Opening Round: Tampa vs Columbus

[Guilt Trip]

Stralman would be such an upgrade over Hainsey. He'll probably be too expensive though.

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[cabber24]

Stralman would be such an upgrade over Hainsey. He'll probably be too expensive though.

Well, when we get rid of Nylander, Kadri, Gardiner, and Marleau will have some cap space...

 

[Bender]

Imagine being a Bolts fan. For all eternity now, a 3-0 lead in a game is going to conjure up even more painful memories than a 4-1 lead does for us. Maybe even more painful than hearing the words "Kerry Fraser" and "high stick".

Cooper said something like if they win the Cup next year this will all be forgotten. But yeah if this core doesn't end up winning in the next few years before change is necessary then it'll loom over them for a long time.

Couldn't anyone say that who didn't win the Cup this year? I mean I get what he's saying but that seems like a strange thing to say.

 

[princedpw]

Bolts have some decisions to make going forward. Point needs to be signed and he isn't coming cheap. Kucherov and Gordes contracts kick in so they're already at 50 mill for 9 forwards before signing Point. They also only have 4 D signed with Stralman, Girardi, Colbourne becoming UFAs. Somebody's getting traded I would think.

Stralman's the only real loss there, the other UFAs are all old and overpaid. And considering Stralman turns 33 this summer and had a CF below 50% for the first time in 6 years it might be a blessing in disguise if they're unable to re-sign him to a long-term deal. Point will probably re-sign to some stupid team friendly contract and they'll ditch the last year of Callahan's deal by sending him to the Rangers or something. So they'll need to reply on some cheap deals to fill out the roster but they'll probably be fine.

Probably will be like the Leafs will also. Just have to move some pieces. I wonder what Stralman would cost. Could he be an option for the Leafs if cheap enough or is he done and we hope Liljegren is ready?

They will be better off than the leafs, who will lose at least one big value piece (Gardiner). 

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1118937303467069440

Oh my god

 

[herman]

GET OUT

 

[hockeyfan1]

Ridiculous human behaviour.  Even an animal would know better.

 

[Bill_Berg]

https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1118937303467069440

Oh my god

Makes me feel beer about what I did after Game 4. I took a poor Kleenex box and spiked it like a football. The tissues were fine, but the box was pretty dented.

 

[L K]

We have all been there.  Clearly he needs a better girlfriend.  Probably one that has an ample prescription of injectible haldol

 

[Bullfrog]

We sure have, LK. I mean, I went through three different TVs before finding a partner that didn't call the cops. What the hell? they just couldn't understand; clearly they were sociopaths.