yea. i was in highschool when crosby and ovy came into the league. I know its exciting today watching guys like mcdavid and such, but back then we were coming out of such a dull time in the NHL. the mid 90s were great... but then it kinda fell into this weird state where hockey just seemed so dull. when crosby and ovy came onto the scene, along with the revamped NHL rules, it truly felt like a resurgence in hockey. to see them as the old guys now is really crazy... I miss going to school and talking about ovys crazy goals and crosby being an absolute legend
I believe I was at that game. It was around 10 years ago and was played in Washington. It occurred the day after a massive snowstorm. It was on a Sunday and the game was aired on NBC. Both Ovi and Crosby had Hattrick‘s with a Ovi getting the best of it in overtime. Love these guys. Praying we’re still going to get more
i still remember like it was yesterday when Crosby and Ovechkin made their debuts. like you said in the video they are both still elite so I'm hoping their GMs can do their job and help their teams rebound. Favorite Crosby vs Ovechkin moment is the 7 games series in 2009.
Though I'm not a fan of either team, I wish I would have known that the most recent playoff series between these two teams could very well have been the last
For all the problems the Pens have (and they have a lot), it's impressive they were only a point or 2 away from the playoffs. Shows just how much the core carries the team.
Flog the League. Awwww.... Bettman cannot promote Crosby all playoffs long. So glad we don't have to watch him and the officiating he gets when he's on the ice.
I was at a Caps Penguins game around 10 years ago that was played in Washington. It occurred the day after a massive snowstorm. It was on a Sunday and the game was aired on NBC. Both Ovi and Crosby had Hattrick‘s with a Ovi getting the best of it in overtime. Love these guys. Praying we’re still going to get more
Getting into the Playoffs,in the Eastern conference will require 95 plus points in the future. Years ago if you had 90 you were good. Competitive Teams.
Heckstall sent them into a rebuild with all the bad moves. How do you let McCann and Tanev go and keep Carter and Blueger? It is insane to me how Heckstall gutted this roster made them older and basically sent them into and early rebuild. The top two lines for the Penguins are still arguably some of the best top two lines in the whole league. It’s the bottom six and the defenses were all the mistakes were made keeping Carter way too long, keeping Dumolin way too long trading away Marino, just so many young pieces they let go for nothing.
Damn man, that's absolutely spot on! The only thing I would add, is that we just don't have the goaltending. 2 fantastic backups, but neither one a bonafide #1, or someone who can win a series. Whilst we have them, we gotta score 5-6 goals every night to have a chance of winning.
@@wolfmauler absolutely McCann scored 40 for Seattle this year. Imagine him in that top 6 or even 3rd line center with Poeling that would be plent of speed McCann could fly.
The pens took a gamble and resigned Malkin, they could have gotten a first easily and maybe a first and prospect. I understand completely wanting to keep a player like him, he’s a hall of famer no doubt. And his play this year was fantastic despite the issues of the team. But that play is why they should have sold him. The penguins are locked into an older team and have few if any major prospects or high level picks on the way. They gambled on their big stars, Letang, Crosby, and Malkin. Unfortunately 3 plays a team does not make. If they’d moved Malkin they could have gotten more prospects in; and sure they miss the playoffs earlier, but they help build a future to stay relevant. Now they’re looking at a punishing fact: a rebuild is on the horizon and it will be painful. Will they bounce back next year? Who’s to say. Crosby will always be Crosby. But the core of the team is aging out and there is no high level fresh blood to take their spots.
For Pittsburgh, the answer is simple. Fire Ron Helxtall. He is inept at being a general manager. As for a favourite memory of The Sid-Ovi rivalry I would have to say the 2009 playoffs where both scored a hat trick in the game. As a Pens fan, I was not happy with the result of that game, but I was happy with the result of that series.
New batch of star players only look entertaining because the game is softer and rules changed to increase scoring. Crosby and Ovi debuted in a league with historically low scoring league wide and they still put up crazy numbers
Sid should retire and Ovechkin should be sent back to Russia with a note for Putin demanding that he end that stupid war in Ukraine. Otherwise Ovi and all the other 50 or so Russian players within the NHL will not be allowed back into Canada and the U.S. After all, we do have an embargo on Russian goods and services don't we? ... Then APPLY IT!
Ovechkin is washed up but as long as he keeps standing around waiting for the puck I am sure he will pass the greatest hockey player of all time in goals what a mockery of the NHL.
I can't help but wonder if it's the Penguins & Caps are actually doing notably worse and that's why they didn't make the playoffs or if other teams just got notably better. I've seen the Penguins play some great hockey so I know they have it in them, and I'm not even a Penguins fan. We'll see what happens next season :)
It's so hard for me to see Crosby and Ovi growing older, they were both my generation and it also means I'm getting old too 😝Gotta pass the lead to Bedard next season and enjoy the new generation talents
The Capitals have been mismanaged like crazy recently. Darcy Kuemper has been a huge disappointment compared to the young goalies we shipped out in Samsonov and Vanecek when he's getting paid more than both of them combined. Trading away Orlov and Hathaway for picks and Craig Smith was throwing in the towel on the season in my eyes.
Darcy Kuemper has been pretty solid imo. I don’t think Vanecek or Samsonov would have the team in any better of a situation rn. They both moved to younger, better teams. I’d compare Kuemper in Washington to Gibson in Anaheim, though to a lesser extent.
Caps went downhill after the way they parted with Barry Trotz. Wins your first cup in your history and you won't at least match the wage of other top coaches in the league?? Disgraceful way to conduct business, and look where it got them...
Imagine how I feel, I am a leafs and caps fan. We lost Sammy, oh snap we got Sammy. Then the Leafs had to trade away Rassy but he went to the caps. So much emotion. Cheers bud
@@hockeypsychology I couldn't f'n believe that performance. I even ducked out of an obligation to watch. Shocking! And on fan appreciation night no less. I think if i'd been selected for a shirt of their back, I'd have given 'em an earful! lol
Both teams could bounce back next year, so they'd be better off doing a few tweaks and seeing where they're at halfway through the season. It's pretty obvious their windows as contenders are closing if not closed all together, but it's tough to rebuild around aging hall of famers.
The salary cap sucks. No sport should have a salary cap. I am fine with more national sports who get the bulk of revenue from national TV and other deals doing revenue sharing. But salary caps suck.
The Penguins falling apart is a little more sad. The Capitals core outside of Ovie just isn't that good anymore. If the Penguins simply had a GM who was good at his job they'd easily be a playoff team. It's not like the Bruins are young.
I think caps are still a good team. The good side is Dylan Strome is really good, Backstrom will have time to heal his injury fully, Sandin is good and will prob continue to get better. With any luck maybe some of their prospects will get better. Overall I think the caps won't fall off. I def do think this was an end of an era though still. It definitely feels that way. Even if the teams still do okay, it's just a final nail in the coffin of them being considered elite teams, even though it's kind of been that way for 5 years now. We're in the epilogue stage of these core's story
I actually think both teams are fully capable of making a bounce-back next season. As you pointed out, the core for both teams are each still effective, its a matter of surrounding them with the correct support pieces. Easier for the Penguins (for the love of God get a goaltender) but a healthy Caps team could be just as close. Won't be surprised at all if they're both back next postseason
and the continuation of old era was like 2 or 3 points away... in a world where the biggest difference especially in crosby sc team and this years team that the goalie situation is abysmal. so yea the end is coming but this was far from any crash
I'm thinking of some fanfic where they tie in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and they end up sharing the trophy but before they Hoist the trophy they do a really serious stare down and then they just embrace in a kiss. And then they Hoist the Stanley Cup together, and then they run away together to live in a log cabin in Ontario and raise a bunch of little kids together. (I'm not gay but this seems like the ideal for everyone)
Capitals were wrecked with injuries just hammered. The Penguins have zero excuse for missing playoffs. Bad management sure, some injuries but when it mattered most and all they had to do to get in was win. Crosby, Malkin, Letang all played. I don't think either team is done. Although if I was a Penguins fan I'd be concerned about Malkin's comments about it being a young man's game and him & his teammates being old.
Pens core could've and will still be able to go the distance but man... Fire hextall, do something, get consistency in net and a bit of defense. As long as 87 plays, this is my team
i wouldn't change anything because there is no salary cap available and everyone on the roster is old and slow so who would trade for them? pens need to start hoarding draft picks and get younger. getting petry made some sense at least, but losing matheson and marino really hosed this team from almost the beginning of the season. the back-end guys need to be fast, not just big.
Every star needs a supporting cast. The pens and caps let their superstars down. I think both Ovy and Sid should consider getting traded to a contender who is in need of leadership.
Pens need to fire coach and management and need to build younger players around Crosby and Malkin. Instead they did the complete opposite of what they needed by getting more old players. They go out and get Granlund for some unknown reason, that dude is terrible and has another 5mil left on his contract and was the complete opposite type of player that we needed to get. Max Domi would have been a perfect fit for the pens. The coach plays the same system every game, a system the pens can’t play anymore with how old and slow they are. Sully was never a good coach because literally any other coach can win 2 cup when you have guys like Crosby, Malkin, letang. Fleury, Murray, kessel, and guentzel. The PP this season was embarrassing and all the blame to that is the coaching. The pens can fire the GM and change the team up, but if they have the same coach expect them to miss playoffs again. I would’ve fired the coach back in November and I would fired the Gm mid January. The pens have the right players just not the right coach and Gm.
I don't know know how it is for Caps fans, but for us Pens fans we slowly became Ovi fans towards the middle of his career. Now I can't speak for all of the Pens' fanbase, but It's just cool seeing that. I became a fan of his about 4 or 5 years after he came into the league and have been since. I just hope Caps fans did the same with Crosby over the years as well.
Saying the caps are stuck with their aging core is not true at all. Lots of players on the caps will be cleared out and they will have around 15-20 mill in cap space where they will aggressively go after high end talent.
#66 not protecting his 1st round pick #29 that he built a cgampionship team around is his only goof in the NHL. Hextall is a total goof for not telling letang and Malkin its time to take a hometown discount like #87 so we can get #29 back. #29 gets a cup on his own will show the elementary genius radio host and the organization that the #29 supporters were right all along.
Now time for the MacKinnon McDavid rivalry
A new era is here.
McDavid vs Makar more like
🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
No one is on the Crosby, McDavid level
@@connorbrighteyes9719 Really? Seems kinda silly to say that.
My childhood is passing by my eyes 😢 I hope they both have monster seasons next year
at least they both hit huge milestones this year with Ovi becoming the 2nd highest scorer of all time and Sid hitting 1500 points
yea. i was in highschool when crosby and ovy came into the league. I know its exciting today watching guys like mcdavid and such, but back then we were coming out of such a dull time in the NHL. the mid 90s were great... but then it kinda fell into this weird state where hockey just seemed so dull. when crosby and ovy came onto the scene, along with the revamped NHL rules, it truly felt like a resurgence in hockey. to see them as the old guys now is really crazy... I miss going to school and talking about ovys crazy goals and crosby being an absolute legend
I feel like it was yesterday they were both rookies
lol....too funny
I don't know which streak is more impressive, Penguins' or Leafs'
Best Crosby vs Ovechkin was the dueling hat tricks. That game was incredible to watch.
My personal favourite
I was at that game!
I believe I was at that game. It was around 10 years ago and was played in Washington. It occurred the day after a massive snowstorm. It was on a Sunday and the game was aired on NBC. Both Ovi and Crosby had Hattrick‘s with a Ovi getting the best of it in overtime. Love these guys. Praying we’re still going to get more
@@maddog1011 You're thinking of a different game than the playoff hat tricks most people are referring to
i still remember like it was yesterday when Crosby and Ovechkin made their debuts. like you said in the video they are both still elite so I'm hoping their GMs can do their job and help their teams rebound. Favorite Crosby vs Ovechkin moment is the 7 games series in 2009.
Though I'm not a fan of either team, I wish I would have known that the most recent playoff series between these two teams could very well have been the last
I think there is still a chance tbh you never know
they should do minimum contracts in a small market together for a year
For all the problems the Pens have (and they have a lot), it's impressive they were only a point or 2 away from the playoffs. Shows just how much the core carries the team.
Flog the League.
Awwww.... Bettman cannot promote Crosby all playoffs long. So glad we don't have to watch him and the officiating he gets when he's on the ice.
Meh don't care 🤷♂️
I was at a Caps Penguins game around 10 years ago that was played in Washington. It occurred the day after a massive snowstorm. It was on a Sunday and the game was aired on NBC. Both Ovi and Crosby had Hattrick‘s with a Ovi getting the best of it in overtime. Love these guys. Praying we’re still going to get more
Finally
It was amazing while it lasted. I feel privileged to have grown up watching them compete in their prime.
Getting into the Playoffs,in the Eastern conference will require 95 plus points in the future. Years ago if you had 90 you were good. Competitive Teams.
Heckstall sent them into a rebuild with all the bad moves. How do you let McCann and Tanev go and keep Carter and Blueger? It is insane to me how Heckstall gutted this roster made them older and basically sent them into and early rebuild. The top two lines for the Penguins are still arguably some of the best top two lines in the whole league. It’s the bottom six and the defenses were all the mistakes were made keeping Carter way too long, keeping Dumolin way too long trading away Marino, just so many young pieces they let go for nothing.
Damn man, that's absolutely spot on! The only thing I would add, is that we just don't have the goaltending. 2 fantastic backups, but neither one a bonafide #1, or someone who can win a series. Whilst we have them, we gotta score 5-6 goals every night to have a chance of winning.
Protecting Carter over McCann was madness!
@@wolfmauler absolutely McCann scored 40 for Seattle this year. Imagine him in that top 6 or even 3rd line center with Poeling that would be plent of speed McCann could fly.
true especially considering how good mccann is doing to day
Pens gotta get rid of Jarry & the Caps need some fresh blood upfront
Desmith < Jarry
Both goalies 💩
@@jeffrichardjr Desmith = Jarry
Nicklas Backstroms injuries was the most devastating loss for the Caps i think. But you didn't mentione that.
And now jonathan toews won’t return to the hawks and will likely retire, I grew up watching kane & toews so to see these guys go kinda hurts
Add Bergeron next year 😪
The pens took a gamble and resigned Malkin, they could have gotten a first easily and maybe a first and prospect. I understand completely wanting to keep a player like him, he’s a hall of famer no doubt. And his play this year was fantastic despite the issues of the team. But that play is why they should have sold him.
The penguins are locked into an older team and have few if any major prospects or high level picks on the way. They gambled on their big stars, Letang, Crosby, and Malkin. Unfortunately 3 plays a team does not make.
If they’d moved Malkin they could have gotten more prospects in; and sure they miss the playoffs earlier, but they help build a future to stay relevant.
Now they’re looking at a punishing fact: a rebuild is on the horizon and it will be painful. Will they bounce back next year? Who’s to say. Crosby will always be Crosby. But the core of the team is aging out and there is no high level fresh blood to take their spots.
He was a UFA last year, they wouldn't have gotten anything for him.
True but two years ago, they would have. Or they could have moved his contract when it was near its end
He wouldn’t of been tradable plus Sid prob would’ve dipped plus hextall ruined the franchise
That's what happens when you draft at the end of every round for more than 15 years.
Cannot argue that the guys in charge out Pittsburgh in a rough spot for the foreseeable future
For Pittsburgh, the answer is simple. Fire Ron Helxtall. He is inept at being a general manager. As for a favourite memory of The Sid-Ovi rivalry I would have to say the 2009 playoffs where both scored a hat trick in the game. As a Pens fan, I was not happy with the result of that game, but I was happy with the result of that series.
They just cleaned house today.
@@de_dustybones finally some spring cleaning I can get behind
For the new generation its SHOWTIME
Just don't care. The new batch of star players are more entertaining and play on more dynamic teams.
Put down the crack pipe.
New batch of star players only look entertaining because the game is softer and rules changed to increase scoring. Crosby and Ovi debuted in a league with historically low scoring league wide and they still put up crazy numbers
Wish they could battle just 1 more time in the playoffs.
Me too.. it would be a perfect final send off
Sid should retire and Ovechkin should be sent back to Russia with a note for Putin demanding that he end that stupid war in Ukraine. Otherwise Ovi and all the other 50 or so Russian players within the NHL will not be allowed back into Canada and the U.S. After all, we do have an embargo on Russian goods and services don't we? ... Then APPLY IT!
Leave Politics out of sports
Do you live in America? Should we send you to Syria to apologize for bombing them?
So now can the Putinlover go home to his hero
Ovechkin is washed up but as long as he keeps standing around waiting for the puck I am sure he will pass the greatest hockey player of all time in goals what a mockery of the NHL.
You're not the sharpest crayon in the box...ultra-stale meme.
As a Leafs fan I can only wish for 16 straight playoff seasons with 1 cup win.
Try winning a playoff series first.
The best Sid and Ovie moment has got to be their dueling hat-tricks in a single playoff game.
They should team up
I can't help but wonder if it's the Penguins & Caps are actually doing notably worse and that's why they didn't make the playoffs or if other teams just got notably better. I've seen the Penguins play some great hockey so I know they have it in them, and I'm not even a Penguins fan. We'll see what happens next season :)
Crosby in the top 10 players of all time easily. It’s still such a shame his injuries ruined his arguable prime
This like when Bird and Magic no longer were in the playoffs..... its a very very sad loss
...Canada v Russia...
87 still elite
It's true. And what a shame to waste the form he's in this season!
Yea...they will be Better
Penguins GM last 2 years has really put the final nail on the coffin. It's not gonna be an easy rebuild, terrible asset management.
It's so hard for me to see Crosby and Ovi growing older, they were both my generation and it also means I'm getting old too 😝Gotta pass the lead to Bedard next season and enjoy the new generation talents
The Capitals have been mismanaged like crazy recently. Darcy Kuemper has been a huge disappointment compared to the young goalies we shipped out in Samsonov and Vanecek when he's getting paid more than both of them combined. Trading away Orlov and Hathaway for picks and Craig Smith was throwing in the towel on the season in my eyes.
Yep, that sums it up
Darcy Kuemper has been pretty solid imo. I don’t think Vanecek or Samsonov would have the team in any better of a situation rn. They both moved to younger, better teams. I’d compare Kuemper in Washington to Gibson in Anaheim, though to a lesser extent.
Caps went downhill after the way they parted with Barry Trotz. Wins your first cup in your history and you won't at least match the wage of other top coaches in the league?? Disgraceful way to conduct business, and look where it got them...
Imagine how I feel, I am a leafs and caps fan. We lost Sammy, oh snap we got Sammy. Then the Leafs had to trade away Rassy but he went to the caps. So much emotion. Cheers bud
Blackhawks won't resign Jonathan Toews off-season. End of an era for em' as well.
This is sad.
It is… especially the way the pens went out
@@hockeypsychology Losing to one of the worst team in the league is inexcusable.
@@hockeypsychology I couldn't f'n believe that performance. I even ducked out of an obligation to watch. Shocking! And on fan appreciation night no less. I think if i'd been selected for a shirt of their back, I'd have given 'em an earful! lol
Sad to see, as a Pens fan. Hopefully they can rebuild.
Both teams could bounce back next year, so they'd be better off doing a few tweaks and seeing where they're at halfway through the season. It's pretty obvious their windows as contenders are closing if not closed all together, but it's tough to rebuild around aging hall of famers.
It really is a shame that the Capitals or the Penguins aren't going to the playoffs.
The salary cap sucks. No sport should have a salary cap. I am fine with more national sports who get the bulk of revenue from national TV and other deals doing revenue sharing. But salary caps suck.
The Penguins falling apart is a little more sad. The Capitals core outside of Ovie just isn't that good anymore. If the Penguins simply had a GM who was good at his job they'd easily be a playoff team. It's not like the Bruins are young.
best parts for me: Ovi kissing Lord's Cup and Pens getting swept by Bruins while Sid held pointless!! thanks for the memories!
I think caps are still a good team. The good side is Dylan Strome is really good, Backstrom will have time to heal his injury fully, Sandin is good and will prob continue to get better. With any luck maybe some of their prospects will get better. Overall I think the caps won't fall off. I def do think this was an end of an era though still. It definitely feels that way. Even if the teams still do okay, it's just a final nail in the coffin of them being considered elite teams, even though it's kind of been that way for 5 years now. We're in the epilogue stage of these core's story
I actually think both teams are fully capable of making a bounce-back next season. As you pointed out, the core for both teams are each still effective, its a matter of surrounding them with the correct support pieces. Easier for the Penguins (for the love of God get a goaltender) but a healthy Caps team could be just as close. Won't be surprised at all if they're both back next postseason
Easy fix. A 1 for 1 trade. Crosby for Ovechkin
Can you imagine? I think everybody would collectively lose their minds. I know I would. 😂😂😂😂
and the continuation of old era was like 2 or 3 points away... in a world where the biggest difference especially in crosby sc team and this years team that the goalie situation is abysmal. so yea the end is coming but this was far from any crash
Would be badass to see the two of them team up on a rebuilding team.
Hopefully we get that damned Flyer out of our front office and find someone who isn't going to actively try to make us WORSE!
Imagine if we could get Sid and Ovechkin to kiss. That's the simulation I want to live in.
I'm thinking of some fanfic where they tie in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and they end up sharing the trophy but before they Hoist the trophy they do a really serious stare down and then they just embrace in a kiss. And then they Hoist the Stanley Cup together, and then they run away together to live in a log cabin in Ontario and raise a bunch of little kids together. (I'm not gay but this seems like the ideal for everyone)
Capitals were wrecked with injuries just hammered. The Penguins have zero excuse for missing playoffs. Bad management sure, some injuries but when it mattered most and all they had to do to get in was win. Crosby, Malkin, Letang all played. I don't think either team is done. Although if I was a Penguins fan I'd be concerned about Malkin's comments about it being a young man's game and him & his teammates being old.
Watch em both make play offs next season leaving this video irrelevant
Would be exactly like Ovi & Sid to do so lol
I can easily see Buffalo and Ottawa replacing them next year. In fact that’s more likely to happen than not.
yo
Yo
Like geno said it’s a young man’s game now!!!
Of course they won’t be the same. STILL GREAT!!
One thing pens need to do #FireHextall
I mean...they're both still playing elite level hockey. Either of their teams could make a few off-season deals and be in the playoffs next season.
Pens core could've and will still be able to go the distance but man... Fire hextall, do something, get consistency in net and a bit of defense. As long as 87 plays, this is my team
Good news man.
I think Crosby and Ovechkin should get together for a family barbecue.
i wouldn't change anything because there is no salary cap available and everyone on the roster is old and slow so who would trade for them? pens need to start hoarding draft picks and get younger. getting petry made some sense at least, but losing matheson and marino really hosed this team from almost the beginning of the season. the back-end guys need to be fast, not just big.
They should move on to new teams that way they can grow a new fan base in a new city . Or retire it's up to them .
Ovi is only playing now for the goal record, he should do it in the next two seasons, then he will leave.
Every star needs a supporting cast. The pens and caps let their superstars down. I think both Ovy and Sid should consider getting traded to a contender who is in need of leadership.
Crosby doesn't need to win a thing, and Ovi is just in for the record, so can't see it happening.
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There ya go
Pittsburg need to go out and get iginla again 😂
Now time for Pasta and Matthews
All suns must set eventually.
Pens need to fire coach and management and need to build younger players around Crosby and Malkin. Instead they did the complete opposite of what they needed by getting more old players. They go out and get Granlund for some unknown reason, that dude is terrible and has another 5mil left on his contract and was the complete opposite type of player that we needed to get. Max Domi would have been a perfect fit for the pens. The coach plays the same system every game, a system the pens can’t play anymore with how old and slow they are. Sully was never a good coach because literally any other coach can win 2 cup when you have guys like Crosby, Malkin, letang. Fleury, Murray, kessel, and guentzel. The PP this season was embarrassing and all the blame to that is the coaching. The pens can fire the GM and change the team up, but if they have the same coach expect them to miss playoffs again. I would’ve fired the coach back in November and I would fired the Gm mid January. The pens have the right players just not the right coach and Gm.
lets close out their careers by having both sign 3 year deals with the Pens :)
if Ovi played every game this season, probably still would have ended up with 50-60 goals.
It's so sad
Hear me out, one of them ask for a trade and they team up.
I don't know know how it is for Caps fans, but for us Pens fans we slowly became Ovi fans towards the middle of his career. Now I can't speak for all of the Pens' fanbase, but It's just cool seeing that. I became a fan of his about 4 or 5 years after he came into the league and have been since. I just hope Caps fans did the same with Crosby over the years as well.
I wouldnt say that im a fan of crosby, but i definately appreciate his talent a lot more than i used to
Saying the caps are stuck with their aging core is not true at all. Lots of players on the caps will be cleared out and they will have around 15-20 mill in cap space where they will aggressively go after high end talent.
#66 not protecting his 1st round pick #29 that he built a cgampionship team around is his only goof in the NHL. Hextall is a total goof for not telling letang and Malkin its time to take a hometown discount like #87 so we can get #29 back. #29 gets a cup on his own will show the elementary genius radio host and the organization that the #29 supporters were right all along.