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BigBeardBurns
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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 7, 2018 at 10:14 a.m.
Thread: Taking a stab at a Karlsson trade
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBeardBurns</b></div><div>If Montreal’s taking on cap idk if they want to give Byron up. If anything, they’d want a little more considering they r taking Ryan and Callahan. At 1st glance I thought Tampa would have no interest in trading both Sergachev and Foote, but I guess if they get EK...
As much as Tampa needs a 1 RHD, I realized they also lack depth up front, so we’ll see what happens. I like ur idea tho.</div></div>

I definitely see your points. It’s so tough to figure this one out. Ottawa wants to move money, Tampa has to move money. The bold have a ton of prospects to give but do they want to clean out the cupboards entirely? They can keep paying in prospects and picks to get rid of salary and add players on decent contracts. I guess that’s why they’re the pros and we’re the arm-chair GMs lol. One thing I tried at first was having Gallagher come back to Tampa. He’s on a nice contract at 3.25x3yrs, and would give them some depth up front. But they would have to move Johnson, Miller, Palat, or Killorn to fit him in. That might not be a bad option though to save a little money for a comparable player.
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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 6, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.
Thread: So Blues Fans...
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBeardBurns</b></div><div>That was more to get Sobotka’s contract out of the way, bt I see what ur saying. I mean, the WSH one I only did to get the question out of if they need a new Goaltender. I don’t follow the Blues, so I was wondering what they thought about the road ahead for their team.</div></div>
Yea Blues love Steen, they have plans for Thomas, Schmaltz, Kostin, Barbashev, Thompson, Walman, and Kyrou. Blues trust that Allen will get the job done which he has averaging like 2-3 goals scored on him a game. That was the same through out the year. Difference is we went from 4 goals a game to 2 goals a game. Goaltending is not the problem. Sobotka is doing well as our playmaker, blues aren’t giving up Sobotka, We are Solid at Blueline no need in De Haan or Orpik. Our backup will either be Hutton, or Ville Husso. As much as I love Johnny T, I fear the Blues aren’t out to spend that much. Max Pacioretty is unneeded Steen, Schwartz are perfect winger tandem. Trade Berglund and Bouwmeester and start relying on those young prospects
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4, 2018 at 9:24 a.m.
Thread: Expanding their window
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BigBeardBurns</b></div><div>I agree with Backstrom. I hate this league. The Caps should b up 3-1 one way or another</div></div>

It's just a game, but in a country swept up in a wave of hating its own captal city out of some combined misunderstanding of libertarianism and the Hunger Games? The NHL's manipulation of the Caps-Pens rivalry, from openly rigging the lottery to give Crosby to Pittsburgh, to every questionable call since then, have served to make Washington look like a sympathetic underdog town where regular, hardworking people can't get a break, and make a little steel mining town up in the hills look like the obnoxious millionaire illuminati.

Edit: I think the worst was the Brass-Hole move, where they agreed to completely breach the point of the salary cap, which is to establish parity between teams, just to give the Penguins more depth at center to help make them an unbeatable dynasty.

If you take away the rigged lottery, and the Brassard BS, the Pens have Malkin, Letang, and who knows. But probably haven't won a Cup since Lemieux.

I'm not going to get upset about any of it. The Penguins' franchise was in danger of picking up and moving to Kansas city for financial reasons, and they've done a great job of saving it. And they should have done something. The team is owned by Mario Lemieux who played through cancer and led the league in scoring, and then agreed to take over ownership of the team when it couldn't afford to pay him. You can't make up a better hard luck story than that. Western Pennsylvania has become a hotbed for minor pro hockey as well, and the league's job is to create communities of lifelong fans and hockey players, not to be fair to everybody all the time. Basing the lottery after the ownership lockout on several years of results, and not giving any extra weight to the most recent was a pretty carefully calculated move to give Crosby to the team that had just drafted Malkin, but it made sense because that was the only way to chase the table on the progress the NHL had made in Pittsburgh, which had won some pretty impressive championships with an exciting, fast, skilled team in the '90s and really contributed to how the game has embraced skill over toughness, since. I'm not going to be bitter about little tweaks to help the league keep that ball rolling.

But when the NBC announcers called the Caps, "the crapitals," on the air, I admit I kind of felt like there might be a little bit too much bias against the perennial underdog team I grew up cheering for.

The Caps were always one of the lowest budget teams in the Eastern Conference playoffs, through the '80s and '90s. Scott Stevens gets offered $5M a year? The Caps owner tells the paper no hockey player is worth that. David Poile had to be a magician to keep that team stocked with fast-skating, hard-hitting defensive players on every line, to be able to frustrate absurdly skilled teams like the Penguins and Rangers (anybody else remember the Rangers before the salary cap. That's why we have the salary cap. They just bought up all the free agents, because they could), but also stand up to goon squads like Philly used to put together.

A lot of people think of DC as just the Senate. But it's a city of millions of people, most of whom got the best grades of anyone in their small towns and chose a life of public service, working in the shadows to try to make life a little better for the folks back home. Those '90s teams led by Dale Hunter, Mike Ridley, Rod Langway, and Kelly Miller? They found a ton of fans because they were a perfect metaphor for most of the people who move to Washington every year.

Growing up as a Caps fan, I always dreamed the team would get an effortless goal scorer like Brett Hull, and now they've finally drafted one, but when management talks about how the team needs to hurry up and win a championship while he's here, I'm just like, "oh, you must be new."