McCabe Signs 5 Year Extension, Barkov Returns, NHL's 3 Stars of the Week

[@Tomatohater64]

Being that this is Minnesota's only visit into Pittsburgh this season, and that Marc-Andre Fleury is retiring after this season, this was yet another class A move by a great human being. I hope Fleury starts tomorrow evening, wins the game, and has an awesome retirement.

[@idiotidiot5821]

Even with how badly we need a win I hope Fleury wins as well. Itll be even sweeter if it goes 3-3 to SO and all the big 3 Pens players score but get blanked in the shootout.

[@Tobris]

Pittsburgh loves Fleury. Always have, always will. Would have been more than happy to have ever had him sign back here. The fans didn't make the choice to send him to Vegas.

[@bradgerthoffer2803]

my greatest Flurey memory is back when he was with the Pens my uncle had a blog about the Penguins. Flurey came over to his house to sign some pens merch and even signed the bubble hockey table in his house "Hey! Thats my crease, _Flower"

[@atlasfeynman1039]

Why do you make up things on the internet? What is the blog and why would Fleury care? Why hasn't Fleury ever showed up at Shannon's house to sign some free merch and hang out? THG has more followers than yer dads blog.

[@justjohnny420]

​@atlasfeynman1039 His story seems as believable to me as Michael Buble randomly showing up to a THG meet up to play ball hockey (which did happen)

[@CantripCaniac]

The Slavin extension was technically the first to use deferred money. However, it wasn’t a noticeable decrease from what the Jarvis extension turned out to be.

[@jayvardy]

The Leafs need to stop resigning players. This ain't working... What are you doing?

[@jamiepike6909]

Lundell has been playing so well, hope he doesn’t lose all the extra minutes.

[@Your_Role_Model]

When the team is so deep that these are the problems we have now 😭

[@VGK2017]

Stone and Eichel top 5 in scoring atm. Barbashev top goal scorer on the team and Petro with 11 assists. It’s a good start for the boys. If Hill can find his playoff form soon that would be great. Still a long ways to go GKG

[@jonfox4022]

Stone found out he's not in THG's HHoF and he took that personally.

[@Tharley87]

New Tampa owner is just picking up where Vinik left off. Mr. Vinik has done so much for Tampa, there’s no way you will ever convince me he’s not the best owner in all of professional sports. He started this on day one and has given and given since while sparing no expense on the team. He also knows when to step back and let the professionals do their work never outwardly stepping on the toes of his GMs or coach.

[@THEGDB]

I like McCabe but the leafs seem to want no changes on that team

[@bostonwarrior4824]

Yeah and every time they say this is the year or else they’ll be big changes made. And then nothing happens when they fail. Then they get the same optimism for next year saying they think they’re the best team in the league and how they can win a Stanley Cup and then it’s just the same results year after year. That’s the definition of insanity.

[@alekslee3978]

Not the same thing as scoring a goal on fleury, but I scored an open net goal during a 1 on 1 with Ryan Ellis at a hockey camp in Nashville when I was like 13, it took me something like 20 tries and he may have let it in out of Pity, but one of my fondest memories

[@kradz5172]

I always liked Ellis. Comes across as a real good dude. I don't know you but I like to think the best of people and I'm guessing you're a real good dude, too. So my guess is that Ellis eased up but realized that even if he gave you all he had you were scoring that goal anyway👍🏼

[@vaporterra]

I agree imagine being able to say you even took a shot with Fleury on net

[@trismaster]

That VGK Steel Grey is still chef's kiss!

[@scotsaul]

Does the deffered money not count against the cap when it's paid out?

[@vipeholmskolan6052]

I think that's a bit much both term and aav for what McCabe offers.

[@intothestorm86]

You should make a video about the Flyers goaltender "curse" since Pelle Lindbergh passed away.

[@christophershenton899]

When philly got Sergei Bobrovsky he had issues in the beginning. It took some time for the adjustment.

[@atlasfeynman1039]

Bobrovsky played in Philly?

[@kevinstull8552]

​@@atlasfeynman1039He played there before he was traded to the Blue Jackets back in the early to mid 2010s.

[@jasonkashefi8241]

Philly misses Carter hart badly

[@jesseatkinson8956]

Ersson is better than bringing back that asshole.

[@Kmartsmart]

No

[@grahamdamberger7130]

His own fault for taking part in those "activities" during his time on the 2018 Canadian World Junior team. But what I hate the most about these allegations is, why do people wait YEARS after the incidents occur to finally tell the local authorities what happened? Were they being threatened not to say anything? Was something going to happen to their families if they told someone? This is why I appreciate TV episodes like Full House's "Silence is Not Golden". And I remember a police officer coming to my junior high school and telling us of a case where a group of teen girls were pushing people off a bridge and threatened others not to say anything about it or "They would be next". Someone eventually told the school principal what was going on, and the teen girls were arrested. Long story short, if people are told not to say anything about a case of abuse or assault "or else", they should tell the authorities anyways, because nobody is above the law. No matter the level of wealth, fame, or social standing they may have.

[@kradz5172]

​@@grahamdamberger7130 I go by the rule of innocent until proven guilty. Do I think something happened that night years ago? Yes. To what extent? I have no idea since I wasn't there. Do I believe we'll ever actually know the real truth? No. These allegations are obviously a huge deal as they ruin lives. If what law enforcement said happened did happen then obviously the NHL not wanting anything to do with them/banning them makes complete sense and I get it and support it. At the same time I look at the Duke lacrosse players and their lives were ruined and they did nothing wrong. I'm just thinking out loud 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@jonmendelson1104]

1:51 "Wasn't it Seth Jarvis was the first contract and now we get this one?" Jaccob Slavin's contract was first but it wasn't really reported on until Jarvis' deal because it dropped from $6.461 million down to $6.396 million and nobody really noticed it at the time/it was a trivial amount (65k).

[@davebegley3022]

"No reason why Barkov won't score a couple tonight." Why do you hate Buffalo so much? ;-)

[@RipleyAtHome]

Everything is on the table. Now clean up your plate Leafs fans. There are starving hockey teams in California. - Leafs Management.

[@brandonerick]

Great vid Shannon. Next vid can you touch on Kyle Davidson and the Blackhawks shopping for a 2nd line center? Elliot Friedman had initially hinted at this on 32 Thoughts recently

[@InsignificantNick]

One of Dubas' best moves was getting Chicago to retain half of McCabe salary. He's solid. 5 years might be a little long, but meh.

[@FBall-im8ui]

when you are on the ice especially a goalie I'd say language means little stopping the puck and seeing the play mans everything.

[@kradz5172]

Not sure why Nico Hischier isn't one of the three stars. Oh well. He's tearing it up anyway and that's all that matters.

[@michauvanspeyk8753]

Why didn’t the flyer play Samuel Ersson ??

[@quademarcinyshyn2868]

If the jets beat the leafs tonight can you do a video on their hot start to the season

[@havokan45]

Fedotov i think it maybe him getting used to the smaller rinks and the players skill level . why i say that at times he looks out of place on the ice and at time he looked great making some saves and bad trying to make them , Kolosov i think maybe more ready out the 2 they both need more work and it's a rebuild for the Flyers . with the NA rinks being smaller and i know it's still early i thought Michkov was going to have a problem getting space and from what i heard he don't pass what cracks me up he made some damn good passes so far . some players they get it some it takes awhile and some may never get it but they all tried the NHL is hard to play in

[@albertthefarmer6023]

I think you're 100% right with Fedotov getting used to the smaller rinks, but we also have to remember that we got him after he was serving his 1 year of military service which could explain why he's pretty rusty.

[@shawnlajoie1044]

Anyone knows what happend to Carter Hart and the other players who were involved in the scandal last year ?

[@Gobinabox]

All the players are not allowed to play in NHL and are waiting for their in court which in Canada it could take a couple years.

[@FoodFollow]

The league only does something about any rule only if the Leafs start to take advantage of it.

[@davidwhidden9337]

Is he even worth that much for that long?

[@Fatazz]

The deferred money should count against the cap, IF the player is still playing that year. Maybe a percentage maximum otherwise. But really, someone's gonna kill the goose and it will be banned. The only question is who and how much makes them say no.

[@kradz5172]

It will get "banned" when the Devils do it and they'll also get docked a first round pick.

[@Laughlin83]

Sad to hear about Stones injury from March until the first game of the playoffs this year. Let’s hope for a full recovery for him.

[@6hughmungus9]

Crazy AAV on that term for McCabe at 31 years old with a career high of 28 points. Guys like that are signed every off season for half that much on 2-3 year terms. I have no idea what compelled the Leafs to do this.

[@itaintobeezy]

He’s a defensive defenceman it’s not about his points.

[@Captain_Papi]

The AAV would have been higher if he signed for 3 years

[@6hughmungus9]

@@itaintobeezy Yeah and you can find those for 2-3 million on short terms every July 1st. Anyone who thinks he would have made this on the market hasn't been paying attention lately.

[@itaintobeezy]

@@6hughmungus9 LOL like who

[@Ck69420]

Yea not the deal toronto needs to be handing out...

[@joeb2151]

Kolosov looked good. The team in front of him, not so much. He will settle in, and I think his style is more NHL ready than Fedotov. As the team gets better, Ersson will look better too. Having Yam Cork out is going to mess things up. The Flyers are making mental mistakes regularly and being goaded into stupid things. Other teams are taking some liberties and nobody is really stepping in to stop that. I shouldn't see Foerster and Konecny and Couterier earlier this year getting in fights. And last night was weird. Couterier didn't do anything to spark a fight and certainly not in a way that Couts should have had to deal with an actual enforcer style fighter.

[@leinbajr]

Yam Cork has a yam cork with his ginger noggin. : D

[@Andyyy48]

if you actually watch flyers games goaltenders has played okay, but not great and defence has been just awful and their biggest problem😬

[@quincy839]

thats a great contract for mccabe!

[@pierrepellerin249]

Here's my solution to stop most of the contract with deferred money. Have that money applied to the cap of the year it's being paid and limit the amount and the number of contracts you can do that with. Say 1 million per year and 1 contract per team at one time. It gives a bit of flexibility to teams and doesn't allow anyone to really circumvent the cap too badly.

[@justjohnny420]

Once again the leafs are cheating the cap system 😡 /s

[@CoolsBreeze]

Deferred money is bad but tax free states is good. What a joke league. You can bet your house that if the Leafs was a tax free province the league would be crying foul and doing something about it asap.

[@preciselyinaccurate5460]

No other sports league in NA has any sort of regulations on teams regarding state income tax. Also you understand there’s a massive difference between deferring money on a contract your team has full control over and the income tax of the location of your franchise which you have no control over?

[@atpyro7920]

ah yes, because Maple Leaf sports and entertainment is the reason why Ontario’s tax rate is so high. Nothing else, just the ownership corporation.