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It's often hard to pick out which one is the evil twin. Here, not so much.

A clean hit in Russia is when everyone believes they died of natural causes.

Well it was worth the try lol! thanks for making the way there a little less boring peeps!

How can you even claim him

I think it's optimistic to think you could get a 1st. Probably also that we could use them to trade up. And even if we did both, it's pretty optimistic to think that whomever we then drafted would turn out any better than either of those guys. I wouldn't be opposed to trading Nyquist or Tatar (or even both depending on who we draft, and where our other prospects are at) for defensive help, maybe even for a pick if someone was dangling a decent 1st-rounder and there was a kid I liked still available. Dekeyser I wouldn't move for anything I think we could actually get (unless we were able to flip Nyq/Tatar for some major help on D). I haven't been too impressed with any of our kids this year. And what would we do with that cap space? Clear a bunch of cap then throw a fortune at Shattenkirk, only to immediately start bitching that we need to dump him so we can go after the next guy? We're not going to turn the team around with UFAs. Not likely to turn the team around overnight either. We don't need to desperately dump cap, especially not cap that will be gone within three years anyway. While that's true that we couldn't just force him to IR, he does have chronic knee issues. I'd think any doctor would say playing further poses a significant risk of further damage. I think if he were decide he didn't want to play anymore, we'd have no problem getting LTIR for him.

Hahahaha pavelvalerievichdatsyuk post of the day right there! and from a fellow Montrealer to boot!

Fricking epic man. Now that's a great pic.

To be fair, everyone here is assessing this hit based on the rules in North America. Who knows what defines a "clean hit" in Russia.

Loudest cheers of the game were reserved for the 20 yr old videos of the brawls hahaha

Oh, oh, oh, oh Riley! Actually, he'll probably put one off the post there too!

Everyone knows that Kronwall's playing injured. There's a chance he plays out the remaining 2 years, but I think that it's likely he won't. We should definitely plan for the situation of him going down midseason. If Franzen's still on LTIR, I don't think we get cap relief so It should be in the plans to trade Mule's contract to prepare. Wasn't mentioning it in the sense of forcing him to LTIR. I'm definitely not hoping that on him and I think he's still a good 2nd pairing guy for us. It would open up space though, if it happened. I was just mentioning other routes to cap space beside trading one of our best young D men.

Amen. Overhyping prospects is this forum's favorite pastime. We should have a team full of all stars by now from all the hoopla I've had to hear over the years about how good some of these prospects are.