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Note: I moved this out of the other thread. No reason to bring back a 4 year old thread for this discussion. I’m love this age of hyperbole we live in. JFJ quite literally ruined the leafs, as did Floyd Smith way back. Burke and Nonis made several moves that set the team back. Dubas made...

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback Cool. Good times over there. I’m really hoping this wave of fundamentalism and racism stokes some patriotism and pride in the true Canadian way of life and rally against this trend. I have to believe, in my heart, that the vast majority of...

I agree with everything you’re saying. I’m just not holding my breath that he can last the season. That’s all.

I doubt he’s going from 43 million to being paid the rate of a reliever.

The refs should be suspended for letting it get to that point. Mcdavid was being absolutely mugged and was nowhere near the puck. It was bush league garbage. I don’t blame mcdavid one bit for this.

Well if we learned anything, it won’t matter at all. It’s time for no consequences: the sequel.

That they’re counting on him as a starter and come June they’re down a starter?

Yeah that 40 million for 8 starts will be awesome.

To be fair that describes Hernandez, and most of us never wanted him gone and would have been happy to have him back. But yes I agree, they need another impact bat.

Sign vlad and 1 more bat and maybe this won’t be a lost season.

Yay?

Honestly that doesn’t bother me. I’ll take this over the stupid NHL cap. And for all of the dodgers spending they really only have 1 legit World Series win in this era. I don’t care what anyone says, I don’t take any Covid championship seriously in any league, especially the mlb one - that 60...

Come on man… not that great? He’s led the league 2x in hits and has a career .290BA including his injury filled season last year.

I think he’s as good as gone, but losing his bat is a huge hole to fill.

Just to be clear I’m not pining for any of those eras. I’m just observing that they seem to be operating in this limited funds world like Ricciardi was (which would limit their options) but this regime doesn’t have those constraints. What’s frustrating me about Atkins is that’s he’s galaxy...

This is like watching the Ricciardi years but they actually have a funds available now. Which is what is making this frustrating. These guys are really just hanging their hats on the one 92 win season. Losing Semien had such a huge impact. And then trading Hernandez was ridiculous. Anyway...

Just as a complete aside, +/- has been such a weird stat for me. Gretzky, for example had 130 points 1 season and was -25 there are other examples but I’m too lazy to search now. But anyway just a total random aside.

Read what I wrote again and what others wrote above. Context and timing matters and makes a difference.

7 years at 6.3 isn’t a bridge. Look at what his stats were compared to Marner’s at the time he signed that deal. I’m not saying Marner didn’t get paid too soon, but his stats lined up with ‘future’ pay. You have to look at it in context. I’m sure they were thinking the cap would rise...

Im just pointing out facts, but just quickly, MacKinnon, Mcdavid, Makar, Quinn and Jack Hughes, Stamkos, Brady Tkachuk, and Draisaitl did not have bridge deals. And I’m sure there are more.