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  5. Seattle Mock Expansion Teams

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    submitting for a friend,

     

     

    Marleau - Duchene - Hudon

    Skinner - Johnson - Pirri

    Sheary - Komorov - Neal

    Wagner - Comeau - Rinaldo

     

    Eriksson - Galchenyuk - Rinaldo - Stepan - Aberg

     

    Subban - Bortuzzo

    Shattenkirk - Gardiner

    Gostisbehere - Benn

     

    Staal - Connauton - DeAngelo

     

    Miska

    Hammond

    Langhamer

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  13. Mulligans

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    loved me some Peter Mueller too!

    8 hours ago, vojdog said:

    Being around 10 years now I have a few mulligans that stand out.  In the long run you win some you lose some but heres a few highlights.

     

    My first ever trade in Capwise was 10 years ago in my first league the ECFL.  At the time I was just getting interested in prospects and had the biggest man crush on Peter Mueller thinking he was the next big thing.  Traded away Ryan Johansen for him straight up. Three years later Johansen puts up 70 points at the same time Mueller now in the Swis league is playing for Kloten HC.  Mueller to his credit it has been lighting up the Czech and Austrian leagues the past few years ;)

     

    The real killer however is this one.  What i was thinking?  I don't know.  Perhaps I was lulled into The Rainmans trance.  How could my fellow Langley BC gm rip me off right?  For the first two season I perhaps was ahead in the deal but wow did I ever give up on Draisatl too early.  Me throwing in the first rder to boot put this over the top.  Regret it to this day.

     

    Leon Draisaitl

    Cam Fowler

    Jared McCann

    2017 first rd Am (turns into Miro Heiskanen)

     

    For

     

    Blake Wheeler

    Justin Faulk

    $3,000,000

     

    Rainman trading Draisatl 2 years later for a bag of pucks ( I mean Paul Stastny, Mark Jankowski and Kieffer Bellows) however is his story to tell ;)

     

    I was all in on Mueller too. Great minds, as they say lol

  14. Mulligans

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    With so many of us around the world suffering with Covid-induced depression and anxiety, I thought it would be interesting if we could take a trip down memory lane and open up some old wounds and see if we couldn't hurt just a little bit more. 

     

    Maybe we can share a few stories about a trade or a draft pick that we'd like to take a mulligan on. Or maybe a dropped player or whatever. 

     

    Wow, that's a great idea! I'll go first.

     

    I had the fourth pick  in the SFHL 2016 Inaugural draft. The three first off the board were Holtby, Crosby and Kane. The three right after my pick were Price, Ovechkin and Karlsson. My pick? Jake Allen. I remember telling a friend of mine around 2015 that the Blues were on the verge of being a dynasty and Allen was going to be a big part of that. Wrong on both counts. But I took some comfort when the Blues took it all a couple years back. I wasn't as wrong as I could have been, I suppose. Especially since Allen was clearly the back bone  of that championship run.

     

    However, the Allen pick kept me out of the playoffs in that first year and my team dropped to dead last the next year. Things didn't turn around until I traded Allen in the offseason. 

     

    Anyone else want a mulligan?

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  15. Mulligans

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    I didn't know where the term "mulligan" originated so I googled it. Apparently, David Bernard Mulligan, a Canadian amateur golfer made the term famous in the 1920's. Here are Mulligan's words from a 1952 interview.

     

    “One day while playing in my usual foursome, I hit a ball off the first tee that was long enough but not straight. I was so provoked with myself that on impulse I stooped over and put another ball down. The other three looked at me with considerable puzzlement and one of them asked, “What are you doing?”

    “’I’m taking a correction shot,’ I replied. ‘What do you call that?’ the partner inquired. Thinking fast, I told him that I called it a ‘mulligan’ . . . After that it became kind of an unwritten rule in our foursome that you could take an extra free shot on the first tee if you weren’t satisfied with the original. Naturally, this always was referred to as ‘taking a mulligan.’”
     
    there is a version of this story where the golf course is in my hometown of Montreal. So says google.
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