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It wouldn't be the first time the NHL tilted the balls towards a specific team! Does anyone think it was just a coincidence that in 2005 Mario Lemieux was threatening to re-locate the Penguins, just so happened to be letting a young man stay at his home, then proceeds to win the lottery enabling him to draft said young man, Sidney Crosby? That stunk of a fix, and so who freaking cares if Detroit and or Ottawa, arguable the two worst teams in the league the last 3-5 years get a little help in their rebuild? Besides, when Detroit gets 2 compliance buyouts and gets rid of Abby's and Nielsen's contract's, and add to that the availability of Z's LTIR, Yzerman could very well throw the wallet at Hall, Krug and Holtby. Even if the cap fell a bit, he'll have about $50M in space (after Abby, Nielsen and Z) to get all three, PLUS re-sign the important RFA's to nice deals for both sides! Are the NHL Execs gonna ***** about Yzerman spending up to his cap and becoming 1000% better that way? Honestly, if we don't get Lafreniere, I really don't think we need another center. We have Larkin, Veleno and Rasmussen to be our top 3 C's, I guess we could draft one and make someone a winger, but I'd like to see our D bolstered. Which is why most of us were hoping that we went D instead of Holland drafting Zadina. But even now, if Yzerman drafted Drysdale, put him in the mix with Hronek, Seider and the possibility of Krug or similar? I think the other NHL teams just better watch out for Detroit no matter what happens this draft. Sooner than they think Detroit will be knocking on Lord Stanley's door and 30 other GM's will be shaking their heads wondering how it happened so fast, when they all conspired to keep Detroit from drafting a franchise LW back in 2020. It's funny how things work out in the draft, back in 1983, Detroit wanted LaFontaine SOOOOO bad, they were begging The Isles not to take him, so they "settled" for their next choice and we all know how that worked out. If we don't get Lafreniere, so be it, there is a great chance someone like Stutzle, Rossi or Drysdale just may end up being the better pick when it's all over 20 years from now. I'm just tired of Detroit getting worked over in the draft lottery. It's already bad enough that in a normal lottery our chances of falling to 4 are higher than retaining the #1 and that makes zero sense.

The PS3 games allowed you to use mp3's on your hard drive to assign to specific scenarios for each arena in the game. It was always a blast to give the Joe all of its authentic music.

I downloaded NHL20 when it came out but haven't played it much at all I looked at the roster when it came out though and saw Athanasiou was listed as a powerforward or something and Rasmussen was a sniper. Like wut? Lol EA f*** you To hijack the thread, can we talk about the NHL game soundtracks for 5 min? Each year I think they can't possibly get any epicly worse, yet somehow they seem to outdo themselves each year. I'm actually impressed by this feat.

Ugh, this debate is dull and has been done in various iterations before. Nobody is saying Kotkaniemi is a better scorer. The numbers don't back that up. Mackel is saying he's a better player. We're all fully aware that a player who scores fewer points can still be a better/more valuable player. Otherwise we'd all have to conclude Datsyuk was not better than Crosby or Malkin in 2008. Otherwise Steve Yzerman was a better player in 1987 than he was in 1997. Zadina has been criticized by quite a lot of folks, including our own coaching staff, for his play away from the puck. It's not like Mackel is making this up. I don't know enough about Jesperi Kotkaniemi to weigh in on the debate, but I do know that conflating "scoring" with "better" is a pretty slippery slope. You start playing that game and you have to conclude absurd s*** like that Brad Marchand is a "better" player than Alexander Barkov, or that Patrice Bergeron has never been a top 5 center in the NHL. Doesn't work that way.

Ummm....yeah, they do impact the game more. You being snarky about it doesn't make it untrue. Also, it's not just faceoffs. Literally every coach's system from the minor leagues to the professional level requires more defensive responsibility out of centers than wingers. So Kotkaniemi and Rossi score as much (or more) than Zadina and Lafreniere despite having to do so much more every single game. It's actually a pretty straightforward argument, though I wouldn't expect a Canadian to understand it. While you dingbats are getting moist over the one-dimensional guys who score pretty goals everyone else is content winning Stanley Cups. It'll be 20 years before you realize that Draisaitl is better than McDavid too. That's why you losers can't win anything important.

Even if Bernier played well this season, looking at his career, I wouldnt trust him to carry that over to next season and beyond. I like Bernie. He was a great goalie prospect that got beaten out of LA by Quick and then suffered the unimaginable fate of getting traded to the Leafs. Dude probably got no self confidence left.

I understand those teams POV. But I have no real morals or ethics beyond "Make Red Wings good NOW". Give me my unfair Lafreniere. I will only stroke harder if someone whines about us each time he scores.

First off, the pics are amazing. Great work. This virus has flipped my entire life, much more than anticipated, and chaos is the best way to describe the past few weeks. I apologize for my absence but there have been a lot of vital and extreme changes in my life as a result of this pandemic and I simply don't have much time anymore to check in. I appreciate you guys keeping things civil and within the rules (for the most part) and i'll keep checking back when I can. Please feel free to send me a private message on here if there are any issues like mass spamming that floods the boards or an issue with a user, it will go to my email and I can respond quicker. Thanks guys, stay safe and healthy.