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  1. i think this post should be put right here:
  2. i saw the tweet he posted a few hours before the crash... he was wearing a full face helmet with a dark tinted visor. being a rider myself, i can attest to visibility being frustratingly poor when riding at night with a daytime visor installed. just plain frustratingly sad.
  3. met his parents once during a warmup. very sad.
  4. it's one thing to be seen playing hardball with a player that some in the league see as a hothead. it's a completely different thing to be seen losing an offensive talent to another team making all the same calculations and concluding they're willing to pay through the nose for him. i honestly don't think Beek realizes the damage he's doing regarding the first thing, but i guess it does set a certain tone in player contract negotiations. but the second thing? if you lose what could be a 90pt player, when you have figurative TONS of cap space to throw around, for picks that don't seem all that valuable in the near term, AND it's as you're trying to bootstrap yourself out of a rebuild, AND you already have players making noise that they're frustrated waiting for the team to start playing seriously again? sure, there's the same risk as to whether the player will pan out in the end, but now you've added a career-defining risk of losing a player who has absolutely captured the imagination of 90% of the league... without really even trying that hard. i think Beek (and the team) could recover fairly easily if they overpay Z, ESPECIALLY over the term of a typical bridge deal. Beek's career would absolutely not survive in this league if he lost Z to an offer sheet from Buffalo and Z put up 90 points this season (while being the Z we know and love).
  5. that is completely, entirely, 100% NOT what Cronin was talking about, when he mentioned making players uncomfortable.
  6. while i think there's a very old school thinking way to justify lowballing a player like Z (on a bridge deal, no less), anyone being truthful with themselves has to admit that the current thinking, league-wide, is that players are getting paid more prospectively than they have in the past, and on that new metric, Z's market value is much higher than what's rumored to be the AAV offered by the Ducks. if you want to pick at his defensive numbers from last season... then the conversation opens up to player concerns as well, such as: when are you going to field a team that'll take advantage of my offensive skills? if the answer is "we aren't," then 1) what are we even doing? and 2) i guess that means trade. i keep hearing that Z has no leverage. maybe that's true for a team like Boston or the Avs or some other team that has a bevy of established and still-performing veterans who will take a pay cut to be on a contending team in a huge market (you could even argue the Kings are that, even during a rebuild), but for a relatively small market team that is literally having to adjust their draft pics to acquire prospects who won't jultz them? a team that has to overpay just to get mid to low-mid tier UFAs to sign for a few seasons? he who fools himself is the most irredeemable fool. maybe Beek thinks he's still in Detroit or Tampa. i mean, he doesn't have to cave to every player, and i'm sure there's perfectly respectable looking excel sheet reasoning justifying lowballing Z..., but last year's stats aren't what we're paying Z for, and that kind of limited thinking isn't what we're paying Beek for. well, unless we're going to end up running the Ducks like Sterling ran the Clippers for decades. if that's the case, i certainly don't want to subsidize that business with season tickets.
  7. lol, Beek is liable to take until Z goes arb-eligible. not an early bird, Beek.
  8. not sure what you're trying to say here, or if it came out the way you wanted it to. second try?
  9. yeah, it's just a way of saying that they may have gotten comfortable doing things that aren't the best use of their skills AND aren't the best way to play in the NHL, so he's probing that and making them do things outside their comfort zone. probably a good thing, considering the number of years they've been doing many things that don't work well in the league.
  10. i like him exactly as much as i can any coach whose performance i have zero evidence on which to evaluate.
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