NHL 15-16 Regular Season Thread: F I R E _ T H E R R I E N

[Vaspinne]

To go further, here's an excerpt from a sportsnet article after the deadline:

Nada for Vrbata?!

The consensus deadline “loser,” according to those of us quick to cast judgment, idle Vancouver received a grand total of zero trade offers for winger Radim Vrbata, reports Ben Kuzma of The Province.

“Not even a palatable draft pick for a diminishing asset,” Kuzma writes.

The 34-year-old’s high price tag ($5 million cap hit) and low production proved to be roadblocks after he handed Benning his eight-team yes-trade list. Still, no one floated an offer for a guy who scored 31 goals just a year ago.

Vrbata’s staying looks worse when you consider Calgary scooped a second and a fourth from Florida for 32-year-old Jiri Hudler.

“We didn’t receive a concrete offer on him,” Benning told Kuzma. “He gave us a fair list, and we talked to the teams and a couple went in a different direction and the others weren’t buying players at the deadline.”

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. I'm just saying Vrbata defo wants out of Vancouver, it's pretty obvious. He was just being stubborn about going to a contender (I'm assuming the 8 teams he gave were all in playoff contention).

And considering GM Wizard Brad Treliving managed to get what he got for Russell, Hudler and Jones and seemingly at the expense of Vancouver's own trades, just makes Vancouver/Vrbata's situation all the sweeter for me :3

[Wulfgang]

I really hope we don't have to face the Preds in the first round.

Perds win! The new MS Paint Perds banner for the sports section is giving us all the cosmic powers right now.

In other news, got to hang out with Cail and Brill on PSN party chat last night while playing the Division. Brill sounds exactly like Serra.

[Sepukku]

Rob Ford has died, King

[BadKarma]

BK here you go dude.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...134923936.html

YEAH I FUCKING KNOW

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[Obsidian]

Sens owner spat some hot fire at his team today.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...t-at-team.html

[Ceberoth]

Bets on game tonight? Caps jungling lines vs sens angry owner, who wins ???

C-a-p-s!!! let's gooooooo

[bluefan]

If Vancouver can spank us tonight and split the series, that'd be great.

But let Scheifele get a hat trick please.

[NynJa]

Sens are the 22nd cheapest team in the league as far as salary goes, and Melnyk is wondering why they are around 20th place?

[Obsidian]

Sens are the 22nd cheapest team in the league as far as salary goes, and Melnyk is wondering why they are around 20th place?

Roster certainly has something to do with it (losing MacArthur and Turris did not help) but the only reason Dave Cameron has a job right now is because Andrew Hammond put together maybe the best two and a half month stretch in goaltending history.

[Judai]

11 games left, Holtby needs 5 Wins to tie Brodeur's single season record, he has played in 20 less games this season so far.

[Judai]

and Mike Richards gives us a quick lead, lol

[NynJa]

Roster certainly has something to do with it (losing MacArthur and Turris did not help) but the only reason Dave Cameron has a job right now is because Andrew Hammond put together maybe the best two and a half month stretch in goaltending history.

Just sayin
If you aint spendin to the cap (or almost to the cap), you cant complain about a lack of success.

[Judai]

Just sayin
If you aint spendin to the cap (or almost to the cap), you cant complain about a lack of success.

Usually, but then you have teams like NSH and ANA who have more cap space than OTT, and are fantastic. OTT has a bunch of young guys who haven't hit big UFA contracts yet. Hammond's amazing run made the Owner think his team was better then it is though.

[Ceberoth]

So that works.

C-a-p-s!!! let's gooooooo

[Obsidian]

In fairness to the Sens they do have some young guys (Lazar, Stone, Chabot) who look pretty good, but their forwards and goaltending just haven't been good enough. I think their defense is actually pretty decent.

[Obsidian]

Case in point.

[Thoronas]

If Vancouver can spank us tonight and split the series, that'd be great.

But let Scheifele get a hat trick please.

You think you can beat Vancouver in a tank battle!?!

well..... actually you probably could since the Jets are terrible.

[bluefan]

You think you can beat Vancouver in a tank battle!?!

well..... actually you probably could since the Jets are terrible.

[Ratatapa]

Mike brown can score?

Let's sign him!

[Ceberoth]

First round is going to be so tough to watch all the good games... I need to buy more TVs

C-a-p-s!!! let's gooooooo