The Doan Curse, Bruins and Swayman Still Far Apart, PWHL Hinting at Names 

No problem Shannon! Hope you feel better soon ❤

Once you exceed your handycap you gotta move on to tye next hole.

Don't worry about it. It's easy to forget about Ottawa.

Being sick SUCKS. Get well soon, and take it easy!

Minnesota?

1970’s cursed expansion too.

Watch out for the mentioning a curse curse. Wait...Shit!

The NHL game cover curse too

Why would you leave out the biggest one? The Patrick Roy Curse

Commentator's Curse too

This…they traded a very recent Vezina winner in order to give him the number 1 spot. He can ask for what ever he wants and Boston is in a position where they have to give Swayman what he wants. By trading Ullmark, Boston told him how much they value him and now need him

Korpasalo has similar statistics as Linus did When you folks going to get it? Goalie Bob the coach is The wizard of Oz behind our net. He knows what he's doing Answer this - when's the last time a USA born / solely USA trained goalie got a Stanley Cup? Nope, Tim Thomas was Born in the USA But played in Europe and came back an absolute beast Jonathan quick got international experience through Olympics and got his first Stanley Cup the same year he got his first Olympic medal Jeremy can't scorpion post to post Auston Matthews didn't show up for playoffs You need to take a closer look at what coach goalie Bob does for a living Hand picking teams rosters and locations for his goalies Jeremy doesn't beat big boy teams in their houses out west except for perhaps Edmonton You can say he beat Vegas but that was in boston, Mark Stone nor Jack eichel made that trip I have no idea what you're looking at with Jeremy Swayman. He's a legend in his own mind. Definitely has not proven himself to be a 1A. Here's the answer to that trivia question -the last USA born, trained goalie to get a Stanley Cup was in 1994. Ritcher on NYR

...and then they low-ball him.... 🙄

The memory of arbitration has certainly carried over. The 3.5mil awarded was bad enough, (outside the top 25, seemed like a gift from the league) but the Bruins chose the 1 year over the 2 years available. The management really damaged that relationship

Swayman should sign a 1 year deal and cash in next year.

Lol. Utah will have relocated to a real city by then. Utah really is Winnipeg south.

People are the worst thing about humanity.

The only people claiming it won’t work are those that are lazy and haven’t researched Utah. I can understand folks not knowing much about the state but even a little research will show ya that it should work pretty easily. Those that claim otherwise are just being willfully ignorant.

Agreed. I think Utah will be way more successful than Arizona ever was. I don't think the NHL should bother with Arizona anytime soon. Maybe give them an AHL team and see how it goes for 10 - 20 years.

50% of the seats in a small stadium are obstructed view. That was the Coyotes first mistake. Of course the Yotes were at least smart enough to relocate to a large arena where half the audience couldn't see. Utah is repeating history with 5,000 less seats that can see the ice. Good Luck.

@@Uuusssaaas sorry didn’t mean to imply this is perfect. It’s not. There are real challenges, the arena being one. I happen to think that all parties involved are up to the task, though. And that is more the point I’m trying to make. Challenges yes, ability to meet them also yes. It could fail and I’d be wrong. But the fan support, ownership competency and government approvals has me feeling confident.

Colorado is closer to Utah than to Arizona. Vegas is a bit farther but manageable.

And yet who went to more SC Finals afterward, even winning a Cup? Toronto traded Kessel for a whole lot of not much, other than cap relief. They did get F-Andersen for a 30th overall, but still no change in Playoff fortunes.

@@GizmoBeach Theres no way you can spin it that they "won" the Seguin or Thornton deals... But yanno, anything to dunk on the leafs about kessel... Pittsburgh won that no matter what, boston and toronto fumbled his talent for sure!

​@GizmoBeach that's not what we are talking about. Good attempt tho bud

Seguin*

Didn’t they actually get Seguin with the draft pick from Toronto for Kessel? They got a good return on kessel.

Things like the O'Reilly trade were air tight.

Your right. No Blues rumors play out. Or don't play out the way the "experts" figure.

Swayman played better in the playoffs and is younger. What screwed them was Ullmark's no trade clause. They could only trade him to where he was willing to go.

Should have signed Swayman before trading Ullmark

That's brilliant

That would work well. Montréal having a name that's in French, but easy to pronounce and understand for anglophones is the best case scenario

I was thinking Saints

atleast 2M more

My guess would be $6m per RFA year and $8m per UFA year. Swayman has two more RFA years. So 3y/$20m or 4y/$28m.

I was thinking 7mil max. Anywhere between 6.2-7 seems fair value thus far.

From my time watching hockey, football and wrestling, I have assumed that the term City of Brotherly Love is sarcasm.

@@TheHockeyGuy It is the literal Greek translation of the word Philadelphia. Not that we like people.

Every other fanbase does the same

​@pipoj5 maybe but the fans of Philly are legendary for this kind of crap.

Hey remember when canucks fans burnt their city down?

And Ullmark was playing despite injured in that series even.

I bet both goalies would have taken a sweetheart deal to stay together. It's a problem they created for themselves.

Overpaid primadonnas......

Yes! And for decades, therw were TWO St.Louis Cardinals teams, when the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL moved there

I went to a rangers flyers game with my buddy and our dads in Philly. A couple flyers fans in their mid 20s threatened to stab and jump us while we were walking to the arena… me and my buddy were 12 btw

Link?

Or the New York City Light Sound. 😉

Much better than New York Lights

Yeah, but he was generational talent and had his reasons.. those two are average nhl-ers at best..

​@@FrankieHreskoMore like his parents had their reasons and they weren't very good ones 😂

Lindros told Quebec not to draft him. Quitter said he wanted to be drafted by Philly then changed his mind because he got his feelings hurt having to play one more year in college.

Some call it the Bettman curse

@@geoffroi-le-Hook Huh, interesting. 🤔

@@geoffroi-le-Hook Okay I slept on it. The Patrick Roy Curse makes more sense, because if the CANADIANS don't trade Roy they surely would have won another cup or multiple

I like it.

I read somewhere he's looking for 10

@@jasonvoorhees8545 insane

The PWHL cba is till 31 season if I remember right. It’s a while

So less than Merzlikins or Korpisalo? That's brutal.

That's why the Bruins have one Cup since 1972, because they do everything right. I love the Bruins, but Sweeney does make moves that are head scratchers. Trading Ullmark without an extension in place for Swayman is just the latest one. The Sens are pretty happy with the goalie trade they made this summer.

@@TheHockeyGuy ...they're one of the best orginazations in the League. I havent seen a team that doesn't make head scratchers. And, how often since 72 have they missed the playoffs? They've been respeced as such.

I never said not to be mad, just that sending them threats is insane. Also sending messages to a player to tell him he's an asshole makes no sense. It's not going to make him change his mind and, if anything, shows him he made the right call.

@@TheHockeyGuy ​​⁠all valid points that I unequivocally agree with. I do says it’s a lose lose for Jets fans. Cause even if they go back to true Jets fans roots and come up with a clever degrading chant for McGroarty when he comes to town, everyone else will just say “oh guy lives rent free in your head.” I mean fans of the team will keep getting frustrated when things of this nature keep happening.

I also don’t think the fans got the full truth of the situation from Rutger’s camp and from the player himself. Winnipeggers and Jets fans are generally not stupid to the fact that they understand the perception of living in Winnipeg. Instead of death threats and the like I wish Jets fans could reconcile that Rutger is just a nepotismic emotionally non-matured individual and his agent is probably just a grown up version of that. He should be leery of those he surrounds himself with as not to become the exact same person he already is today.

That would just cause players to not sign the elc.

​@jacobdill4499 I think his thinking is that, if you don't play out your elc you would never be allowed to play anywhere in the league ever.

@@Ironguy-gm6vf this would work, I remember Lindroos this, and I’m a Rangers fan and I like Fox but he did the same thing with 2 teams. Don’t get me wrong I like him on our team but what if every player did this, it’d cause chaos for the league. At least it’s only a few players who do it.

Nah they just need to sway man away from a trade

@@commanderneyoI honestly didn’t feel like he’s worth 7-8 mill but his playoff performance this yr was enough to sway my opinion

Trade him for another young goalie they won't pay?

If you want them to be called The Wicked Witches, sure because that's what would happen.

I feel you man, I want to see the guys succeed but I don’t think I can follow the team. Not right away at least. I live in Tucson, so I can still go to Roadrunners games.