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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 10, 2018 at 8:20 p.m.
Thread: All we need. Pt 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>Hey if you are okay with that then all the power too you. They did win two cups and I won't take anything away from those teams, they were really good. Watching Willie Mitchell hoist the cup was really awesome.

That being said, its going to be a long dark road when you're spending years waiting for those former greats to retire. Within 2 months of Doughty's extension kicking in you'll have something like 58 million tied to players over the age of 30. And many of those will be for more than 4 years.

Its not a good thing.</div></div>

In a hard cap world, every team that is successful are/is/will be in the same boat. Capitals, Kings, Penguins and Blackhawks (last 4 cup winners). Winnipeg and Toronto will be joining them in the next few years. It's not the salary or players. It's the cap. Would you have suggested the Kings said to all these players "Thanks for the cup, now don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"? How do you sell that to a fan base? Three of those players are HOFers. Kopitar, Doughty and Quick. Brown is a guy with 1000 games played in a Kings uniform. Those 4 make up 32.6 million of it.

I HATE the inability of teams to get out of a bad contract under the HARD cap without the painful buyout process with affects on the cap. Let a team buy out (1) contract a year that can erase the hit against the cap?
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 10, 2018 at 3:19 p.m.
Thread: All we need. Pt 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LoganOllivier</b></div><div>If players just stayed great as they aged, Gretzky would still be dominating the league. The game is getting faster every year and LA is getting older and slower, they are a doomed team. They may make the playoffs again once or twice but if they get caught in a matchup against a fast teal they are done. Just like when Vegas completely overwhelmed them in the playoffs. Made Kopitar look like a pylon. The Kings are done and there is absolutely no way to change that either since the contracts they have are so bad.</div></div>

Ok. Every team is done at some point. I'll take the 2 cups and reward the core that brought them to us. And so you know...Vegas did not overwhelm us. All 4 games were VERY close.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 7, 2018 at 12:05 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 6, 2018 at 1:45 p.m.