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Oh, I thought we were having a tender moment. nvm. Eff y'all.

HYPE! LGRW!

Put Perlini in the top six... Is Fabbri playing tonight? F*** it! Throw him up there too... Bertuzzi - Larkin - Perlini Fabbri - Athanasiou - Mantha Hirose - Filppula - Helm Abdelkader - Ehn / Nielsen - Erne Nemeth - Hronek Cholowski - Green Bowey - McIlrath

I am not emotionally prepared to contemplate a bottom-five finish in 2021. One terrible season at a time for me plz thx.

Quoted 4 one extra LOL. Always make it a trio.

More accurate to be honest...

Athanasiou has been fine. He's been generating chances for himself and his linemates, and has 5 points (1 goal, 4 assists) in the past 6 games. He and Mantha have always had chemistry. I'd like to see what they can do with another skilled winger on their line. Filppula has been playing well, with 5 points (2 goals, 3 assists) in the past 6 games as well. However, AA is more important to this team's future, whether that's as a part of our core, or a key piece in a big trade. If we're trying to get a player moving in (even more of) a positive direction, it should be Athanasiou. Putting him on a line with one of our best players (Mantha), is the way to do that, not with scrubs line Hirose and Helm...

Perhaps flip Flip for AA as maybe AA going against a lesser line gets him moving in a positive direction? LOL can't believe I actually wrote that. In prep for the draft maybe we put the players numbers in the NHL "pick" bowl and have it spit out lines and defense pairs. Be kind of entertaining plus if we magically pick 72nd then we know the fix is in with the NHL. Like people who lived through the "Dead Wing" era have said it hurt but at least back then Probie and Joey provided entertainment. Now it's how soon does Jimmy give up that backbreaker of a goal and open the floodgates to reach our average margin of loss of 4 goals. I am alright losing but getting crushed is not a good thing. Sucks to be unhappy about a game knowing we are probably getting hammered again tonight but at least I will be too. Still a fan till my final shift.

So this makes two 2014 first rounders we've acquired this season. Hopefully the next one is Pastrnak.

LOL Are you seriously saying that you would make that trade? LOL That trade would be Filip Forsberg for Martin Erat level bad...

Zadina is going to be lucky to be a Nyquist/Tatar level guy. Lucky. We need a decent goalie for the mid-term if we have a prayer of being a real team. Larsson ain’t our savior in the next 5 years.

That m*****f*****. I swear it's not me. I only have enough energy/time/crazy for one silly fam.

Real countries have Thanksgiving in October...

Zadina + Howard for Holtby

Pageau is an excellent defensive PK guy, and he's seemingly discovered a scoring touch through the first few games here. Would explain why teams aren't scoring on him and his +/- is going up up up. Ottawa is really not in as bad as shape as us (hard to admit I know). Their goal differential is only like -11 compared to our -33. They're just managing to still lose... kinda like us last year. On top of that they don't have the longterm contracts on the books like we have and they have more and better draft picks. Red Wings are dead

Top3 comedy movie scene of all time DONT TELL ME MY BUSINESS DEVIL WOMAN

I do kinda wonder if Ottaw's treasure trove of 2020 picks isn't kinda harshin' Yzerman's vibe. Finishing below the Sens in the standings and watching them make 800 picks in the first two rounds would be absolute rock bottom for this organization, unless perhaps we get Lafreniere and the Sens don't even pick in the top three. Anyway, point is, I wouldn't be surprised if Yzerman is setting up to go hunting for 2020 1sts. Cornering the market on cheap, flippable 23-year-old RFAs could be part of that. I felt we all needed an injection of HYPE! after last night's game.

Doesn't help EDM right now. (The way Zadina's trending, there's a decent chance he never would.)

Leave Demko where he is. He can't get my fantasy team wins in Detroit

Blues fan: "I have no idea why we took DLR back, would've preferred a 5th or 6th rounder" Habs fan: "Pretty bad trade. Would rather have Fabbri x10" (Habs drafted DLR) Blues fan: "Would rather keep Fabbri for that return" Blues fan: "This trade will look terrible" Wings fan: "Whattttttt???? Why would anyone trade for DLR lol" I guess the Blues didn't have much leverage after Fabbri's injury and poor performance following. But we literally got this guy for a scrub we picked up on waivers. Yzerman is definitely working the phones and exploiting all oppurtunites. I wish I had his work ethic and didn't spend half my work day s*** posting here lol

I don't think this is the trade that fixes us or anything but WOW Yzerman is a mad man No loyalty to Holland's players. The swift action is refreshing. I take back all I said thsi summer about Yzerman being more of the same. Tinker away Stevie boy. Acquire all the disappointing former 1st rounders. DLR is probs thrilled to be joining the Blues. Good for him. That's our Nov trade boys, see you all in Dec.

He smol. He play C. That's all I've got. Yzerman likes him some small centermen, so I'm fully expecting Fabbri to become Brayden Point. REBUILD'S OVER, NERDS. LET'S GO.

But what kind of approach will you take? I'm helping out with a HS team (not hockey) right now and I'm the good cop. All the kids more or less look at me like the cool younger guy I presume. Little do they know I would go full torterella on them if I was in control.

I tend to agree. Unfortunately after stints like this, the coach is the first to go. That's the nature of the business. It might not even be Blashill's fault, but you do it with hopes of reinvigorating the team. This exact coaching change formula was on full display last year with STL. At the end of the day, Blash is just a baby sitter like most coaches. It's not going to hurt us to fire him. Worst case scenario is more of the same. To be a dickhead, I do find it amusing that everyone was stoked to replace Babs with Blash, and now less than 4 years later the fan base is deciding "fresh voice" Blash maybe wasn't as hot as everyone thought he was...toldyasotoldyasotoldyaso