The next “issue” is that the UFA market this year is absolutely barren, so any other way to add to the top 6 will also have to be via trade I wonder if they’re still in on McTavish, or if this was instead of him

Kyrou is a great player but considering what the Caps gave up, I think I like the Eklund trade more, as it stands As always, time and future moves will be the actual determinants

Supplementing the top 6 while helping restock the cupboards is real nice, but I really do wonder if Staios is done The fact that the two prospects were included maybe leans towards the suggestion that Staios wants to trade 25 as well? Nice to have a GM that I, more or less, trust on these things

Not familiar with Halttunen and Svoboda before this, but two young recent 2nd/3rd round picks is real nice too. But on a team desperate for forward prospects, these make me optimistic.

Oh damn Staios moves fast lmao. I wonder how long that’s been in the works Eklund feels like he is easily better, or at least, good far sooner, than anybody they’d be picking at 9 23 year old top 6 playmaking winger? Signed for 3 more years, then still an RFA? Immediately a good start

I was originally annoyed that we didn’t get a guy like Samoskevich back (yes I know that he was in Seattle by then, but the implication and timing suggests that if Ottawa wanted him instead of 25OA, they could have done it) But I’m hoping that the matter is as simple as Staois is big game hunting

Was the Brady Tkachuk era just one long milkshake duck

The fans of this team chanted his name after they got eliminated from playoff rounds that he sucked in And he couldn’t even just suck it up through the remainder of his contract

I think the big things that cements it all for me is that like… he had 2 years left on his deal. It’s not like his contract was about to expire and he was gonna walk. He quit on this team with 2 years on his deal and said “lemme go play with my brother” instead.

Can’t believe I made a liar of myself by pretending that Brady is better than Matthew, too

Even on the ice, we spent a lot of years going “just wait for playoff Brady” only for him to just not perform. And in this year’s case, specifically not perform because he was injured from caring more about the US national team

The worst part of this is that all of a sudden, I need to start reading up on the draft

Quick thoughts: This was feeling increasingly inevitable, and it’s better to not have this hanging over our heads all season. Also I know that we all got increasingly exasperated with Brady, on the ice and obviously very much so off the ice. But also, just picks outside the top 10 feels… lame

Just picks obviously feels uh Underwhelming. Curious to see what Staios does here. But this was feeling increasingly inevitable

So am I crazy or in soccer, do players seem to just pick which version of their name they want on their jersey Because I swear I’ve seen first names, last names, whatever else

I know that Raddysh had a great season and that 8.5M now is a lot less than it used to be But 8x8.5 for a 30 year old having a breakout season is uhh

When’s the last time Qatar had possession in Canada’s half When’s the last time the ball even spent more than like, 15 seconds in Canada’s half This win feels uh Commanding

Dude soccer is so fun when people actually score goals, why don’t they do this more often?

When he lined up for that free kick, I figured “he just came in for the guy that got hurt, feels like they’re giving him this kick to give him the feel of getting f fully in the game” But nailing it and throwing up the 8 for the guy is just absolutely sick work

Yeah I’ve come to the conclusion that literally any measure to reduce to diving, I’d probably be in favour of

Like is “please hold while this grown man pretends to be injured for 120 straight seconds so that teammates can catch their breath” really better than “we’ll be right back, players are grabbing a drink of water”

Not to concede anything at all to American things but like Idk, a break every so often in a soccer game so players can just have an actual break instead of players needing to dive just to force a stoppage in play seems like a better use of everyone’s time

Value Village rocks

Carolina going 16-3 throughout the entire playoffs is absolutely nuts Sens were never beating this team lmao we were so delusional

I enjoy watching the basketball part of basketball, because of how free flowing it is and it’s just a great expression of skill I, personally, find that experience slightly marred when every single play is just followed up with either a foul or people complaining about it not being a foul

I’m glad the Habs got absolutely dusted but it almost makes me even more annoyed that they got that one Mickey Mouse win to make it seem like they were slightly less pathetic against the canes than they were

Closet corner of “losers wasting my time” shame

I’ll be dead before I watch one of my teams win a championship God I hate Montreal fans

I can’t believe the league is watching these games as their finals and going “I think we need to water these teams down even more. Let’s spread the talent out even more. That’ll provide an on-ice product people will pay for.”

Honestly don’t bother making playoffs next time

Genuinely frustrates me seeing people laughing and dancing lmao I know that I’m just a grump who takes sports too seriously but how would you possibly be like “yay dancing!!!!” If you pretend to care about this is a sports team in the slightest

Most self-inflicted loss of all time 3 wasted power play, shorty allowed, own goal This team deserves to lose

Blocking the ottawa charge on Instagram m

The good part of being at the game is that I don’t have to listen to the TSN broadcast talk about how transcendent that interference was from Poulin, and how it’s clearly connected to her injury, don’t you know

Sorry but you can’t convince me that the call didn’t come down from the league. I just cannot be convinced otherwise

Some Victoire fans just came and took the empty seats in the row in front of me, which would make it row D I am about to get so insanely obnoxiously loud

Victoire are frauds btw And yes that means if we lose, we lost to frauds But that doesn’t diminish their fraudulence

Just absolutely allergic to burying it

I cannot fathom how Guilday could possibly be considered a top-pairing player

I have true hatred for Montreal sports fans in every possible situation

I am loving watching Emma Greco play hockey from up close That is smart, physical defence

Go charge go

Hey so do we think that the league being entirely ran and owned by just 1 dude is a problem yet or what

We all know who the league wants the win to go to. The league can’t allow their precious star to not win a ring before they start expanding and the chances get too low

Well I’ll probably get my game 4 money back then, at least

Philips was sprawled across the goal line and, whilst on the ground, just shoved herself off the right post to cover the right post wraparound She’s so cool

They just chose not to score but it seemed like they perhaps should have been a whistle I’m gonna lose my mind

Hey guys sorry, but is Poulin playing tonight? Sorry I just haven’t heard anything about her. Is she injured? What’s been the deal with her and faceoffs lately? Sorry just haven’t heard about any of it at all so I’m not sure. Broadcast ought to bring her up more often, I think

You cannot be wasting a power play opportunity when the player high doesn’t have a stick with just floating the puck in from the point of

Okay so like is this literally just the Victoire home broadcast. Do the Charge have their own that I’m unaware of. Because this is just the same as watching the Sens play the Leafs on Sportsnet