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DC_1908:
Resigning Holts “could” get interesting
PUCKNRUSH:
--- Quote from: zerofox on Monday May 06, 2019, 07:39:19 PM Eastern ---
Hagelin's real cap hit is $4M, but there's some retained salary. I assume whoever retained that salary no longer has to pay him after this year since his contract is up, so there's no more benefit for us cap wise. He may be out of his prime years but I can't see him going for lower than $3M at all. Guy has speed and the NHL today is about that speed and skill.
As for Kuzy, honestly his contract was a bit rich even before he started playing like shit. Was hoping $7M would be more reasonable as a high end, but he ended up closer to $8M. He better perform next year or it'll be a shitshow. That said, last thing I wanna do right now is cut bait and go back to being a 1C team, like back when Brooks Laich was our 2C of the future. Only Cup that guy has is the one protecting his glass groin.
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GLASS GROIN!! LMFAO😂🤣🤣😂
Don’t know why I missed this earlier, Zero, but funny as hell!!
Rush
PUCKNRUSH:
Bura has certainly been around long enough to have a VERY CLEAR picture of him!
It can safely be said, with accuracy, that his only CONSISTENT thing on his resume, is that he is TERMINALLY INCONSISTENT!!!
NEVER, has he had anything close to ANY kind of dependable, reliable, “you-can-put-your-finger-on-it”, type of play!!
Worse yet, is the lack of any rhyme or reason, as to when his play picks up, or goes south!! This is almost ALWAYS trouble!! IMO, his total career has changed the word, “Hope”, into having a negative and reluctant connotation!!
At least with some of the inconsistent players in the league, the NHL coaches have an idea as to what factors contribute to their failures!! Not so with Bura!
Bura gets on a hot streak....... WHY? Nobody knows! Bura goes cold......WHY? Nobody knows!
Sadly, BURA has always offered plenty of reasons, and solutions, as to how his legs are better, how he “feels good now”, mentally, and any other number of Mumbo-Jumbo ass excuses, ALL of which are deemed completely INSIGNIFICANT, in hind sight, after he gets back on the ice!!
Bura’s career has had more ups and downs than Ron Jeremy’s right hand in an old porn flick!! LOL!
Seriously though, let him go, and then you may have Hagelin money! A PROVEN ASSET to the team!!
Djoos is tiny, but he’s very high in hockey IQ. Something we seem to lack a lot on our overall D! That’s why they keep him.
I like Connelly for the money, or some thing close to it, but who knows with him!
Brooksie, for a 1mil/1yr? Still a great deal with the intangibles!
Carlson, I’ve grudgingly learned to live with it! WHATEVER!
Kuzy, is a WHOLE different matter!! He, simply, and absolutely, has to show that he gives a flyin fuck about playing regular season hockey for the Washington Capitals...OR....go back to frickin Moscow, you ungrateful SOB!!!
Your innocent “honesty” is no longer funny and cute, when commenting about your attitude towards the Washington fans! Time to “grow a pair”, Kuzy!! Shut your yap in the press for awhile, at least until you hold up YOUR END, of your performance on the ice, when compared to your contract!
You have trouble “feeling motivated”, during the regular season?? That’s idiotic to say publicly in the media, but then, AT LEAST, pick your game up in the playoffs, or you get hung by your words!! You come off like some spoiled, Russian millennial crybaby, you douche!
Whew!! Ok I’m done with my second-wind, late spring, disappointment!!
GO BLUES!! (for now)!!
Rush
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: PUCKNRUSH on Sunday June 02, 2019, 12:57:53 AM Eastern ---Bura has certainly been around long enough to have a VERY CLEAR picture of him!
It can safely be said, with accuracy, that his only CONSISTENT thing on his resume, is that he is TERMINALLY INCONSISTENT!!!
NEVER, has he had anything close to ANY kind of dependable, reliable, “you-can-put-your-finger-on-it”, type of play!!
Worse yet, is the lack of any rhyme or reason, as to when his play picks up, or goes south!! This is almost ALWAYS trouble!! IMO, his total career has changed the word, “Hope”, into having a negative and reluctant connotation!!
At least with some of the inconsistent players in the league, the NHL coaches have an idea as to what factors contribute to their failures!! Not so with Bura!
Bura gets on a hot streak....... WHY? Nobody knows! Bura goes cold......WHY? Nobody knows!
Sadly, BURA has always offered plenty of reasons, and solutions, as to how his legs are better, how he “feels good now”, mentally, and any other number of Mumbo-Jumbo ass excuses, ALL of which are deemed completely INSIGNIFICANT, in hind sight, after he gets back on the ice!!
Bura’s career has had more ups and downs than Ron Jeremy’s right hand in an old porn flick!! LOL!
Seriously though, let him go, and then you may have Hagelin money! A PROVEN ASSET to the team!!
Djoos is tiny, but he’s very high in hockey IQ. Something we seem to lack a lot on our overall D! That’s why they keep him.
I like Connelly for the money, or some thing close to it, but who knows with him!
Brooksie, for a 1mil/1yr? Still a great deal with the intangibles!
Carlson, I’ve grudgingly learned to live with it! WHATEVER!
Kuzy, is a WHOLE different matter!! He, simply, and absolutely, has to show that he gives a flyin fuck about playing regular season hockey for the Washington Capitals...OR....go back to frickin Moscow, you ungrateful SOB!!!
Your innocent “honesty” is no longer funny and cute, when commenting about your attitude towards the Washington fans! Time to “grow a pair”, Kuzy!! Shut your yap in the press for awhile, at least until you hold up YOUR END, of your performance on the ice, when compared to your contract!
You have trouble “feeling motivated”, during the regular season?? That’s idiotic to say publicly in the media, but then, AT LEAST, pick your game up in the playoffs, or you get hung by your words!! You come off like some spoiled, Russian millennial crybaby, you douche!
Whew!! Ok I’m done with my second-wind, late spring, disappointment!!
GO BLUES!! (for now)!!
Rush
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Damn right Rush!
But think the bottom line is Bura, Kuzy, and Connolly are just not very good hockey players. “Talent”, “skill”, and couple points sure, but if you can’t do every shift, or at minimum 85%.with 100% intensity, can do nothing else than get a few points, (ie play D, PK), and cost more than goals than you put up, you’re just not a good hockey player.
Just look at SCF and compare Kuzy to Tarasenko: 27_28yo, 7,8 and 7.5. . . and anyone who thinks Kuzy is a better player needs to step away from the XBox and quot attemding Rec League games.
PUCKNRUSH:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Sunday June 02, 2019, 12:24:30 PM Eastern ---Damn right Rush!
But think the bottom line is Bura, Kuzy, and Connolly are just not very good hockey players. “Talent”, “skill”, and couple points sure, but if you can’t do every shift, or at minimum 85%.with 100% intensity, can do nothing else than get a few points, (ie play D, PK), and cost more than goals than you put up, you’re just not a good hockey player.
Just look at SCF and compare Kuzy to Tarasenko: 27_28yo, 7,8 and 7.5. . . and anyone who thinks Kuzy is a better player needs to step away from the XBox and quot attemding Rec League games.
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Well said DC!
Bura and Kuzy have shown some highly distinctive INDIVIDUAL talent. Kuzy can even do some one-of-a-kind, eye popping, stuff.
Connelly, on the other hand, lacks the “gifted” talents of Bura and Kuzy.
I think it’s accurate to say that Kuzy and Bura, both possess “good” talent, and actually CAN “FLASH” some unique, quality, excellence. Lack of CONSISTENCY, on both their parts, COUPLED with demonstrating a severe lack of defense, in their 200 foot play, (said another way, mostly one sided, offensive players), renders them both as very “incomplete” hockey players, and a plausible case could be made as to whether they are just as harmful, as they are helpful, to the team! This makes them, OVERALL, not so good!
Connelly, on the other hand, is different. (I think it’s hilarious, DC, that when we get together and drink, we usually re-establish our “agree to disagree” thing with Conno!!) We never seem to recall, when we’re lit, that we’ve established our positions, already, in prior drinking episodes!!🤣😂🤣🥃🥃
Anyway, I think Conno has found his niche for developing his better O production! He simply has worked on a very basic skill of shooting the puck, very quickly, from the passes he receives, as he cuts across the ice within 10-15 feet of opponents goal!
I’ll give you that he’s not that accurate, because he’s not that naturally gifted....BUT, he’s worked at it, for at least the last 2 seasons, and has been very successful, using quantity of chances, NOT quality, and this fits great into his lower talented game!!
By all counts, his performance needle has slowly, but consistently kept pointing North!! (Compare that with Kuzy and Bura’s general direction!!)
I do believe he has probably plateaued, and that’s fine with me! He is in a position to get better money elsewhere, as a result of his performance here, as a Capital! I’d hate to see him go, but the ball is in HIS court!
Good comparison you make about the SCF! Actually a lot of the playoff games were really some high effort hockey games, and extremely enjoyable for me to watch!
It also allowed us to compare a few of “our guys” efforts, to some of those grittier, physical, games!
It just made some of our “low effort guys”, appear even worse! LOL
We will be watching, boys, next season!!!!
Rush
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