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Grav, 27, they/them. Sports blog. Big hockey fan; getting into the WNBA. Philly based.

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NHL: flyers

PWHL: torrent

WNBA: mystics

NBA: sixers

MLB: phillies

NFL: eagles

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hockey poetry below

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jaynejezebelle

8/8 teams complete!

I humbly request no more future teams be allowed to use the color blue (you’re on thin ice San Jose).

#these are sooooo fucking good #art #fave

hotvampireadjacent

#prev 😭

miggylol

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

#willy wonka is trying to kill me and all i have is a gold plated labubu #i dont even have the one hundred percent twenty four karat gold labubu #that’s not fair

antrea

[26.04.03] @ new york islanders

tippy's joy + z nearly took out both tippy and sanny 😂

#wuagh #they should increase the cap just for us #flyers

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.

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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

#call my gm garfield the way he

travii-inatrenchcoat

in honor of danny briere showing what tungsten balls he has

#call my gm garfield the way he #flyers

martypantone

Danny Briere really said actually, I deserve nice things too. I am a single mom who works two jobs (general manager and professional fujoshi) and I CAN have it all! I dug us out of salary cap hell and rebuilt our prospect pool and found us a playoff-ready goaltender who’s also a genuinely good guy and put up with Pat Verbeek for 18 months to carry a Jamie Drysdale/Trevor Zegras reunion to term and turned the trade of my old roommate/teammate/loml into Owen Tippett and Denver Barkey (and Jack Nesbitt) and drafted so many new children in his image because I MISSED HIM, OKAY?! I got us back to the playoffs after 6 years with only a 3.8% chance, and people are still saying I’m weak. They’re still saying I can’t close. So can’t this next move be for me? Can’t I speak softy and carry my giant dick into a franchise-defining fuck you to Anaheim for Philly and for the boys and for the team but also get one this offseason that’s just for me???

#call my gm garfield the way he #flyers

lightfe11ow

getting fucked over by a 48-year-old with a babyface who still goes by Danny professionally

wehaveagathering

Here’s my theory. Jamie and Trevor need to be re-signed and we’re not sure what their combined AAV is yet. Grebenkin and Mcdonald are the other two we issued QOs to and while their respective cap hits probably won’t be large we still don’t have the exact number. Once these four are re-signed, and Danny knows how much cap space he has left, he’s going to go to Giroux and say, Here’s the money I can give you after prioritizing my young players. You can’t be captain; you might not even wear an A. Do you still want to come back.

wehaveagathering

NEVER FUCKING MIND SORRY HE OFFER SHEETED LEO CARLSSON FOR EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS??? PER YEAR??????

#real gs and lasagna #call my gm garfield the way he

Here’s my theory. Jamie and Trevor need to be re-signed and we’re not sure what their combined AAV is yet. Grebenkin and Mcdonald are the other two we issued QOs to and while their respective cap hits probably won’t be large we still don’t have the exact number. Once these four are re-signed, and Danny knows how much cap space he has left, he’s going to go to Giroux and say, Here’s the money I can give you after prioritizing my young players. You can’t be captain; you might not even wear an A. Do you still want to come back.

#it’s 2 yr at 2.25 AAV and in 2028 we w** t** c** and he retires right after #locking it in now #flyers