Official NHL Thread

[Hero!]

Fuck the Leafs, always

[Tyson]

Fuck the Leafs, always

Correct.

[Randolph]

Pittsburgh and New York was fun on the bun! Calgary and Dallas is also shaping up to be another game 7 classic.

[Rajah]

This thread was once my favorite place on this forum.

[MTR]

Come back and maybe activity will pick up.

[Tyson]

Extremely ashamed to be a Canucks fan right now, it’s probably going to get way worse before it gets better.

We hitched the wagon to the wrong horse, a petulant man-baby who now calls the shots. There are some massive organization-altering decisions to be made in the near future: our captain has one foot out the door; the franchise forward is RFA in July 2024; the franchise defenseman and goaltender are both under contract longterm but probably don’t want to waste their remaining prime years playing with the band on the Titanic.

“Winter is Coming”…

[Randolph]

Seattle is doing pretty well in year 2. And Detroit is in year 12 of their rebuild and they still suck ass...

[Tyson]

If, for some asinine reason, we allow Bo Horvat to walk to free agency when we (unfortunately) need to flip him for assets, Seattle makes a lot of sense as a landing spot.

Seattle has the cap space to go 7 years at $8M per, the Kraken are right there in the Pacific division despite underachieving goaltending. Bo could do the heavy lifting as he’s done in Vancouver; Beniers would benefit from being the sheltered second line center. Wright could learn the NHL game as the third line center who feasts on opposing bottom-sixes or jump onto one of Horvat/Benier’s wing in a load up situation.

Detroit also could be tempting: the chance to play for Stevie Y and a 90 minute car ride from home. Detroit eventually needs to jump from rebuild to playoff mode, adding Horvat while retaining both Bertuzzi and Larkin would help immensely.

[Tyson]

It was made official today: Bo Horvat got traded to the New York Islanders.

As much as I tried to prep myself for this day, it didn’t work. The realization that this is probably the first of many shoes to drop really hurts, that as a Canucks fan I’m looking at yet another decade of darkness.

“Winter is coming.”