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Agreed. But I would like to see if he's a decent plug, at least as a 4th liner. If so, he's a lot cheaper than some of the other contracts on the 4th line right now. He only signed for $750K this past year, and he's an RFA after this season. If someone can be unloaded, Puempel could be a cheap replacement at the bottom of the roster to free up cap space.

Blue Jackets. Why did it have to be Blue Jackets? HYPE! LGRW

Can't handle all that HYPE!!! LGRW!

never stop believing! Wings will win tonight... I can feel it! Coreau will do much better... you know he has worked his ass off since that dismal start the other night. LGRW!!!

Because that isn't a recipe for success. The teams that are good at being bad never get any better. How many times in the past ten years have EDM, BUF, FLA, AZ had lottery picks? And they are still not playoff teams.How long were TOR and CBJ bad before they finally pulled themselves out of it? You can look at PIT or CHI as examples of being bad and coming out of it to become contenders, but they are more the exception than the rule. Not to mention, once you develop a reputation as a "tank", good luck bringing in any decent free agents to complement and help develop your draft picks. There's a difference between being respectable and being bad. It takes a lot longer to rebuild a house from the ground up than it does to simply gut and remodel it. That's what this team needs You can be both respectable and attain high draft picks. The rebuild will go quicker that way.

You do that in January / February, not September / October. As an NHL general manager, your goal is to assemble the best team as you possibly can, or you're not going to be employed very long. At the beginning of every season, you should give your team the best chance to win. Once you get around the trade deadline and it's clear you're a bottom 3rd team, then you start trading off pieces. So you don't re-sign Green, and hope your team is bad enough and lucky enough to win the draft lottery. I re-sign Green in hopes that we can remain somewhat competitive, and likely have about the same odds of winning the draft lottery. It also gives me the extra asset to dangle (and hopefully trade this time) around the deadline. You end up with a 5th overall pick, and I end up with an 8th overall pick, 30th, plus. Do you think you're much further ahead in your rebuild? I don't. Maybe even further behind... Also, look at what tanking has brought Edmonton, Arizona, Buffalo, etc...

According to Blashill, Svech will stay beyong Nielsen's return, which is great news. Hopefully he's able to contribute offensively and stays up for the remainder of the season...

Are you suggesting he started out playing awesome for a bit with Philly and then took a nose dive? Or saying the he played awesome to start with DET and then took a nose dive that continued with PHI? If the former, playing awesome for a bit is probably on overstatement. He's been there 7 games now, his first game was good and was against CBJ (bubble wild card team right now). 2nd game was bad and it was against OTT (makes it even worse). 3rd game was good, but was against MON, so take that with a grain of salt....the following 4 games were all bad.

Because despite how much some of us mock Holland and Blashill for constantly talking about "maintaining a winning culture", it is important. You don't not re-sign your best defenseman just because you want to be bad and improve your draft odds. As has been proven over the past few years, the worst of the worst can drop down in the draft, and the best of the worst can move way up in the draft. One thing that I actually really like about Holland is that he's not the type to completely tank. He'd rather remain somewhat competitive and hope that we either get lucky in the draft lottery like Philadelphia last year, or get lucky in the draft like countless teams do every year, drafting the best player (or top three) in the draft in the 7-15 range.

I remember when players were supposed to take care of themselves and watch for hits. Most of the guys who played in the 80s and 90s wouldn't be able to play now, including Konstantinov and Stevens.

It was a hit to the head. It was apparently worse than it looked. I don't think it was a "dirty" hit. Maybe late, but more of a fly-by. Love Ericsson sticking up for his teammate. Here's a link:

Really hope Vegas chokes in the playoffs first round and gets swept.

Yes, we should re-sign our best defenseman... If you're complaining about no roster spots for the kids, you sign Green and trade one of the many mediocre defensemen. There's not a single defensemen on the team that can do what Mike Green does on a nightly basis. Nor is there a kid in the minors that can step in and do it right away. Hronek will hopefully be that guy in another year or two, but Green is the one guy, I'd want him learning from. Re-signing Green is a no-brainer, and after not getting anything for him at the deadline, I'd be pissed to see him walk for nothing... 2 years $10.5M (preferably) or 3 years 12M is around what I'd like to see.

And just like that Frk is the last Czech on this team. Between Tatar, Mrazek, Hudler, Kindl, Jurco, Nosek, Nestrasil, and Frk, I thought at one point this team was gonna be Czech dominated like it was with Swedes in the past. Guess not. EDIT: Jurco is Slovak. Am stupid. EDIT: Apparently Tatar is Slovak too, and this entire post now makes no sense