06-26-2014, 05:44 AM
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#241
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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
You can't underrate a guy that just isn't very good.
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He was not bad in Columbus. I would say he was definitely under the radar. But now that he's making $4.5 million he's going to be very overrated.
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06-26-2014, 05:59 AM
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#242
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Truculent!
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Originally Posted by Tinordi
He was not bad in Columbus. I would say he was definitely under the radar. But now that he's making $4.5 million he's going to be very overrated.
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He was ok one season in CBJ, when he was being dragged around by Fedor Tyutin.
He has since been in and out of the line up as a 6th Dman. He wasn't underrated, he was just not very good.
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06-26-2014, 06:31 AM
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#243
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First Line Centre
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MacT must have Nikitin confused with Niskanen.
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06-26-2014, 06:42 AM
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#244
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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06-26-2014, 06:47 AM
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#245
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
Where is that GIF of 'Big Moves' MacTavish doing his WWE Entrance?
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The only one I could find was from No Good Nation.com and CP ###### hashtags once you save.
Last edited by FakenHaken; 06-26-2014 at 06:59 AM.
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06-26-2014, 06:58 AM
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#246
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#1 Goaltender
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I now see why his backward skating was as fast as his forward skating.
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06-26-2014, 07:00 AM
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#247
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Eakins hasn't exactly enamoured himself to the Eastern Europeans on the team with most of them choosing to go back to Europe rather than play another year under him and Yakupov also preferring not to play for him. Wonder how long it takes before he and Nikitin develop a frosty relationship?
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06-26-2014, 03:34 PM
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#248
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Franchise Player
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I wonder if this signing makes Edmonton believe they don't need another defenceman? Probably not, but one can hope.
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06-26-2014, 03:36 PM
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#249
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: A small painted room
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Eakins hasn't exactly enamoured himself to the Eastern Europeans on the team with most of them choosing to go back to Europe rather than play another year under him and Yakupov also preferring not to play for him. Wonder how long it takes before he and Nikitin develop a frosty relationship?
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Agreed. Not sure if his english is good enough to correctly understand the 'roll over doggie' drill
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06-26-2014, 03:44 PM
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#250
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
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Originally Posted by FakenHaken
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06-26-2014, 03:49 PM
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#251
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Eakins hasn't exactly enamoured himself to the Eastern Europeans on the team with most of them choosing to go back to Europe rather than play another year under him and Yakupov also preferring not to play for him. Wonder how long it takes before he and Nikitin develop a frosty relationship?
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Not sure any of the players really had the option to stay in Edmonton. Maybe Horak but he's a fringe NHL'er at best so no guarantee he would have been in Edmonton anyway. Grebeshkov, Eager, Belov - none of them were likely to be invited back (maybe Belov in a 6-8 role).
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06-26-2014, 04:18 PM
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#252
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Ruttiger
Not sure any of the players really had the option to stay in Edmonton. Maybe Horak but he's a fringe NHL'er at best so no guarantee he would have been in Edmonton anyway. Grebeshkov, Eager, Belov - none of them were likely to be invited back (maybe Belov in a 6-8 role).
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Same story over and over...
Bring in a guy, put him in a no-win situation for a while, let the hate grow in the fanbase until everyone wants him gone, run him out of town (or have him choose to leave), then justify it with the 'he sucked anyways' comments.
Fully expect the same scenario with Nikitin in a year or two.
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06-26-2014, 04:23 PM
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#253
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruttiger
Not sure any of the players really had the option to stay in Edmonton. Maybe Horak but he's a fringe NHL'er at best so no guarantee he would have been in Edmonton anyway. Grebeshkov, Eager, Belov - none of them were likely to be invited back (maybe Belov in a 6-8 role).
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'Fringe NHL'er' is The Hockey News' description of the Edmonton Oilers' roster.
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06-26-2014, 04:38 PM
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#254
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Same story over and over...
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and over...
Management took a Stanley Cup finals team (that they stumbled onto literally by accident) and systematically reduced it to nothing. If you lose every trade you make, even by a small margin, there can be no other result. And we have already seen the list of free agent signing since 2007.
It's like the paperclip to the house thing, but in reverse.
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10-03-2015, 11:07 AM
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#255
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Hmmmmmmm
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This will likely be Klefbom's fate in a few years as well.
Oops thought was posting in the waiver thread, my bad.
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10-03-2015, 11:32 AM
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#256
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Quote:
Originally Posted by calgaryblood
This will likely be Klefbom's fate in a few years as well.
Oops thought was posting in the waiver thread, my bad.
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Oops for posting in a year and 1/3rd old thread that you'd have to dig up?
Mmmmkay. 
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10-03-2015, 11:34 AM
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#257
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by saXon
Oops for posting in a year and 1/3rd old thread that you'd have to dig up?
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It was linked in the waiver thread
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10-03-2015, 01:30 PM
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#258
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Hmmmmmmm
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Originally Posted by saXon
Oops for posting in a year and 1/3rd old thread that you'd have to dig up?
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Didn't dig it up, someone posted it in another thread and was reading it and thought I was still in the waiver wire thread when I posted, my apologies.
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