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I believe Ovi said if he didnt make it in hockey his other option was likely being an enforcer in the Moscow mob. Ovi is skilled enough to not have to fight, but he could prolly make it as an enforcer in this league if he wanted to. Dudes a beast.

Wouldnt buy out anyone this summer. Daley only has a year left. No reason to. Had a down season for sure, but may bounce back this year and get us a pick back at TDL. Abby, Helm, and Nielsen all have too many years left to consider it yet. Yzerman returns in some capacity. Holland sticks around for at least another year. Not looking to make any trades necessarily. But if I did, it would be to bolster the blue line. I think AA would get u more back now and I think Mantha will eventually be the more valuable player. Larkin, Bert and Zadina are off limits. I would consider trading Moose tho. Offer sheet route would be a mistake. I think Trouba could be acquired thru a trade. NO UFA SIGNINGS!!!! No Kronwall. No Vanek. No Karlsson. Maybe Wit.

I hate both teams so much

April 16th: Tampa is swept by CBJ April 17th: Press conference, Holland steps down as Red Wing GM, Yzerman announced as new GM June 1st: Press conference, Ken Holland is introduced by Dave Tippett as the first GM of the new Seattle franchise June 21st: Pending RFA Brayden Point is traded to Detroit in exchange for Andreas Athanasiou, Jacob De La Rose, and a 2nd round pick in 2019 June 24th: Brayden Point inks a 2 years $6 million AAV contract with the Detroit Red Wings June 25th: Both Nielsen and Daley are bought out of the remainder of their contracts by the Red Wings July 1st: Val Filppula inks a 2 year contract with the Detroit Red Wings worth $1.75 million AAV July 9th: Jacob Trouba accepts an offer sheet from the Detroit Red Wings worth $8 million AAV for 7 years July 15th: The Winnipeg Jets match the Red Wings offer sheet and retain the services of Jacob Trouba Day 1 of 2019/20 hockey in Detroit looks something like this: Bertuzzi - Larkin - Mantha Hirose - Point - Abdelkader Helm - Filppula - Zadina Ehn - Glendening - Rasmussen Svechnikov/Frk/Kuffner Dekeyser - Green Ericsson - Hronek Witkowski - Bowey Sulak/Cholowski Howard Bernier Larkin is given the C, Abdelkader and Dekeyser acts as A's, for the first time in history the Detroit Red Wings field a leadership group of entirely Michigan natives. The forward group clicks and our goals for per game climbs to 3.1 with a PP% hovering around 20% Despite Hronek having a breakout 45 point season, our goals against remains at about 3. Injuries to Howard and average play by Bernier can't bail the defense out. We miss the playoffs and end up picking at #9 overall the next season

Yikes, I keep wishing Svech would've done something other than just square up and eat those punches. Can't just sit there and trade with a gorilla like Ovi.

Took Todd a while to truly breakout in the league. Gives me some serious hope for Tyler thou...

This is awesome. lol

Why didn't that dumbass do that to Crosby all these years?

come home stevie

Plus, gotta make room for Gardiner.

Canadian Conference West Division: VAN, EDM, CAL, WPG Canadian Conference East Division: TML, MTL, OTT, QC Western Conference Pacific Division: SEA, LAK, ANA, SJS Western Conference Southwest Division: AZ, VGK, COL, DAL Central Conference Midwest Division: StL, MIN, NAS, CHI Central Conference Northeast Division: DET, CBJ, PIT, BUF Eastern Conference Southeast Division: TBL, FLA, CAR, WDC Eastern Conference Atlantic Division: PHI, NYI, NYR, BOS 72 game regular season. Play each team in your division 8 times. 4 home and 4 away. 24 games. Play each team in the opposite division of your conference 4 times. 2 home and 2 away. 16 games. Play each team in the other conferences 2 times. 1 home and 1 away. 32 games. 4 best of 7 playoff rounds. Top 2 finishers in each division play in divisional round. 2 division winners in each conference play each other in 2nd round. 4 conference winners are reseeded and play in SC semifinal. 2 semifinal winners play for Stanley Cup.

We need a player like MacKinnon. He's a cross between McDavid and Laine.

Goaltending is such a crap shoot, but we have plenty of good to really good young goaltender prospects. That being said, I wouldn't consider Sateri or even Rybar prospects. They're both too old (29 and 25 respectively), and are what they are at this point (career minor leaguers). I was hopeful that Fulcher would be able to develop into something, and although he's still very young (20), especially for a goaltender, I doubt he ever develops into an NHL quality starter. Petruzzelli is the same age, but I'm a little more optimistic about him, if for no other reason than the draft day hype... I've never really been that high on Van Pottelberghe (21), and it looks like he will be (or maybe already is) a free agent (unsigned). I'd put Brattstrom (22) in that same category as well. Probably won't amount to much. The TWO goaltenders that I'm most excited about are Larsson (20) and Eliasson (19). Both are putting up huge numbers in their respective leagues, and although still very young, look like they could become quality NHL goaltenders in the not so distant future. I'm all for a Swedish goalie tandem in 3-5 years from now. Hopefully one of them can become the next "King" Filip or "King" Jesper...

A 23 year old 40 goal scorer with 90+ points Is better than a 24 year old 30 goal scorer with 50+ points? How do ya figure??

Yzerman has history with Filppula too Yzerman sends a 2nd rounder to Holland the following year to select Helm in the NHL expansion draft

Yeah, Todd didn't hit 50 points until about 5 seasons into his career. 62 points in his first two seasons in NYI. 140 games. Tyler already has 71 points in 128 games. He will only get better. Todd had more than double the amount of PIMs in those first two seasons, but Tyler is a few inches shorter and around 50lbs less, he doesn't have the weight to throw around like his uncle did. Well, until Moore, then he was scared to hit people. Todd's best season was 97 points, also had 144 PIMs that season, highest season total. Beast mode.

Very true. They look very un-Caps like right now. Losing 5-0, 44-12 shot count for Carolina, lost track of the Caps penalties. They look tired and frustrated. They love Mrazek. Mrazek preserving his shutout. Big saves.

Another Canes PP. lol

Canes giving the caps the business. 4-0.. Shots are 49-10

Yeah, like he gave the ref the other night. Just SNAPPIN'!! hahaha Carolina PP. Holy s***, the Caps look drained. Canes just playing with the puck in their zone. I'm guessing without Holtby this would be worse. And would ya look at that..Hamilton!! 4-0!!!

Rod the Bod must've given one hell of a pregame speech.

To be fair? To whom? Me? Why should I "expect terror related trash talk"? I would never expect that. I should have been less facetious I guess. I think the terrorist Kadri jokes are dumb. Not to get all up in it. And no virtue signaling either. Just wanted to clarify where I'm really at with all this talk.

Larsson = Average