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Hot take : the hard salary cap is a sack of diseased dicks.
It makes it impossible to build a dynasty. One or two championships tops and then the GM is forced to start shedding critical players solely for financial reasons.
It has also destroyed team-player loyalty because no player is untouchable in the world of balance sheets and pencil pushers.
There is a lot to discuss around the decision to keep a player like Marner who is on an expiring contract. His paycheck breaking the team shouldn’t be a consideration.
Would it be fair to small market teams to abolish the cap? Well, let’s also ask – would those same small market teams exist in a vacuum without being subsidized by the revenue from big market teams who prop up the profitability of the entire league?
Institute a “luxury tax” and abolish the hard cap.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk ™.
So far, it’s not a major issue like it was on HB.
Given the current situation around the world, it’s almost impossible to complete shut out every little snarky political comment.
It only becomes a problem when the entire discussion is hijacked with long political diatribes that have no connection to the sport. That happens frequently on the other site and it almost happened here once in the Leafs forum a few days ago. That’s what made me originally post this. But, thankfully it died down of it’s own accord and hasn’t come up again.
This is where the ability to easily flag/report a post would be handy.
This site has been a nice breath of fresh air – all hockey and no Facebook type drama. I hope it stays this way.
Keep up the good work.
Too many Lightning games to count, but none in the last 20 years. Saw several during their inaugural season.
A couple of NFL Buccaneers games back in the late 70s during the orange and white era.
One Yankees spring training game in the late 90s.
One Rowdies MLS futbol match, also in the late 70s or early 80s.
I think that’s it. I love hockey, but don’t really get into other sports. I went to the baseball game because my weed dealer had free tix.
Edit : I went to a pro sprint-car race when I was a little kid. I don’t remember much except how loud it was and the smell of exhaust fumes.
Ek posting on the Leafs blog about a new Leafs blogger on HB.
Yeah, because *that* is the problem. ,- Aeth
LOL. I had to go look.
Yeah, the bloggers are the least of HB’s issues. I don’t care who he brings in to blog. Clean up the fucking forums and enforce the rules.
It’s not about the defending Champs going down without a fight, it’s about the Leafs “going down” without a fight. Which they do time and time again.
Marner is a junk playoff player. Reilly is done. Matthews is too broken all the time. JT is slow. Nylander is useless alone.
Bennett took out the goalie in Game 1 and not one person on the team did shit to Bennett. Florida has been wrecking our players mentally and physically because they’re weak and easily intimidated. Their talent cannot compensate for their lack of heart.
Leafs have the most expensive and most wrong type of players in the top 6 for playoff hockey. Plain and simple. Same shit different year. – Underhillsie
I agree with all of that. Bennett should still be in the hospital.
I’m just not giving methhead Panthers fans the satisfaction of melting down in public over it.
This is either the stage being set for the greatest Leafs series victory in decades, or it’s another chapter of failure. I think we all know what might be coming, but I’m still gonna hold out hope like a pollyanna muldoon.
Maybe it’s because I am geographically removed from the situation and maybe it’s because I don’t have the Leafer seniority experience many of you do, but I am NOT giving up hope yet.
Nobody expected the defending champs to go down without a fight and nobody realistically expected the Leafs to win in less than 6 or 7 games.
Granted, shitting the bed two games in a row is Leafy as fuck, but Berubae has one last chance to light a fire under this core and I am going to withhold final judgements until we see a handshake line.
GLG.
hate watching the Oilers – Whipper
If the Leafs are eliminated, then I am backing McJesus. It gives me no joy, but I cannot support a US-based team not named Tampa at this time.
Matthews better be hurt. I know Florida’s centers are good, but not good enough to completely shut down a 100% healthy and determined Matthews.
So, either he’s playing through an injury that is limiting him significantly, or the guy just doesn’t have that extra gear that is required in the postseason. Florida also shut down Ducherov, but he was playing hurt. Similar situation. You might shut him down for a game or two, but not for an entire series if he’s healthy.
I hope the management comes clean on his injury status in the offseason. I think the fans are owed an explanation.
It looks bad, but this series isn’t over yet. Leafs could still win this and I will root for them until the end, win or lose.
If they win the next two and pull this off, then we’ll look back on these doomer comments and laugh about it.
If they lose this series, then you gotta do a partial rebuild at the least – wholesale changes must be made. They changed the GM, they changed the coach, they changed the captain, what next?
If this core bungles this last chance to step up, then you gotta break them up. You don’t reward vanishing acts with fat raises and new contracts.
Rent F-ing free. Imagine being so wrapped up in politics that you can’t talk about anything else without bringing politics into it. It’s pathological. I can’t imagine how the guy’s day must go with everything everywhere being politics all the time. Waitress took too long to bring your food? Politics. Guy pissed you off in traffic? Politics. Your hockey team lost a game? Politics. Jesus Christ. What a shitty way to walk through life. Carrying around a big heavy sack full of perceived grievances everywhere you go. Then getting defensive and playing the victim when you get called out on your bullshit. I regret defending this douche when half of the HB forum was calling for him to be banned. He’s completely incorrigible and is an agent of chaos. He’s like Horseman War showing up in your forums – nothing good will follow.
I would fully hope and expect this thread to be locked down, sanitized, and warnings/bans handed out. We’ll see.
