Running 2022-23 NHL thread

Buyouts just push the problem down the road. The dead cap space is a killer

 

That’s one of the reasons Yzerman traded Hronek
He has one year left at $5.5M
Not worth resigning but worth a first- and second-round pick because he’s a RHD

 

Buyouts rarely work with the worst contracts. They make a three year problem into a six year problem.

 

Yzerman bought out Justin Abdelkader and Frans Nielsen
Neither were NHL players anymore but they were on the roster because Ken Holland had given both big contracts
Now their cap space is fine

 

Don’t remind me

 

Easter Sunday, 4/2/1972. Gerry Meehan's goal with four seconds remaining knocks the Flyers out of the playoffs. Bobby Clarke shatters his stick over the goal, Doug Favell curls up into a ball and tries to hide in the net. One of my greatest sports memories, the Aud went absolutely berserk. My seat was at about 11 o'clock, upper balcony.

 

What a place that was.

 

I got to the Olympia a few times before they tore it down
What a wonderful old barn
And of course, the highlight was the scoreboard

 

I am petitioning the NHL to do away with wild cards. The East is a dumpster fire of shit.

 

But think of all the Sebastian Aho-on-Sebastian Aho crime you’d miss out on … one hooked the other in the game that just concluded.