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Are you gonna be like this for the next 24 hours? I kid. Have at it. Unleash the beast.

[bursts through door] IT'S FILAPOOLA TIME!

Left shooting Dman. Swedish. 10 pt capabilities. Nice nice.

How is this guy a professional athlete?

Eklund is saying Carolina is looking at Jonathan bernier and then wrote you can’t make this stuff up ..... you just did hahaha

I hope we get Suter and Parise. If we can only have one, Suter.

The problem is that you want to trade AA for a fantasy. You hope that all these other kids will make AA expendable; you hope we'd get a high first; you hope we'd take a kid you like with that pick; you hope that kid will become something good. It's like selling your house for slot machine credits. Maybe you'll win the jackpot, and it'd be awesome if you did, but most likely you're just going to spend a bunch of time pushing buttons and end up a little worse off than you were before. You can't live in the future. At some point you have to start doing something with what you have. There isn't going to be one magical draft that will fill every hole on the roster over night, especially if you keep creating more. It's loser hockey. It's perpetual rebuilding. Today it's AA, tomorrow it's Mantha/Bert, and before you know it it's the kid you're hoping to get with the pick from AA. I know you'll say "after next year" is when everything will come together, but I bet by this time next year you'll be salivating over who we might get in the 2021 draft. Yes, Colorado was very lucky both to get a monster return for Duchene, and have the 1st rounder end up being 4th...and even with that much luck they still need Byram to actually deliver on his potential. Then even if he does, and they can call that trade a win, it just puts them in the position of having a pretty stacked defense and no forward depth. In the end, even getting massively lucky, they didn't do much more than trade one hole for another.

His depth/60 is outrageously good

he'll fit in perfectly!

Don’t we already have one of those in Nielsen?

A little housekeeping today: ESPN makes it official, Corey Perry (Whom Pavel Datsyuk beat up) to Dallas https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/27096506/stars-agree-ex-ducks-star-perry

Next stop WWE...

they won't be moved at the deadline. we'll have the crappiest D in the NHL again, nobody will want them. but hey, we're getting an AHL goalie. That'll make us more competitive. keeping the D we had last year gives zero room for young players or heaven forbid a UFA who's better than our D. Dekeyser - Green Ericsson - Daley Kronwall - Who cares. Toledo has a better D than that. ugh.... couple that with the worst starting goalie in hockey, we're in for a fun season to watch, only to get f***ed out of a lottery win again.

Shouldn't this be a $1-2M max signing? How is he getting a "nice raise" from $2.5M?...

Freep: Filppula a real possibility for Wings https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/07/01/detroit-red-wings-nhl-free-agency-steve-yzerman/1616757001/

We just signed Patrick Nemeth lmao ... no comment

And if we can have two, Suter.

I think the new regime might be more open to freeing a roster spot by demotion than the former regime. For example if Erricsson was told you're going to be in GR this year... the roster spot is open, you still have the cap hit but we have lots of cap... and who knows he may rage quit like a 12 year old playing fortnite.

https://theathletic.com/1056150/2019/06/30/blue-jackets-make-a-massive-late-night-offer-in-an-attempt-to-keep-artemi-panarin/ One last BIG push by CBJ. also this. I'll take a quiet off season over that any day

Khan reporting he will return to Europe anyway. Pickard is a GR signing. They want a vet with Larsson. Not too bad, Pickard is probs a career AHL journeymen who's still pretty young. I don't at all think that this is an indicator that they are trading Jimmy. Pickard/Larsson will be a thing for the next two seasons in GR. If Bernier slides at all or someone gets hurt and Larsson isn't ready, Pickard can step in. Pure depth signing. Howard is still the only decent goalie in our system, besides hopefully Larsson soon.

Buying them out at this stage makes zero sense. Just have to ride out that last year and ditch those contracts.

Fake news...Kessel's a native 'Cheesehead', and so am I...It's all about the Culvers

What's a better bet? Athanasiou continues his upward trajectory for the next several seasons? Or unknown draft pick, maybe in the top 10-15, is one day better than Athanasiou? I'll take the former... I'm sure you'll take the latter, because "you like to take risks"...