re: Unofficial NHL Season-Long Thread: Puckheads Unite!

Foligno is a UFA @ 3 million this year that will get at least that offered elsewhere if not closer to 4 million, gotta replace Leopold on D and your backup netminder to go with Atkinson and a couple other RFA's.

Gonna be tough considering how poorly talks went a few months ago with Bob.

And as a complete homer you are 100% delusional.

I think I'll stick to what I hear from actual NHL insiders that aren't biased.

Good luck.

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Seems pretty tough to figure out.

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So tough the offers to Bob before the season were instantly rejected and he broke off all talks with Columbus. You're right.

He wants a very similar contract to King Henrik, 7 years 60 mill 8.5 mill cap hit. Good luck paying him that, resigning the other guys, and improving team because as constructed it's a first round exit team if even a playoff team.

You would do well to pay attention to ultimatehog when it comes to this - he knows all about early round exits in the playoffs

But the Pens have 3 Cups in their 46 seasons. They are the modern day Bama. - UH

You guys are so jealous of the Pens.

Ironsides is a Rangers fan he literally can't boom anyone his team hasn't won a cup in 20 years.

As for Columbus, lol.

Talk to me when you win something, until then it's just comical and sad.

Talk to me when the pens make it to the finals again

Easy week for the Rags: Calgary and Carolina.

Medium week for the preds: Minnesota and Boston.

the mumps seems like such a white people disease. but idk anything about it

especially with top notch healthcare and prevention

Hey, five years without making the Stanley Cup Finals would surely give the fan of the "best team in hockey" pause. He's written a lot of checks, and they have been bouncing for half a decade.

But it's not just that, it's the complete lack of any appreciation for the sport as a whole. The Caps lose to the Jackets in a game they outshot the Jackets nearly 2-to-1, and I come on here and congratulate the Jacket fans. Why? Because we're all hockey fans and we're a bit of a community. Give 'em a stick tap and we'll get 'em next time. Hog has to make excuse after excuse and can't even manage to admit his team lost. But 5 years of denial is beginning to stack up.


On to other things... Rangers and Caps are finally both playing well, and it's an open question whether they've turned the corner. For the first time in forever, if the playoffs started today, the Metro would get 4 teams in. The Rags have been lights out recently and the Caps have only lost one game in two weeks, and that was in OT.

I don't think either team is out of the woods, as they both dug themselves some pretty deep holes, but it's fun to see an actual playoff race between two teams playing good hockey. And while we're both real far behind the Isles, I'll point out that the Isles are 5-0 in the shootout. A big part of their lead is the skills competition. Shootouts are essentially a coin flip, and the Isles can come crashing back down pretty quick from that.