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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

yay.

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Not a mult.

They actually finished with a 28-42-12, or 28-54 record. I can't stand when people ignore the OTL. If you're going to do that, you also have to ignore the OTW, in which case they were 16-42...which gives a truer picture of their shittiness.

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Yup. Foley used to always talk about teams being above .500 when they had more losses than wins.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

So whats the thought here? Solid hire?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

We should wait for Fels to let us know.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Why the fuck is he wearing a mask?

Canada

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

I always thought the best thing to do would be 1.5 points for a shootout win and .5 for a shootout loss. This way, the points standings are effectively an average of straight W-L and the old W-L-T. The idea that two overtime losses -- not even shootout losses but overtime losses -- are equal to one win is nuts.

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Sounds like it. Andrew Shaw had a lot of good things to say about him from his time in Montreal.

But is it even in the Hawks best interest if he does a good job? If the Hawks don't trade Debrincat, they'll go into the season with enough talent to be a middling, non-playoff team if they play hard and have a few players surprise. They'll be bad but not bad enough to have a realistic shot at a top 3 pick. There are 2 franchise players at the top of next year's draft and a 3rd that is not far behind. While the draft overall is said to be excellent and deep, the Hawks need to be in the mix for Bedard and that Russian wizard.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I'd say it depends on who's in goal and who's playing D as to whether or not they have a real shot at a top 3 pick.

But to answer your question, no, it is not in their best interest if they have a "good enough" season.

This is why I think the Hawks should take the cap dump and the big sweetner in Mrazek from Toronto. Go into the season with Mrazek and Lankinen/Delia. I'd love for them to trade Debrincat if they can get some blue chip prospects and then Kane and Toews would probably want to get traded at the deadline.

And I do feel a little vindicated with how Bowen Byram played in these playoffs. I always thought the Hawks should have drafted him instead of Dach. Makar got all the praise, and rightfully so, but Byram was DOMINANT at 5 on 5 against Tampa. With Makar and Byram anchoring the top 2 pairings, Colorado might even be better next year.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I don’t think we’re going to see a good enough season for a while.

bernstein and holmes played this morning's eddie o interview from mully and haugh. 3 minutes of interview and then bernstein said 'awesome' - end of hockey talk. something tells me they don't really want to talk hockey.

olcyzk didn't tell me much about him. i remember him as a player, not much else.

Richardson was a guy who was around a long time back when the league could accommodate lots of guys being around a long time. That's about all I remember.

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Seth Jones with a 9.5 million cap hit through the 2029-30 season. Man that hurts.
Only one more year of the Toews contract.

Theoretically, if they don't do anything stupid they can live with Seth Jones being the only stupid contract. Unfortunately, I don't trust them not to do anything stupid.

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We don't really have a goalie or defense either so ya know...that's an issue.

I really enjoyed the playoffs this year but it really highlighted how bad we are. Moral and turnover is another thing. I don't know how much it will really effect the team but as a consumer I felt detached in a way.

Not only does the Jones contract have a full NMC, it is heavy with signing bonuses every season so that a traditional buyout offers very little cap savings. So let's review. Bowman gave up a shit ton to get him, gave him an 8-year contract making him the 5th highest-paid dman in the league, gave him a full no-movement clause AND structured his contract so that it is virtually buyout-proof. What the fuck was Bowman thinking?

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

I think they may take on some crap contracts that are expiring in 1 or 2 years to flip at the trade deadline. They have plenty of cap space.

Regarding Byram: Was reading where Davidson said there wasn't consensus on picks and that some people were ignored, especially tied to that draft. Not sure Byram was their guy but it sounds like not everyone was down with the Dach choice.

Well, if they ate some of that contract (I know, a lot to eat and for a long time) and there was a team that needs a RDH (apparently, they are in short supply? I really had no idea on this), assuming he'd waive, a trade could get done. Or, if a team needed a RHD and to get to the cap floor...

Not impossible to trade him but very, very unlikely.

I paid a lot of attention to the top 10 of that draft that year because I had several high picks on my fantasy team and because I was following the Hawks much more closely at the time. Hughes and Kakko were the obvious 1-2 picks but then it was a group of players in the next tier. Turcotte and Byram were most often the next players ranked by the experts and then you had Dach, Cozens, Podkolvin, and Zegras. Seider was a surprise at 6 and that has turned out to be a brilliant pick by Yzerman. I remember that I wanted Byram just because at the time it would have solidified the Hawks D core with Byram, Boqvist, Murphy, and a bunch of B-level prospects. I liked Turcotte over Dach and that might turn out to be a wash because both players look to be disappointments. I LOVED Zegras in that draft. I thought he was going to be the best value at his draft slot and he has turned out to be. Got him #10 in my main fantasy team and that was the easiest pick I've ever made.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

It's almost as if Bowman knew he was going to take the hit for the abuse scandal and said, "fuck all y'all!"

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Do you still pay attention to the draft?

The cat is gone

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

DeBrincat gone to Ottawa for #7, #39, and a 2024 3rd round pick.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

What a shitty trade package... 40 goal scorer for a 1st and 2nd and future 3rd...

Pants are around their ankles. WTF, I could have negotiated that

Sounded earlier that they were talking of trading Dach. I wonder if they do that or was it one or the other?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

He had to of panicked. This is fucking terrible. You are telling me the Devils would not of given up #2?