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2019 NHL Offseason Thread - Evander Gets Lightweight Suspension (1 Viewer)

William Nylander got 6 years at $6.9MM each.

Kyle Connor got 7 years at $7.15MM each.

Feels like a great deal for the Jets there, especially since it came after Marner was given 6 years @ $10.9MM/year and Rantanen got 6 years @ $9.25/year.

 
JaxBill said:
Teams trying to sneak some interesting names thru waivers today.

Islanders - Josh Ho-Sang and Thomas Hickey

Penguins- Casey DeSmith

Carolina- Gustav Forsling
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Habs - Hudon

Oh wait, you said "sneak" and "interesting"  never mind.

 
guru_007 said:
How are the Leafs going to shed $13M in cap space?  They have some kind of magic bullet?
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Called LTIR.

Of course they're kind of hamstrung for other moves 

@CapFriendly: Based on their expected 23 man roster, we now show the #Leafs with a projected cap that is $13,652,493 above the $81.5M ceiling.
Horton, Clarkson, Hyman & Dermott would cover as much as $13,663,333 if placed on LTIR tomorrow.

A difference of $10,840

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/mapleleafs

 
A goalie was claimed off waivers but it was not DeSmith.

@CapFriendly: Following players were claimed off waivers

Arizona claims Eric Comrie
Winnipeg claims Carl Dahlstrom

All other players on waivers yesterday cleared.

 
Flyers send Farrabee down and fans are pissed.

@IGawaineI: @charlieo_conn Assuming nothing changes, you almost have to be impressed with how they have managed to make cuts to get the fan the least excited as possible.  No Myers, no Farabee, no Frost.  My literal nightmare coming into camp

 
Getzlaf15 said:
So you can slash a linesman and get 3 games.  Official probably would be 10 games.
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He's lucky he didn't get more than 3 games.  I am sure Kane thought the linesman tackled him to the ice, but it was simply a case of the linesman trying to hold Kane back and he lost his balance a little and they both fell.  

 
I am pumped for the season. I might even tune in to see the Leaves play for a few minutes before my team raises its banner. I’m just gonna relax and watch hockey and not care how the blues do this year. 

And that will last until about October 14th. 

 
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28. It wasn’t the biggest story, but hockey lost a quietly significant person last week when long-time coach, executive and scout Nick Polano died at age 78.

“I got to Detroit after he was hired as head coach (in 1983),” Ken Holland said, “but you could see why the Ilitch family asked him to change the culture of the Red Wings. He was tough on his players, but in a way that made them better…. As for me, he showed confidence in someone who was very green as a scout.”

There’s a pretty funny story about Polano being in his 70s and someone making fun of his typing style, only to see him get up and threaten to fight over it. But where Polano really made history was in bringing Petr Klima to Detroit.

29. The world’s changed so much that it’s hard to explain to someone who wasn’t around then what a big deal Klima’s defection was. With knowledge that the winger wanted to leave the former Czechoslovakia, the Red Wings drafted him 86th overall in 1983. Two summers later, Polano flew with Detroit executive vice-president Jim Lites to Nussdorf, Germany, where Klima was supposed to leave the team hotel and meet them near a forest. Polano did once admit he didn’t think they were going to pull it off.

“I always felt good when he was next to me,” Lites said with a laugh on Monday. “He looked like a bodyguard. That whole process, he was so good with the details. What we had to know, he knew. I remember waiting in our car at 1:00 a.m., myself our interpreter from Detroit and Nick. We were supposed to make a quick exit. Petr climbs out of the window during a team dinner after an exhibition game. He knocks on the door of our car, and says, ‘I’ve got to go back and get my stuff.’ We’re telling him, ‘Forget the stuff, you don’t need it, we will buy what you need.’ But it was his personal stuff and he wanted to go. That was the longest 15 minutes in history. We were just winging it. But when we got away safely, he told us he wouldn’t leave unless we got his girlfriend out, too. He wanted to make sure she was safe.”

30. The same people who helped the Red Wings get Klima were re-hired to bring his girlfriend.

“We paid them cash to get her from Prague,” Lites said. “We left Petr and the interpreter in Germany while Nick and I drove to Austria, near the Czech border. We showed them the cash, something like $35,000. They showed us a picture of her. When they saw the money, they drove back. Then they came back to the same checkpoint. There was a fake trunk in their car. They opened it up, and she pops out. We had to look for the birthmark on her cheek, and that’s when we knew it was her. She gets in the car with two strange men for the drive to Frankfurt. No talking.”

Lites chuckled at the memory.

“Nick would have enjoyed the Russian Five book and movie. But getting the Russians in the ’90s was much easier than Klima in the ’80s.”

He paused.

“Hockey’s a little less good with Nick gone.”

All the best to his family.
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Some great stuff there.  I was a teenager when all this went down and it just helped cement me as a young fan of the team.  My dad was a barber and used to cut Klima's hair occasionally.

 
Bill Brasky said:
I agree, but only because of injury risk
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Let me get this straight.  You think, barring injury, Pettersson has Hart trophy skills NOW?  When was the last time a second year player won the Hart?

As an aside, CBSSPORTS doesn't even have his picture.  

 
chet said:
Let me get this straight.  You think, barring injury, Pettersson has Hart trophy skills NOW?  When was the last time a second year player won the Hart?

As an aside, CBSSPORTS doesn't even have his picture.  
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with all due respect to cbs sports web design, yes I think he’s capable of 100 points which would make him a candidate in any year.  he has the shot and is an elite playmaker.  

:shrug:

 
Hart Trophy candidates (IMO):

Crosby, McDavid, MacKinnon, Kucherov, Ovechkin, P.Kane, Marchand, Matthews, Tavares, Hall, Seguin, O'Reilly, Barkov, Gaudreau, Eichel, Panarin, Girioux, Petterson, Scheifele, plus Vasilevskiy,  Bobrovsky and probably a few other goalies.

 
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Why is the captain announcement a storyline tonight? They should have just announced that in July like any normal person from earth would have done. 

 
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