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Stayin alive
Joined: 06.10.2021

Apr 15 @ 5:14 PM ET
Then you would be just as incompetent as the Flyers were.
- MJL

Yes tool you’re surely right. Happens all the time. You’re a moron. It rarely happens
Stayin alive
Joined: 06.10.2021

Apr 15 @ 5:16 PM ET
You're wrong. Gauthier just did as much as he can. It happens routinely.
- MJL

Moron. Name some….
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 15 @ 5:17 PM ET
Moron. Name some….
- Stayin alive


Morons, name some. I'll start with Stayin alive.
TheFreak
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Duncan, BC
Joined: 12.06.2019

Apr 15 @ 5:22 PM ET
Ha ha, I just heard that the league may be expanded to 36 teams in 5 years from now. This take was given on NHL Network (Sirius/XM). There inclusions were SLC, Phoenix (again), Houston, Atlanta (again) and another team not yet identified. I think Buttman and the powers to be may just be losing their collective minds.
- Phillywhiteout



I had heard about the Arizona and Atlanta, but not that they are looking to add 4 more teams...that would seem too much at once. Even if spread over say 5 years, how do they add the players from teams and let teams keep some kind of structure to their teams? Each team would lose 4 players over the expansion....I think 2 at one time would be too much
TheFreak
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Duncan, BC
Joined: 12.06.2019

Apr 15 @ 5:26 PM ET
Back in the olden days there was a constant parade of stars holding out (sometimes for entire seasons) to extract more money or force trades. Messier, Coffee, Dryden, Peca, Yashin, Stevens, Bure, #88, etc.

Then you had team leaders like Fedorov, Tkachuk and Sakic who signed offer sheets to force their own teams to ante up.

It actually seems like there's less labor strife these days w/ the salary cap. Occasionally get a Nylander or a Cutter, but mostly guys just show up and play.

- Tomahawk


Didn't John Leclair do that too? Hold out with term still on his contract for a higher pay day?
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 15 @ 5:27 PM ET
Dude, the Flyers currently have three players ON THE ROSTER that they burned a year off their ELC for. The fact that this continues to baffle you is alarming.
- TobyFlenderson




But should be 4, right? York, Attard, Cates and Brink?

Ryan Poehling burned his first year off in Montreal too.
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 15 @ 5:29 PM ET
Didn't John Leclair do that too? Hold out with term still on his contract for a higher pay day?
- TheFreak


Yeah, only held out for for a few days but that was enough to get the Flyers to cave.
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 15 @ 5:33 PM ET
Vegas entered the league in 2017 and paid a 500M expansion fee. In 2021, Seattle entered and payed 650M. What is the price now? I'll give you a little bit of time to think about it.
- MJL
I know what the price is now, but that's not the point. This league will become watered down with that many teams. It might actually become more watered down than the dreadful NBA and I certainly don't want that!
TobyFlenderson
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: The Annex, Scranton, PA
Joined: 06.13.2013

Apr 15 @ 5:37 PM ET


But should be 4, right? York, Attard, Cates and Brink?

Ryan Poehling burned his first year off in Montreal too.

- Tomahawk

Correct, yes! Forgot about Attard since it seems like Torts has too.

Anaheim seems to have zero issue letting Gauthier play one game and burning a year. GM JD250 would never stand for such a thing.
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 15 @ 5:38 PM ET
I know what the price is now, but that's not the point. This league will become watered down with that many teams. It might actually become more watered down than the dreadful NBA and I certainly don't want that!
- Phillywhiteout


Disagree.

There's more than enough talent for another couple of teams.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 15 @ 5:46 PM ET
I know what the price is now, but that's not the point. This league will become watered down with that many teams. It might actually become more watered down than the dreadful NBA and I certainly don't want that!
- Phillywhiteout


No, it absolutely is the point. That money goes directly into the owners pockets. The players get 24 or so new jobs for every team.
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 15 @ 5:54 PM ET
Disagree.

There's more than enough talent for another couple of teams.

- Tomahawk
We can agree to disagree. I'd say 2 more teams would be okay, but I think 4 more teams in that short of a window is pushing the envelope.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 15 @ 5:55 PM ET
We can agree to disagree. I'd say 2 more teams would be okay, but I think 4 more teams in that short of a window is pushing the envelope.
- Phillywhiteout


I don't think it would happen in the span of time that you think it will. Vegas came in the league in 2017 and Seattle in 2021
Stayin alive
Joined: 06.10.2021

Apr 15 @ 5:57 PM ET
Morons, name some. I'll start with Stayin alive.
- MJL

Led by mjl. (frank) off dude. Go get some light loser
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 15 @ 6:11 PM ET
I don't think it would happen in the span of time that you think it will. Vegas came in the league in 2017 and Seattle in 2021
- MJL
I'm just telling you what I heard. It was Steve Kouleas, Andrew Raycroft and Anthony Stewart talking about it. Of course, the new CBA is due in 2026, so nothing will happen before that.
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 15 @ 6:16 PM ET
We can agree to disagree. I'd say 2 more teams would be okay, but I think 4 more teams in that short of a window is pushing the envelope.
- Phillywhiteout


Dunno, heard the same arguments prior to the 90/00's expansions and then more recently with Vegas and Seattle.

Yet NHL teams are actually deeper in skill and talent today then they were back in the early 90's, and all the top teams somehow still manage to have multiple elite superstars.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
mikeyo27
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: NJ
Joined: 01.18.2014

Apr 15 @ 6:27 PM ET
Top pairing, shutdown dman. Physical, can carry a hockey stick. Future hall of famer.

Just ask Jones.

- TheFreak


That’s hilarious! Well done!
PT21
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: 木糠布丁, PA
Joined: 03.04.2008

Apr 15 @ 7:02 PM ET


Jonesy at the 26 minute mark

- THE BLACK HAND


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THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 15 @ 7:20 PM ET
Ha ha, I just heard that the league may be expanded to 36 teams in 5 years from now. This take was given on NHL Network (Sirius/XM). There inclusions were SLC, Phoenix (again), Houston, Atlanta (again) and another team not yet identified. I think Buttman and the powers to be may just be losing their collective minds.
- Phillywhiteout

its been talked about for days, I commented on it...you commented on my comment, you senile (frank)
hereticpride
New Jersey Devils
Location: HEY. Does this pole still work?, NJ
Joined: 01.14.2011

Apr 15 @ 7:21 PM ET
Ha ha, I just heard that the league may be expanded to 36 teams in 5 years from now. This take was given on NHL Network (Sirius/XM). There inclusions were SLC, Phoenix (again), Houston, Atlanta (again) and another team not yet identified. I think Buttman and the powers to be may just be losing their collective minds.
- Phillywhiteout

That will kill the league. There’s already too many teams as it is. They just want ad revenue in every market regardless what it does to the on ice product.

You make this a 36 team league and there will be no way for anyone to rebuild without tanking.
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 15 @ 7:21 PM ET
Morons, name some. I'll start with Stayin alive.
- MJL

THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 15 @ 7:23 PM ET
I know what the price is now, but that's not the point. This league will become watered down with that many teams. It might actually become more watered down than the dreadful NBA and I certainly don't want that!
- Phillywhiteout

JFC, isaid this a week and ahalf ago and you threw a conniption fit.....ar you ok, seriously
Just5
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: PA
Joined: 05.22.2008

Apr 15 @ 7:25 PM ET
St. Ivany looks damn good for Pittsburgh. Really good defensive stick. Way to go flyers
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 15 @ 7:26 PM ET
Disagree.

There's more than enough talent for another couple of teams.

- Tomahawk

Sorry, the league and its contrived parity is already waterdown and would benefit from contraction rather than expansion.
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 15 @ 7:27 PM ET
pens up 10
wings down 21
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