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This is all it was.

He's young, and it says he will make a full recovery, but this kid has been injured quite a few times now and I remember at the draft this being his biggest negative. The more I think about this trade, the more I think we are going to come out the winners. http://www.tsn.ca/chychrun-out-indefinitely-after-knee-surgery-1.821775

360 degree aerial panorama I made from a flight Sunday evening

Abbot and Costello allegories. Some things are timeless.

No, What's at RW, Who's at Center, and Idontknow's at RD.

Hard to imagine Mrazek doesn't improve at all from last season so I think goaltending will be a lot better. Defense I'm not expecting anybody to really take a huge step forward. But guys like Mantha if he is given good minutes all season long could score 30 goals. He has elite potential

That is why I started my post by saying I would rather hire from outside. We need someone not loyal to these players that Holland just cannot seem to trade.

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Nill is another example of someone that left the organization to manage another team. Same as with Yzerman, I don't believe he would have shown the same aggressive style if he had taken over for Holland, and Holland stayed within the organization (like he likely would have / will). I think it's a lot easier to take over a team when you've had no previous personal connection with any of the management / players. It's a little more difficult to trade, waive, buyout, players that you've helped draft and develop, and helped your predecessor build. Maybe we would be in a better position right now if Nill had taken over for Holland, but I don't think he would have made as many drastic changes as some would like to believe. As for the bolded. No we don't need to "clean house", and it would never happen. We need a GM that isn't afraid to make trades, and will make the appropriate changes to get this team back on the right path to contention. Make some "difficult decisions", and trade a bad contract, and trade for a top defender. Who's more likely to make those changes (eg trade Ericsson)? Someone that has helped draft / develop, and / or been around on a daily basis, knows his family, etc.? Or someone that has never met the guy, and knows him only as the overpaid, bottom pair defenseman that was drafted last overall 15 years ago?

Martin and Draper did reel gud as my assistants and they'll do what I tell them to do for the next few years and you never know what you might get by looking outside so we just promoted from inside because that's reel gud.

Konstantinov would be suspended every other game if he played like he did back then. Wussification of the USA (and Canada)

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Howard signed his current deal after the 12-13 season. In the 4 years prior to the deal howard started an average of 55.75 games with a .918 save%, 2.32GAA and 4SO per year. During the 12-13 season (last before his current deal) the league ave for those categories was .912%, 2.54GAA, 1.3 SO. Howard ranked 9th with a 2.13GAA, 10th with .923%, and 1st with 5 SO. Howard was a top tier starter consistently for multiple years prior to his big money deal. There is no way to know that he would struggle so much with injury and inconsistency as he has in the years since. Yes, it is extremely frustrating but it's easy to sit here and manage the past. Unfortunately, we don't get to see the player's whole career arc before we sign these contracts. Howard was a solid starter for sure and part of the top 1/3 goalies in the league no question and by all accounts had our net situation solved for the next 8 years. His performance last year, while probably not exactly the new norm, is a closer representation of what he is and can be the the injury/inconsistency riddled prior couple years. Sent from my SM-G930R4 using Tapatalk

Agreed, there is no need to spread E's cap hit over the next 6 years just to have empty cap space this year or to bring in a guy like Vanek.

How many times must Zelda save Hyrule?