Preds playoffs

#476
#476
JTrainDavis said:
You like a french team, go worship bin laden and develop fascist communism.
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I'd rather guzzle maple syrup, chop down 300 year old trees for toilet paper, and sing the mood music for shoving Leonardo decaprio's frozen corpse into the north atlantic.
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#477
#477
JTrainDavis said:
You like a french team, go worship bin laden and develop fascist communism.
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You forgot to put a "cheese-eating surrender monkey" in there

IPorange said:
I'd rather guzzle maple syrup, chop down 300 year old trees for toilet paper, and sing the mood music for shoving Leonardo decaprio's frozen corpse into the north atlantic.
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And you forgot about all the wonderful cheap drugs (You can't explain that)
 
#478
#478
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srsly, would move to Vancouver. Anybody been?
 
#481
#481
pl3 said:
Just not enough talent, and Weber will be gone to Detroit for 6M/year. When you see Klein, Obrien, TooToo (though he played better), Geoffrion, Blum and others out there against elite talent, it's not goint to work out. Especially if 74 has to be benched, Smithson got his nose jacked and Legwand is non existant.
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If Weber signs an offer sheet with a total cap hit of anything less than $7 mil/year, Nashville matches it without blinking. If it's more than that, then the multiple first-round picks will be a nice consolation prize.

Detroit is soon to be hitting the point where their chronically poor drafting starts hurting big-time.
 
#482
#482
Ohio Vol said:
If Weber signs an offer sheet with a total cap hit of anything less than $7 mil/year, Nashville matches it without blinking. If it's more than that, then the multiple first-round picks will be a nice consolation prize.

Detroit is soon to be hitting the point where their chronically poor drafting starts hurting big-time.
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I don't think Nashville pays the money. History shows they won't.
 
#483
#483
IPorange said:
Pred fans: identifiable by making constant football references while discussing hockey.
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Most preds fans are football fans first, unless they are transplants, because youth hockey only started to be bigger here just a few years ago. It's really common sense. However, I don't really see the same football references you do on here.
 
#486
#486
I would also think Weber is auto-locked if the sheet is under ~7.5mil

Don't we have Sullivan and Dumont both coming off the books?
 
#487
#487
Vancouver is the more skilled and better team. Maybe Chicago winning three in a row will give the guys some confidence. All I ask is they don't give up.....
 
#490
#490
doozer said:
Ummmm...what?
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Detroit's drafting is to the NHL what New England's is to the NFL. Find a couple of guys in the late rounds who vastly exceed expectations, then live off that reputation for many years.

Detroit's idea of adjusting to the salary cap world is to turn every pick into a boom-or-bust type of player, with the only recent exceptions being guys like Brendan Smith or Calle Jarnkrok. After that, it's a lot of guys like Pulkkinen.
 
#493
#493
pl3 said:
Who have they resigned when its time to up the ante?
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I don't know that that's necessarily the real issue. Plenty of teams, mostly acting out of loyalty or from lacking a clear vision, re-sign guys who will both cost them a ton and cause "bigger picture" problems as well.

Letting Hamhuis walk, for example, may well have been a simple case of not wanting to commit a huge amount of money to someone who would basically force Ellis or Josi or Blum to stay away off the NHL roster. With an eye toward the future, if those guys aren't ready for the NHL yet, it's possible to pick up a cheap stopgap until they are ready. As it stands, O'Brien comes off the books (leaving an open spot) this offseason, meaning that one of the prospects (probably Ellis) can step in and fill that spot, which would represent an upgrade for now and the future. Next year, Bouillion comes off, and the same thing will happen.
 
#494
#494
Ohio Vol said:
Detroit's drafting is to the NHL what New England's is to the NFL. Find a couple of guys in the late rounds who vastly exceed expectations, then live off that reputation for many years.

Detroit's idea of adjusting to the salary cap world is to turn every pick into a boom-or-bust type of player, with the only recent exceptions being guys like Brendan Smith or Calle Jarnkrok. After that, it's a lot of guys like Pulkkinen.
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That's not getting lucky. That's good scouting.

Basically, you're wrong and if you care to know why, there's a long post by me about it in the NHL thread about this very subject in the last couple of months.

The last 20 years will diagree too.
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#495
#495
We'll have 20M + tied into three players very soon. Suter, Weber, and Pekka can be cornerstones of a franchise and I don't think the front office will be afraid to pay them. It'll help getting overpaid guys like Dumont off the books soon.
 
#496
#496
volville said:
We'll have 20M + tied into three players very soon. Suter, Weber, and Pekka can be cornerstones of a franchise and I don't think the front office will be afraid to pay them. It'll help getting overpaid guys like Dumont off the books soon.
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Yep, I expect those three guys to be the backbone of this franchise for years to come. I expect Dumont and Sullivan to be let go. Their paid way to much for what they bring to the team. Who knows what they do with Lombardi? He's a 3.5 million hit while playing only a couple games. Supposedly he is not any better either which is really a shame.
 
#498
#498
This series is over folks. Terrible to lose consecutive games at home. The Preds need 2 more proven scorers to get past the 2nd round next year. Good run by the Preds this year though.
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#499
#499
#500
#500
There's no excuse for not matching a $7/8, offer for Weber. Any owner who can't flirt with the salary ceiling doesn't deserve to own a franchise.
 
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