NHL 2016 Off-Season Thread

[75 58 47 old school]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Can't believe we're only 1 week away from the draft! Matthews to the Leafs, and we get to see the new jerseys!

I'll make sure to light a candle for him that day... such a waste of good talent. Kessel Jr. should be his nameplate on those sweaters.

[Psyblast]

Blackhawk fans "unhappy" with Quenneville are welcome to remember the glory days of their team being on PPV and always finishing at the bottom of the standings before he, Kane, and Toews arrived.


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[75 58 47 old school]

Quote: Originally Posted by Psyblast

Blackhawk fans "unhappy" with Quenneville are welcome to remember the glory days of their team being on PPV and always finishing at the bottom of the standings before he, Kane, and Toews arrived.

That's understandable. But when that style of hockey (Shaw as an 'indepensible' hockey player, please, money99 gets it, it seems) is too slow to compete, like it pretty much was shown this postseason, why keep it around? It's not a successful blueprint anymore.

Why go back to where, as you say, people remember the last place days? Quenville has been riding the coat tails of Kane, Towes, Hossa, and Saad, etc.for about a decade. Same for Hitchcock and Sutter. No difference. No sense of skill hockey. No appreciation of it, at least.

[SPTO]

Apparently the Flames are actively calling the Pens about acquiring Marc-Andre Fleury.

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by Psyblast

Blackhawk fans "unhappy" with Quenneville are welcome to remember the glory days of their team being on PPV and always finishing at the bottom of the standings before he, Kane, and Toews arrived.

*insert joke about 90% of Chicago fans being unaware of Blackhawks' existence prior to 2007 here*

[Psyblast]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

*insert joke about 90% of Chicago fans being unaware of Blackhawks' existence prior to 2007 here*

I was gonna say 2009, but that works too.

[75 58 47 old school]

Quote: Originally Posted by SPTO

Apparently the Flames are actively calling the Pens about acquiring Marc-Andre Fleury.

As was posted here a day ago. Any ideas on what Calgary could offer as a realistic return? T.J.Brodie too expensive as a trade piece...Fleury is a cap liability to the Pens, so trading for Brodie not cost effective, nor likely in Flames plans... So anybody got a proposal???

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

*insert joke about 90% of Chicago fans being unaware of Blackhawks' existence prior to 2007 here*

Which sucks given the fact they're an original 6 team. Hope they never struggle again like they did prior to the Kane/Toews era. From 97-08, were dark days in their existence. Sooner or later they'll miss playoffs, so hopefully people don't jump off bandwagon the first bad year they have.