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Bernier after yesterdays game...

Yet we only score 2 goals and we have a rookie defense. What are the excuses for offense?

Keep the streak alive Blashill, I know you can do this one!

Ha. Wade Redden. Remember chirping that guy during warm ups from the stands at MSG. Then I remember him turning towards the stands and glaring and I STFU real quick like. (Yes, I'm both an Internet wimp and a real life one too!)

It's real, but pre-determined...like the NHL.

Just thought I would drop in to see if we finally won one. Nope. See y'all later.

Here are my thoughts on this game: Jack Hughes. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

WTF? Why was Glendenning out there for the last minute!!!! How can you expect to win a game with that strategy? Typical Blashill playing not to lose. Play the kids!!!! The fast ones.

We committed to a rebuild late in the 2016-17 season. So it hasn't even been two full seasons yet. We've had two drafts in the rebuild era and we got a lot of players out of them. We're gonna need at least a couple more drafts like the one we just had, and we're gonna have to hope we can get at least one player who's even better than Zadina, because Larkin+Zadina+Cholowski is not going to be a good enough core if multiple championships is the goal. The team is getting younger. The youth doesn't appear to be quite up to the challenge of leading an NHL team to a respectable record at this time, but, again, we're in transition. Where you see hopelessness and no progress whatsoever, I see some reasons to be optimistic. It's easy to bash Holland and Blashill and Nyquist and anyone who's pissing us off on any given day, but, personally, my hope and expectation is that all of this will be a distant memory after a couple more years.

There's no rush on Zadina. I mean, say he scores 20 goals as a Red Wing this season. Is that great for him? Sure. Does it actually change our situation in a meaningful way? Not really. It's about the future. We have to hope Larkin becomes a legit 75-point 1C. We have to hope Zadina becomes a legit 30-goal scorer. We have to hope a couple of our D prospects overachieve and become really good top-four defensemen, and on top of that we need to find a legit 1D. Neither Howard nor Bernier is a long-term solution in goal. Blashill probably won't be around much longer. Holland probably won't be around much longer. Point being, this is a team (and organization) in transition. We're gonna have to suck for a while. There's really no way around it. We can hate on Nyquist, but every team has a Nyquist. The problem isn't that Nyquist is on the team, the problem is that Nyquist is arguably the most dependable scoring winger on the team.

We'll suck for however long it takes to get a really good young core in place. Nyquist, Kronwall, Nielsen aren't really the problem. It's that we don't have a group of top-tier players.

So much melodrama. We're we really expecting to win this game???

At least he will fight and win...unlike Abby!

I dream of a day Mantha becomes as lazy and sucky as Franzen. Miss you Mule.

Coming from the king of one-line banality....

Go back to the day Mantha was drafted. I declared that Mantha would become the new Franzen and that one day, in a few short years, you would all turn on him Today is that day. Thanks for the thread.

You've seen his wife haven't you?

Sounds like a trade @LeftWinger would propose

Redden? Or the posters in this thread?