NHL 2021-22 season Fantasy & Chat thread

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Blue Jackets quietly rebuilding. Missed playoffs for a couple of years. Could make noise this season.

[mr. leisure]

With players returning from injury, Penguins have a nice problem, having to decide whther Rust stays on Crosby line, or steps down to a steadying presence on the club's second line.

Metropolitan is a tough division. 👍

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With players returning from injury, Penguins have a nice problem, having to decide whther Rust stays on Crosby line, or steps down to a steadying presence on the club's second line.

[mr. leisure]

I saw where Landeskog took the cup to a childrens hospice in Sweden . 👍👍👍

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In honour of the NYI team's 50th anniversary, the club bought $50,000 worth of tickets in the $1.2 billion jackpot installment of the Mega Millions Lottery.

[mr. leisure]

John Klingberg signed a 1 year contract with the Ducks. Nice pickup 👍

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The best one I remember was Felix Potvin .

Terry Sawchuk gets voted best Leafs goalie all time in a good number of fan polls. Johnny Bower is usually up there too. I think both were on the 1967 team that last won the Cup for Toronto, and if memory serves they shared the Vezina that year. Also had Jacques Plante for a while, who I believe crafted and wore the first goalie mask. Mike Palmateer had a decent run. They also had Cujo for a bit.

[mr. leisure]

The Leafs have needed a good goalie since the 90's.

The best one I remember was Felix Potvin .

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When the Cup does its victory tour during the summer, it doesn't have the recent team's players' names on on it yet. This year, for the first time, it was engraved with the team name and year before the tour, but the players' names don't get added until October.

[Stallion]

The Leafs have needed a good goalie since the 90's.

[mr. leisure]

Kaapo Kakko agreed to a 2 year contract with the Rangers .

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Leafs 4th round goalie pick Dennis Hildeby is 6'5".

When on his knees his shoulders reach the cross bar.

Camp reports on his atheticism and play are exciting and promising.

BTW, Ken Dryden: 6'4".

[mr. leisure]

Metropolitan division is crowded at the top. Is it the toughest division in terms of parity?

Looking real tough next year . 👍

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Metropolitan division is crowded at the top. Is it the toughest division in terms of parity?

[mr. leisure]

David Quinn was hired as head coach by the Sharks .

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There's a story that Rick Vaive refused a young Shanahan Leafs fan an autograph. Once in the NHL years later, Shanahan went after Vaive who found out after the pummelling that it was over the jilted autograph request.

[DwightShrute]

"On road trips, Scott Bowman would leave a stick with the hotel front desk at curfew time, asking the clerk to get players to sign it. It was his simple way of deciphering which players were coming in late.
If anybody asked me for an autograph late at night, I always signed 'Darren McCarty"
-Brendan Shanahan

[DwightShrute]

Agree , good trade for both teams. 

bookies agree

[mr. leisure]

Sturm has the Cup in Augsburg right now, after signing a 3 year contract with with the Sharks earlier this month.

Yeah , the cup is doing it’s European tour right now. 👍

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Sturm has the Cup in Augsburg right now, after signing a 3 year contract with with the Sharks earlier this month.

[mr. leisure]

Agree , good trade for both teams. 👍

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I can't find any elaboration of the condition(s) on that Calgary 2025 first round pick from Florida, anybody know?

[DwightShrute]

Florida was one of the teams he listed as wanting to go to.

It's a pretty good deal for both teams. I am a huge Tkachuk fan. Tkachuk was leaving no matter what and he's an elite player. Calgary got an elite player in return. A top 10 in the league player. American going to play in the US and 2 Canadians going up to Canada.

Both teams had a disappointing playoffs and both players were basically absent during the post season, so something needed to done.

Both Huberdeau and Weegar have one year left on their contacts. I assume the conditional pick will if Calgary will be able to sign Huberdeau. If they do sign him, then its a pretty even trade with Calgary maybe even winning it. Weegar could be the wildcard if he over exceeds in Calgary.

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Huge trade …

Tkachuk traded to Florida for Huberdeau and a couple of other players and a draft pick . He signed a 8 year 76 million contract with the panthers . ��

Florida was one of the teams he listed as wanting to go to.

[DwightShrute]

[mr. leisure]

Huge trade …

Tkachuk traded to Florida for Huberdeau and a couple of other players and a draft pick . He signed a 8 year 76 million contract with the panthers . 💰

[mr. leisure]

Thanks brother, had the giants last night for a loss need to rebound today . ✅

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Love his game , I think a lot of teams will want him . ��

Good luck in July Dog of the Day MLB contest. Stay in the money!

The Kid got off to an insane start this month.

[mr. leisure]

He becomes unrestricted free agent next year. May end up in St louis, where he grew up and his dad played.

Love his game , I think a lot of teams will want him . 👍

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Flames filled for salary arbitration. Looks like he is staying put .

He becomes unrestricted free agent next year. May end up in St louis, where he grew up and his dad played.

[mr. leisure]

I would go after Matthew Tkachuk if I was a GM . 👍

Flames filled for salary arbitration. Looks like he is staying put .

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Toronto just extended forward Pierre Engvall's contract by a year, $2.25 million cap.

[mr. leisure]

Montreal is definately in rebuild mode, I worry about Carey Price and whether he will stick around for it or not.

Hope he gets his health issues taken care of too . ✅

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Jack Johnson and his kids enjoyed eating ice cream from the Cup during the trophy's tour visit to Dublin.

[Stallion]

Montreal is definately in rebuild mode, I worry about Carey Price and whether he will stick around for it or not.