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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 9 at 12:42 p.m.
Thread: A Light Buy
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dan_the_Man</b></div><div>If TB helps Toronto cap wise question 1 why? Question 2 why give up limited draft capital when they're throwing in the towel on the season? Seems very illogical. Taking Roslivuc pretty much guarantees Stamkos is gone .
This is a horrible idea . They give up on the season pretty much give up anyway of extending Stamkos for Jack Roslovic ( mind bogglingly dumb) this make TB worse now and in the future . Good job</div></div>

You're not helping Toronto as much as you're taking advantage of a team that has to cut cap to help yourself. Tampa needs someone on D on the Left side who can take some minutes if they want to do anything. And no one said anything about extending Roslovic, he's a ufa after this year, it has nothing to do with Stamkos's contact at all.

My point is you don't have to throw in the towel completely or go all in, you can take a tempered approach. You simply can't go in all year, we don't have the resources for that, but that doesn't mean the seasons a bust either.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 16, 2023 at 2:15 p.m.
Thread: Who would be your twelve for new format NHL Skills Competition
Here's my picks with my reasoning in order of how much of a lock I think they are. Tried to put emphasis on players who are having a particularly good season this year, so someone like Draisaitl who is a top 12 player in the league, but his team is already represented in the top 12 and he's not having a great season to his standards, I have exluded. It would surprise me if he was in the event anyways, but this how I would do it personally.

1. McDavid- Obviously, it was his idea
2. Matthews- Gotta have home town rep
3. Quinn Hughes- Multiple narrative reasons
4. Jack Hughes- brother vs brother
5. Makar- Cale vs Quinn narrative for top defenseman
6. Kucherov- current points leader
7. Bedard- have to market him, can do Connor vs Connor or young vs old with Crosby
8. Crosby- "is Sydney Crosby still good?" has been making this league money for years now, why stop now

Those top 8 I think definitely make it, the next four are more up for debate. You could start doubling up on some teams here but I'm going to try and keep it to twelve unique teams, so sorry to MacKinnon and like half of the Vancouver Canucks who would have made it otherwise.

9. Pastrnak- they was big personalities, and Pasta's great for marketing
10. Panarin- another fun personality, gets the NY market involved
11. Eichel- representation from the previous cup champs
12. I'm gonna pencil in Kyle Connor here, I would have had him higher if I wasn't for his recent injury but idk if he'll even be healthy in time for the actual game and he definitely won't be healthy when they make the decisions on who's participating so while I don't think h'll end up going I think he deserves a mention here based on his play alone.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 13, 2023 at 2:54 p.m.
Thread: Should the Lightning trade Stamkos
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canuckfan98</b></div><div>well what players say to the media has to be taken with a grain of salt hes the captain of the team hes not outright going to say that he will waive his NTC essentially causing a media frenzy about possible trades.</div></div>

Right, but he also doesn't have to say repeatedly and unprompted that he intends on staying at least to the end of his contract. Listen, if you don't want to agree, again, that's on you, but you asked a question to a forum and I gave you my opinion as an answer based on what I have heard both the player and the team say. I'm not changing my belief on this and I don't really care if you do or not, but that's my answer to your question. Have a good one.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 13, 2023 at 1:08 p.m.
Thread: Should the Lightning trade Stamkos
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Canuckfan98</b></div><div>If going to a team where he has a chance to win the cup I think he would waive it especially if the lightning let him know they aren't going to re-sign him. So I think he'd be willing to waive to Colorado, New York,Vegas,Carolina,Toronto, and the Bruins and out of all those teams at the TDL Colorado makes the most sense. Carolina makes sense as well but id assume the Lightning would rather trade him outside the conference.</div></div>

I mean I'm not saying I feel like he wouldn't waive, I'm saying he has said several times, even after the whole contract thing started, that he is not waiving and will be a Bolt until at least the end of his current contract. If you want to go off of what you feel he could do that's your prerogative, but I'm just telling you the words that left his own mouth.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 21, 2023 at 10:49 a.m.