Famille Bolts, ne soyez pas trop dur avec JBB, cela pourrait être nous. (c’est normal d’être en colère à cause du manque de respect de Stammer, mais c’est insensé)
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Dawgy66
@Lightning de Tampa Bay
Famille Bolts, ne soyez pas trop dur avec JBB, cela pourrait être nous. (c’est normal d’être en colère à cause du manque de respect de Stammer, mais c’est insensé)
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Dawgy66
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JBB got the lightning to three straight cups. Vegas couldn’t repeat, Colorado couldn’t repeat, Florida went to the finals twice only won once, since we last won.
CO is in a tight space. Vegas just let Marchessault walk to Nashville just like we let Stamkos go there too. FL has some tough decisions even with the team friendly Reinhart deal.
Winning consistently is incredibly hard to do in the NHL. You pay the price in salary bumps and lost players to FA, that’s what a flat cap for 5 seasons will do.
The fact we have as much in available space left while arguably being better today than at this point last year, is something I didn’t expect at all.
They’ll be fine. Landeskog will be on LTIR until Nichushkin is no longer suspended and then they can probably terminate Nichushkin’s contract.
Price of winning for Colorado though, just like us, it’s hard to be too upset when you just won the cup
Media doesn’t know that trades will be made to teams with plenty of cap space to get under the cap. Nothing new.
speaking of Colorado I’ve seen rumors they want to move on from colton already
just another guy the team let go of at the right time
I get people are salty about Stammer. That’s been tal;ked to death and no need to rehash it, again. That said, we’ve been in the cup run for 5 straight years with 2 cups and 1 second place. That’s not chicken feed and people saying he needs to be fired are more in love with Stammer than the team as a whole. Fact is, TBL is one of the best run orgs in professional sports and that’s in no small part due to JBB. Players change teams and almost nobody has a 1 team career, that’s the nature of the business. Breathe in, breathe out, move on.
In fairness, it was us. We’ll see how Colorado navigates out of it, and if they’re able to as seemingly graceful as we have.
All moves and trades remain to be seen on how they play out of course.
Our fanbase is incredibly ignorant when it comes to these things (which isn’t a bad thing) we’ve been extremely lucky to keep the pillars of our organization for extremely long compared to other organizations and are unfamiliar that things can change. Also add in that most of our fanbase jumped on after Stammer was already on the team so this is the first Captain they have seen us lose.
Colorado isn’t the worst. The Capitals are 13 mil over the cap and using LTIR to cover….and are still over by 4 mil. On the other end, Anaheim still hasn’t hit the cap floor.
Yes, losing Stammer sucks. But at the end of the day it’s a business. We still have our boys in Tampa. My wife and I finally got our season tickets a few weeks ago after being on the waitlist for a few years. Gonna be weird for a little bit of time, but it’s always gonna be GO BOLTS!!!
Is this an old tweet? Cap friendly (God I’ll hate when this is gone) has them at 10 forwards, 7 dmen, Landy on LTIR, 2 goalies – with 3.89m cap space.
They need a couple forwards, but they can scrounge or promote from the minors. Not like they can’t field a full team like the tweet suggests.