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General Hockey Talk - Injuries, signings, factoids + other news from around the league

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Flo The Action


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What's even more delicious is all of leafs land simontaneously doing Facepalm

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Flo The Action wrote:
tim1_2 wrote:
SeawaySensFan wrote:
tim1_2 wrote:
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Ev wrote:Lou Lamoriello named Leafs GM. lol.

http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=775458

Same old Laffs. Not that we expected anything else.

Nobody saw that coming.  Crazy.  It's funny, because no one even knows if this will be a good thing or a bad thing for the Leafs.

It will be a good thing for Sens fans.

I don't even know anymore, but I do know it's a massive change for an old guy used to running the entire show.

Making up for not having an NHL team they are putting together an All star front office? I can see this all crumbling down if shanabanana doesn't curb his ego. There will be some clashes. The Devils haven't been great at drafting either so I wonder if Lou will be permitted to bring in his own guys.

Does Lou strike anyone as the analytics type of guy? Man this is just throwing Dung at the wall and hoping it sticks. But still it's an impressive pile of Dung.

Unpossible.

This is all going as I predicted.

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Lou really drafted an amazing prospect pool in NJ.  He's really the guy to helm the rebuild.  Sarcasm

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Plus, Deputy Dbag is a piece of Dung.

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Lou has drafted some very good players in NJ but no one worth mentioning in the last 10 or so years aside from Henrique in the 3rd rd. Hockeysfuture has them last in the league

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DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Lou has drafted some very good players in NJ but no one worth mentioning in the last 10 or so years aside from Henrique in the 3rd rd. Hockeysfuture has them last in the league

DownGoesBrown theorizes that basically Lou will just be the figurehead to deflect criticism while Shanahan and all the other hockey wizards in Leaf land make the decisions. Lou apparently will also be a decent mentor to guys like Kyle Dubas?

I dunno, it's all weird.

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BrewinFlames wrote:
tim1_2 wrote:http://www.tsn.ca/talent/caps-holtby-asks-for-one-year-8m-deal-ahead-of-arbitration-1.333987

Holtby asking for one year, $8M ahead of arbitration.  Wowza.


Just not gonna happen, in no way is he worth that, and he's bat crazy if he thinks he is.

He's just trying to increase the distance between their offer and his to up the middle ground.

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Lammy had that ridiculous hydra coach setup last year. Now he joins a team with a ridiculous AGM setup and a hyper-douche at the helm.

This should be spectacular. Munch

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tim1_2 wrote:
DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Lou has drafted some very good players in NJ but no one worth mentioning in the last 10 or so years aside from Henrique in the 3rd rd. Hockeysfuture has them last in the league

DownGoesBrown theorizes that basically Lou will just be the figurehead to deflect criticism while Shanahan and all the other hockey wizards in Leaf land make the decisions. Lou apparently will also be a decent mentor to guys like Kyle Dubas?

I dunno, it's all weird.
The only part I see Lou maybe being good at is the wheeling and dealing. Trades kind of stuff. But I doubt they put him in charge of any drafting, development or anything like that. It's too bad because in the end run all those things come together and this is where heads will butt. And we will laugh! The Dung show continues!

Still, very surprised to see Lou leave NJ.

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LL is nothing but a guy who is going to guide the organization through trades and help develop a "culture" but the Toronto media will make that impossible Smile Smile Smile Smile

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Anyone else think that this is a move that benefits NJD the most? Lamoriello has brought that franchise to the brink of horrendous.

Flo The Action

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spader wrote:Anyone else think that this is a move that benefits NJD the most? Lamoriello has brought that franchise to the brink of horrendous.
well i just heard that they didn't renew the contract of their head scout before moving lou out of the GM seat. maybe it's really on the scouting a bit. also lou  could only do with what he was given. he did bring his team to the finals a few years ago. im not saying he's right, he's a dinosaur. but he's not a schmuck.

i'm hoping he hires his newly out of work head scout.

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tim1_2 wrote:
DefenceWinsChampionships wrote:Lou has drafted some very good players in NJ but no one worth mentioning in the last 10 or so years aside from Henrique in the 3rd rd. Hockeysfuture has them last in the league

DownGoesBrown theorizes that basically Lou will just be the figurehead to deflect criticism while Shanahan and all the other hockey wizards in Leaf land make the decisions. Lou apparently will also be a decent mentor to guys like Kyle Dubas?

I dunno, it's all weird.

They changed the culture there for sure but they have tried too hard to get credible people into their management. They have ego upon ego whether it's Babcock, Hunter, Shanahan, or LL and the one guy that they need to have confidence and an ego is Dubas who is going to get eaten alive if he doesn't stand up to absolutely everyone.

This is what happened with the Burke years other than Burke trading away all his draft picks, big names who either are well past their prime or haven't done anything.

The only thing I am really interested in still is whether or not Babcock can actually do something without Lidstrom, Kronwall, Datsyuk, or Zetterberg. Having 3, 4 HHOF players your whole career is a little different than having guys who are fighting to stay in the NHL.

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I think the only thing Babcock can do (assuming he's as great as everyone says) is worsen Toronto's draft position by a few spots.

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spader wrote:Anyone else think that this is a move that benefits NJD the most? Lamoriello has brought that franchise to the brink of horrendous.

Lou had already stepped down as GM. But they do get a 3rd round compensatory pick.


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NEELY wrote:
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NEELY wrote:Bet?

$20 somebody signs him

By the way, Ribeiro is resigning in Nashville

$20 is a done deal.

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wprager wrote:
spader wrote:Anyone else think that this is a move that benefits NJD the most? Lamoriello has brought that franchise to the brink of horrendous.

Lou had already stepped down as GM.  But they do get a 3rd round compensatory pick.

He was the Shanny of the Devils organization, and he's a control freak. You think he wasn't going to have Shero answering to him?

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Ev wrote:
NEELY wrote:
Ev wrote:
NEELY wrote:Bet?

$20 somebody signs him

By the way, Ribeiro is resigning in Nashville

$20 is a done deal.

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Pay up, NEELY. $1.1M one-year deal with Habs. How much does anyone want to bet he outproduces Chiasson who will probably be getting quite a bit more?


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