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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2016 at 5:38 p.m.
Thread: Montreal after expansion
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>F50marco</b></div><div><i><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caphead</b></div><div><i>Today we are going to be giving out an award.

To the longest comment on Capfriendly.

So without further or do,

I hereby acknowledge, Mr.F50marco as the winner of the "Mas largo Capfriendly Comment".

Congratulations.</i></div></div>

Oooooooooh awards! Better pull out my acceptance speech:

<em>I'd like to thank Mr Caphead, the academy and all my supporters for selecting me for this very much prestigious award. To my family for sticking with me through those times over the years. I love you Shanae-nae you're my life babe! Last but not least, little Timmy. Keep chasing that dream little buddy...... one day you'll be a star.</em>
<em>Thank you.</em>


<strong>Woohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'm going to Disney world!!!!!!!!</strong>










Hey wait a minute!!! This giant cheque is made out from "The National bank of Canad<em>o</em>" for 12 trillion dollars?? Something smells fishy........ What are you trying to pull here Caphead? Are you truly a selected official of the I.C.C.A.? (International Capfriendly commenting association). Let's see some credentials!






:laugh




Alright... alright.... alright...... Anyways, jokes on you, this isn't even my longest post!</i></div></div> lmaaooo.

Ok I got my I.C.C.A ID right here:

<img src="https://raisingthecurtain.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/rowan-atkinson-funny-id-photo.jpg" alt="Image result for funny id cards">
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2016 at 2:01 p.m.
Thread: Montreal after expansion
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>F50marco</b></div><div><i>Palhal, do the math. How many free agent mammoth contracts are they going to have to pay to reach the cap if most of the players they take are between 0.5m-2m? How many of the free agents worth giving big bucks to would want to sign with LV? How many of those big name Free agents are going to be actually available? Who exactly do you think LV will be signing? Shattenkirk? Bishop? Almost 100% they wouldn't. So the lesser guys? Patrick Eaves? Brian Gionta? Those guys are worth giving big contracts to?

Most of the players that LV will want to select are going to be "cheaper" contract players. There are a few good players that might be available at the 4-5M range but not many. So what happens when they get to September 1st and they're roster cap is 40M??? They need to be in the mid 50's to be cap compliant. Sign George Parros and Rob Ray to 5M dollar contracts????

So here is what you are saying, sign free agents you actually want to inflated contracts to reach the floor? Right? Those players probably won't be quality players to start off with. They'll be guys like PA Parenteau and Tom Pyatt who will take any job they can get! So you would give those guys 5M but not Plekanec? A true NHL vet who would more then likely would be this teams top line center if they chose him? Nor Matt Read, a guy who has put up decent numbers in a 3rd line role? Who else will they take? Scott Laughton? Another cheap contract to add to the list. Del Zotto? Free agent at the end of this year so they would need to sign him. No guarantee of that either. Eventually they'll have to take some players who are probably overpriced but are still NHL capable players.

Plekanec, Ennis and Reads are <strong>overpaid </strong>, I get that but they aren't <em>garbage</em> players. They are NHL regulars. We're not talking about David Clarkson here!

You keep throwing "its so easy to sign players to reach the cap" yet most teams can't even get the players they want when they have the money! TML wanted Stamkos. Did they get him? No! Just saying you want something doesn't mean you'll get it. There are 30 other teams vying for those players. MTL Has been trying to get a quality center for who knows how long now. They succeed at that? Nope, they got desperate and traded for Scott effing Gomez!!

Plus we haven't even got to the point of players being traded from now till the expansion draft. Yeah a guy like Jack Johnson may be available now but any smart GM would trade him to a team who is protecting an average dman currently and use it on Johnson instead. That team gets an upgrade on defence for peanuts. CLB gets draft pick. Nor have we mentioned players waiving their NMC's to be exposed but LV wouldn't want those players anyway thus eliminating a player from that team that LV could of chosen.

I think Vegas will be more desperate than you think. They need to not only ice a competitive team but get futures as well and there are a bunch of teams that have very little to offer LV at the expansion draft. MTL being one of them. Beaulieu is the only one of real value that fits the criteria of cheap young and good, that could be available. In this AGM above MTL trades him. After that the pickings are slim. Teams might even incentivize LV to take there somewhat over priced players.

I think you need to do the expansion draft team yourself and only protect the players worth protecting for each team leaving extra unused places if that team could afford to lose a player of less significance and then in addition to protecting the players, cross off the players that actually won't be available as well because they will be moved ahead of being left exposed at the draft. (Fowler would be available but I think we can assume that Anaheim will trade him before the expansion draft to a team that can protect him)

Then you start to see the real picture. A lot of those good players won't be available and most of those good players are the ones that carry bigger cap hits too. McPhee won't wait until the last minute to make sure he has enough cap to reach the floor. He'll do much of it before hand where he has a guarantee. Free agency and the trade market<em> after</em> the expansion draft is no guarantee.

Ultimately no one here knows for sure but that includes both of our opinions.</i></div></div>

Today we are going to be giving out an award.

To the longest comment on Capfriendly.

So without further or do,

I hereby acknowledge, Mr.F50marco as the winner of the "Mas largo Capfriendly Comment".

Congratulations.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2016 at 12:48 a.m.
Thread: Giving a good soldier his best chance at a Cup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Watty1</b></div><div><i><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caphead</b></div><div><i>Chicago is not his best chance. They peaked way too early in the season therefore leading them to be fatigued into the playoffs and not playing their best hockey. At the TD it will be a lot clearer when and which teams will start hitting their peak and gaining momentum.</i></div></div> If Doan leaves Arizona, I think it would only be for 3 teams: Chicago, San Jose &amp; Pittsburgh. He wants to go to a team of proven winners. Chicago's depth hurts and Crawford has been a big reason for their success. But Pittsburgh is cap-strapped (more than Chicago) and SJ is a rival (even though they've long been interested) so I don't know how he'd feel about going there.

By best chance, I meant he's never had a realistic shot at the cup, so going to any one of those teams would be his best chance to win ever.</i></div></div> True, but by going off of my past "theories" of teams having to peak after the TD, I think either Nashville, or LA might win the cup. Also I do think Pittsburgh has a big chance to repeat (I know that's going against my "theory" because they are already peaking, but two outliers are Anaheim and Detroit in 2007, 2008, respectively. They both dominated throughout the season and playoffs).


P.s. I called the Pens winning in October and November. Then everyone started to catch on when they went on that late season tear.

Just wanted to share that... haha
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2016 at 12:30 a.m.
Thread: Trades
EW!
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 18, 2016 at 11:03 p.m.
Thread: Giving a good soldier his best chance at a Cup
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>exo2769</b></div><div><i><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Caphead</b></div><div><i>Chicago is not his best chance. They peaked way too early in the season therefore leading them to be fatigued into the playoffs and not playing their best hockey. At the TD it will be a lot clearer when and which teams will start hitting their peak and gaining momentum.</i></div></div>

They're playing well and racking up points against good teams, but they've also been rather injured with Seabrook/Toews/Crawford all getting rest time. I'm sure with the rookies playing well Q will give the other vets plenty of rest so fatigue really shouldn't be an issue if they don't fall off the map. They have a pretty nice point lead in a diminishing central division.</i></div></div> Look at all past Cup winners and you'll see them all start gaining momentum in the late part of the reg.season.