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Kotkaniemi15

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Forum: NHL24 juin à 9 h 11
Sujet: 2023 NHL Offseason Discussion Thread #2 - The Salepocalypse
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Brian2016</b></div><div>You can't debate the point so you resort to profanity and name calling. Pathetic, yet entirely predictable. It's because you know you're wrong and you can't possibly defend politicizing the NHL. It's over. You lost. Move on.

Also, the fact that your profane response was allowed to stay posted is a little disconcerting, to say the least.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Saskleaf</b></div><div>I hate Bettman as much as the next guy, but I 100% support him here. Even without getting into a whole debate about the whole pride movement itself (which for the record I don’t support but that’s irrelevant), it was clearly only causing problems. Explain to me how it’s good for anyone on either side when all the media talks about is these guys not wearing the jerseys. It’s just causing unnecessary controversy. This is sports, the place that is supposed to be politics free.</div></div>

My existence is not political.
Forum: NHL Signings5 oct. 2022 à 20 h 17
Sujet: Montreal Canadiens signed Logan Mailloux (3 Years / $902,500 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drambui</b></div><div>sure but where do you draw the line? 17 is almost 18.. what about 16. we drew the line somwhere as a society for a reason. you have to ask yourself where you draw yours. and i'm a believer in readaptation aswell. i've worked around a lot of teenagers to know that indeed... many of them dont really get the world around them. you can have your opinion and thats fine, im stating mine here.</div></div>

As someone who is a teenager and spends a lot of time around teenagers, many of them are let off way too easily. Some teenagers break laws all the time, in spite of them being given their independence. But nearly none of them ever get charged. Saying “they’re young” is no excuse. You’re not holding people accountable for their actions. It’s the same thing as saying “boys will be boys”.

If Mailloux was old enough to live away from home in another country and play professional hockey, he should be tried like an adult. (Since he essentially is one.)
Forum: NHL Signings5 oct. 2022 à 17 h 27
Sujet: Montreal Canadiens signed Logan Mailloux (3 Years / $902,500 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>drambui</b></div><div>i feel people forget the part where he was a minor. does this not make any difference to people? does something you have done when you were 14 should hold the same weight as if you were an adult? where is the line? our constitution and our laws seems to think so. and for good reason. scientific studies show that teenagers who do crime, even the kind of crime that mailloux did, wont reproduce them in the future. its important that there is consequences for his action, but does a teen who did a crime pay his whole life for this? maybe you would say yes, but i guess this is where my opinion is different.</div></div>

Please. Mailloux was 17. Stop acting like he’s a 5 year old who doesn’t comprehend the world around him. If he were a couple months older he’d have gone to jail. And he has still faced essentially no consequences for his actions. He was still drafted in the first round, and still given an NHL contract in spite of his disgusting actions.
Forum: NHL Trades20 sept. 2022 à 20 h 6
Sujet: (MTL / NSH) - Weber for Subban
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pinslack</b></div><div>so

both being retired

who won the trade?</div></div>

Well the cap hits ended up affecting neither team in the end. Neither did age. Just injuries for Weber, and a fall off a cliff for PK (but that was mostly after getting traded to New Jersey).

The Preds got 3 years out of Subban and a couple other assets for trading him away. There were downsides to losing Weber off-ice. There were maybe benefits to adding Subban off-ice? (A Preds fan would know this better than I do) On-ice for the 3 years Subban was there it probably would’ve been a wash. (Since their D-core was great regardless)

The habs got 5 years out of Weber. There were downsides to losing Subban off-ice, but a lot of upsides to adding Weber on-ice and off-ice. The habs definitely would’ve fallen apart quicker and more spectacularly if they didn’t have Weber, but Subban instead. The habs needed a leader and a steady presence on D.

Montréal definitely won this trade, no question. But Nashville definitely didn’t lose. So for them it’s probably a wash at worst, but probably a slight win.
Forum: Montreal Canadiens12 sept. 2022 à 8 h 59
Forum: Montreal Canadiens28 août 2022 à 1 h 42
Sujet: Early Habs 2022-2023 season predictions
I’m predicting that the habs go 50-32-0, and finish 6th in the Atlantic. Michael Pezzetta scores all 50 of the team’s goals, winning the Rocket Richard Trophy. Jake Allen blows George Hainsworth’s record out of the water with 50 shutouts in a season, winning the Hart, the Ted Lindsay, the Jennings, and the Vezina. Samuel Montembeault ends the season with the second most goals against in a single season all-time with 309 and the most saves in a single season with 2,400 saves. He finishes with a GAA of 9.66 and a save percentage of .886. The Canadiens trade Joel Armia to the Maple Leafs at the deadline for a conditional 7th, where he goes on to win the Conne Smythe, scoring 41 goals in the playoffs.

Montréal caps off the season by winning both draft lotteries and picking 5th and 6th overall.

Cole Caufield accepts his qualifying offer, and Jonathan Drouin and Sean Monahan are brought back on league minimum contracts, after all 3 players combine for 0 points. The habs extend Pezzetta with an 8 year contract worth $10.5 million per year. Since money is tight and the habs need a goalie, they buy out the underperforming Nick Suzuki, Brendan Gallagher, and Josh Anderson. This leaves room for Jake Allen to sign an 8 year, $132 million extension ($16.5M per) with the team.
Forum: Montreal Canadiens20 août 2022 à 1 h 16
Sujet: Fil de discussion CANADIENS saison 2022-2023 season THREAD
As I’m sure most of you know, I’m still strongly of the opinion that the NHL stopped existing after June 24th, 2021, but I might make a small exception for April 29th, 2022. It was a nice end to an abysmal season for the team, and a good sendoff for the team’s greatest player of this century and the greatest goalie of his generation.

Carey Price means so much to me, as he does for a lot of people. He was a big factor in me becoming a habs fan in the first place, and has always been a steady fixture for the habs in my mind. Whenever Carey was playing, you knew that there was always a chance of something special happening. Price meant there was always a reason for hope, even if the habs were barely squeaking into the playoffs, or outmatched on paper. Even after having so many injury issues, Carey still lead the habs to the astonishing upset of Pittsburgh in 2020 and the magical run to the cup finals in 2021. I find it impossible to think of the modern Canadiens without thinking of Carey Price, and the current habs will feel especially foreign without him in net. It’s a tragedy that Carey and a lot of the other players we have had over the years were never able to lift Lord Stanley’s Mug, but I’m still so extremely grateful for all that he did to bring hope and joy into the lives of habs fans everywhere.

Price is a true legend, and I look forward to seeing him join the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2025, 20 years after the habs made what turned out to be a franchise-defining choice by choosing him 5th overall.