Guru Tugginmypuddah
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I read it as "My brother was on the cusp of becoming a multi millionaire and now you rotten people ruined it for us ummm I mean him"
2020-2021 NHL Thread
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Something like that makes me feel like the Coyotes and UND likely reached out and spoke to both Miller and members of his family during their post-investigations of this and those interviews played a pretty big role in both of them ending up cutting ties with him.
Like I don't know, if this was a straight arrow kid on the up and up who showed clear contrition I just don't think both of those parties cut him. It feels fair to say at this point there was some red flags there that those teams obviously aren't going to make public.
Like I don't know, if this was a straight arrow kid on the up and up who showed clear contrition I just don't think both of those parties cut him. It feels fair to say at this point there was some red flags there that those teams obviously aren't going to make public.
Phileas Fogg
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I certainly agree with a lot of what Ben Scrivens wrote. I think he pretty much nailed it. I will say, however, that I wish there was an equal morality check that applied to grown men getting welcomed back into professional sports teams after comparable transgressions in other leagues.
I still think most of what's been done of late across the league is more based on optics than actual growth, and a situation like this is easy to back away from, but if he was a useful top 4 RD, you'd see the justification gymnastics from ownership and fans alike.
I still think most of what's been done of late across the league is more based on optics than actual growth, and a situation like this is easy to back away from, but if he was a useful top 4 RD, you'd see the justification gymnastics from ownership and fans alike.
Guilt Trip
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That would make sense for him. He can play professional hockey overseas because he won't be playing it here.herman said:
herman said:
I'm skeptical this is true. I guess it's possible KHL teams might be interested in him purely from a publicity point but the odds of him being anywhere near capable of playing in the 2nd best hockey league in the world seem very, very low.
https://twitter.com/simmonssteve/status/1323372286729216001
Jeremy Jacobs is gonna make sure the season doesn't start until Marchand and Pasta are recovered.
Jeremy Jacobs is gonna make sure the season doesn't start until Marchand and Pasta are recovered.
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1327684091353960450
dappleganger
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CarltonTheBear said:
Haha!
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/HeresYourReplay/status/1327794976781176833
Caufield hurt on a late headshot.
Caufield hurt on a late headshot.
Kin
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So am I crazy or is there a pretty good list of available UFA's still out there that nobody is talking about? I realize that with the actual start to the season still up in the air there may be plenty of time to get people under contract but it really seems weird that guys like Hoffman or Hamonic haven't signed yet. It feels pretty unlikely that major market shifts happen outside of some big RFA's signing but even then, it feels like NHL front offices have just flat out stopped doing stuff the last few weeks with a lot of stuff out there to do.
Nik said:
I didn't realize just how many teams are already basically capped out. Capfriendly shows 15 teams with less than $2mil in cap space. Assuming Hoffman wanted say $6mil there's only 8 teams with that much available, and 2 of them (BOS and CBJ) will have less once they get their last RFAs signed.
And speaking of RFAs, we're used to see some of those guys sign pretty late now but TB and NYI still need to clear out quite a bit of cap space to get their guys signed, but as I just said there just aren't that many teams capable of taking on cap right now. Wonder if Barzal/Cirelli/Sergachev are just gonna be forced to take crappy 1 year deals.
bustaheims
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CarltonTheBear said:
I think that does a good job of covering why a handful of guys who deserve NHL contracts might just have to accept cheap 1 year deals, or they'll find themselves playing overseas for a season or two.
herman said:
At least Vancouver is set for this season. Next year though is another story.
herman
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Nik said:
David Clarkson? It depends a bit on what return is defined as...
It was a comparable cap hit% at signing, but the expectations were not like Eriksson's. Louie put up more points, but also was a roster drag. Clarkson at least had the wherewithal to be ruinously injured (poor guy).