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huge shoutout to the GMBM - caps have made a bunch of VERY good moves

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Saw on the local Utah news tonight they’re planning a dedicated NHL arena outside of the Jazz arena. Makes. No. Sense.

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Yeah, who knows what they have spent. I have little faith in pro-athletes to manager their money, but hopefully he has. My point was that her salary is nothing to scoff at and would be more than enough to support their family. She will also be the one with a big career in their family into their 50's and 60's long past the time anyone even remembers who Trouba was.

I think fans have very unrealistic and problematic takes when it comes to player's lives. I get from a NY Rangers standpoint they want to move on from his cap hit. I get that he is no longer playing anywhere near the value of his contract. However, the man negotiated his contract, and they gave him those rights for a no-move and limited move after 15 years. He also has every right to decide what is best for his family. I can tell you with 100% certainty that if I had a baby under 1 year old and my wife was still finishing her residency at a local hospital, I would also be telling the Rangers I am staying, or I will only accept moves to NJ or the Islanders. Anything else and I am refusing to report to any other team.

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Does anyone know when single-game tickets go on sale for the Toronto Maple Leafs for the 2024-2025 season?

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I thought that was one of the conditions for getting the team?

I've heard there's gonna be some poor sightlines in the Delta Center

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Trouba has been out of gas the last two deep playoff runs. He plays too hard during the regular season. Keep him on the 2nd pair and not play him as much in the regular season and things should be good.

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I know it is an unpopular opinion in Rangers world right now, but I agree with you. I think he has more to give and this last season he never fully recovered from his injury. I think reduced minutes and a full offseason and he will be fine and maybe even able to step up and play his full game come playoffs.

Rangers fans (not me obviously) always massively panic and overreact. Fox was also getting flamed hard during these playoffs. I totally believe Trouba's contract is way too much money, but I am also cool with keeping him and either moving him as a part of a package at the deadline or just waiting out the contract at this point. I am not someone who thinks the window is closing in the next year or two. Especially when we have potential big upgrades coming from our prospect pool. The only thing that does concern me is Igor getting overpaid and crushing our cap.

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Kraken hire NHL's first woman assistant coach

That's a gino for the local team!

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the arena was not built with hockey in mind, so there are some beyond awful sightlines. like, cant see the goalie sightlines. theres no way it can be used as a permanent home for hockey.

idk if its part of the plan, but the jazz should just move to this new arena when its done. delta center is going to be 35+ years old at that point and they would need their own upgraded home soon enough anyway.

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so there is a good chance TJ Oshie may have played his last hockey game. the way he's talking sounds like he certainly won't play more than half a season next year

sucks seeing the old caps core finally starting to come to an end. backstrom last year also wasn't able to step aside on his own terms

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I am all for the Caps and Penguins being in full rebuilds for about a decade :lol

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Amen .

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Hey gang. A post a long time coming....

I wanted to relay a huge, public thank you to any and everyone who donated to the "swordo84 Oliers-happy-good-times-fund". I'm proud to share that collectively we made a $250 (cdn) donation to CureSMA Canada (https://curesma.ca/about-us/). This charity has been immensely helpful to me and my family in the past, and I always love an opportunity to donate more. We had a son stricken with SMA, and unfortunately lost him just short of being 4 months old. He would have turned 8 a week ago. Despite the likelihood of him being a Leafs fan, I made the donation on his birthday before we went out for our annual family fun day in his honour.

Again, from the bottom of my heart, and on behalf of my family, we deeply appreciate the generosity shown from complete strangers on a 90's band message board (what are we even doing here?! lol).

Time for puckdrop yet? Eager to see how I'll be disappointed this season :)

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What a great gesture, Swordo! Very touched I could play a small part in it

*stick taps*

Even though it's eight years ago, my thoughts to you and yours, too

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Haven't been around here in ages but popped on and saw this. I would have easily spent $250 celebrating if those dummies had pulled it off, so I put it to this instead. Family fun day in his honour sounds like a great traditon.

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Swordo, you said you were donating to a cause that was near and dear to your heart, I had no idea. I’m honored to have been a small part of his day. Much better than buying beers or Oilers gear.

Love this small little group of guys in here (even when your team demolishes us every year). :hug

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Much love, friends!

Training camps will be opening before we know it.

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:thumbsup

Appreciate you!

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I think i saw that some were on sale today/yesterday?

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thanks, do you have a Ticketmaster password or code? Thx again.

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just awful

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...er-matthew-die

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Awful is right. So sad for everyone involved, not the least of which being his wife and two young kids.

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struck by a drunk driver while riding a bike with your brother a day before your sisters wedding, what a tragedy. :confused

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My god. Just got the news. This is awful. I just posted my pictures from the Flames game where Johnny Hockey tossed me a puck during pre-game warm ups in NJ. What an awful tragedy. Glad they caught that driver at least, but the damage to that family can never be undone.

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I have patience for, and accept a LOT of things, both good and bad in life. Drunk driving is not on that list.

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There are no words for this. By all accounts, Johnny was just a great human. (and let's not lose sight of his brother too.) And the fact that they were all in town together to go to be in their sister's wedding today........


This.

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Shitty day for hockey

Good thoughts for the Gaudreaus

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Terrible. That is all.

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Pretty awful.

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Just saw on ESPN. No words really, just can’t comprehend.

I believe the Blue Jackets lost a goalie a few years ago, too.

Rest in Peace.

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I thought this news was fake at first. I checked so many sources and a lot of places didn't have it up yet.:shrug

Johnny Hockey highlights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUKOyw22Gzo

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Fuck a drunk driver

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Leon Draisaitl has secured the bag

https://sports.yahoo.com/leon-draisa...l?guccounter=1

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Just paying my tribute to Gaudreau boys. Heard the news while at the Gorge. Back to reality now and it's still so shocking.

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Saw the Flames destroy the Kraken tonight, 6-1. Woof. Good thing it's preseason hockey

Fellas were feisty, too. One gloves-off fight and several scuffles

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First ever Utah goal went in their own net lol

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Nice W for Hartford over Providence to start the pre-season. Eventually I suspect we will see some actual NHL players on these teams. Chytil looked good though which is great news for the Rangers!

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Oh Pre-season hockey! Rangers score 5 goals at the end of the game to beat the Islanders 6-4 :lol

Scary moment for Chytil again last night. Glad he came back into the game. Lindgren on the other hand looks like he might be out to start the year. I think the wear-and-tear is starting to catch up with him and how he plays the game unfortunately.

On a positive note, Zac Jones looks like he might be taking the next step!

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First two Ranger pre-season games have looked like regular season games that is for sure. Great pace and with people trying to make the team or be noticed the games have been competitive. I don't really remember it being like this even a few years ago.

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Yay Doughty fractured his ankle in the last preseason game!

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Month-to-month too is not great. Also looks like Patrick Laine might miss most of the season if the rumors about an ACL/MCL are true. Tough to take a knee on knee like that in the preseason.

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If Tyler Johnson can give some semblance of his Tampa Bay self from a few years ago and net maybe 20-30 goals this year, that is a great get for the Bruins.

Now sign Swayman!!!!

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One week away until Opening Day!

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The Devils are the only undefeated team in the NHL

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Jeremy spoke up....and he got paaaaiiiid! (sung to PJ's Jeremy).

https://x.com/FlutoShinzawa/status/1842916333199004121

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Glad they figured it out in Boston. Have to wonder if the relationship is damaged though. In a similar topic, NY is likely going to pay Igor $12-14 million per year if I had to guess.

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I really hope the B's work something out with Tyler Johnson now. They could use him. They need all of the fire power they can get.

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This might be a shit thing to say, but I don't think Swayman is worth that much relative to other goalies

I saw THG's video about how goalies as a whole might be overpaid and while that may have some truth to it, I don't know that I think Swayman is the goalie to make that point