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These are from The Athletic's Pronman, and I think say a lot about his evaluation system. When he ranked Detroit's prospect pool (released earlier this week) these guys were pretty far down the list. But when he scouted the European U20 camps later in the week look who impressed: Albert Johansson, D, Detroit Johansson was the top defenseman at Sweden’s camp. In the 2001 age group he’s historically been buried behind numerous first-round-pick caliber talents for Sweden on defense. But with all those players not at the camp, he had an opportunity to shine. He’s a very smart two-way player who can use his brain and feet to help his team’s transition game. “His game has grown a lot since playing all last season against men. He is stronger and more confident with and without the puck. He knows he can match his opponents,” Monten said. Elmer Soderblom, RW, Detroit Soderblom, drafted by the Red Wings in the sixth round in 2019, is trending up. He received praise from the coaching staff as one of Sweden’s top players at camp, along with Holmstrom and Johansson among the drafted prospects. Soderblom created chances for himself and others, and used his massive 6-foot-6 frame to get to the hard areas of the ice. “He’s a big guy but now he plays big. Gaining strength and quickness has helped his game become more efficient. He’s strong on pucks and takes them to the net hard,” Monten said.

Why would we trade our best goal scorer for a 40-45 pt guy in domi (yes he got 70 pts once but hes realistically a 45 pt guy) If we’re trading mantha might as well keep going with the rebuild and go for a 1st and high end prospects coming back not a 25 yr old player whos bitching to a team hes a top 6 guy ... im sure yzerman wouldnt want to deal with that nonsense for the record im for keeping mantha unless someone sends a deal we cant refuse and i cant see the habs giving us that

I genuinely don't think we're as far away as people think, IMO it's just a matter of getting people in the right places to succeed. We need a top of the lineup offensively capable center in this draft (any of Byfield, Stutzle, Rossi, or (maybe) Perfetti will do). We need that this year because this year is deep in forwards and next year isn't. Would hate to get a higher pick next year (which is loaded with defensemen) after taking Drysdale this year. Then take a LD next year. Preferably an offensive one. With my 2nd rounders in both years I'm looking at goal scorers. Jan Mysak fits that bill this season, so someone like that on the wing. The Bert-Larkin-Mantha line is a nightmare matchup for other teams top lines. They proved all season that they can play against tough matchups and succeed. Your "2nd" line is your bread and butter scoring line. Byfield/Stutzle/Rossi/Perfetti with Zadina and somebody to dig out pucks (I'm thinking Veleno or Rasmussen) would go in to take the offensive zone draws and put points on the board. After that it's all depth. One of Ras or Veleno centers the 3rd line with any combination of wingers, we've got a bunch of good depth options in Fabbri, Mastrosimone, Berggren, or anybody we draft in the 2nd rounds the next two years. 4th line? Who cares. Pearson-Glendening-Smith. Done. On defense you draft a Werenski to Seider's Seth Jones next year. You put one of McIsaac or Johansson with Hronek on the 2nd pair. Again, 3rd pair? Who cares. The other of McIsaac/Johansson and Cholowski, or Tuomisto, or whomever. The point is that we're probably two drafts away from being legitimately competitive. Maybe sooner if Yzerman swings a trade or two (to fill that hole in the left defense).

MORITZ SEIDER CHANNELS THE SPIRIT OF GORDIE HOWE AND TRAVELS BACK IN TIME SEVENTY YEARS TO PHASE SHIFT INTO THE SPIRIT REALM OF OLD TIME HOCKEY SETTING OFF A PSYCHIC RIPPLE WHICH LEADS TO A CHAIN OF EVENTS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD THAT END IN THE CREATION OF MORITZ SEIDER AND THE CREATION OF THE PUNISHING BODY CHECK OF JUSTICE FORGED IN THE FIRES OF ABUSIVE TRUCULENCE TO SMITE ALL OPPONENTS WHO FOOLISHLY CROSS HIS BLUE LINE INTO THE SEIDER ZONE (SAFE SPACE DENIED) Nice hype video found this morning. AHL clips, but lots of DEL clips too. Mostly checks and defensive plays, but that's that s*** I do like. Seider is a BEAST. Enjoy.

Agreed. He doesn't fit the type we need and he's also too old in my opinion. Dude is 29 yo. We need to look for defenseman in the age group 23-26. Wings are, what, 5 to 8 years from possibly contending? 35-36 year old Torey Krug is gonna help us win the cup?

Stephen... NO The Habs writer for the athletic said Mantha for Domi + Mete would be a fair trade. I think it's probably fair. But If we can turn that into Domi + Romanov somehow we should absolutely do it and not look back. Maybe a throw in a pick? Don't even know that we need to include Veleno.

I constructed a moat, and filled it with alligators.

This upcoming season in the SHL will be very interesting for us and the Red Wings player development staff. Big seasons coming for these two and Jonatan Berggren, I hope.

Jimmy's gonna be back in the crease and there's nothing you nerds can do about it

Boom. Right there. You don't think hateful racist speech is obscene? I know it's obscene. And any reasonable person would agree with me. Now you've dragged this thread off topic enough with your alt-right viewpoints. At least try to tie in hockey to what you're posting thanx.

I've been watching games when I can, its cool to note that there is only TWO teams left in the playoffs that have won a Cup since 2000. Tampa and Colorado...and hopefully Dallas can take care of Colorado tomorrow. That being said, it is pretty cool that there may be a new Cup Champion this season that hasn't won one in a long time, if ever. But, I cannot wait for this playoff to be over so we can get on this the off-season and The Yzer-Plan.