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I know Wallinder hasn't played any SHL games yet, but he's worth mentioning. He's been playing mostly in the J20 (3GP - 1G - 3A - 4PTS) and Allsvenskan (6GP - 0G - 1A - 1PT) Niederbach has technically played two SHL games as the 13th forward, but only a combined *6 second* in those two games... However he's been dominating the J20 (15GP - 9G - 17A - 26PTS). He also has 1 goal and 3 assists through the first two periods in today's game. Also, just a note on Berggren's dominance. He currently sits 3rd in SHL scoring, the two ahead of him, are Marek Hrivik (2 points ahead, averaging 9 minutes per game more, 9 years older) and Carter Camper (1point ahead, 1 more game played, averaging 7 minutes per game more, 12 years older). The only other U25 player in the top 15, is Berggren's center, Andreas Wingerli (23). Berggren doing this as a 20 year old, averaging around 14 minutes per night (less than anyone else in the top 25) is pretty f***ing impressive...

yeah, Berggren looks like the real deal, always going hard for the net, high end vision and for his size really strong on his skates, hard to knock off the puck. He will be a real nice addition to our forward group come TDL.

btt as bad as all this covid-s*** is, there´s one good thing about it. We can watch quite a lot of our prospects in the SHL. On tuesday we will have a matchup of Berggren vs Veleno and Seider vs Johansson. Brome had a goal and an assist yesterday, to give us two prospects in the top 10 in scoring. Update of our Prospects in the SHL Berggren 10gp 2g 14a 16p +4 Brome 10gp 3g 8a 11p +6 Raymond 11gp 3g 2a 5p +3 Seider 4gp 1g 3a 4p +4 Johannson 11gp 1g 3a 4p +2 Veleno 5gp 1g 1a 2p -2 other Soderblom,Grewe, Setkov, Niederbach (playing minor roles on their teams)

Is it smarter? you have a 5.25, 4.25 and 0.5 cap hit that way, if you buy him out this year you have 3.4, 4.4, 0.7, 0.7, so you are talking about $700k in year 4 as a difference. It´s probably smarter on the exposing part, but moneywise there is close to no difference if we buyout Nielsen this year, we have a chance of signing another free agent center who is more likely to give a decent return at the TDL

let´s put it this way, his offense is his defense. he is often the one carrying the puck out of the zone, going along the boards at full speed, able to hold onto the puck and that way avoiding to play defense. Without the puck he is a bit of a hunter, chasing the puck, not afraid to play the body. Able to stickhandle the puck of opponents. I wouldn´t call his defensive game a strength but it´s not a liability as well.

Yup. Kind of surprised it didn't get settled before arbitration, since they were so close on AAV. They must have been far apart on term?...

Nielsen would not be dumb to buy out. The team would save cap space in each of the next two seasons, as well as real money over that time. The extra $600K that would remain on the books for the extra two seasons, is nothing. We shouldn't have any bad contracts on the books at that time, and a bunch of our top players will be on ELC's. We'll still have more than enough cap space to sign our RFA's, and go after big name UFA's. It would be dumb NOT to buy out Nielsen. He f***ing sucks...

I've got lots of time for cursing perceived anti-Wings chicanery. The complaining is at the very least cathartic. At the end of the day, though, it's on the Wings to take care of business with what they can control. Even if we're not picking in the top three, we've still been tanking for a few years now and collecting lots of picks and cashing those picks in...and I question how well we've taken care of business on that front. That's my real concern. Dropping in the 2017 lotto draw? That sucked, no question. But if we nail that 9th overall pick and/or a later pick, it probably wouldn't matter. And so we took Rasmussen at 9. And Carolina took Martin Necas at 12. And Vegas took Nick Suzuki at 13. And St. Louis took Robert Thomas at 20. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They are discussing changes to the draft lotto at GM meetings currently. To your point, I agree. Just in time to help the Hawks with their rebuild.

I'm sure the draft lotto will magically need changing when we're in the position to jump other teams, similar to what's happening to us now. At that time the league will suddenly see that its unfair thus screwing the Wings on the back-end too.