General NHL Talk 2023-2024

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40 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

NHL Rumors: Jonathan Quick 'Highly Likely' to Land Rangers Contract in Free Agency

Guys like Quick and Perry make me laugh. When they signed their big contracts they had to have no trade clauses for the stability of not being bounced around. Now that they're in the waning years of their careers when you would think the stability of staying in one place would matter more, they uproot and move every season or more.

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Max Pacioretty Signs With Washington Capitals

Carolina Hurricanes Sign Dmitry Orlov

Carolina Hurricanes Re-Sign Frederik Andersen

New York Rangers Sign Blake Wheeler, Jonathan Quick

Nashville Predators To Sign Ryan O’Reilly

Maple Leafs Expected To Sign Ryan Reaves

 

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LOL.

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Shattenkirk to the Bruins

Bruins keep adding pieces…
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37 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Max Pacioretty Signs With Washington Capitals

Carolina Hurricanes Sign Dmitry Orlov

Carolina Hurricanes Re-Sign Frederik Andersen

New York Rangers Sign Blake Wheeler, Jonathan Quick

Nashville Predators To Sign Ryan O’Reilly

Maple Leafs Expected To Sign Ryan Reaves

 

Who did the Ducks sign?

Lol

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That's a weird one.

Arizona Coyotes Sign Jason Zucker

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39 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

That's a weird one.

Arizona Coyotes Sign Jason Zucker

Just treading water until next year when the cap problems a round the league ease? Looks like it.

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Toronto Maple Leafs Sign Tyler Bertuzzi

Big hit to Boston.  Toronto will still get eliminated in the first round.

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2023-2024 Eastern Conference Champions!

Wild Acquire Pat Maroon And Max Cajkovic

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29 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

2023-2024 Eastern Conference Champions!

Wild Acquire Pat Maroon And Max Cajkovic

Pat had the golden touch until Perry came along and jinxed things.

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Tampa couldn't stick with the Maroon, Perry, Bellemare 4th line coz they couldn't fit 3 rocking chairs on the bench

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 7/1/2023 at 10:54 AM, gotbeer said:

Max Pacioretty Signs With Washington Capitals

New York Rangers Sign Blake Wheeler, Jonathan Quick

Maple Leafs Expected To Sign Ryan Reaves

Pacioretty is a decent scorer when he is healthy, which last season was almost never. Quick is probably good enough to serve as a backup for the Rangers, but I'm glad that the Knights didn't have to call on him in the playoffs (odd tidbit - both years that VGK has gone to the final, they went through five goalies due to injury - and that doesn't count Robin Lehner missing the entire season this year). Reaves seems like an odd signing for the Leafs. Normally he is brought in to protect small, quick players from the Tom Wilsons of the league.

Edited July 7, 2023 by Vegas Halo Fan

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@Vegas Halo Fan  Went to Vegas over the 4th.  Was surprised there wasn't more SC Champs gear around.  Granted I didn't look that hard, but at Park MGM, where the Knights have a store, didn't see much there.  Also didn't see as much Knights gear in other stores like in the first few years they were around, where it seemed like every store had Knights souveniers.  Although I did see this at the 888 Japanese BBQ.

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4 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

@Vegas Halo Fan  Went to Vegas over the 4th.  Was surprised there wasn't more SC Champs gear around.  Granted I didn't look that hard, but at Park MGM, where the Knights have a store, didn't see much there.  Also didn't see as much Knights gear in other stores like in the first few years they were around, where it seemed like every store had Knights souveniers.  Although I did see this at the 888 Japanese BBQ.

The main team store is at T-Mobile Arena. Have never been to the one at Park MGM. It seems like Stanley Cup shirts and merchandise have been slow arriving in stores, not sure why.

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11 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

The main team store is at T-Mobile Arena. Have never been to the one at Park MGM. It seems like Stanley Cup shirts and merchandise have been slow arriving in stores, not sure why.

it's a smaller store.  But an official team store.  Kind of out of the way too.  In a hallway by the pool, between the tram and park MGM.  But yeah, I would have thought the shirts and caps would have been all over, but didn't see much of it.  That's a pretty big fail by the NHL by not having the gear available.  Or maybe it was, and everyone bought it all up?  

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23 hours ago, gotbeer said:

it's a smaller store.  But an official team store.  Kind of out of the way too.  In a hallway by the pool, between the tram and park MGM.  But yeah, I would have thought the shirts and caps would have been all over, but didn't see much of it.  That's a pretty big fail by the NHL by not having the gear available.  Or maybe it was, and everyone bought it all up?  

I haven't seen much around town either.

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Detroit Red Wings Acquire Alex DeBrincat

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The Red Wings have officially announced the deal, sending Dominik Kubalik, Donovan Sebrango, a conditional first-round pick in 2024, and a fourth-round pick in 2024. In a follow-up report, Detroit also announced a four-year, $31.5MM extension for DeBrincat, which would be an AAV of $7.785MM.

 

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The Wings are full of shooters with no real distributors. Is hr trying to build a Seattle east?

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11 hours ago, arch stanton said:

The Wings are full of shooters with no real distributors. Is hr trying to build a Seattle east?

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Dang.  Way to make full use of your opportunities in sports.

Arizona Coyotes Waive Alex Galchenyuk For Purposes Of Contract Termination

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4:40 p.m: The Athletic’s Katie Strang reports that Galchenyuk “was arrested on July 9 on a number of charges including private property hit and run, disorderly conduct, failure to obey, resisting arrest, Threatening or Intimidating.”

 

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21 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Dang.  Way to make full use of your opportunities in sports.

Arizona Coyotes Waive Alex Galchenyuk For Purposes Of Contract Termination

 

Or as Alex would say, some people just can't take a joke.

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1 hour ago, deepdrive said:

Or as Alex would say, some people just can't take a joke.

If Alex Galchenyuk and Valeri Nichushkin walked into a bar.  I would expect a lot of gold chains, track suits, and vodka.  

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This is just awesome, in a very terrible way.  But Galchenyuk just told Nichushkin to hold his beer in being a Russian caricature.  

Galchenyuk allegedly threatened to kill officer and family, used racist slur during arrest: Police report

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21 hours ago, gotbeer said:

This is just awesome, in a very terrible way.  But Galchenyuk just told Nichushkin to hold his beer in being a Russian caricature.  

Galchenyuk allegedly threatened to kill officer and family, used racist slur during arrest: Police report

Yeah, that will serve him well.

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On 7/14/2023 at 3:42 PM, gotbeer said:

This is just awesome, in a very terrible way.  But Galchenyuk just told Nichushkin to hold his beer in being a Russian caricature.  

Galchenyuk allegedly threatened to kill officer and family, used racist slur during arrest: Police report

It's surprising that this doesn't happen more often. Some of the places these players come from have a considerably different culture than ours (Well actually, some places in our country have a lot different culture than most.).

When I first read the charges against him, I remembered a guy I worked with (about 40 years older than me) telling me about something similar he had done in his twenties. He wasn't charged though. The police just took him a few miles out of town, beat the crap out of him, told him he better get the person who's property he damaged paid (as in, or else), and then left him to walk back home. Different mindset than what we typically have now.

The guy probably needs to go back to Eastern Europe. 

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Except that Galchenyuk was born in Milwaukee and has lived exclusively in North America since he was 15