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More like Plane ticket Philadelphia to Vancouver $600 Plane ticket Vancouver to St Louis $625 Being a complete loser tool douche bag and harassing porn star Lisa Ann to the point where you're humiliated on Twitter and have to block her and then riding the pine to be pittied a name engrave on the Stanley cup - priceless There are some things money can't buy for everything else there's MasterCard. Edit - sitting in press box not riding the pine. Don't wanna give him credit where it ain't due guy wasn't even near that bench all playoffs. Must feel weird to have a day with the cup when everyone around ya knows you had zilch to do with it. I'd be to embarrassed to accept it let alone my name engraved.

I like your take on that. It will pan out either way I am just not fully convinced yet. I am a fan and like Chabot as a player. I think he is the real thing that being said I would've waited until at least January to see and if that caused any distractions, perhaps wait until the end of the season. I do agree though as the cap rises it will at worst be a reasonable deal and seeing it that way isn't as bad, it's not as if he will be even close to the age of slowing down. I'm just not sure if he is a perennial 50+ point dman tho. But touche. Worst case scenario he's a million or two overpaid but he is in Ottawa long term.... Not exactly the most desirable market.

Risky move. Kid looked good last year and put up solid numbers , has been labelled a beast. Anyone remember Tyler Myers 48 point rookie year and the cliff he dropped off immediately after? I remember my buddies in I in 2009 talking this guy up. Saying he's gonna be a Norris winner one day. No knock on Myers or Chabot but who's to say he can maintain and grow on those numbers? Stupid move to resign him to 8M after one good year. Offer sheet scared or Speculation of him being offered one? I doubt he'd be offered much more than that anyways at which point they could've just matched or raked in picks and the Sens own his rights to begin with as he'll be an RFA. This ownership group baffles the mind. Anyone good they trade to avoid paying and then they go and toss 64M at a kid who's yet to show consistent production. Yes he had a great great year. Key phrase there A YEAR. I like Chabot, Ottawa better hope he can keep it up otherwise this is gonna haunt them for the next decade.

While I usually disagree with what timrafan says I gotta agree with this post. He may find a spot and it's worth trying at his current cap hit. Worst case he doesn't and we waive him by mid November. If it pans out tho it's a win/win situation

He shouldn't be gifted anything but fact is he's a 6M cap hit. I'd try one last time to have him turn it around and stick him strictly with Horvat and Miller hoping it does so. 20 games or so isn't the be all end all. I'd rather try to showcase this guy in a pure offensive role and move that cap. Just my two cents. Also I never said guy was or is a beast.

Actually 3 hits if we're quoting stats. While I dont care for his playing style and want to see a separation between him and the Canucks I will put aside my opinion and look at his overall skill set. I believe Loui had a bit of bad luck and was signed heavily to play with the twins. When that didn't work out as we all hoped to no fault of his or GM JB he showed his frustration with poor play and a lack of drive. We can't blame a guy for signing a contract he didn't draft up. That's on our management and that being said it has benefited us if you look at JBs approach in recent times. Live and learn move on. I don't necessarily think LE buys into and fits into the brand of hockey TG is selling. Is Loui a bad player? Probably not. Is he a bad person who deserves the treatment or comments spurs in here, definitely not. I think given more OZ starts and some PP deployment he could easily net 20-25G and 50PTS. It's probably best for us as a franchise to use him in an offensive role where he's set up to succeed so it increases his trade value. This is a guy who's had success everywhere he's been except here. Willie D was a garbage coach there's no denying that and he hasn't exactly been given consistent linemates or opportunities in an offensive role under Green. Pretty sick of people still whining about this guy. He's on the team and if he is given a final chance (albeit on a short leash, and he should be) it's best for all involved. If he can turn it around we can squeeze a pick out at the TDL or make a sound hockey trade. Pretty sad fan base sometimes reading the crap on here. We get it he's under performed in his 3 seasons. Make the most of it and it be nice to see our fans support our guys. Even if he isn't the same player he used to be it doesn't warrant constant negativity and uninformed comments. Guys an NHL player on ALOT of teams. It's just a poor contract in a cap era. Period. I'd deploy a line up to showcase him and try to place him for success give him 20 games or so and carry 14 forwards and 7 D. At the end of those games dump one of Goldy or Baertschi or simply at that point waive Loui if it hasnt improved, Rousell will be back shortly after anyways and we need to move someone but given our cap structure were fine to do so on our own time. Ferland Petterson Boeser Miller Horvat Eriksson Pearson Sutter Virtanan Baertschi Beagle Leivo Motte Goldobin Edler Myers Hughes Tanev Benn Stetcher Fatenberg. Call up Joulevi first injury. This thread is a total joke at this point. *Yawn*

Top 5 players: 1 Petterson 29G 51A 80 PTS 2 Boeser 38G 34A 72 PTS 3 Horvat 31G 36A 67 PTS 4 Miller 24G 28A 52 PTS T5 Virtanan 23G 22A 45 PTS T5 Ferland 25G 20A 45 PTS Demko supplants himself as starter by mid February Eriksson is traded to the Detroit Redwings by the end of November. We finish the season with 94 PTS and are eliminated in the second round of the playoffs.

Don't worry he has the worst punishment of all. Remember as children when parents would send you to your rooms if you behaved poorly.... Well he's being sent to Edmonton. If that isn't punishment I dunno what is. I'd personally rather be beat relentlessly then spend any time in that **** hole

Ya I agree wtf does this look like the Laffs where we just cave in and pay our guys whatever the **** they want lol.

If you do trade him who replaces him as 3C? Miller? He looks good with Bo. Guadette?? I for one am not convinced he's an NHLer.

Good for Ben and not a bad city to live.

Your a good sport bro hahaha I'm sorry man I couldn't not lol.

Not as good as your mom !! hahaha sorry I just couldn't resist

If Eriksson does it I have no problem with his albatross salary. It will have been earned. Just go out there Loui and t-off on that little b**** haha

I'll probably catch alot of flack but I don't think Gaudette is an NHL player really. I just see him as a career minor league guy. Just my two cents.

Wasn't he in the Goonies?? Lol man talk about a mug only a mother could love.

I think we are far more likely to do damage if we do make the playoffs. Look at St Louis and LA. Toronto is likely going to breeze into the post season where as we will have to scratch and claw our way in. Who plays a tough physical brand of hockey in that group in Toronto? Zach Hyman? Who else? We have guys like Ferland, Miller, Pearson, Rousell then add in Virtanan and Horvat I just see us tougher on the body to handle in a 7 game series and coming in fighting down the stretch. Agree to disagree and I respect my fellow posters opinions I would bet just about anything tho on the Canucks going further then the Leafs. Again just my opinion. Edit- I wouldn't call Mathews ahead, the guys career high is 73pts and Marner had a breakout year his other seasons are right along the same lines as EP BB and BH. Had EP not been hit by Matheson or had he had the PP exposure to guys of the same calibre I'd say he's at least on par. Same goes for BB. Is it unrealistic to see EP at 80+ (Tavares numbers)? Or BB at 73 PTS (Mathews career best) if he remains healthy? I don't think so at all. I do see your point but I don't think they're that much better than us and they're a regular season built team IMO.

Even I will admit they do have alot going for them however that being said there is no way this team makes it out of the first round of a playoff series especially in the East. Something has to give they have one top 4 defender signed beyond this season to put things into perspective abit. If I'm Toronto I'm hoping and praying Nylander has a phenomenal year and I'm shipping him out at the Trade deadline. This team can score all day long but if one or two guys on that backend get injured it's over and I don't see the necessary toughness and grit to get through a playoff series. I will say they do have a good amount of firepower upfront but if you can shut down a few guys the rest of the team is not on par with the competition league wide. ... I do think a few trades like a Nylander move maybe Mathews as well could really change the game for them but I'm not gonna lose any sleep as I hate the Laffs franchise as a whole.

It's gonna be priceless like one of those MasterCard commercials when they lose in the playoffs and Tyson Barrie walks for nothing. I can see the commercials now durring the playoffs. Mitch Marner 11M dollars, William Nylander 7M dollars, Johnathan Tavares 11M dollars, Auston Mathews 11M dollars. Trading for a rental player in Tyson Barrie at a cost of a solid second line centre in Nazim Kadri, just to lose in the playoffs and have him walk for nothing priceless. There are something's money can't buy for everything else there's MasterCard

I would trade Goldobolin in a heart beat for Puljujarvi. Never gonna happen tho no way does Edmonton trade him withing the division. Guys going east if anything.

6×7M or 7×7M doesn't matter. 49M definitely is a secure number and provides stability for BB based on his freak injury however if (knock on wood and God forbid) if anything happens BB still has 17.5M GUARANTEED dollars. Bottom line is this is good for the team and I prefer it to a long term deal. We really aren't sure and can't 100% say for sure what we have in BB. It looks like he's a 30-40G guy but there are or at least should be concerns given his injury history in not only the NHL but the NCAA. If BB performs as I and the majority of the fan base hopes then perfect! We resign him to a long term deal and it's all peachy. If not... We have options to not Qualify or to trade him etc... This is good asset management. As a fan who really hated Benning he started to sway me the last two years via his drafting, the start of this summer with excellent UFA signings and now this deal. I am for the first time 100% confident and happy with our GM. Now let's watch the media spin it how were all screwed and couldn't sign him to more based on cap constraints yet they praise the Laffs who are paying 4 (soft) players 40M. Toronto is paying 3 of those guys 11M and none of them have ever hit 100 PTS, Mathews career high is 73 Tavares career high 88 Marner career high 94 None of them are worth near the 11M, can't win a playoff serious to sad their lives and this is praised by the media yet Benning is knocked on... Blows my mind. The Laffs are 10M + over the cap. I thought even with LTIR that a team cannot exceed the cap by more than 10% in the off-season. I have a feeling if Vancouver's did this there would be serious recapture or penalties involved. I am so sick of Toronto being hailed and praised when it's a bloody tire fire. Vancouver wins a playoff series long before Toronto. I'd bet everything I have on it

Cap mismanagement? How exactly? Is Boeser overpaid at this rate? The answer is definitely no. At worst it's a fair deal for both sides and more likely BB puts up 30-40G in each of the next 3 yrs and this is a huge bargain. You do realize BB is still has 2 RFA years remaining when this deal expires and we can lock him in even longer at that point with alot of salary shed durring this current contract. You probably think the MM deal is a solid signing. Good riddance. Haters gonna hate. It was widely believed BB was going to be upwards of 7M even on a 4 year pact. This is good value plain and simple.

If you can't hit 100pts shouldn't be making 10M+ 30pts 3M 40pts 4M 50pts 5M 60pts 6M 70pts 7M 80pts 8M 90pts 9M Etc ... Mathews career high 73pts -7.5M Tavares career high 88pts- 8.5M Marner career high 94pts - 9M None of these guys can win a playoff series doesn't matter if you get there to get bounced out in the 1st round. Huge overpayments here ...Maybe I'm way off just how I see it.

I couldn't agree with you more. And who knows BB and Bo both seem like they have a strong desire to win, character guys and I see that in EP as well. I could definitely see them taking abit less to remain together and still have a competitive team built around them. We ain't the Laffs. Go Canucks Go!!

While I respect your opinion we really have no idea what BB will ask for so to say he's going to be looking for 10+ is abit premature. Guy wreaks of class and seems to be a very humble down to earth kid with solid character and a good head on his shoulders. Brock and Petey both take abit less as will Bo again , but as I said it's abit premature and that's just my opinion. I'd rather get him at 3 years now , she'd a ton of cap and replace players with our ELCs coming up and value contract guys like Miller and Ferland, sign Boeser to a 7 year deal next round taking him to 32. I believe he wants to be here I think BB, EP and Bo will take abit less. Bo's likely at 7M-7.5M on his next one , BB 8M, EP 9M and Hughes 7.5M these guys seem to like being together. They're gonna win alot of games over the next few years. All speculating of course but to assume the worst ..... Let's see how the next 3 years go first.