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drew1871

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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 31, 2019 at 8:10 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 26, 2019 at 5:30 p.m.
Thread: What the Fk Shero
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drew1871</b></div><div>I am very happy with the move for Subban. He is our best Dman immediately. He will teach the youngsters. I do not believe the locker room cancer talk everyone says. He was LOVED in Montreal until he was traded, he was LOVED in Nashville until he was traded. Look at all of his work with charities and watch how much he does within Newark. The Devils are FAR away from cap problems and Subban's contract will not hurt them in the slightest. He was hurt last year and not playing as much. He will rebound back to form this year, I guarantee it. The Devils are contenders now, but they will remain contenders in the future, the ONLY thing they gave up of importance in this deal is the 34th pick, which is a crap shoot on if it pans out. Subban, Hughes, Nico, Ty Smith, and a healthy Hall, Will attract another key piece in free agency needed. Also, Subban can and does play physical, there are some nice videos out there of him laying people out, especially Brad "the rat" Marchand.

Sorry that I was a dick in my last post, was a few beers in.</div></div>

No worries; I was asking for it. Hopefully I'll be eating my words by December.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 24, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 24, 2019 at 12:47 p.m.
Thread: What the Fk Shero
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drew1871</b></div><div>You’re insane. Subban instantly makes us better appeals to hall to stay and we are STILL below the cap floor. Find a new ****ing team dude.</div></div>

To be honest, I had a bad day and went off after hearing this for the first time latter in the day.

You seem to more positive about it, why are you happy with it? I get Subban is a great player and greatly improves the right hand side on D, but I feel it leaves the Devils with no defensive (and/ or physical) minded D-men.

Plus I am in minority but I was for trading Hall, since he seemed 50/50 on re-signing with the Devils and wanted to be on a winner. What happens if the Devils don't make the playoffs this year; is Hall going to ask for a trade. To me I just thought it would be better to trade Hall for a younger player and make the core even younger. I just think by trading for Subban the Devils are more of contenders now but the window, as of now, is 3 years until Subban's contract runs out and he will be 33.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 23, 2019 at 3:22 p.m.
Thread: Fire Shero
I wish people would at least admit to his skin color being a factor, but the discussion is always going to go "no it's not about that, he's just a selfish guy who doesn't care about the team".

You like everyone else has so little insight into what any NHL player does or does not do in a locker room. Everyone in Nashville seemed to really like him. I really like him. Montreal crumbled after he left.

So what's up? How does a sub-set of people come away with the idea that the smiling, charismatic character me and a lot of other people seem to see is somehow the exact opposite? I literally can't attribute this to anything other than racism when people are seeing a black guy being a successful NHL-player, good manager of his own brand and great contributor to his own community and deciding he's a bad guy. It doesn't have to be malicious intent, but until guys like Subban stops getting singled out for doing basically what some guy on every team does, I'm convinced racism isn't only the same, but probably stronger in this sport than any other. It sucks. I'm honestly just pissed that this has to be the topic of discussion when it should be about Subban as a player.