04-14-2025, 02:34 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by FlamesAreOne
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The Sharks are going to be active this summer and are going to be a threat for playoffs next year.
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04-14-2025, 02:38 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Solid career
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04-14-2025, 02:39 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macho0978
The Sharks are going to be active this summer and are going to be a threat for playoffs next year.
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They are making up a 45 point gap to even sniff a wild card? They need a whole D corp and more than the 4 young forwards who, while looking prmising, still are 40-65 point players.
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04-14-2025, 02:42 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Is he officially filing the papers, or just announcing that he will effectively be LTIRetired because Couture still has $13 million on the table over the next couple of years.
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04-14-2025, 02:45 PM
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Franchise Player
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3rd retiree this week (Maroon, Martinez) from the 2007 NHL draft (Backlund's draft)
Looking at his career numbers, they reminded me a bit of Kadri's
Couture 933 GP 323 G 378A 701 Pts
Kadri 983 GP 304G 402 A 706 Pts
Couture with more deep playoff runs but Kadri with the ring
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04-14-2025, 02:49 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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The only difference is that we're stuck paying Kadri $28m US over the next four years, and the Sharks get away without paying Couture another dime.
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04-14-2025, 02:51 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
They are making up a 45 point gap to even sniff a wild card? They need a whole D corp and more than the 4 young forwards who, while looking prmising, still are 40-65 point players.
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Pretty much. Ducks are +19 points this year, a colossal jump. I wonder if anybody keeps these stats y/y
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04-14-2025, 02:52 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
They are making up a 45 point gap to even sniff a wild card? They need a whole D corp and more than the 4 young forwards who, while looking prmising, still are 40-65 point players.
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The are going to have to spend $35 mil just to get the cap floor and with Couture on LTIR, they probably will have $50 mil cap space.
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04-14-2025, 02:55 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Shazam
Pretty much. Ducks are +19 points this year, a colossal jump. I wonder if anybody keeps these stats y/y
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Top end 1st line next year. Alot depends on Askarov, but he could be the Wolf of next season.
Flames getting more points this year? They might be plus 15 and didn't really spend anything on anyone good and other than Wolf didn't get huge bumps from anyone.
Celebrinni and Smith could be PPG players next year.
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04-14-2025, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by MegaErtz
The only difference is that we're stuck paying Kadri $28m US over the next four years, and the Sharks get away without paying Couture another dime.
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The other difference of course being that Kadri is still a very effective player while Couture has only played 6 games over the past 2 seasons.
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04-14-2025, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macho0978
Top end 1st line next year. Alot depends on Askarov, but he could be the Wolf of next season.
Flames getting more points this year? They might be plus 15 and didn't really spend anything on anyone good and other than Wolf didn't get huge bumps from anyone.
Celebrinni and Smith could be PPG players next year.
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Guess we'll have to see how their rookies do. Just sayin' that they're really, really awful this year. They have a lot of holes to fill.
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04-14-2025, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Shazam
Guess we'll have to see how their rookies do. Just sayin' that they're really, really awful this year. They have a lot of holes to fill.
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I think their main issue is the blueline, and I'm not sure they have immediate help coming. Dickinson is great, but still needs time. They could take Schaefer this year, but he'll need time and could even go back to junior particularly coming off an injury.
I don't see their blueline better next year, and I think that's their big issue right now.
In fact there isn't a lot of help coming next year at all from their pipeline. Musty, Cagnoni, Chernyshov are still a couple years out at minimum.
They are going to be bad for a while.
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04-14-2025, 03:08 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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If SJ isn't careful over the next couple of years they may to Oilers South.
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04-14-2025, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Flames Town
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macho0978
The are going to have to spend $35 mil just to get the cap floor and with Couture on LTIR, they probably will have $50 mil cap space.
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Remember when cap space was the biggest issue for San Jose. They have done a great job managing that side of things as at one point, they also had some massive anchors.
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04-14-2025, 03:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Flames Town
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I think their main issue is the blueline, and I'm not sure they have immediate help coming. Dickinson is great, but still needs time. They could take Schaefer this year, but he'll need time and could even go back to junior particularly coming off an injury.
I don't see their blueline better next year, and I think that's their big issue right now.
In fact there isn't a lot of help coming next year at all from their pipeline. Musty, Cagnoni, Chernyshov are still a couple years out at minimum.
They are going to be bad for a while.
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I wonder if Andersson can be a good fit to play with San Jose.
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04-14-2025, 03:14 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Macho0978
Top end 1st line next year. Alot depends on Askarov, but he could be the Wolf of next season.
Flames getting more points this year? They might be plus 15 and didn't really spend anything on anyone good and other than Wolf didn't get huge bumps from anyone.
Celebrinni and Smith could be PPG players next year.
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Or Celebrini and Smith could be like Bedard. And they have to build the entire rest of their team. The Sharks have a long way to go, as their 20 win season proves. This is currently the 61st worst season for any team since the 50's.
This is also their 6th year in a row without playoffs, and they're years away still
Last edited by Groot; 04-14-2025 at 03:17 PM.
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04-14-2025, 03:20 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The other difference of course being that Kadri is still a very effective player while Couture has only played 6 games over the past 2 seasons.
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63 points and -18 this season. Worth seven million a year until he's 39?
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04-14-2025, 03:22 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Bedard is fine, the issue is he as incompetent management that didn't surround him with better players.
San Jose can chase guys like Marner and Ekblad in free agency. They can also make some trades.
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04-14-2025, 03:23 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MegaErtz
63 points and -18 this season. Worth seven million a year until he's 39?
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I didn't mean to derail the Couture retirement thread with the Kadri comparison!
anyhow for sure this contract will likely be regrettable by the time its over- that was always going to be the case
for now though he is the leading scorer on a team that is somehow still playing meaningful hockey on game 81. 7M ain't what it used to be
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