History tends to repeat itself...

EDIT: fvck was that jinxy....
- MattStrat

Lol

They're supposed to be tweaking the process, but we'll see.
- Rinosaur

The obvious solution is the gold plan but apparently it’s too complicated for the long pants hockey world

The obvious solution is the gold plan but apparently it’s too complicated for the long pants hockey world
- Feds91Stammer

Lmao

Yea but I also don't find her to completely suck, she's got some tools😉
- 668710

Sucking is usually how they get promoted.

Sucking is usually how they get promoted.
- Feds91Stammer

Lmfao

The obvious solution is the gold plan but apparently it’s too complicated for the long pants hockey world
- Feds91Stammer

What’s the gold plan?

The obvious solution is the gold plan but apparently it’s too complicated for the long pants hockey world
- Feds91Stammer

What is the gold plan?

What’s the gold plan?
- Victoro311

I'd you have to ask, you can't afford it.

What is the gold plan?
- Rinosaur

If you have to ask you can't afford it.

Sucking is usually how they get promoted.
- Feds91Stammer

Oh and back to the Caps thread, you got them going no matter how anyone felt the hit went. You say two words and it flips the whole comment section lmao.

If you have to ask you can't afford it.
- 668710

That’s a movie I absolutely refuse to watch again to preserve the memory. I used to love all the Broken Lizard stuff in middle school. Watched Super Troopers a few years ago and hated it. Completely ruined the memory.

What’s the gold plan?
- Victoro311

Once mathematically eliminated you accrue draft standings points which would determine the draft order.

That’s a movie I absolutely refuse to watch again to preserve the memory. I used to love all the Broken Lizard stuff in middle school. Watched Super Troopers a few years ago and hated it. Completely ruined the memory.
- Victoro311

Haha it’s still watchable but definitely doesn’t hit the same.

Oh and back to the Caps thread, you got them going no matter how anyone felt the hit went. You say two words and it flips the whole comment section lmao.
- 668710

Regardless of how serious I’m being it’s always fun to get a long winded response to a couple word post.

Once mathematically eliminated you accrue draft standings points which would determine the draft order.
- Feds91Stammer

As in wins after elimination?

Yea I enjoyed that tandem. A little off topic but Jackie Redmond is hot.
- 668710

I also think it makes sense that the only teams eligible to draft in the top five are the ones who finish in the bottom five. Maybe that's a little too simplistic, but I think it's the most fair.

That’s a movie I absolutely refuse to watch again to preserve the memory. I used to love all the Broken Lizard stuff in middle school. Watched Super Troopers a few years ago and hated it. Completely ruined the memory.
- Victoro311

In our younger drinking days Beerfest played on loop all day while we partied during St Patrick's day. Unless there was a pens game haha.

As in wins after elimination?
- Victoro311

Yeah. So the worst teams have the most opportunity but they have to win games to get the top pick. Eliminates tanking. Gives late season games more interesting and fans of poopty teams a reason to tune it.

- DeflatedPucks

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NHL Network analyst.

Yeah. So the worst teams have the most opportunity but they have to win games to get the top pick. Eliminates tanking. Gives late season games more interesting and fans of poopty teams a reason to tune it.
- Feds91Stammer

I like it.

Yeah. So the worst teams have the most opportunity but they have to win games to get the top pick. Eliminates tanking. Gives late season games more interesting and fans of poopty teams a reason to tune it.
- Feds91Stammer

Yeah that’s pretty excellent.

I also think it makes sense that the only teams eligible to draft in the top five are the ones who finish in the bottom five. Maybe that's a little too simplistic, but I think it's the most fair.
- Rinosaur

If they keep a lottery system more things need to be in place. Falling in the lottery multiple years in a row seems like something that’s broken as well.

Yeah that’s pretty excellent.
- Victoro311

Yeah doubt it every happens since they idea came from Andrew Gold at the Sloan conference back in 2012. Shane doan endorsed it in like 2016 but I don’t think it’s gotten much traction with the 100 hockey men.

We only need it to be effective for two or three years. After that it doesn’t matter and we can retain to milk assets. If Sid and Geno were younger and we still had legitimate window I’d probably be in favor of trading him this offseason.
- Victoro311

The plan should be to trade everyone of value for as many futures as you can get once Sid and Malkin move on. There’s not a single player on this team that’s young enough to be part of the future on the other side of the rebuild. That 100% includes Guentzel, and if you ask me, it also includes Marino.
- Victoro311

We're operating on 2 different time frames.

Rust, Malkin, and Letang's contracts are all up. Malkin will be 36 and Letang and Sid 35 before that season. If you haven't started rebuilding yet, it's time. So no extensions for players over 30 unless they are retirement contracts.

Start rebuilding the farm system so if you get lucky in a lottery or otherwise find a franchise player, you have something to surround them with. Pens might not have competed as quickly with Crosby, Malkin, and Letang if they didn't already have Fleury, Whitney, Armstrong, Orpik, Talbot, Kennedy, Scuderi, Christensen, Malone in the system. All either filled key roles or were trade chips.

By starting sooner, some of those defensemen may still be around. Other then that, I'll agree, it's just when they are traded.