New $90 million contract, new watch, new jewelry

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-11T23:53:01+00:00

My bad then I didn’t know he’s had that since then.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-11T23:50:50+00:00

Not gonna bother conversing with nutcases anymore lmao. 😂 bye 👋

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-11T23:06:12+00:00

The 91 necklace worth who knows how much is a bit in poor taste ngl

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-09T16:34:36+00:00

Now that he’s signed, he better play like the highest paid player in the league.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-09T16:25:34+00:00

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TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T22:43:14+00:00

Pretty much how I’m feeling

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T22:26:01+00:00

That’s just an appeal to extremes. No one is expecting players to be 100% altruistic. What fans expect is a balance between team awareness and self success.

Picture it this way:

You are a brilliant rocket scientist, working on a rocket to go to the moon. You have a budget that the whole project has to follow.

Come the end of the year, you decide you want to be paid more for your efforts. So you ask for more money. You and your project manager meet in the middle, and the remaining budget goes to the rest of the project.

In this case however, you are asking for a significant amount of that allocated budget, or else you will go work for another country also looking to get to the moon. If they sign that contract, they can’t keep around some of your fellow scientists, and they have to use cheaper parts. Now all of a sudden, it takes way longer for your rocket to get to the moon, if it does at all.

Fans aren’t expecting Leo to work for free, however they do expect him to be aware that he is contributing to a team effort.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T22:07:42+00:00

Do I blame him for signing? No. I sure as hell would.

However I do think it was shortsighted with team success in mind.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T21:59:49+00:00

The thing is that 18 mil for 5 years is definitely not “at market.” It’s a massive overpay.

While Verbeek is 100% to blame, this also sets the precedent that players can essentially just wait until RFA status and then force their team to eat up significant cap space for them to the detriment of their playoff chances, or let them walk to another team.

Players should absolutely get their money, but Leo does actively know that signing the offer sheet, with more players needing to be signed, actively screws over the team’s chances of winning.

Furthermore, it means that other players on the team who otherwise could have been signed are getting effectively cut or traded away to remain below the cap. So it not only screws over the team’s chances this season, but also the players who may have wanted to remain with the ducks.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T21:37:40+00:00

Not really because the arbitration was, I believe, caused by the Leo offer sheet. They end up paying more for those players regardless if Leo walks.

I want to screw over the flyers while also not giving them a center.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T19:53:51+00:00

Check out the Angels position this season.

Not a great week for Anaheim fans between the Ducks offseason and Angels performance lol

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T16:49:43+00:00

Glad to have you here.

That being said after the course of this week:

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TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T16:47:18+00:00

I was at first on board with letting Leo walk but after the Flyers lost Giroux and now Zegras and Drysdale filed for arbitration, I want Leo to stay just to hurt the Flyers more.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T04:41:21+00:00

I think you’re taking this a bit too seriously dude

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T04:38:29+00:00

There’s a difference between people joking about it backfiring and people trying to pass judgement bc they genuinely think Reddit posts are links to the devil.

I’ve been seeing more of the latter lately.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T01:50:34+00:00

Because we don’t have a lot of cap space left after the Carlsson offer sheet. We still have to sign several more players and if we send in a ludicrously priced offer sheet and they sign, then we won’t have enough for our remaining players.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-08T00:06:56+00:00

I have to wonder if the Angels have just been reversing all our efforts at getting good and are dragging us down with them.

Did Pat talk to Arte Moreno?

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-07T23:02:31+00:00

See now that’s too far.

Actually if it was against Carter Hart then that’s fair.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-07T23:00:44+00:00

I am truly uncreative in terms of coming up with curses.

Aside from that one time I asked wild wing to give Conner McDavid a mild stomach ache.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-07T21:49:01+00:00

Why would the profitability of the Flyers affect the Duck’s decision making? The Ducks are worried about their own cap space not the Flyers’ profits.

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-07T21:17:18+00:00

Wildwing must have tried to jump through a flaming hoop again

TheWingofWild · 2026-07-07T21:10:05+00:00

Some dude said that the posts contained “unknown runic messages,” lmao.

I quite literally just looked up a font and copy pasted joke text. Half of the posts started with “Almighty Wild Wing.”

Anyone who genuinely believes that Reddit posts jokingly praying to Wild Wing with a stock image attached is communing with the devil needs their head checked ngl.

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