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Longhorn_Fan68

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  1. I said it previously, but I think the Stars were hoping Stank would be another DeBrincat or Garland. Small, but effective. And he still may very well be that, but it was clear with the current makeup of the Stars, that potential was not being realized. I am 100% in favor of the sure thing now (Rantanen) than the promise of what could be - we've been in that mode for a half decade or more. It's time to win. You're right on Hintz - his major upside is his speed and transition game. Good teams have those players, but you have to balance them with checking forwards. Benn and Segs will be around a few more years. They'll take smaller and smaller contracts to stick around and win a few cups. We're flush with leadership players - Esa, Duchy, Granlund even though he's new. This is the Avs nightmare scenario. We not only signed him, but it a better deal (for us) than he was about to accept in Colorado. Kinda nutty, but I'm stoked to have him. Still weird to see him in green.
  2. yeah, well, I beat everyone by having no assets at all. can't take what doesn't exist! lol. sigh.
  3. what do you have against flavor crystals?
  4. agreed. we needed size and skill and unfortunately Stanky could only (marginally) provide one of those. he'll do great in CAR
  5. Happy for him. Hope he flourishes. This game is a wet fart so far. Both teams just skating back and forth
  6. also, every time I read the word monolith
  7. weird self own because it's pretty obvious what that map is saying.
  8. maybe it's the coffee, but I am AMPED for tonight. Rantanen's debut with the Stars against the Mighty McDavids. Should be awesome.
  9. btw, I think Rantanen will do better with the Stars than Carolina because the Stars are a better team. I think Carolina's cup chances are overblown - especially now that they've given up their best player. Their top line is as good as any in the league with Jarvis, Aho, and Svechnikov (and mix in Stanky in there), but it's a HUGE drop after that. Remains to be seen whether Rantanen will be as good or better with the Stars as he was with the Avs.
  10. for those unacquainted. As Bob Sturm put it, the Stars have never really had a player like this. I agree with him.
  11. and for the record I am not a kick-them-to-the-curb fan when a player leaves. I still follow a lot of former Stars and watch for them when we play their teams. I'm just a little stunned about Stank's attitude, especially given the reputation of Nill and the Stars front office (Jim Lites aside, lol), I'm gonna guess this was handled in the most professional but also kid-gloves way. I don't take this stance often, but this feels like a "you owe me a thank you" kind of thing and we got a "fuck you!" instead
  12. honestly, he seems the type. he was the only player I was slightly emotionally invested in that I was willing to part ways with for someone like Rantanen (no-go on the likes of Robo, Roope, Wyatt, Harls, etc). I couldn't put my finger on what it was (beyond the lack of production) that was keeping me from liking him more, and maybe this was it. something fuels his motor - perhaps it's arrogance.
  13. to my first point above, I would be willing to bet no none does what The Red Wings did relatively recently - make 25 playoff appearances in a row - in our lifetimes. too much parity (and that's not a bad thing, imho)
  14. it's really goddamn hard to be a contender year in and year out. and let's face it, Marchand is still a top 100 player, but he's in no way the same player he was when they were winning cups. it's hard to build a cup-winning team around an aging captain. it's the folly of making your best player the captain - makes it hard to keep them when they can still win a cup but you can't. just glad he didn't come to the stars. he's another Perry and while effective, I prefer to win in other ways
  15. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I didn't really expect Stanky to act like a bitch on his way out. He cut ties with Stars social media and hasn't really spoken about the Stars, other than to comment he's going to a team "that wants me." Maybe it's his youth and it being his first time traded, but damn kid, the stars didn't do you wrong. if they had you'd be playing in San Jose. I think he'll actually develop better in the Canes organization - Stars are just too stacked at forward and he got shunted to lower lines. I bet he'll play a line or two higher in CAR. anyway, don't be a baby.
  16. Hey now, i was just reporting what i was reading. And it was correct. They just didn't add anyone else. Doesn't mean they weren't trying. Anywho, I'm happy.
  17. it's quite remarkable, ain't it?
  18. my simple understanding of how the nhl calculates salary is that it is your active roster that matters. so even if a player is hurt, if he's not on LTIR, he still counts against the cap. since I think this is retroactive to Miro's injury, it's the total of all the games he would have played that is the free money. not sure I explained that right, anyway, afaik, for the playoffs you have to be under the cap entering the playoffs but once they start there basically is no cap. if you have a guy on your roster that was hurt and now he isn't, he can play. it'll eventually be called The Mark Stone Loophole
  19. the more I think about it the Miro to LTIR smokescreen was to leave options open but to pump fake the league on Miro's condition. also, Nill is such an awesome and magnanimous GM he wanted to save his GM a cool $8.5M. Good guy, that Jim Nill. Hope Rantanen is in the lineup tomorrow. I'm fucking stoked!
  20. my second thought before "Please don't trade Wyatt Johnston" before I feel asleep last night was, "goddamn gaslighting is a fucking problem in this country." I really don't know how we unfuck this. it's not just alternative facts anymore. it's outright lies purported as truth. it's maddening. spoiler: we didn't trade Johnston
  21. this is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY beyond mentally unstable
  22. might as well add it to the protest song list the way things are going
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