BrooksBurner

Fuck that. That is all.

I don't get the hate for the Sharks around here? Just because they got a couple of calls that wasn't their choice, or is there another reason?

Heh, kinda funny. I had just mentioned this in another thread too: http://www.blueshirtsbrotherhood.com/showthread.php?21604-Kane-on-Hughes-He-does-a-lot-of-things-better-than-me&p=968636&viewfull=1#post968636 All of the talk would be about Hughes' electeic playmaking and skating IMO...as it should be.

I think Staal built that rap sheet because he had a horrific 1-2 seasons, 3-4 years ago. I thought he was solid last year and the year before. I agree with you as I absolutely think he is a good thing to have on a 2nd/3rd pair for this team right now.

They should be using Karlsson on the PP and offensive draws only. He clearly is having issues skating right now.

Yup. I do think if the Rangers had the #1 pick, the tune around here and other Rangers fan message boards would be different though with regards to Hughes vs Kakko. To me, Hughes is and has been the best prospect for this draft class for 2-3 years. A few games in a tournament doesn't change that. Nothing against Kakko, but Hughes is the superior prospect and is elite in the types of things that make a player elite in today's NHL. That's not to say Kakko isn't a very high end prospect in his own right and has a chance to be better than Hughes, but it does feel like there's some sugar coating going on just because we are almost definitely getting Kakko instead.

https://www.nhl.com/news/jack-hughes-gets-assist-from-family-ahead-of-2019-nhl-draft/c-307453174

I didn't expect that. Nice.

Yup. The guy is electric and will excel in today's NHL.

That was far worse than the penalty call in the Vegas series.

Lol I can't imagine locking long term money up in any of those players. Hope not.

Yeah. That's because all the players that would be worth 12+M this offseason are already under contract. You don't think if Crosby, Kane, etc. were on the open market that they would get that? Just McDavid is worth 12M? Not to mention McDavid signed it 2 years ago. 12.5M then is probably now 14-15M if they were doing the contract over today. The risk makes plenty of sense. I'm not even sure where this 12M number came from. 11M may very well be enough.

I'm just going off of what you wrote here. Seems to me your point of bringing up McDavid was to draw a comparison between Panarin and McDavid at X amount of dollars in order to invalidate Panarin's value, while ignoring every other variable that comes into play when discussing how much a player gets paid. Particularly when a contract is signed, current cap, and what leverage the player has in negotiations. You're right. Perspective does matter. I'd rather "overpay" an elite player by 1-2M annually than a 2nd line player.

Pretty sure Tavares took a discount to go to Toronto to make it work,, but when he signed he became the 2nd highest paid player even though he is not the 2nd best player in the league. You know what your point was in bringing up McDavid's contract. By the way, fun fact: Tavares has a lower career PPG than Panarin. I agree on Kreider. He will get the money. We just disagree on the Rangers being the ones to give it to him.

What do we really need offense for next season if we don't get Panarin? Gotta score enough goals to finish 6th from last again instead of 3rd or 4th from last? I'd trade Kreider, but the expected returns would be very different based on whether they signed Panarin or not. To me, Panarin represents a complete shift in the timeline for this franchise being competitive again. A difference between competing by 2020-2021 versus 2022-2023 at the earliest. There are cascading moves that will be made based on whether they land him or not in my opinion.

There's probably about 10-15 players who could and would command 12+ million annually on a new contract if they were a UFA on the market this offseason. But they aren't and Panarin is. Within a year or two players will start signing for more than whatever Panarin gets. That's just how contracts work really...the bar is always raised unless the cap stops increasing. By the way, when McDavid signed that extension he had something like 6 more years before he was going to be UFA eligible. He didn't have UFA leverage like Tavares did or Panarin does. There's a premium to be paid for that when bidding with other teams. If McDavid was actually a UFA today he'd most likely shatter his current contract (15M+ annually?).

Pretty obvious Boston was going to roll the Canes.

It makes sense to me. One is a 50 point player who is much easier to replace, both through FA and from within. The other is a 80-90 point player and those are very hard to find, both in FA and from within. Risk should be weighed accordingly.

I enjoy Carp more than Brooks.

She's not entirely wrong in that line of thinking. Good ethical dilemma. BUT, she had the war won without lighting the entire city and innocents on fire. That leans toward Mad King crazy.

The reality is not everyone was going to be happy no matter what the ending was here. I thought some things were either a bit underwhelming or over the top at times, but overall I thought the story might end up at this point with Daenerys going mad. We've seen Daenarys' regression into this for a while. I think Varus' comment towards the beginning was telling about how it was going to go. "They say every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin". Well, Jon is the good one so Daenerys must not be. Add in the fact that all of her closest friends have died, and Jon distancing himself romantically. Ticking time bomb.

But he has never been a 30 goal scorer in 6 seasons and counting. The Rangers shouldn't be about to pay him as such either.

If there's one scenario where I would probably be in favor of rolling the dice on Kreider long term, this would probably be it.

Always sucks putting a pet down. Sorry to hear.

Maybe at half price. I see some guys on here thinking he rebounds this year. Not sure I buy that though. A lot of ifs, but if Fox is the goods, ADA takes another big step forward next year, and Hajek is solid in his own end, it won't be so bad having Shattenkirk around getting less minutes. Injecting Hajek/Fox in lieu of Smith/Claesson/Pionk has a good chance of being an upgrade to the defense as a whole at least.