2017-2018 Stars Season Thread

[slaps]

Hitchcock might be good at this coaching thing.

[Knives Out]

As much as we *poo poo* on Bishop for not playing as well as we had hoped, his numbers are actually pretty good.

[ToddM]

A lot of that is Faksa being *fargin'* awesome. DBD did a short little write up on him:

https://www.defendingbigd.com/2018/2/7/ ... -stars-nhl

[Jason]

Lehtonen is fourth in the NHL in GAA at 2.22. He has the same save percentage as Bishop .919%.

[Getsmacked123]

The Stars remaining schedule is brutal. We are gonna know how good they really are soon.

[SaintAngerBH]

Lehtonen is fourth in the NHL in GAA at 2.22. He has the same save percentage as Bishop .919%.

I'm all for keeping him as the backup at a reduced rate if this keeps up. At least for another couple of years.

[Knives Out]

He's also playing most of the non playoff teams ...

[ToddM]

[The Frugal Gourmet]

Those guys suck.

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[SaintAngerBH]

This one feels like a playoff game. I hope it's a good one.

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[ToddM]

"Hey girl, you know what time it is? The Spez says it's business time, baby. It's business time."

[SaintAngerBH]

He forgot his suitcase for the trip to New York.

[Troy McClure]

Poor Seguin. Every time Hitch breaks up the first line, he takes Radulov away from Seguin.

[slaps]

Elie and Janmark are as fast as a buttered-up goose sliding down a pond of frozen WD-40. They should fit well with Seguin.

[Troy McClure]

The salary cap is expected to go up next season. Maybe by $5 million or so. The question is which player gets bought out to eat up that cap space. Spezza or Hanzal?

[SaintAngerBH]

Trade Spezza, buyout Hanzal. God, what a waste of money Hanzal has been.

[slaps]

Trade Spezza to which team? $7.5MM cap hits aren't exactly the easiest thing to move.

[Troy McClure]

Spezza's contract is a tough one to trade because his salary cost is as high as his cap hit. Poor teams chasing the cap floor have no use for those contracts.

[SaintAngerBH]

Can't we just claim breach of contract since we signed what we thought was a number 2 center and actually have a bag of nothing? I feel that is fair and should make the contract null and void.

[wonko80]

If they promise him a front office job for the next 10 years, can they entice him retire early?

[Jason]

The thing with Hanzal is always he's injured all the time. When he's in the lineup he's good.
I don't think you buyout either one. Hanzal is more valuable then Spezza.

[ToddM]

We also average a full extra goal per game with him in.

Counterpoint: Methot and Pateryn are slightly larger.

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Bishop started both losses to the Jets in November and allowed three goals in the first period of each.

[ScubaSteve]

If you bet on 32 at the roulette table and it magically hits, is it really prudent to throw down on 32 again on the very next spin?