Contempt

FWIW, Lindy Ruff HATED Nichuskin. I don't know that I care, but I know there is a faction here that still wants to see Lindy as President of Hockey Ops so that should matter to that group.

Not even a grin.

That's the way it's most often repeated, but that's not the way it happened.

Let's go to the video.

actually. it was "you fell ya fat pig, have another donut"

Cemeteries are ponzi schemes. They make their money by selling plots and "perpetual care" When the cemetery runs out of new plots to sell the decline starts because there is no new source of revenue to keep up with the "perpetual care" on plots sold 40 or 50 years ago.

1. They don't have a lot of goalies. 2. It's not about whether or not I like them or not it's about whether they stop the puck at an NHL level. Last year's goalie plan was garbage and if they go into this year with UPL who is unproven at even the AHL level and Craig Anderson I think we can stop talking about the playoffs before the season even starts. The plan can't be to wait for Portillo or Levi and to hell with everything else. If that IS the plan, I stand by my assertion that they are incompetent.

So how long can they go with no goalie and still be competent?

This year's goaltending plan says otherwise. Maybe they'll do better at it this year but until I see an actual NHL goaltending plan on the NHL team the front office can't be called competent no matter what else they do. You can build a helluva submarine, if you design in a screen door you aren't a competent naval architect no matter how good the rest of the boat is.

It's called that because originally it was the hockey team of the tractor plant in town. If they are going to be sponsored by any modern tractor company I'd expect International Harvester....they're red.

Dirty.

No, I know Bishop can't play. My hope was that they'd gotten something of value in exchange for taking his contract (indicating that they might engage in more of this type of behavior to fill the gaping holes on this team) and they didn't.

Which is why they are what they are.

I guess. I dunno. I saw this transaction on the wire and was hopeful that we'd started to weaponize our cap space and saw we got a basically nothing to do Dallas a favor. Whatever. We need an actual goaltender if not two. Shouldn't be that hard to spend enough money if you're trying to actually fix the issues we have without taking on a BS contract for nothing.

Which Subban at 4? I'm not sure there are ANY Subbans currently worth that. Maybe as a package deal for both.

I would think a 7th round choice would cost less than 3.5M if you tried to outright buy one from a team.

Until there is a legitimate NHL goaltender somewhere on the team it's not a conversation worth having.

Maybe there's a Tshirt you can buy to support the victims of my scorn.

That's called "letting them play"

Nobody has a goalie

Is Koharski sponsored by Timmy Ho's or Dunkin yet? If not it's a shame.

The other option is they are jailed, prosecuted, and imprisoned...and the cost is still passed on to the consumer. I have to say I haven't noticed a difference. The roads seem just as busy as always.

Somewhere in Hay River, another person named Connor McDavid is having a great night.