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Devellano said. "We recognize that. I can tell you as long as Ken Holland and Jimmy D are involved, we will be aggressive." Is this really him speaking in third person and calling himself Jimmy D? If so, that's my biggest takeaway.

HYPE! LGRW!

You're not wrong at all about offer sheets, but actually gaining control of the RFA in question and providing said compensation is not the goal of a predatory offer sheet, which is what I would advocate for. Essentially I just want Holland to offer sheet ONLY the big names, like Auston Matthews, to drive up their cost for their respective teams. At the end of the day I'm overly confident that Toronto would match even league maximum for a player like this, despite the high compensation. So I'd do it to certain teams like Toronto.. they probably wern't gonna trade much with us anyway. If Jimmy D is seriously alluding to acquiring a player via offer sheet, I think it's probably a bad idea. At first look I assume he'd be targeting Trouba, who has the connections to Michigan and has had troubles signing past contracts with the Jets. Issue there is he's obviously no superstar and would cost us way to much. If anything I think Jimmy D is referring to a trade. As in perhaps an unconventional trade for a basement team. Like retaining salary on some of our current players and swapping them for someone else. Maybe an aging star like Kovalcuk? IDK, purely spitballing.

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It's a shame he's not AHL-eligible, because that's really where he should be. Given the actual options, I'm 100% ok with him staying in Detroit.

In all honesty, if Nyquist indeed nets 60 points, there will be plenty of contenders calling us at the TDL for him. I know he has to waive the NTC, but a 60 point player could get us that 1st we covet, and then some!

You mean the guy who invented 3 on 3 overtime and sold it to the league? Clearly just a narrow minded pleeb.

What is he out for 4 weeks or something with a shoulder injury? I'm almost more tickled by putting the screws to Toronto than I am actually signing him.

As much as I like the idea of being the classy franchise on a hill, I'm 100% ok with Holland just becoming the first GM to use predatory offer sheets left and right and trolling teams with them up and down the league. Would be lol

Offer-sheet Auston Matthews. Draft Jack Hughes. Murica.

Mitch Marner offer sheet

For the love of god just hold on to that first round pick...

To me this means they plan to clear salary and make a big splash with offer sheets.

Absolute madman. He needs to start a podcast. Anyway. My take? This talk of a "plan" is probably just Devellano doing some PR for a bad team that's struggling to put butts in the seats. And he gets to puff his chest a bit while doing it. I'm not saying there isn't a plan. Of course there's a plan. I'm just saying it's probably more or less what you'd expect it to be, i.e. no real surprises, no aces up the sleeve. And yet...maybe he's being completely straight. Maybe it's not just talk. Like, "I won't go into detail about that, but we may have to go outside the box and do things that normally aren't done in order to push us up the standings and to get more competitive," is more or less how I would say, "We're looking at everything, including offer sheets and trading our first pick in the upcoming draft," if I wanted to say it without getting into any specifics.

He must be a big Seinfeld fan. Does that still work? I used to be awesome at that in NHL 12.

This guy gets it

A 10 minute discussion about cardboard?

Here's what I call "Shaking The Tree" and "Being Aggressive." Trade a couple of players by the TDL, in no particular order examples being Ericsson, Nielsen, Nyquist, Howard, Daley, Helm or Glendening for no other purpose but to acquire MANY draft picks and to open up some cap space for the summer. We don't need to trade all of them, but just enough to get a more picks and clear a bit of cap. Win (hopefully) the draft lottery. Draft Jack Hughes. Out of our hands though. Entertain the idea of signing Nyquist and Howard in the off season, even if we've already traded them, but both at less money. Howard may accept, but Nyquist may want, and deserve a raise, in that case, he can sign elsewhere. Re-sign Jensen at a similar rate, or he can go elsewhere. No interest in re-signing Vanek, Witko or Kronwall. Seriously think about buying out Ericsson if we get into a cap crunch. His hit will only be $1.4M for two seasons compared to his $4.25 for the one season. Pursue Karlsson with all our might, minimum $11M per. When Trouba, again, doesn't get a fair offer from Winnipeg, trade our 2020 2nd, 2021 1st and an NHL ready/quality player for him. Immediately sign him to the max extension, minimum $8M per. Top D will be Karlsson - Trouba followed by Cholowski - Green. PLUS How does this look for a top 6? Mantha - Larkin - Zadina AA - Hughes - Rasmussen Hopefully this is similar to what Jimmy D means as well. Honestly, it won't require too many, nor outrageous trades. Trade Daley to a Cup contender, trade Glenny to Toronto, trade Nyquist to a Cup contender. Offer Karlsson the world. The hardest part will be acquiring Trouba, BUT, if Cholowski continues his growth, do we really need to trade for Trouba if we already signed Karlsson? We could always wait for him to become UFA and see if he wants to come home to play.

Nyquist with 8 points thru 11 games. On pace for 60 points. Larkin on pace for 68. Cholowski on pace for 45 points and a Calder. Life tip: Anyone who calls themselves "The Rainmaker" doesn't really make it rain.

Literally never tweets again

My dude, I don't think this team is ready for advanced coaching methods. You ask too much of them!

I've low-key REALLY liked McIsaac for a while now Is it still true that all the best Dmen get taken in the 2nd round like Weber was? If true, hopefully McIsaac is our Weber.

Jared McIsaac up to 4 goals, 5 assists, in 9 games.

I think it's just slower than people expected, but not really unusual. I've watched most of the games and he just looks like a young kid not used to playing with big boys at the moment. You can still see the upside pretty evidently IMO. I'm not concerned yet, I'll re-evaluate my opinion later in the season once he gets plenty more looks.