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I was like - great, theyre finally gonna put my mind at ease and show the process - only to obscure it even more. Honestly, it makes me even more convinced it's rigged. Cause they're hoping enough sub 80 iq fans will just accept it and convince everyone to move on. But anyone with a half a brain sees they actually revealed nothing at all. Makes me lose interest in the sport honestly knowing Gary is dictating results to a high degree.

This is how I know youre either completely disconnected, or trolling. Ive never seen 31 teams so united over hatred of one team. The Hawks win has reopened that sex scandal wound in a big way. Its honestly shocking how many NHL fans are still pissed at the Hawks. The majority absolutely care, and still care.

Those ball combos were the most rigged thing ive ever seen. "Okay we'll show you the ball pulling, but we wont tell u what it means, well just say that combo means chicago." Ud have to be mentally damaged not to see how rigged this is. I also love the end of the video. Gary tells the two (thats right kip only 2 team reps were in the room, not 32) team reps and 3 reporters not to leave the room or share the results with anyone until its broadcasted. But b4 its even revealed Kevin Weekes (who was not in that room) announces the result. Either the NHL is shockingly inept, or they are predetermining draft order. These arent stupid ppl. Its rigged.

Weak UFA class. Lots of teams against the cap. Seems a prime year for it.

Yes i did mention it earlier. Read the forum b4 posting. I mentioned the Bulls offhand. No idea if theyre good or not. I dont follow basketball. Bowman wasnt getting rid of Toews and Kane. Thats changed since Davidson and the sex scandal. Again, keep up.

Sex scandal and Toews and Kane are gone. Try to keep up. The landscape has drastically changed.

No ones saying Gary doesnt invest in expanding markets. Youre arguing a completely seperate point. Detroit fans show up no matter what you do. Chicago fans are fairweather and will just switch to the Bulls if you allow them to fail. Pretty easy logic to follow.

Does this mean we can wear a confederate hat to troll oppose them? Heritage, not hate

Chicago is the jewel of the NHL to Gary. They make a boat load of cash everytime they do an outdoor game there. He wants his honeypot flowing. Anybody who says otherwise glows in the dark.

Theyre not trading Hughes, Petterson, Kuzmenko, or Miller boomer Think Garland, Boeser, Bear

1. Chicago 2. Detroit 3. Minny 4. STL 5. KC 6. Columbus Good call Barrie. Kip is lying to support his narrative.

Other team we can poach off of this year: Vancouver. Tampa. Calgary. All up against the cap, and VAN is rumored to be hot n heavy for some cap relief. I doubt Van trades any of Hughes, Pettersson, Kuzmenko, or Miller... but they have a load of other options to pick from. What about Ethan Bear? RHD. Turning 26 soon. Steady bottom 4 D. We could possibly trade for his RFA rights for cheap?

Friedman on 32 thoughts: Other teams literally think it's rigged

Before the Toews/Kane/Keith era the Hawks fandom was dead in Chicago. That lil dynasty of there's not only revived it, it made them super popular in Chicago again. Now with the sex scandal and the tank, the league is afraid of losing everything they built. Now with Bedard they can have 10 more outdoor games a year there in the next 20 years. Its all pretty obvious.

Combos seem made up. Whole thing was predetermined 100.

#1 should go to the best team in the league. #32 to the worst. Thats as far as ill elaborate.

Anybody named Michkov, Moore, Smith, or Benson fall to 9 and you take them IMO.

Only reason I'm not totally with you is bc Ive been saying Boston is about to fall off for a few years now, and they keep proving me wrong in big ways. Watch them get Berg and Krecji back at league min. But seriously. They have a good prime goalie. And a very solid D core. They'll still be good just because of those things alone. Then they have two superstar wingers in Marchand and Pasta up front. They'll have to get creative with centers, but I dont think at this point it will be as bad as some think. Hes done a very good job of pivoting and reloading that team so far

Boston has 77 committed to next season with 9 roster spots open, and 2 major RFAs. They can't even barely squeak under the cap with league min contracts. Solution isn't hard though. Buyout Reilly. Sell Swayman. Sell Grezlyck. Sell DeBrusk. Now you have 67 committed with 12 roster spots to fill. So you have 1.4 on average to commit to 12 spots. You can bring in 6 league min players and 6 more players at basically 2 mil each. It wont be pretty but it will still be a decent team Marchand - Coyle - Pasta Hall - Zacha - Foligno Frederick Lindholm - McAvoy Forbort - Carlo Zboril Ullmark

St Petersburg is reportedly trying to lease Buchnelikov to another KHL team. This would be good. Theyre essentially saying hes good enough to play in the KHL but they dont have room for him, so hes more valuable as cash for them right now. He will probably get much more playing time on a new team. He only played 10 KHL games this year.

Phase 1: Draft Phase 2: Creative building (you are here) Phase 3: Supplimentary building Phase 4: Cup runs Well we didnt win (again) the lottery. And I think thats the last time you will see us in any real position to win the lottery again for a while. It is what it is. The drafting phase of the yzerplan, IMO, is therefore ending at this draft. After this we will back to the 12-20 range. Even with no lottery wins we did pretty good. 2 blue chip Dmen. 2 blue chip forwards. 1 blue chip goalie. Another 1 or 2 blue chips this year. And we have an imploding bostons 1st rounder next year. Plus a myriad of other B grade players. But this should now start the shift towards what I call "the creative building stage". We may still sell at the TDL, but this is no longer a lottery team at this point. We have 2 more major foundational pieces joining the roster in Ed and Kasper this season. And impending major extensions to Ras, Ray, and Seider looming. SY will no longer be uber cap rich very soon and we wont be able to go on massive spending sprees like last year. So I think we are entering the creative building stage. Trades, offersheets, you name it. Time to trade a Drouin for a Sergachev. What can we pick off Bostons corpse? Torontos? Winnipegs? Islanders? Can we trade Zadina for a bottom 6er we actually like? Can we package some prospects for a top player in their early 20s? Once we can age up and wheel or deal our way out of mediocrity, then we enter the next phase of the yzerplan.

As you said, there will never be another Probert. But we can get close. Anton Johansson will be our Andreas Lilja lite to keep the rats at bay.

Betard is gonna slip to #10 just like Zadina fell. Guys game doesnt translate to the pace of the NHL. Also Bedard is from Vancouver I think. Stevie did sign Alexandre Douccet for next year.

Edvinsson = Hedman Seider = Pronger Raymond = Alfredsson Kasper = Kopitar Dvorsky = Hossa Larkin = Larkin Cossa =Howard Mazur = Tyler Bertuzzi Rebuild complete

I'm on the Dvorsky train assuming Moore/Smith and all that are taken