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It's GREAT to see Berggren dominating! He's had really bad injury luck and, right or wrong, that's led me to adjust my expectations for his career trajectory. I was hoping he *might* bounce back with a nice full 2020-21 SHL campaign and then maybe we talk about bringing him over at some point in 2021-22. If he keeps dominating like this and he ends up coming over post-2021 trade deadline, I'm a very happy camper.

Super smart pandemic or not for where we’re at, especially with the way our longer term deals have had a way of completely backfiring quite often lately.

Even tho I don't like this going to arbitration thats works for the Red Wings. I think it's safe to assume term was the hangup between Detroit and Bertuzzi. “When you get into the longer-term contracts, generally you’re locked into them,” Yzerman said. “We’re just trying to move cautiously. In the climate we’re in, with uncertainty about our salary cap for years to come (it remained flat at $81.5 million), we just felt this was a good way to go. We’re prepared to sign players to longer-term contracts, but we’re going to be careful, including our own players. We’re going to move slowly for the time being and be careful about handing out long-term deals.” Steve Yzerman: Red Wings looked to upgrade every position in free agency

I think I remember posting before the start of the season that people here in sweden are really hyped for the kid. Like you, I had no real expectations or hopes for this season other than him being healthy. Now I'm working real hard on tempering my expectations of what he can become.

Yeah, and I'm perfectly okay with taking a more cautious approach in these negotiations. It'll be interesting to see what Mantha eventually ends up signing for as well.

I think they could, but you need takers as well. I assume that the Swedish and Finnish leagues are already loaded with foreign players, so it might be quite difficult to find a space for him. SY was smart enough to get a lot of his players on loans, but now probably every GM wants his prospects playing... and not to forget the fact, that SHL and Liiga want them for the whole season, which would be a no go in Hronek´s case, assuming there will be an NHL start in January.

Yipp, Covid-break, there is a nationwide lockdown since 21st of October. There were restrictions since early October, when the league already stopped playing. A restart date seems far away...

re Nielsen buy-out Upside: Get a bad player off the roster and save real money, Downside: A cap hit of less than 700K under two years where it wont hurt us.

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.

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...

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)

Propaganda disguised as sports coverage? That never happens. Just like most people who dont live in their parent's basement.

You're at the end of your career, Abby. Write books and raise your child. You had a good run.