a beautiful wife named first round draft pick

mac / 28 cats + flyers + various other guys

[iltalintu]

Sasha Barkov the rally driver

[iltalintu]

Sasha Barkov the rally driver

[sensoryflows]

i can rpf guys you never even heard of

[tungpin]

if i had infinite time i would write one million stupid mundane aus that are like boston firefighter matthew x farmer's market vendor sasha or frat bro taking a required science class matthew x grad TA sasha or office worker who just moved to town matthew x captain of his new beer league team sasha. and fill them with insanely unrealistic levels of earth shattering romance and instalove where they are swearing to die for each other within 5 minutes of meeting and then sasha gets up and goes out to sell his tomatoes. and that's 1619 to me.

[insecuregodcomplex]

[mactheknifes]

went to a hockey game in beautiful new zealand and for intermission entertainment they made audience members fight to the death on ice in zorbs

[mybeautifuldarktwistedshane]

thanks siobhan nolan for this beautiful imagery

[mactheknifes]

about to take an 18 hour flight to discuss rpf

[urie]

elliotte friedman on #dadwatch: so there were reports on friday that he was going to philadelphia. i couldn't confirm that. i did ask, like, edmonton was in there, toronto was definitely in there. i think actually toronto might have been the most money. another team that was in this thinks, and again this person could be wrong, this is their impression: they think that giroux is seeing if anybody can really change his mind. they think he wants to go to philadelphia and he's waiting to see if anybody can really change his mind. i don't want that reported as fact because that was just this guy's opinion and it could be wrong. but that's a team that was in it and that was his impression, that giroux is trying to see if anybody can convince him not to go to philly.

[coachspet]

Offer sheets have come a long way in a league that long had a gentlemen's agreement among front offices not to use them (a nasty piece of salary suppression, that). Newly minted Hall of Famer Brian Burke once threatened/promised to rent out a barn for the purposes of hosting a fistfight against a rival GM who had offer-sheeted one of his players. Carlsson's is just the eighth offer sheet signed since 2010, but they're getting more aggressive on money and term, and more bespoke in structure to be difficult to match—the last three have resulted in players switching clubs.

[…]

It's been kind of a disastrous last 12 months for the Ducks in terms of keeping their core together. They traded away Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale a year before they would hit restricted free agency. They traded Mason McTavish during last month's draft. On Sunday they locked up Pavel Mintyukov, perhaps fearing an offer sheet, and they're paying him enough that they might not be able to afford both Gauthier and Carlsson. There was no question of re-signing veteran defensemen John Carlson and Jacob Trouba. The Ducks are, for lack of a more delicate term, in cap hell, which is a bad and improbable place to be for what is still fundamentally a young team that should be looking to take the next step.

Blame here lands on Anaheim’s front office, led by GM Pat Verbeek. It was voted the hardest front office to deal with by NHL agents in an Athletic poll. “There’s always something they nickel you,” one agent said. Another, intending it as partial praise, called them “assholes.” Saving a few tens of thousands here and there can have totally foreseeable consequences. Carlsson didn’t have to sign an offer sheet, and maybe he doesn’t if he has confidence the Ducks are going to take care of him. But if you know they’re going to fight you on every penny, what player isn’t signing a deal that’d make them the highest-paid player in the league and let them hit free agency when they’re still just 26 years old?

Of course, it wouldn't even have gotten this far if the Ducks locked up their young studs before they hit the market. That's what the Canadiens have done, and they're in great cap shape. That's what the Hurricanes have done, and they're Cup champs without ever facing a real cap crunch. But that's not how Verbeek does business—a slight and early overpay for potential is haram in Duckland—and now it's coming back to bite them. They could've had Carlsson long-term for something like $10 million AAV not too long ago. If Anaheim is now going to have to pay through the nose for his services, we know exactly whose fault that is, and it's not the Flyers'.

The Ducks Screwed Themselves, Barry Petchesky

[ratatatastic]

[orangeflavouredchips]

"What do you think that means for him (Barkov), and what's it gonna be like being up there with him, as you guys go through Worlds together?" - [x]

[washedupkam]

this is fucking insane. bonuses are paid at the moment of signing (or right at the beginning of the season, july first) and are lockout proof (regular salary is paid periodically throughout the season). this forces the ducks to also match this payment format which is just a fucking crazy salary format if you want to save money.

[washedupkam]

JESUSUDDHDBX

[woman-respecter]

the arc of history is long but it bends towards rpf

[undetectorist]

if you’re in line for brioux in 2026 STAY IN LINE

[urie]

the philadelphia flyers

[lightfe11ow]