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Longhorn_Fan68

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  1. and for the record I am not a kick-them-to-the-curb fan when a player leaves. I still follow a lot of former Stars and watch for them when we play their teams. I'm just a little stunned about Stank's attitude, especially given the reputation of Nill and the Stars front office (Jim Lites aside, lol), I'm gonna guess this was handled in the most professional but also kid-gloves way. I don't take this stance often, but this feels like a "you owe me a thank you" kind of thing and we got a "fuck you!" instead
  2. honestly, he seems the type. he was the only player I was slightly emotionally invested in that I was willing to part ways with for someone like Rantanen (no-go on the likes of Robo, Roope, Wyatt, Harls, etc). I couldn't put my finger on what it was (beyond the lack of production) that was keeping me from liking him more, and maybe this was it. something fuels his motor - perhaps it's arrogance.
  3. to my first point above, I would be willing to bet no none does what The Red Wings did relatively recently - make 25 playoff appearances in a row - in our lifetimes. too much parity (and that's not a bad thing, imho)
  4. it's really goddamn hard to be a contender year in and year out. and let's face it, Marchand is still a top 100 player, but he's in no way the same player he was when they were winning cups. it's hard to build a cup-winning team around an aging captain. it's the folly of making your best player the captain - makes it hard to keep them when they can still win a cup but you can't. just glad he didn't come to the stars. he's another Perry and while effective, I prefer to win in other ways
  5. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I didn't really expect Stanky to act like a bitch on his way out. He cut ties with Stars social media and hasn't really spoken about the Stars, other than to comment he's going to a team "that wants me." Maybe it's his youth and it being his first time traded, but damn kid, the stars didn't do you wrong. if they had you'd be playing in San Jose. I think he'll actually develop better in the Canes organization - Stars are just too stacked at forward and he got shunted to lower lines. I bet he'll play a line or two higher in CAR. anyway, don't be a baby.
  6. Hey now, i was just reporting what i was reading. And it was correct. They just didn't add anyone else. Doesn't mean they weren't trying. Anywho, I'm happy.
  7. it's quite remarkable, ain't it?
  8. my simple understanding of how the nhl calculates salary is that it is your active roster that matters. so even if a player is hurt, if he's not on LTIR, he still counts against the cap. since I think this is retroactive to Miro's injury, it's the total of all the games he would have played that is the free money. not sure I explained that right, anyway, afaik, for the playoffs you have to be under the cap entering the playoffs but once they start there basically is no cap. if you have a guy on your roster that was hurt and now he isn't, he can play. it'll eventually be called The Mark Stone Loophole
  9. the more I think about it the Miro to LTIR smokescreen was to leave options open but to pump fake the league on Miro's condition. also, Nill is such an awesome and magnanimous GM he wanted to save his GM a cool $8.5M. Good guy, that Jim Nill. Hope Rantanen is in the lineup tomorrow. I'm fucking stoked!
  10. my second thought before "Please don't trade Wyatt Johnston" before I feel asleep last night was, "goddamn gaslighting is a fucking problem in this country." I really don't know how we unfuck this. it's not just alternative facts anymore. it's outright lies purported as truth. it's maddening. spoiler: we didn't trade Johnston
  11. this is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY beyond mentally unstable
  12. might as well add it to the protest song list the way things are going
  13. Moose won't be out a Rolex to get #96 this time either
  14. you and Jim Nill both, apparently. Wait, Jim?....
  15. I cannot roll my eyes any further
  16. Stars are accepting bandwagon fans
  17. my last thought before I fell asleep last night was, "anyone but Wyatt." amen.
  18. buzz is there is likely another move that happened late and could be announced in the next hour or so. there is a reason the team has not officially announced the trades yet
  19. btw I super love the Rantanen/Stanky trade. I find it hilarious we didn't have to budge on the offer others gave him. guess the texas tax breaks made it enough
  20. hadn't really focused on d-men, but I cannot imagine who we're going after if they're convinced Miro can't make it for the playoffs. will be interesting to who we get, if we do
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