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Who has two thumbs and a massive boner for the future of our blue line? This guy.

Rumor has it the "drain" was Blashill's mouth. Al wouldn't stand for the piss poor state of this team any longer!

Guy was pissed he got traded to Detroit and had no interest whatsoever in playing for the Wings. It's a miracle we got that 2nd for him, let alone Walman and Sundqvist. F*ck Nick Leddy.

He's not a rookie, but still...

Nick Leddy, >16 pts in 55 games with the Wings >7 pts in 15 games with the Blues I'd admit I was wrong about him if he wasn't so goddamn awful for us. Guy coasted his entire time here, watching pucks go in. Now he's with Justin Faulk on the 2nd pair and apparently enjoys hockey again. Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious case of "I'm not gonna try so they trade me". Makes you appreciate guys like Marc Staal I guess.

Boden is pretty based

I would love to spend money on players like that. And that's the kind of thing that would make me want to push Zadina down the line up and into oblivion eventually. The kind of thing that makes me want to hang onto Zadina and spend more time on his development is when someone recommends that we keep our 32 million of caps space open and not sign any good players because we are going to need to resign 4 good players in the next 7 seasons. Then I sit there and look at our prospect pool and check to see if any of them would be more suited to play top nine minutes than Zadina. The answer is obviously no. So we're right back to where we started. Why are we whipping Zadina? That makes no sense. Whip the GM if he's not giving you the caliber of players the team needs. Or whip the coach if you think he's not playing the players the right amount of time or in a role suited to fit his strengths. But whipping a 22 year old guy who's doing his best to change his game 180 degrees than what he's accustomed to because he hasn't done it in 2 seasons is RIDICULOUS. Especially when there's not a better alternative available.

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You're spot on. I don't see a scenario where we can afford to keep stop gaps like Staal and Gagner anymore. The cap floor and roster spaces will literally force us to abandon them and spend on someone else. Bertuzzi - Larkin - Raymond Vrana - Suter - Zadina ($2 mil) Fabbri - Rasmussen - Sundqvist Erne - Stepehens ($1 mil) - Gagner ($1 mil) Scratched: Veleno/Smith Oesterle - Seider Staal ($2 mil) - Hronek Walman ($1 mil) - Lindstrom Ned Hellberg ($1 mil) That's a pretty realistic, if not generous, re-signing of our RFA's and Gagner and Staal. And I didn't even put Fabbri on LTIR as he will be. But that team right there is STILL well beneath the cap floor. So we will have to spend on new players, and for that we will need the roster spots. Meaning guys like Gagner got to go unless we want to start waiving other players and force guys like Veleno farther down the depth chart. I just don't see a scenario where we can realistically keep Staal and Gagner on paper, unless SY is going to buy She Weber's contract or something.

I'm more of Danny Gare or Grant Hill guy

RFAs: re-sign: Zadina, Pearson, Stephens, Walman UFAs: re-sign: No one. Maybe Hellberg if he proves he can play. I'm really not so in love with Staal and Gagner as many seem to be. Staal can barely handle 17 minutes a night. He only plays 15 minutes a night of even strength. Walman, DK, and Oesterle are all getting deployed more than that. I think he's a nice vet team dad, but he's an extremely slow skater at this point in his career, and he gets caved in on if he's not playing extremely sheltered minutes. There's just no purpose to keeping him around. Oesterle/Walman/Edvinsson are better served in that 3rd pairing spot. And we cannot in good conscious enter next season expecting Staal to play in the top4. He's got to go. Gagner is a 4th line forward. Again, I'm sure another nice guy, but that 4th line spot is better filled by Berggren, Soderblom, Pearson, Veleno or any UFA. If we want a vet on the 4th line than go add Reaves, Namestnikov, Aston-Reese, Acciari, Deslauriers, someone who will add more elements to this team other than "is serviceable on the PK" Gagner makes Drew Miller look like Maltby. I guess I don't understand the attachment to this new round of washed up vets. Lets sign something more capable for those roles.

Edvinsson for RoY, not Sodorblom.

Soderblom and Andreasson are both up for SHL rookie of the year along with Linus Karlsson. Soderblom is about to Seider this forward group.

Yzerman needs to give him the last 5 games in Detroit, Grand Rapids isn't making the playoffs.

Because he is a soft, one-dimensional winger who doesn't produce and has shown zero growth in his game.

For decades, at the end of the night they filled the urinals at the Joe with ice. Everyone loved drilling holes in that ice. Don't fire the dude if he feel nostalgic every time he sees a pile of ice. The urge to drill those holes can be overwhelming.

I am watching the game and honestly we don´t have anyone on the roster who is even close to Mo. It will take about 10 games the most until he´s the one going against the other teams best players.