up the place with there latest opinion or conspiracy theory about the refs or the draft lottery.
  3. Hot take here. Kotk-Puljujarvi would be an attainable, really good start to a 3rd line. Since patches looks done for the year a deal around JTM and if possible Garland as part of deal to Edmonton. ‘I know not going to happen but that pairing would bring size, solid defensive game and would be really, really, really annoying and draw penalties like crazy. Put a big shot like Podz on the other wing or a spark plug like Hogz.
  4. All the reporting is now that Tocchet will be named Monday in a desperate attempt to ruin our draft position.
  5. I love hockeybuzz. Not sure why Eklund became such a taboo on this board it is such good comedy. He is now floating that we really want Provorov and the Flyers want to move him for Brock. Of all the dumb mistakes the front office has made this year bringing Provorov to the beating heart of Canadas LGBTQ community would be the most tone deaf of them all.
  6. Winnipeg is much closer to home for Bo but, you know, it’s Winnipeg.
  7. They need to think about replacing PLD too.
  8. I hope they are essentially working on the staff for next year. ‘JR made it clear he has given up on this year. I think he is happy to let Bruce finish his deal and bring in the crew he has assembled at the end of the season.
  9. Morrow is possible. Don’t think they are willing to trade Necas here and they probably wouldn’t add a high pic on top of those two even if they would consider that. Carolina shies away from these type of deals in general. They don’t tend to go big. I thought they should have been the team JTM went to (still do) but Bo would be great for them. Plus Necas a really good player but another winger when we still haven’t moved any.
  10. Carolina hangs up the phone with a derisive snort one #1. 2nd rounder for Schenn sounds about right. ‘Not sure about #3. Don’t think Myers has any value, 1 million cost but who has 6M in cap space and wants to bring the chaos. Even for 3M that is not what teams are looking for. He runs his contract out helping us tank again next year. ‘Pearson who knows if plays again, if does and is decent out at deadline next season.
  11. Bo has been a leader on LGBTQ rights amongst this group along with EP and QH and has participated in parade amongst other things. ‘Even being about Bo this post is still irrelevant to the thread, so imagine how irrelevant Provorov is to this thread unless it is about a potential trade for Provorov. ‘Can we talk about Provorov in the Provorov thread please.
  12. They get told in the press again and again that they aren’t good enough and we want to get rid of you and the best thing you can do for us is keep losing. I have really rarely seen anything like JRs press presence since he got here. Don’t expect a lot of great efforts from here out.
  13. I get that but one player opted out and did it without making any public statements or disparaging comments. He didn’t go on Tucker and get touted as a hero. ‘Would it have been better and less destructive to force him out there in a rainbow jersey and made even more of a media circus of it? This isn’t like a clerk refusing to marry gay people when it is a part of their job description. This isn’t part of Provorov’s job description. I wouldn’t consider signing him in Vancouver if I was GM, I wouldn’t buy his jersey if I was a flyers fan but I am not going to crap all over him because his opinion is different than mine. As best as he could as a public individual, he tried to follow his beliefs in a quiet non-public way. It is the media and the socials that have amplified this.
  14. Have been saying for a long time, the best solution to the anger over the anthems from either side was to do them before the broadcast begins. Tedious on broadcast anyway.
  15. He is a hockey player and professional athlete. He opted out of a pre-game skate. ‘Cant force our opinions on someone. Don’t agree with his opinion and don’t think churches should preach hate but that has nothing to do with whether a guy who plays hockey took a pregame skate.
  16. Sounds like he opted out in a reasonable and respectful manner. Don’t agree with his perspective but he handled himself with class and did his best not to make something out of it, that is on the internet and social media. ‘I don’t have a problem with protests for the national anthem (and those have nothing to do with the military) and don’t have an issue here. ‘He still came out and did his job, he opted out of nothing of significance to what he is payed to do.
  17. I know, I know. ‘I think they see how the deadline and off-season goes. If they can add 2 NHL RHD they would probably give OEL another year to see if he can make it work with someone less chaotic. His buyout generally gets better if they can squeeze another season or two out of his rapidly declining game. ‘If JR can’t move other contracts before the buyout window, all bets are off, he could do any number of crazy desperate things.
  18. If there was a market for OEL at $5M he would probably be gone. Buyouts don’t need suckers, I mean partners.
  19. Haha. JR keeps the cronyism going. Tocchet and Gonchar to go with Allvin, all people who he has hired before.
  20. OEL’s stat line has absolutely collapsed this year. He went from decent but overpaid second pairing guy last year with solid d numbers despite being paired with Myers to a guy getting caved no matter who he partners with. Every year the league gets faster and faster and he looks slower and slower. I think Brock and OEL are players made for the game 10 years ago or at least for a team that plays more of a puck possession game. Not sure what our structure is anymore.
  21. Brock I think is a combination of numerous wrist surgeries taking away his best weapon and his back a knee issues combining with the dramatic increase in overall speed in the game, he just can’t keep up. Heart not in it either I think after everything last few years. Garland was a good 5v5 player last year. Not sure worth 5M but good. This group doesn’t seem to like or trust him and I think the feeling is mutual. The fire has been gone from his game this year. More of an apathetic elf than angry.
  22. His press conference was amazing in that he essentially said to OEL, Myers, Garland and Brock that you aren’t wanted, we don’t believe in you. He didn’t name the names but who else has contracts he is trying to get rid of. This was not a subtle shot at them, OEL in particular. I am with him, those 4’s play is one of the biggest issues with the team this year. Myers is the only one that looks like he cares which seems to increase the chaos.
  23. Only after some elite players are added at the top of the draft.
  24. Always flat after road trips, POHO just gave permission to mail it in and tough team. 5-1 TB. Stammer.
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