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Post by lari on Apr 25, 2024 13:15:12 GMT
Imagine Mark Stone comes to the team doctor in the last week of the regular season and says "Hey Doc, I'm feeling 100%, clear me to play".
Doctor sends the memo to GM and he's like "oh yay, good news, Mark is well, now I'll just have to terminate enough contracts to get under the cap".
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 25, 2024 14:29:35 GMT
Vegas has perfected the let Mark Stone get hurt so we can add a bunch of hired guns at the TDL strategy. Makes the Hawks look like pikers the one time Kane got hurt. I refuse to give stunley credit for starting this whole thing. It was a total fluke he both added and added correctly to get the team over the hump. It was probably someone in his ear telling him to do it (Brad aldrich maybe, I dunno)
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 25, 2024 14:32:09 GMT
Imagine Mark Stone comes to the team doctor in the last week of the regular season and says "Hey Doc, I'm feeling 100%, clear me to play". Doctor sends the memo to GM and he's like "oh yay, good news, Mark is well, now I'll just have to terminate enough contracts to get under the cap". Funny thing, that’s what Ryan reeves did to the laffs this year. He was just kinda left on LTIR until someone in the media actually asked him how far away he was, and he said he was good to go didn’t know why he hadn’t been activated. Lol… He was magically activated a day or two later. His case wasn’t saving the loafs big bucks or anything but it was a real eye opener as to how closely the league monitors (and/or cares) about who’s on LTIR, for how long, etc.
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Post by lari on Apr 25, 2024 14:47:21 GMT
So the doctor can clear him, and the GM can just not open that particular email for a week?
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 25, 2024 14:53:17 GMT
Maybe!
I’m Thinking they didn’t ask a doctor to come and clear him at all…just sort of left him be. But who knows.
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Post by lari on Apr 25, 2024 15:03:01 GMT
I’m Thinking they didn’t ask a doctor to come and clear him at all…just sort of left him be. It's easy to not answer phone calls from the player. Just have to make sure arena security stops him from entering the building.
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Post by Merpes on Apr 26, 2024 2:06:14 GMT
Looks like the Bolts will draft 19th since Islanders are also likely to be sent packing. Panthers made easy work out of Tampa and their window is now officially closed and the slide to the bottom of the league is still years away with all those contracts. Stamkos is lucky since he can leave this summer.
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Post by garyu on Apr 26, 2024 4:15:45 GMT
Looks like the Bolts will draft 19th since Islanders are also likely to be sent packing. Panthers made easy work out of Tampa and their window is now officially closed and the slide to the bottom of the league is still years away with all those contracts. Stamkos is lucky since he can leave this summer. No surprises tonite. Thanks TB for another top 20 pick. (Mews, Greentree, Hage).
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Post by lari on Apr 26, 2024 15:17:48 GMT
Are we ready for another Panthers-Knights final?
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Post by lari on Apr 27, 2024 16:41:54 GMT
A little bit of nasty in the Jets-Avs series. Jets lead after two, but the Avs scored five unanswered in the third. Lowry fought Miles Wood, and a couple of scrums ensued, including after the final whistle. Brenden Dillon somehow got his hand cut pretty bad. Looks nasty.
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Post by lari on Apr 27, 2024 16:46:00 GMT
Pionk also wailed on a prone Ross Colton after he got the upperhand and they were down on the ice.
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 27, 2024 18:44:58 GMT
That’s a baaaaad looking slice. They commented on it as it happened and showed some of the blood on the ice. I bailed before they showed the actual incident, if they even did.
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Post by lari on Apr 27, 2024 20:04:19 GMT
I don't know anything, but I think it was a skate. Dillon was wrestling and tried to do a WWE style takedown grabbing the other guy's ankles, but must have slipped and got stepped on. He did get the takedown, but at what cost.
That's why wrestling is gay. This doesn't happen if you try to throw punches.
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Post by dhull10 on Apr 27, 2024 20:26:41 GMT
Teravinan still plugging along for Canes. Another Hawks giveaway. Gave up on him way to early
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Post by khawk20 on Apr 27, 2024 20:44:37 GMT
Teravinan still plugging along for Canes. Another Hawks giveaway. Gave up on him way to early That is unfortunately a pretty long list and is always a good argument that you gotta let the young ones develop a bit.
Forsling is a good example, as is Tuevo, Danault, Hartman...the list goes on.
I know some of deals that were made got us Cups, but many more were made because simple stanley couldn't stop giving other players more $$$ than they deserved.
I would also argue that it's only now, that the team is at the bottom-bottom, that the Hawks management can correct/show they have learned as an org from those mistakes with the current generation of young prospects and players.
IF they read them right.
Vlasic will be the first test of this. There will be a lot of others. If they guess right more than they guess wrong, the Hawks will be a contender again in the next decade. If they guess more wrong..welcome to the Buffalo Sabres, Midwest Version.
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