NHL off season thread (trades, signings, etc…)
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when Brian Burke was hired., so see, theres nothing good about the habs these days. from a dead beat and BORING GM to a Boring coach to Boring hockey,. to me, thats NOTHING to look forward to, signing Lecavalier would be adding some excitement to the Canadiens, but wouldnt it be like that Bastard Brian Burke to STEAL him right out from under Le Habs Noses? 
benxxx said:when was the last time the leafs fans had ANYTHING to cheer about
lgna69xxx said:
hahahaha!!! i guess when you've been used to not much, it don't take much to to get you excited
so, messiah Burke is THE good news in the leafs recent history, ok.
of course, you have much to look forward to, looking back would be pretty depressing
-anyone can say that as of today the habs doesn,t look like much, but not alot of hockey is played in june...
-actually i'll be a good sport and give you a chance to enjoy this rare occasion where it "looks" loke you have something to brag about to the habs fan, how often has it happened before?
you mean to tell me there was "actual" hockey played this past season in Montreal? the 100th Anniversary season to end all seasons, the season to take the cup back to montreal? last season the Bell centre housed a minor league team i believe ....... at least the Leafs are heading in the right direction, unfortunately for "Le Habs" fans, the future doesnt look so bright
....... at least the Leafs are heading in the right direction, unfortunately for "Le Habs" fans, the future doesnt look so bright benxxx said:
do you follow the NHL at all? Tampa was/is on the verge of bankruptcy last season and is buried as one of the worst teams in the League at the end of last season, Going to Tor or Mtl would seem like paradise for Vinny... back to his roots, Canada, and i bet he will flourish even more than already if he lands in either city
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lgna69xxx said:
Guess what, Genius? Vinnie actually won a Cup in TBay, something that wouldn't happen in Montreal or Toronto unless you put him in a time machine and turned the dial back to 1993 for Mtl or 19freakin'67 for Hogtown!
Also, Mr. Encyclopedia of Hockey, Vinnie actually had some good players on his team in TB. No one in Mtl or TO is fit to carry Marty St. Louis's jock.
Finally, Whiz Kid, I am aware that TBay has suffered since their Cup win. Since your reading skills are about as good as your hockey "knowledge" I'll spell it out for you: I never wrote that Vinnie has to stay in TBay - just that I hope he doesn't go to Mtl or TO, two of the biggest armpits in the hockey world. There are MANY places where he'd be great.
PS: Sorry if I was a little rough on you back there: I know it's not your fault that you have some comprehension problems. Best wishes in turning things around. Remember: stay positive and, with time, anything is possible. Who knows? The Habs and/or Laughs might even win a Cup again in a century or two.
Doc Holliday said:
yes, tell us more about your "theory"
Doc Holliday said:
the one where Duchene goes #1?
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Yes, tell us more ... I'm sure it's just as accurate as your previous "theory"
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JustBob said:The latest news is that GM's got so tired of being pestered by that arrogant prick Burke that they no longer take his calls.
100% true
, no g.m. in the league wants to deal with that classless clown
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Doc Holliday said:
nice, why not also make a joke about Bob losing his wife to cancer while you're at it
btw, what happened to the "this just in" thread?
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Kadri
Here’s what Laff fans are saying about Burke and his pick Kadri (from HFBoards)
Btw, gotta love the irony - Kadri is a Habs fan and hates Toronto.
Awful. The one guy I did not want. I feel sick.
LOL at Burke!!!!
My thoughts are I've lost faith in Brian Burke already. Has JFJ beat by a full week or two.
Don't like it. I've watched Kadri play. He doesn't seem like a safe pick to me and I think the Leafs need to take a safe pick. He's always seemed inconsistent from shift to shift when I've watched him.
To be honest, Kadri was the last person I wanted out of the top 15.
I wanted MSP
"My ego isn't that big"- Burke
Egg on your face, buddy. You screwed yourself. Hate this pick,
****ing Kadri - you are ****ing kidding me, Cowen or MSP I would be a damn happy bunny this saturday (I'm in China hungover atr 8 in the ****ing morning) but no Burke you have ruined mty ****ing morning by picking ****ing Kadri. I mean ****
No other way to describe this other that just abolsutely terrible.
MY GOD ! I can't describe to you how frustrated I am right now !
With Cowen and MSP available I knew the Maple Leafs COULD NOT **** UP !
IT WAS 100% ****-ABLE PROOF !
BUT THEY ****ING ****ED UP **** !
Kadri? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The one ****ing guy I DID NOT WANT!
Passing on MSP or Cowen for Kadri? Did Burke have a stroke or something
I didn't want the Leafs to draft him..
The guy can't shoot.
This is honestly a terrible pick.
Just terrible.
Brian Burke is ****ing just messed up in the head
For the love of all that is holy please send him to Ottawa.
Burke is a dummy.
Not only does he let Brayden slip through his fingers but he doesn't even select MSP.
What a tool.
wow i feel like crap
I think about what a bad season it was and Kadri is the payoff? With a pick like this, I'd rather make the playoffs as the 8th seed and get swept every year. What a lame rebuild.
Burke can only redeem himself if he makes a deal to get another 1st rounder high enough to come back in and take MPS...so...within 2-3 picks at the most.
I...I honestly don't know what to think about this. Disappointment though...oh so much disappointment.
Time to bust out the traditional Leafs saying.
Well...there's always next year...right?
Bah.
This guy sounds like another Rico Fata.
Burke better get another 1st to make up for this...
MY GOD ! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE BURKE !
2nd year a row i'm pissed off about the pick...
BRUTAL........
This is the dumbest selection I've ever seen. Cowen is going to end this guy's damn career if he even makes the AHL.
Kadri was a moronic pick.
Oh well......It never fails. I get all optimistic...and am disappointed in the end.
After all the rumours and all Burke's claimings that he's going to do anything to get Tavares, or worse case, make a run towards Schenn and all we get is Kadri?
It's disappointing,
huge disappointment for me. We draft a guy that hates the leafs and looks cocky as all ####. Great work Brian.
Actual Nazem Kadri quote:
"Me and my dad have grown up to hate the Leafs"
Here’s what Laff fans are saying about Burke and his pick Kadri (from HFBoards)
Btw, gotta love the irony - Kadri is a Habs fan and hates Toronto.
Awful. The one guy I did not want. I feel sick.
LOL at Burke!!!!
My thoughts are I've lost faith in Brian Burke already. Has JFJ beat by a full week or two.
Don't like it. I've watched Kadri play. He doesn't seem like a safe pick to me and I think the Leafs need to take a safe pick. He's always seemed inconsistent from shift to shift when I've watched him.
To be honest, Kadri was the last person I wanted out of the top 15.
I wanted MSP
"My ego isn't that big"- Burke
Egg on your face, buddy. You screwed yourself. Hate this pick,
****ing Kadri - you are ****ing kidding me, Cowen or MSP I would be a damn happy bunny this saturday (I'm in China hungover atr 8 in the ****ing morning) but no Burke you have ruined mty ****ing morning by picking ****ing Kadri. I mean ****
No other way to describe this other that just abolsutely terrible.
MY GOD ! I can't describe to you how frustrated I am right now !
With Cowen and MSP available I knew the Maple Leafs COULD NOT **** UP !
IT WAS 100% ****-ABLE PROOF !
BUT THEY ****ING ****ED UP **** !
Kadri? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The one ****ing guy I DID NOT WANT!
Passing on MSP or Cowen for Kadri? Did Burke have a stroke or something
I didn't want the Leafs to draft him..
The guy can't shoot.
This is honestly a terrible pick.
Just terrible.
Brian Burke is ****ing just messed up in the head
For the love of all that is holy please send him to Ottawa.
Burke is a dummy.
Not only does he let Brayden slip through his fingers but he doesn't even select MSP.
What a tool.
wow i feel like crap
I think about what a bad season it was and Kadri is the payoff? With a pick like this, I'd rather make the playoffs as the 8th seed and get swept every year. What a lame rebuild.
Burke can only redeem himself if he makes a deal to get another 1st rounder high enough to come back in and take MPS...so...within 2-3 picks at the most.
I...I honestly don't know what to think about this. Disappointment though...oh so much disappointment.
Time to bust out the traditional Leafs saying.
Well...there's always next year...right?
Bah.
This guy sounds like another Rico Fata.
Burke better get another 1st to make up for this...
MY GOD ! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE BURKE !
2nd year a row i'm pissed off about the pick...
BRUTAL........
This is the dumbest selection I've ever seen. Cowen is going to end this guy's damn career if he even makes the AHL.
Kadri was a moronic pick.
Oh well......It never fails. I get all optimistic...and am disappointed in the end.
After all the rumours and all Burke's claimings that he's going to do anything to get Tavares, or worse case, make a run towards Schenn and all we get is Kadri?
It's disappointing,
huge disappointment for me. We draft a guy that hates the leafs and looks cocky as all ####. Great work Brian.
Actual Nazem Kadri quote:
"Me and my dad have grown up to hate the Leafs"
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Burke
For months leading up to the draft, there was plenty of bluster from Burke, but it turned out to be nothing more than hot air from this wind bag. Burke, as he set out to, failed to trade up for a top 3 pick and he couldn’t pull off a deal for the fourth or fifth selection to take Brayden Schenn. He thought he had a deal with Atlanta, but Waddell hung up on him!
Burke has you gullible; sap Laff fans reeled in – hook, line and sinker. Burke had to rely on Brian Murray to put the pieces in place for him in Anaheim and he left the Ducks in a mess. And twice during his time with Vancouver, Burke was a complete bust on draft day. Burke's made 18 picks over two drafts in 2000 and 2002 and came up with exactly zero players who proved to be legitimate prospects. Those 18 players went on to combine for a mere 31 NHL games over their careers. Burke's biggest deal so far = Brad May!
Here’s what Laff fans are saying:
I remember the Scotty Bowman process and the whole idea of "cleaning house" in order to remake the team for it to be something he wanted to see. I really thought we'd see that from Burke. Bold moves and so forth. Instead we get draft picks nobody's excited about and a GM who seems to be able to articulate himself very loudly and clearly to anyone holding a microphone but not so much to other GM's.
Laugh if you like but based on what Burke said his goals were - move up to get Tavares or at least move up and to completely recast this team, this night was a failure on Burke's own terms and I would see it that way too.
I'm not laughing but I am standing by my opinion. This night was a bust as far as what was promised and in terms of what could have reasonably have been hoped for.
The JFJ-Fletcher-Burke shakedown has shown very little in terms of tangible difference, outside of an increase in bombastic quotations that do nothing to improve the Maple Leafs' stock on the ice.
Very poor day at the draft table, but not a bad one on the microphone. Thanks Brian.
Another Burke comment is of some interest. When asked tonight if he projects Kadri as a top six forward, Burke was unusually (for BB) vague and finally said "We'll see". I don't doubt that assessment in the least but it does underline my disappointment with how well we did in the first round.
I guess I am just not that easily satisfied after the public statements, after 4 wasted years, after 42 odd years of failure (just making the playoffs is not a laudable goal) such that I can take any solace whatsoever in the view that it wasn't as bad as when JFJ was running things. Defining success using the lowest common denominator as a measurement is self delusional.
I expected more and if some here find that laughable, I guess what they are really saying is that after 42 years what would I expect more. Maybe they're right... but if they are, get the shoulder patches ready for the 50th anniversary.
Brian Blowhard needs to shut his mouth and let his actions do his talking instead.
He's the one who set up the false expectations and delivered zilch.
Let's try surprising us with his brilliance or GM acumen rather than telling us all about his brilliance.
For months leading up to the draft, there was plenty of bluster from Burke, but it turned out to be nothing more than hot air from this wind bag. Burke, as he set out to, failed to trade up for a top 3 pick and he couldn’t pull off a deal for the fourth or fifth selection to take Brayden Schenn. He thought he had a deal with Atlanta, but Waddell hung up on him!
Burke has you gullible; sap Laff fans reeled in – hook, line and sinker. Burke had to rely on Brian Murray to put the pieces in place for him in Anaheim and he left the Ducks in a mess. And twice during his time with Vancouver, Burke was a complete bust on draft day. Burke's made 18 picks over two drafts in 2000 and 2002 and came up with exactly zero players who proved to be legitimate prospects. Those 18 players went on to combine for a mere 31 NHL games over their careers. Burke's biggest deal so far = Brad May!
Here’s what Laff fans are saying:
I remember the Scotty Bowman process and the whole idea of "cleaning house" in order to remake the team for it to be something he wanted to see. I really thought we'd see that from Burke. Bold moves and so forth. Instead we get draft picks nobody's excited about and a GM who seems to be able to articulate himself very loudly and clearly to anyone holding a microphone but not so much to other GM's.
Laugh if you like but based on what Burke said his goals were - move up to get Tavares or at least move up and to completely recast this team, this night was a failure on Burke's own terms and I would see it that way too.
I'm not laughing but I am standing by my opinion. This night was a bust as far as what was promised and in terms of what could have reasonably have been hoped for.
The JFJ-Fletcher-Burke shakedown has shown very little in terms of tangible difference, outside of an increase in bombastic quotations that do nothing to improve the Maple Leafs' stock on the ice.
Very poor day at the draft table, but not a bad one on the microphone. Thanks Brian.
Another Burke comment is of some interest. When asked tonight if he projects Kadri as a top six forward, Burke was unusually (for BB) vague and finally said "We'll see". I don't doubt that assessment in the least but it does underline my disappointment with how well we did in the first round.
I guess I am just not that easily satisfied after the public statements, after 4 wasted years, after 42 odd years of failure (just making the playoffs is not a laudable goal) such that I can take any solace whatsoever in the view that it wasn't as bad as when JFJ was running things. Defining success using the lowest common denominator as a measurement is self delusional.
I expected more and if some here find that laughable, I guess what they are really saying is that after 42 years what would I expect more. Maybe they're right... but if they are, get the shoulder patches ready for the 50th anniversary.
Brian Blowhard needs to shut his mouth and let his actions do his talking instead.
He's the one who set up the false expectations and delivered zilch.
Let's try surprising us with his brilliance or GM acumen rather than telling us all about his brilliance.
no, actually "what happens when the Habs lose 3 in a row and suck in their 100th Anniversary Glory Days returned season
oh thats right, you fall off the face of the earth"..... credibility? NONE
your like that American Express commercial, PRICELESS!
oh thats right, you fall off the face of the earth"..... credibility? NONE
your like that American Express commercial, PRICELESS!
gohabsgo said:btw, what happened to the "this just in" thread?
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