Hockey Randomness

Postby **Orlando Penguin** » Sun Jun 24, 2018 7:46 pm

Carlson reups with WSH for 8 x $8 shmil

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Postby **NTP66** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 6:11 am

Carlson reups with WSH for 8 x $8 shmil

To me, this is insane. Glad that it was the Caps who gave him that contract, though.

Postby **meow** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:36 am

I don’t know. Carlson is an absolute stud.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:49 am

Only issue with that contract is the length. I doubt the caps will care about that when Ovechkin is in his waning years.

Postby **meow** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:55 am

I don’t think there is a NMC involved, so that’s an option in the back half of the deal

Postby **Jim** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:27 am

I don’t think there is a NMC involved, so that’s an option in the back half of the deal

According to CapFriendly, first 4 years have a 15-team NTL, last 4 years has a 10-team NTL.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:42 am

I feel like the Caps are in the same position as the penguins, the end of the window is in sight, losing a guy like Carlson would basically end their chances.

Postby **meow** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:49 am

I don’t think there is a NMC involved, so that’s an option in the back half of the deal

According to CapFriendly, first 4 years have a 15-team NTL, last 4 years has a 10-team NTL.

Good find. That’s a good number of teams

Postby **Tomas** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:17 am

For the first time in the 100ish-year long history of Bohemian/Czechoslovak/Czech hockey, the logo on the front of the national team jerseys will not be the official coat of arms (currently what my 4-year old calls the "ZOO picture", because it has 2 lions and 2 "birds"). The new Czech jerseys:

Ondrej Pavelec may not be the best goalie, but he seems to have the true ability to sum up the Czech public sentiment in just one sentence:

Postby **dodint** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:19 am

Postby **meow** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:22 am

If you are going to have a guy wear his uppers for a photo shoot, have the wherewithal to crop his Hugo Boss jeans out.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:33 am

If you are going to have a guy wear his uppers for a photo shoot, have the wherewithal to crop his Hugo Boss jeans out.

That's just Czech business casual.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:40 pm

Yeah, the jeans are weird...you can't be athletic in jeans...Pavelec is correct...

The logo looks like the top half of a "What to do if someone is choking" poster...

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:15 pm

Carlson reups with WSH for 8 x $8 shmil

That contract is front-loaded too, which makes him more movable once he is in his 30s. Fair deal, IMO.

Now imagine what Karlsson will get.

Postby **Tomas** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:00 pm

Yeah, the jeans are weird...you can't be athletic in jeans...Pavelec is correct...

The logo looks like the top half of a "What to do if someone is choking" poster...

The "Czech consensus" is that the logo looks like:

To add insult to injury, Scania logo is actually an eagle *

* to the nerds out there, yes, technically, not an eagle but the head of a griffin...

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:12 pm

No QO for ex-Pen Derrick Pouliot in Vancouver...

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:19 pm

Disrespectful number terrorist Joshua Ho-Sang changing from 66 to 26 because that old **** Lou Lam thinks low numbers and clean faces are what win championships.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:28 pm

Yup, all skaters wear a number under 30, no facial hair, I think he has limitations on social media too...old school. But he fixes his **** in his own way. For the first time ever I was actually near him on Saturday (did not have the balls to talk to him, afraid I'd be rolled up in a carpet and thrown in the East River)...the respect that guy commands, he can just take the air right out of a room if he wanted...it's something else.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:11 am

I don't agree with his oddball stances on stuff like facial hair, but while he comes off as a hard ass, he's actually a really nice guy.

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:16 am

I'm quite interested to see how he changes up the Isles uniforms too. Lou doesn't like team logos or manufacturer logos on the front of pants. typically he goes with manufacturer name up the side of the leg.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:05 am

I'm quite interested to see how he changes up the Isles uniforms too. Lou doesn't like team logos or manufacturer logos on the front of pants. typically he goes with manufacturer name up the side of the leg.

Good lord. You'd think the Isles have enough problems that the placement of logos on pants would be low on his list of concerns.

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:19 am

I'm quite interested to see how he changes up the Isles uniforms too. Lou doesn't like team logos or manufacturer logos on the front of pants. typically he goes with manufacturer name up the side of the leg.
Good lord. You'd think the Isles have enough problems that the placement of logos on pants would be low on his list of concerns.

you'd think but it wasn't for the Leafs.

pre-Lou:

post-Lou:

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:37 am

I mean has Lou been successful enough recently to demand all kinds of changes? He only helped get the Leafs to the playoffs, they didn't do anything else.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:33 pm

The Leafs went from a joke to a highly desirable place to me with a great structure...Babcock, Shanahan, etc. the team on the ice is a product of that. They are strong at every position. The organization has done a complete 180 from the Jeff Finger days...

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:45 pm

**** Jeff Finger