2017 NHL Offseason Thread - Phil Kessel Signed a Baby

[Obsidian]

Buffalo was an expansion draft wasteland to begin with, so getting a 6th out of them on top of a player isn't half bad.

[Melena]

I shoulda said "some more nominations". Really I just didn't understand how Hyman was a finalist instead of Kadri.

How the actual fuck did Karlsson not win the Norris AGAIN.

That early scoring fleury where he was top 5 NHL in points carried chewbacca


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[Obsidian]

That early scoring fleury where he was top 5 NHL in points carried chewbacca


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But Karlsson was right there in points, on a terrible team, and he didn't fall off a cliff like Burns did after the break. Karlsson had a strong start *and* a strong finish.

Florida Panthers: Jonathan Marchessault..... VGK also acquires Reilly Smith and a 2018 4th Rd Pick

"Take our best exposed player and we'll throw in another player and a draft pick."

Vegas: "O...kay?"

[Cail]

Top 10 Norris Votes:

[Cail]

"Take our best exposed player and we'll throw in another player and a draft pick."

Vegas: "O...kay?"

Smith is under contract for another 5yrs at 5mil per, so I'm guesing salary dump

[Obsidian]

30 fewer first place votes, lol. Who the fuck are these people and how do we revoke their voting rights.

Edit: Smith's contract is arguably valuable to Vegas if it helps them meet salary requirements. Didn't realize it was 5 more years though.

[Melena]

Outside of Ottawa and die hard NHL fans, who has heard of karrlson? Burns has some mainstream attention and since half the voters don't even pay attention to the product they vote on it's easy to see how burns won


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[bori]

My god, stfu Pierre

[Obsidian]

Casual fans aren't the ones doing the voting. Anyone with a vote should probably know how good the best defenseman in the league is.

[Cail]

Connor MacDavid is the NHL18 cover player

[Cail]

Clarification: Vegas is sending their 2018 4th to Florida, not the other way around

[Thoronas]

So glad that Vegas to Sbisa off the Canucks. Removes a bad contract that management seemed unwilling to move.

[Sepukku]

Anyone who's seen karlsson play defense knows why he didn't win

[Obsidian]

Anyone who's seen karlsson play defense knows why he didn't win

As stupid as this argument is, Burns is worse defensively than Karlsson is.

[Cail]

Calder: Auston Matthews

[Cail]

Expansion Draft

1st Set of Reveals:
Colorado Avalanche: Calvin Pickard
Vancouver Canucks: Luca Sbisa
Arizona Coyotes: Teemu Pulkkinen
New Jersey Devils: Jon Merrill
Buffalo Sabres: William Carrier.... VGK also acquires a 2017 6th Rd Pick
Dallas Stars: Cody Eakin
Detroit Red Wings: Tomas Nosek
Florida Panthers: Jonathan Marchessault..... VGK also acquires Reilly Smith. VGK sends a 2018 4th to FLA
Los Angeles Kings: Brayden McNabb

2nd Set of Reveals:
Carolina Hurricanes: Connor Brickley.... VGK also acquires a 2017 5th Rd Pick
Winnipeg Jets: Chris Thorburn..... something about a 1st Rd pick, but they said that's later...
Philadelphia Flyers: Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
Tampa Bay Lightning: Jason Garrison..... VGK also acquires Nikita Gusev, 2017 2nd, 2018 4th
New York Islanders: J.F. Berube..... VGK also acquires Mikhail Gravovski, Jake Bischoff, 2017 1st, 2019 2nd
Nashville Predators: James Neal
Calgary Flames: Deryk Engelland

[Outlaw]

This is going to take all night with the way they are doing it.

Just heard about my man Hossa when I got home. That sucks. For all those saying it's fake I don't believe it until I see proof. Why would they make one of their best forwards sit out a season when he's still productive?

[Obsidian]

That's a haul from Tampa and Vegas still got a decent player anyway.

[bori]

Vegas killing it.

[Sepukku]

This is going to take all night with the way they are doing it.

Just heard about my man Hossa when I got home. That sucks. For all those saying it's fake I don't believe it until I see proof. Why would they make one of their best forwards sit out a season when he's still productive?

Make implies he wants to play, maybe he wants to be done and spend time with fam and GM asked him to go along with this charade and in exchange they'll finish paying him that $1m/year for a handful of years they tacked on the end?