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It’s also possible Cangi said ‘if you want me to endure watching the Devils night in and night out for another year, you need to pay me more money’, and MSG said ‘see ya’.

I will be very upset if it’s her. She’s atrocious as it is.

I think that may be an MSG decision, but I would guess the Devils have heavy input.

If it’s Hextall I guess my mute button is gonna be used a lot.

That’s great, now we are ALWAYS going to know which team took the penalty and why play stopped. Who needs that sh!t?

Maybe they can give a raise / opportunity to the PA guy? heard he was phenomenal

Grew to tolerate him, very scared on who they get next.

Well that sucks.

Really trying not to get too annoyed about Ruff still being here. Yet I'm really annoyed about Ruff still being here.

They probably pay that dude in arena food vouchers. He isn’t going anywhere unless they decide to actually pay a professional.

Bolded is either my new favorite auto correct or my new favorite verb for signing players. Campbell says that’s his priority but 2.75 isn’t gonna come close. Fitz has to be looking at him and Husso this offseason

I think CD#9 was just making a funny...

They can still all be together. Just in New York.

Fun fact, Ramones related. I just designed a Ramones spoof shirt for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and now that CJ Ramones is playing bass for them it was a cool moment to really put his name in there haha Anonther fun fact is that Brad Marchand is a bitch

Just when I thought I couldn’t hate this guy more

https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/nhl/devils/2022/05/17/nj-devils-announcer-steve-cangialosi-stepping-down-after-11-seasons/9812464002/?fbclid=IwAR1r3w0RjsdMrOiFy33Qq0mTGo8m3LQmEKcpn4iuDVvNt4X9jzxxqljNbFI

Ya know…. I was thinking we should move on. But you’re right. Great post.

Fvcking Peter Rabbitt’s parents hated him from birth lol. Dude’s name IS a meme, I would be unstoppable.

I’m with you on that. He’s not the best, that was Chico, but he’s a lovable doof that gave his life to this team. Just let him do what he wants until he decides to stop.

Not even a hockey player and I want to use the #2OA to draft him.

It will never cease to amaze me what some parents will name their children.

At this point I'd be okay with rolling the dice, and that is saying something.

I think it’s like how John Forslund, Joe Benenotti and all them are for both their teams and the network

That’s because you know you’re wrong, Frenchie! 😉 I didn’t like Cangi, but I feel the opposite of my Jon Snow/Samwell meme, we can do worse.

I’m not happy about this, because I fear who they replace Cangi with. Plus, I did grow to like him over the years. So yeah, not great.

This will leave a SCARRRRRR in my heart

Lemieux's actions during the whole faxed contract fiasco pretty much signaled he wanted out. I do not fault Lou for shipping him out even after the arbiter ruled in his favor. Too many times pissy players can spoil a locker room and I think Lemieux also had worn out his welcome by that point. As for Thomas, he was another guy who was productive before he joined the Devils but then became less so under Lemaire's system. He wasn't the first and neither was he the last to suffer that fate. A lot of players during that era seemed to want to get out of dodge during the 90's (even during short stints) because of how either Lemaire or Lou (or both) ran things. They include guys like Muller, Guerin, Housley, Morrison, MacLean, Stevens, etc. Hell even Daneyko put up a little bit of a fight during that small players mutiny right at the start of training camp for the 91-92 season.

That is a great reference. I still remember watching that one in theaters Actually how sure are we that Domingue wasn’t just Van Damme in the wrong place at the wrong time?

I am almost certain he won because he was willing to work for practically nothing.

That makes two of us.

Is that even possible? Now you can only move up a certain number spots even in the event of a lottery win, IIRC.

And these cheap fvcks don’t pay for anything that doesn’t net them ROI. Dude ain’t going anywhere…. UNLESS they decide to hold another customer data mining extravaganza, poorly disguised as a PA announcer contest.

I don't legit hope for this to happen. But the thought of the plot of Sudden Death happening during a Rangers - Cane game and that Van Damme happens to be off that day makes me smile.

https://www.sportsgrid.com/video/goalkeeping-was-why-pittsburgh-lost-vs-ny Gotta love it.

He’s from Manitoba.

Agree except that unfortunately in that particular timeline, there was probably no resolving that dispute...and I can't blame Lou for likely thinking "WTF?!" Yeah 1995-96 was tough...Stephane Richer was also dealing with severe depression at that time. Neal Broten never wanted to stay in New Jersey beyond the 1995 season (he hated the area). Lou tried a number of ways to tweak the team (even brought in Claude's brother, which didn't help at all, and Esa Tikkanen, which was a complete disaster)...they did get it going for a while, but that last game against the Sens at home...just awful. Brodeur was so inconsistent that year, both in the regular season and the playoffs...he was so not good in those finals that I don't know that even Lemieux and his invaluable intangibles would've been enough to overcome him. Interesting idea though...Claude always did have that certain something that was hard to replicate.

That one was on rotation in the stockroom of the shoe store I worked in during high school and college. Was my first exposure to the Ramones and as you said, pretty much the definitive collection. Short on talent, perhaps, but catchy as fvck.

I remember putting the pregame on the day after the trade (I wasn’t yet aware that it had been made), and seeing them talking about Lemieux and thinking “Why are they…”, and then of course they were talking about him coming back…it was just something that I never expected. I had forgotten that it wasn’t just a one-for-one, Rolston for Lemieux…the teams also swapped a couple of 2000 first-round picks, and the Devils picked up a second-rounder. It wasn’t a great draft class…with those picks, the Devils took David Hale (22OA) and Matt DiMarchi (57OA).

For sure was definitely NOT suggesting that Marner was going to be leaving them tix and food vouchers for a game anytime soon heh heh.

Yeah from what I remember Lemieux had agreed to a three-year deal via fax either after or during a second straight lackluster regular season (he hadn’t had a great 1993-94 regular season either, though he’d been quite productive during the 1994 playoffs), and after having a huge 1995 playoff surge, he and his agent then wanted to question the validity of a contract signed by fax. An arbitrator ruled that the contract was still valid, and Lou basically said fvck that guy, he’s outta here. It gets forgotten, but Lemieux had turned in a crappy regular season in 1995 (just 6 goals in 45 GP)…he was going through a divorce and was generally having a difficult time, yet Lou was still willing to commit to him. Once Lemieux basically tried to renege on a mutually agreed-to deal, Lou was simply not having it. There were other things going on too…I remember along with the general lack of production, that Lemieux was overstaying shifts in trying to get himself going, which was aggravating Lemaire and some teammates. Yeah I think it had simply reached a boiling point at the time. I would’ve rather had Clark too, even though he was injury-prone. Thomas did have a lot of offensive upside at the time (he was only a couple of seasons removed from some productive years with the Isles), but he just didn’t fit in here…decent first season, but two very meh seasons (where he missed a lot of games) followed…one of those guys who felt stifled by Lemaire’s system? I remember being thrilled when Lou brought Lemieux back, in a “Holy sh!t…no way!” kind of way. He just gave the Devils a certain something, that “pest” factor. It just felt good to see him here again, even though he was clearly not in his prime anymore. As much as he often quite good with the Avs, things had soured too much with the Devils to think that he would’ve been as productive here.

Wow when they start offering $5m deals to the big name guys, it’s clear they’re ready to move on.

The Canes have had NO trouble selling out. The fvcktard NY media and Rag fans just try and apply the same tired bullsh!t narratives they pull with us and Islander fans.

Trouble selling out???? 🤣 These writers are nuts.

https://sny.tv/articles/rangers-hurricanes-tickets-fans-barred?fbclid=IwAR09kVY_uQ1OCeiX83D1zt2qZ9OfMhFLvD0JhGRthUDstpGL2M6-8LCECbk

Love when they say Matteau like nothing happened since. To be fair though, they get egged on by the NHL. Watch these Stanley cup commercials. Plenty of shots of messier shaking the cup like a dunce and ‘wE wiLL wIn tOnIgHt” , Bourque with Gary Thorne foaming at the mouth with joy, but either no mention of 95, 2000, 2003, or maybe one blink and you miss it shot of Stevens

I wouldn't have taken on Gomer's hit myself, but in a way you could kinda-sorta understand the thinking; Montreal's approach was probably, "OK, he's overpaid, but cost-controlled, and we should be able to get 60-70 points out of him (he had averaged about 67 points per 82 GP for his career to that point)...he's still only 29...he doesn't miss many games...has a good chance to turn in at least three Gomez-like seasons, right now...let's get him, at least we know what we're getting." The problem was that they pretty much got one season of typical Gomez (his first with the Canadiens), and then his production fell off a cliff, even though he was still relatively young. With some of these guys, they hit 30 and either right then or shortly thereafter, their production just plummets. And of course we went over it, but that was a bad deal the second it was signed...it was based on Gomez being able to suddenly become a much more productive player that he'd been to that point. Outside of a fluke 33-goal season two years before getting that deal, nothing suggested that Gomer was suddenly going to become a 90+ point guy. The first four seasons of his deal were 100% typical Gomez years...but suddenly that wasn't good enough, due to being overpaid as much as he was. I've pointed out the whole Rangers-Yankees thing a bunch of times (and how as far as hockey-baseball comparisons go, their history is far closer to the Cubs). It's their fanbase that carries themselves that way...they think by playing in New York, they're somehow the Yankees of the NHL, with the same rich and "proud" traditions...they've won one fvcking Cup since 1940, at that time mostly by mortgaging a ton of the future and by recruiting a lot of another teams' dynasty players to do it (but to be fair, when you actually win the whole thing, you'll live with whatever crap comes after, at least for 5 years or so...especially when it's been multi-generational futility). The Ranger faithful pretty much act like there should be an Original 6 trophy given every year, just because. It's the most annoying fanbase that I've ever dealt with...with Yankee fans, you get entitlement and the feeling that they think should be able to help themselves to any other teams' superstars whenever the mood strikes, but at least they've actually GOT a history of success, even when they're not necessarily winning championships. But as we know, Ranger fans will happily dial up 1994 whenever it's convenient. Because no other Cup before or since matters as much. Just 1994.