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GDT#50 Flyers @ Capitals 2018-01-31 8:00pm EST NBCSN
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Friday February 02, 2018, 04:33:48 PM Eastern ---
Do you think if GMGM were still the GM of the Caps the Caps would have had the best regular season record the last two years and be where they are today? I don’t.
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If he had the same control he has in Vegas, it wouldn’t matter. We’d have Cups.
Now to his credit, GMBetaMale can market and make fan friendly moves. So Im sure he’d do great for a team that needs splashes and names to get immediate new and renewed interest. . .
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: ArJunaZ on Friday February 02, 2018, 04:04:14 PM Eastern ---I love how you keep trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. I am not a Carlson hater. Carlson is a good defenseman. I just rag on him when his brain goes blank, which is too often for my liking. He's also improved a fair amount this past season.
The fact is that I really liked Nate Schmidt, both as a nice guy and I also saw him as a future superstar d-man. You weren't around back then, but others here know that I was the first to sing his praises and predicting that he would be a star. Schmidty was also a lower cap hit than Carlson, which was paramount after last season. Schmidt also always gave 100%, something that could not be said for Carlson. This year it's understandable that Carlson is not 100% balls to the wall since he's playing so many minutes, but he was a slacker in past years, and those Quaalude moments always bug the hell out of me.
I really did not like the way the NHL set the rules for the draft. The 7-3-1 option to fill just one expansion team was ridiculous. In the previous draft, which was to fill two teams the teams got to protect 9-4-1 as an option. This makes more sense. There were other rules in place to prevent teams from leaving only recent call ups exposed.
All that said, I'm saying this from my bedroom having never played a single shift of hockey myself. I know these guys must work incredibly hard and here I am nitpicking because that what fans do. I am not a Carlson hater. I actually have greater respect for him now then I did in previous seasons. I still really like Nate though. The only players I really do not like are the ones that are mean and nasty and that try to hurt other players by playing dirty or players that embellish all the time; people like Subban :poop: , Crosby :poop: , Clutterbuck :poop: , Marchand :poop: , Shaw :poop: , Kessler :poop: , Simmonds :poop: to name a few. Carlson is a nice guy and for that alone I couldn't hate on him.
I know you need to have someone to beat heads with about Carlson, but let that not be me. ;)
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Funny you say that you dont dislike Carlson but you wanted us to leave him exposed to the expansion draft over our other dmen. I guess we could have but I think we would be in worse shape than we are in.
alta:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Friday February 02, 2018, 04:51:10 PM Eastern --- Funny you say that you dont dislike Carlson but you wanted us to leave him exposed to the expansion draft over our other dmen. I guess we could have but I think we would be in worse shape than we are in.
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this should be good...
how the puck is leaving him exposed equal to hating him? Your logic is very flawed
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: altajava on Friday February 02, 2018, 07:49:08 PM Eastern ---
this should be good...
how the puck is leaving him exposed equal to hating him? Your logic is very flawed
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How is my logic flawed? Just because you personally dont like a player doesn't justify giving the player away. Say what you will but Carlson is still our best dman whether you like it or not. Our dcore is a mess right now. I thought right from the start that we should have protected 4 dmen because good dmen are harder to find than forwards. I dont think my logic is flawed.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Saturday February 03, 2018, 08:38:40 AM Eastern --- How is my logic flawed? Just because you personally dont like a player doesn't justify giving the player away. Say what you will but Carlson is still our best dman whether you like it or not. Our dcore is a mess right now. I thought right from the start that we should have protected 4 dmen because good dmen are harder to find than forwards. I dont think my logic is flawed.
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This just illustrates mamagments priorities, and ability.
A better President and GM, would have been able to see who is unprotected in the league, upcoming UFAs, upcoming contracts, & who’s on their roster, and who’s replaceable. Moreover, the guy picking the expansion draft was here for 10 years and they couldn’t come up with a strategy for minimal loss and give GMGM minimal gains?
They has more advantages than every other team and lost what could become a future all star
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