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  1. 100% You don't let the best goalie coach in the league just walk after what he's done with Markstrom and Demko.
  2. What's your point? If we're going by track records we should resign him with a raise.
  3. If Demko keeps playing half as good as he's been doing, Holtby isn't playing many games this season. He's also owed most of his money later in his contract. Wouldn't make any sense for Seattle to take him unfortunately.
  4. We're not chasing Montreal, but were chasing the team tied for first in the division? Habs would need to win all 4 of their games in hand to be in a better position.
  5. It's not an average lineup now so does it matter? I'd take that Demko contract.
  6. If I'm a RFA this year I take a 3 year bridge deal. It's a flat cap and you won't get paid big now. The deals that will be signed in a few years (with crowds back and the new tv deals) will be huge. $12-13 million contracts instead of 7 or 8 they'd get now.
  7. LOL. Who's playing better? Demko is carrying a team that just gave up 50 shots to an AHL team that played last night. Markstrom stole lots of games too, nice change from the goalie graveyard we had for a decade. Yes it is.
  8. You can't blame the coaches when they're given a trash lineup. Green was brought in to develop young talent and he's done just that. It's not his fault we had 3 AHL level defensemen playing at one point.
  9. https://theathletic.com/2440424/2021/03/11/sabres-vs-canucks-after-50-years-and-no-stanley-cups-whose-fans-have-had-it-worse?source=user-shared-article Local writers poked some fun at the sad histories of these franchises. It was called a tie in the end. Here's what was said about Canuck history. Stanley Cup Final scars Drance’s case for the Canucks: If you think Stanley Cup Final pain is your ally in a misery duel with Canucks fans, you’re wrong. Canucks fans were born in the darkness. Fun fact: No franchise in NHL history that hasn’t previously won a Stanley Cup has ever lost in the Stanley Cup Final more than twice. Except for the Canucks. Fun fact #2: No franchise in NHL history that hasn’t previously won a Stanley Cup has ever lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Except for the Canucks. And the Canucks have done that twice. Underrated miserable moment Drance’s case for the Canucks: Right at the inception, the Canucks were doomed. It was dubbed “Black Tuesday” by the local papers. In the smoke filled grand salon at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, 14 NHL member clubs gathered for a hopelessly rigged expansion draft that permitted teams to protect 17 players and two skaters (not that it stopped the GMs of the time boasting to their local papers about how well prepared they were not to lose anyone of value. You think?). Frankly, the expansion draft was a sideshow, the real prize was the first overall pick at the 1970 NHL entry draft and the right to select Gilbert Perreault. The proceedings began with a coin flip, which would determine two items: waiver priority, and the right to select the high or the low numbers on a big pinwheel that would be spun to decide which team got picked first in both the expansion and entry drafts. Punch Imlach, the Sabres GM, won the toss. One for one on the day, he picked the high numbers. And the Sabres won the first pick in the expansion draft. By this point the Sabres front office is just laughing, riding high. They’re two for two! Imlach picks the high numbers again. The wheel spins and when it stops, NHL president Clarence Campbell announces the Canucks have won the first overall pick in the 1970 NHL Draft. But wait, that can’t be right, no one remembers Perreault playing on Canada’s west coast. You see, as if to pour salt in the wound, Campbell had it wrong. Campbell had removed his glasses for the photo op. prior to the final spin. He’d misread the No. 11 as the No. 1. And so the Sabres had waiver priority, the first pick in the expansion draft, and the first pick in the entry draft. Buffalo made their NHL start with the French Connection line and were an elite team by their fifth season, while the Canucks were cursed to 12 years of absolute obscurity from the outset. 51 years later and the Canucks have still yet to select first overall in the draft, while the Sabres have done so three times. Not that a wide-angle understanding of NHL history stopped Tim Murray from having a meltdown in 2015.
  10. Wow. Great breakdown but unfortunately you're wasting your time. The Benning loyalists on CDC accept facts about as well as Trump supporters.
  11. Benning already failed years ago when he was trading away draft picks when he should have been rebuilding. The only rebuildy thing he did was draft high, but that's purely a lucky byproduct of his ineptitude.
  12. Colin Campbell talking about integrity? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  13. Go cry Bruins. Maybe you can get the NHL to hire one of your player's dad to be head of officiating again. Marchand complaining about dirty hits is the epitome of irony. Karma.
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