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WildCard

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  1. People are still going to use bookies. Book it
  2. https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527
  3. They're not mutually exclusive
  4. 100% disagree. I love every second of that
  5. He's the only franchise superstar to ever hit UFA?
  6. You are going to pay 3 guys around $30M. I don't care how good they are, that's never going to work. We've already seen how Eichel and Tavares cannot carry a team of scrubs. Together they still can't carry a team of scrubs
  7. Really it goes back to the whole Stamkos debate. I was right then and dammit I'll be right again. I don't want either of these players, I didn't want Stamkos and I don't want Tavares. That then just led to me saying why am I even arguing this, they're never leaving anyways
  8. Never knew I needed this in my life until right now
  9. That or Toronto somehow gets him and Doughty while convincing Matthews to take $5M/year
  10. I mean I agree with the scenario, and while I think he's the most likely to leave, the fact is these guys just never do. Where would he even go? Who can afford him AND provide him with the life he's built in NYC?
  11. It's a terrible situation for him here. There is nothing here for him. We are a garbage team with a garbage record that will, within 3 years, be unable to afford him without putting us in such serious cap trouble we can't yet again ice a competitive team. We are a new GM with a new HC nowhere near ready to win now. What's he gonna do? Come here and throw on the Assistant Captain so he can lose for the next 5 years in the oh so glamorous city of Buffalo?
  12. Yes that's the crux of my argument. Not Stamkos or Hossa or anything, I'm fixated on Jack. Flagg wanted a recent example and Eichel came to mind. He was in a garbage city and chose to sign here for 8 years even before his deal ran up; before anyone could offer sheet him, before he could demand a trade (like many others have done) or anything like that. What in the world was Eichel's motivation for signing that contract other than everything I've listed is the same exact reason superstars never leave
  13. If Jack Eichel wanted to leave Jack Eichel would have left. He didn't even wait until his RFA year Fine, Stamkos was. Queue 'Stamkos had a better team..'
  14. Eichel was just in this exact situation and what did he do? He signed a $10M contract with a joke of a team with yet again another GM and the worst D and goaltending combo in the league with nothing else to offer him. THE face of the franchise matters a ton in these cases. You are THE guy, it's your city, your team, your franchise, your locker room...that stuff goes a long way. You've spent your entire career there, you're comfortable there, they will pay you there, and you own the city. These franchise guys...they never leave! Never! The Islanders will throw $13M a year at him if they have to, and fire anyone they need to if he doesn't like it. They will give him by far and away a better offer than any other team can even remotely come close to. And at the end of the day he'll see that money, power, comfort and familiarity, and he'll convince himself they can turn it around, and he'll stay. Edit: Let's just say he did do that. Why on Earth would he EVER come to Buffalo?? To play 2nd fiddle to Eichel? To come to a different team with the same issues he just ran away from? THERE IS NOTHING HERE FOR HIM!!! :lol:
  15. Blackhawks once and Detroit once, true. But neither are remotely the same as Tavares' situation
  16. Hossa was not a free agent when he went to the Thrashers or the Penguins. He was only a free agent at 31 years old, when he came off a 71pt season with Detroit and signed a 12 year deal with the Blackhawks. That was not the same NHL either; Hossa has only ever once hit 100pts, none of his other 20 seasons have been better than Tavares' top 2 Neither of those guys were the faces of those franchises.
  17. Chara and Hossa are not Tavares, and neither is Brad Richards. Those guys were not #1 picks with a franchise to carry and a captaincy to wear, not even close. How?
  18. He's gonna get fired. Or he should have been already. I'm assuming the reason he wasn't is to do so shows Tavares the team is in flux/turmoil
  19. It is 100% nuts and never going to happen. Good luck paying 3 players $30M of cap space, or over 1/3 of it total in other words OEL did the same thing. The only one I remember actually leaving was Kovalchuk and Nash, and even then they were traded
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