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Jack Campbell to Edmonton, supposedly. 5x 5AAV
Would be too high except the goalie market sucks and he has potential. Hopefully he at least plays better than Smith and Koskinen.
Jack Campbell to Edmonton, supposedly. 5x 5AAV
Giroux to Ottawa. Him and DeBrincat will be FUN.
6.5M AAV is a bit steep
He can join Joe Thornton in the no cups clubHe ain't winning a cup in Ottawa.
I got a guy for youLeaves rolling with Murray and Samsonov in net.
Oilers need to sign their offers and Kulak. LD market isn't great. Would like to see them trade Barrie for a more physical RD and get another forward.
Seattle got a ton of cap space. At least Burakovsky is a top 6 forward, at least to me.Seattle gave Burakovsky 5 years and $27.5 million, LMAO. Detroit giving Chiarot 4 and $19 might be worse, though.
Flyers out on Gaudreau. Someone pull the trigger
Speaking of retread goalies, Martin Jones is a UFA.
Anybody know anything about Ohio State income tax?Gaudreau to Columbus for 7 years at $9.8 per? The hell?
It's lower than NJ and NY, and Pennsylvania when you include the Philly wage tax.Anybody know anything about Ohio State income tax?
Yeah, but can Vegas?Palat to New Jersey. I guess Tampa can run out of cap space, who knew?
Fletcher can suck my fucking dickFletcher can run out of cap space.
Philadelphia Flyers: F
The Flyers didn’t merely miss out Gaudreau, the local superstar and top free agent on the market who long had been rumored to have Philadelphia as his top choice. They weren’t even realistically in the mix due to Chuck Fletcher’s inability to adequately prepare from a cap-space standpoint or clear out a contract or two. So what did Fletcher do? He brought back Justin Braun to be a cheap third-pair defenseman and signed a 31-year-old enforcer in Nicolas Deslauriers to a four-year contract. Braun isn’t an upgrade since he already was in Philadelphia for most of the 2021-22 season, and Deslauriers is an intangibles add to a team that already has Rasmus Ristolainen and Zack MacEwen for essentially the same purpose. The Flyers had the fourth-worst record in hockey last season, and unless their big swing on Tony DeAngelo bears fruit and doesn’t blow up in their face, it’s unclear if they’re actually any better than they were in 2021-22. Yikes. — Charlie O’Connor
I was at a retirement party for a professor today and ended up talking with the guy who was the emergency goalie for the Ducks this year.
Send in the BUMS
At least they can’t bring Martin Jones backThe BUMS do need a backup for HART.
ESPN+ has classic games in their inventory so last night I watched Game 1 of the 83 WCF. Oilers ran roughshod over Chicago. Could really see the beginnings of the modern game, especially in the way Edmonton played. Kurri - Gretzky - Anderson was a fucking line.
It was also really jarring to see boards with no ads, shorter glass with no net, guys without helmets, faceoffs taken anywhere on the ice, how small the pads were. It was a slower game than today, but not a gigantic difference. Some of those guys could move.
Time for Chuck to screw this up.