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My first franchise PCFL pick goes on to win the cup

I am not really trying to place myself in the fair weather fan category. I just can't support an organization that drops its commitment to exellence and dedicates itself to sustained mediocrity just to make the first round as many consecutive years as we can. That decision set this organization back a decade at the least and completely squandered 6-7 years that could have been used to stock legit talent instead of other team's discarded veterans just to back into the playoffs and say yeay we made it again. I am all for making key trades when you have a legit "cup window" but to me there is no such thing as a "first round window". Its push for the cup and improve the team or nothing to me. The post cup post lidstrom team was not going to push for another cup but you would never know it with the trades and signings Holland made. When you are trading away your first and second rounders and trading down when you have people like Justin Abdelkater playing first line minutes there is a huge disconnect somewhere. And that disconnect lead this team straight to the bottom where it belongs the way Holland has managed the team.

I hasn't been surprising but rather predictable I think, immediately after the last cup the organization went from being world class to milk playoff revenue as long as we can mode. Rather than rebuild the team properly with some fresh young tallent Holland added veteran mediocrity on top of veteran mediocrity for the purposes of making the playoffs bet never really competing again. So the wings were good enough to make a playoff appearance with moves like the last year of Alfredson's career, or wasting a second rounder on 16 games of David Legwand to cover injuries. Just to back into the first round and get completely DESTROYED by a competitive team. The consequences of making the playoffs just to make them and then get destroyed led to late pick position after late pick position. That is if Hiolland actually saved picks instead of blew them on moves like Legwand or Cole, again just to make the first round not actually compete. Holland's downward spiral lead to a team completely divoid of elite talent that can no longer play a puck possession game which makes for entertaining hockey. The last elite talent actually bailed with a year left on his contract because he no longer wanted to play on a team that put Dan Cleary and Justin Abdelkater on your wing. When a team throws a franchise contract at Justin Abdelkater you know you have hit rock bottom. I can't tell you the last time I watched a readwings game let alone went to the arena to see Holland's dumpster fire. If they start out with some new management like they should have when Yzerman was available we would have a different story. But the organization wasterd about 7 years of a rebuild window so any actual rebuild they do has to start from scratch when they are ready. When the team can't manage to stay out of the bottom five and actually stands a shot of landing elite players then the team and arena might become relevant again.

On November 26, 1917, following several meetings of the NHA owners throughout the month, the National Hockey League was created at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Hockey_League_(1917–42)

Nice random encounter with the richest person in human history. Not something that happens every day. Actually you met him on the day he was the second richest person in human history but only for a moment by the end of the day he was the richest again making it even more random.

Drouin can play center is it just widely accepted that he won't be a center in the NHL? Duchene and Drouin together would be good hockey IMO

Dang that is a diamond of a Capwise player.

oh man bad news all around

Absolutely, also if you ever need to upgrade office again I might be able to get a full license for $15 through work. Not sure I could do it after already purchasing one for myself but I would certainly look into it if needed. If you ever need any excel consulting I can always take a look too. If you felt the need to make PCFL a pay league I would support that.

LOL the typical hypocrisy so heroic they defend a disabled person by saying someone who mocks disabled people sounds like a girl

Enjoy!

Its a fun move but I kinda feel like goalies shouldn't be responsible to stop trickery. You have less than a second to decide what you are going to commit to. He is guilty of not following the puck but I always thought the shootout was a bad idea, just bring back the ties. This reminds me of playing Ice Hockey on the original NES when I used to pass it into the net instead of shooting you could totally fake out your opponent. There was no auto goalie in that side scroll hockey gem.

I feel like Rantanen + 1st round pick is better. Seems like one or the other could be just as good as Nylander, maybe both. I would probably stay put if it were me

Nice it seems this has been one of washington's Achilles heal's over Ovechkin's career, having a cornerstone defenseman

Honestly its too close to call. The only thing I can be sure about is Atlantic's forwards put that team last and Metro's forwards alone make me want to put them first. Central is probably best all around team. Pacific that goaltending is meh