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They say this EVERY year. Rasmus Dahlin was supposedly the "Connor McDavid of Defensemen". Jack Hughes was "generational". So was Alexis Lafreniere. "Highly touted" doesn't mean anything at all. It's just a marketing strategy used to get dummies to watch the draft. Literally EVERY SINGLE YEAR we find out that a guy who was "highly touted" isn't as good as a guy taken 4 or 5 picks later. How "highly touted" was Elias Petersson? Or David Pastrnak? Or Nikita Kucherov? Hell, Connor McDavid was the most "highly touted" prospect since Crosby and he's not even the best center on his own team.

Should be the new slogan for LGWs "Let's Go Wings: When The Site Actually Works, We Don't Give a f*** What You Think"

We're not gonna be in the running for Wright or Bedard. I get wanting to be, but we won't. Next year's draft is stacked in general. A top 10 pick next year will net a great player. Successful teams also find steals with late first and second round picks. We have to hit on a couple of those if we're gonna become perennial contenders. We might not get McDavids or Crosbys. But that also means we wont be spending 10+ million on multiple players and can afford to maintain depth. Look what happened to Chicago once Toews and Kane started their big deals. They won cups with the help of insane depth, and now miss the playoffs every year despite still having their 'core'. Give me guys like Necas or O'Reilly. That leads to the ability to maintain depth and be in it every year. Look at Carolina, for example.

My point is that JVR will be left unprotected, not Nolan Patrick. Count on it. But either way, Nolan Patrick sucks. He wasn't really all that good when he was drafted, and he's injured constantly now. There's nothing he could do for us that Joe Veleno or Michael Rasmussen couldn't do as well or better. Secondly, people have to get past this "if we get better we're not going to get a top pick" mentality. If we keep bottoming out every year we're going either A) waste the careers of good young players, or B) begin to lose good players to trade requests/free agency. Sucking every year just to get top prospects is a terrible idea and doesn't seem to have helped Buffalo or Edmonton either. And the reason why is because they have a culture of losing and apathy that can't be changed just by drafting an Eichel or McDavid. I'd MUCH rather draft in the 10-15 range for the next couple years and hope to land a Martin Necas instead of losing year after year in hopes of landing a Jack Hughes.

Went to the nino last night and put $145 down on the game. No parlays. $362 payout for a straight up Detroit win in regular, OT, or shootout. Hopefully this doesn't jinx me Lez go boyos

Nielsen out for the year there is a god

Tis not born yet, but all is in place. Getting a Doberman. He will be named Seider. He'll be born in June and ready to come home in August.

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Both screenshot your follower account on twitter so we know who the bigger loser is

Apparently YOU don't get it. If you play the same teams over and over, but those teams are really good, then it actually suggests you'll have a better record next year. You seem to think the addition of Boston and Toronto make some big difference but you're ignoring the fact that they'll play Buffalo and Ottawa just as often. So even if Florida lost every one of the games they'll play against Toronto and Boston (they won't), they'll have about 12-15 games against the Red Wings, Ottawa, and Buffalo to pad their stats. Plus, they'll only play Carolina (2nd in the league and conference finalist last year) twice (instead of 8 times). Will play Dallas (defending Stanley Cup finalist) twice (instead of 8 times). Will play Chicago or Nashville (both currently playoff teams) a combined 4 times (instead of 16). They'll also play Tampa 2-3 fewer times. It's almost like you start with your conclusion and then work backward to try and figure out the logic.

Or Raymond and Berggren in the SHL?

Word. One of the league's best coaches, stud goaltending, a D that can still f*** without Ekblad, and the league's most underrated center. But it's all......

These are the only jerseys they should ever wear. And give the North Stars back their logo and jerseys.

Torts is exactly what this batch of losers needs. Bag skating the enitre team because HSJ asked a stupid postgame question. Screaming at all the rookies because one of them smiled because their excited to be in the NHL but this isn't the AHL anymore and they shouldn't be smiling because smiling is for winners and this team doesn't look like winners and generally happiness is a sign of weakness so no smiling. Call Larkin a loser in front of his friends then pretend not to remember it when he brings it up to Yzerman 6 games later. Just laying into other bench bosses during games and causing a ruckus because why the hell not. Not giving a single s*** if its problematic. Torts likes it that way. Making the team apologize to YOU when you get fined by the league for saying inappropriate s***. Hell yes do this Yzerman.

Some of those guys will be traded, but some won't. Either way, you're falling into the same logic trap as the other guy, which is that Yzerman's only way to make the team competitive is to keep cycling through guys year after year looking for upgrades via the draft. I don't see that as the case. At a certain point we'll have enough picks and good prospects to make impact trades. Similarly as we continue to improve our chances of landing free agents improves as well. My guess is that Yzerman didn't give Larkin the "C" just to trade him. I just don't see it. I think he plans to build around Larkin, Seider, Raymond and probably whomever else he takes this year. I doubt he's looking to the draft 2 or 3 seasons from now as building blocks considering by the time those players hit the NHL guys like Seider will be as much older to them as Larkin is to him. The rest of the guys on your list will be trade bait or depth. If we land a top talent later in the first round (a la Kopitar or Necas or Pasternak or Kuznetsov etc. etc. etc.) great, if one becomes available for trade (a la Seguin or PLD) we'll go that route. Either way I just don't see him pursuing a strategy of losing as much as possible each year with his fingers crossed hoping to land the next Auston Mathews.

This is especially true when you look at the depth of the 2022 draft. The top 3 alone are projected to be better than the #1 most years. Anyone picking in the top 10 that draft should get an important player. Seider himself wasn't taken until #6 and was projected to be picked much later than that. The competitive hockey the team currently plays most nights and learning to play the right way is more important to long term success than running the tank every year.

I don't disagree that we need impact players, I just disagree that we have to bottom out over and over again to get them. And I'd add that doing so would have long term negative effects for the franchise, even IF we get a top pick. It's just as likely that you get a Kopitar at 11th and trade for a Carter as it is that you tank year after year and get a Malkin and Crosby.

Everything except the bold I get. The bold is what surprises me, why wouldnt you want him to break out and become a stud winger? I'm not saying he will, but when you are a fan of a team you should hope that every player hits their ceiling.

>Larkin out >Bertuzzi out >Nielsen out >Fabbri out >Ryan out Guess Brome will be getting recalled as Veleno isn't cleared to play yet There goes my money...

Dylan larkin is out tonight looks like another beating coming our way