The NHL Starts Again On 10/7

[Dolfan in NYC 12,541]

This is for members of the NHL in the Connor McDavid sweepstakes.  The rest of you with your "good" teams can go screw.

 

Yeah, he could be doing this for your team, a lot. 

[BobbyWhioux 2,093]

Scapegoating Season is officially underway!

[Buy Me a Burrito 1,293]

Leafs clean house.

[ChesterCopperpot 3,672]

Fucking Leafs

[Oyaji 6,915]

Nonis is awful and I would think could only hope for assistant GM jobs in the future. Just awful. Step 1 in fixing Toronto's shitbumminess.

[Matthew 5]

In terms of righting the wrongs of the previous regime this has actually been a great year for the Leafs. We're gonna get a good draft pick to go with Rielly, Nylander and Kadri so there's some potential at least going forward plus we've rid ourselves of the management/coaching staff who got us in this mess. Gonna be a newsworthy summer by the looks of it, just hope it doesn't end up like 2013 did.

[Josh Mann 2,065]

LOLCats re-up with Jaromir Jagr.

I want to make a bunch of age jokes, too, but he was actually really good after Florida picked him up.

[The Man Known as Dan 3,296]

LOLCats re-up with Jaromir Jagr.

I want to make a bunch of age jokes, too, but he was actually really good after Florida picked him up.

He never stopped being good. He's ageless.

[Charlie M. 1,849]

In terms of righting the wrongs of the previous regime this has actually been a great year for the Leafs. We're gonna get a good draft pick to go with Rielly, Nylander and Kadri so there's some potential at least going forward plus we've rid ourselves of the management/coaching staff who got us in this mess. Gonna be a newsworthy summer by the looks of it, just hope it doesn't end up like 2013 did.

 

It's put up or shut up time for Shanny. He basically bought himself some extra time with his lame duck coach and GM over the past two seasons. Now he actually has to do something.

[Oyaji 6,915]

It'll have to come outside of free agency because this is the weakest class in recent memory. Mike Ribeiro tops SportsNet's list of the top 15 free agents, hah.

[Charlie M. 1,849]

He'll sell the fans on the complete rebuild. That'll buy him another 2-3 years of losing.

[Oyaji 6,915]

Getting one of the top 2 picks would legitimize that. 

[Charlie M. 1,849]

Would love to see that smug bastard Eichel have to deal with the Toronto media.

[Oyaji 6,915]

To keep fans of the non-playoff teams entertained for the next few months:

 

NHL Draft Lottery Simulator! Toronto won it 2 out of the 3 three times I tried it.

[Death From Above 3,656]

I ran it 100 times yesterday and this was the rage inducing results for the hockey world:

 

[Oyaji 6,915]

I will hate hockey with a deep passion should either the Oilers or Kings win the lottery. Eichel seems made for the Oilers.

[BobbyWhioux 2,093]

I ran it 100 times yesterday and this was the rage inducing results for the hockey world:

 

 

lol one more thing the Sharks can never win.

[Travis Sheldon 208]

I will hate hockey with a deep passion should either the Oilers or Kings win the lottery. Eichel seems made for the Oilers.

Kings/Oilers with a #1&2 should really put you in a tailspin, eh?

[ChesterCopperpot 3,672]

It's put up or shut up time for Shanny. He basically bought himself some extra time with his lame duck coach and GM over the past two seasons. Now he actually has to do something.

Shanny has only been there a year.

[RIPPA 28,798]

Ted Nolan gone

[Death From Above 3,656]

Sports books are generally awful but I can't wait for Ted Nolan's someday where he rips the shit out of Buffalo it's going to be great.

[elizium 1,591]

What the Fuck Do You People Want From Me?: The Ted Nolan Story

[sabremike 2,096]

GM designs a team with the sole purpose of losing as many games as possible, then fires the coach for losing despite being far more competitive than they had any right to be. Makes all the fucking sense in the world to me. Now we'll hire some wunderkid who will end up bombing spectacularly just like the guy we had before Nolan.

[Death From Above 3,656]

It's not even so much that they did this that bothers me as it is that the GM stood up there and said with a straight face they didn't go out of their way to lose and expected the team to be competitive, when it's "Peyton Manning got injured and the Colts see no reason to get a real QB for the rest of the year because it's the Luck/RG III draft" levels of obvious what's going on here.

 

Interesting that the Leafs clean house (clearly had this ready to go the moment Carlyle was fired), and the Oilers are doing... well, whatever it is the Oilers have been doing the last few years. Whole bunch of different directions poop can go on display.

[Oyaji 6,915]

What the Fuck Do You People Want From Me?: The Ted Nolan Story

Good Lord, I laughed way, WAY too fucking hard at this!