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Snoop Dog will have a greater impact in the NHL than Tyler Bertuzzi could have in 3 lifetimes...

Not worth 6 - 7M or the hype

He stood in front of the net and got hit by the puck three times lol. His offense is/was overrated and he was a liability managing the puck. Same thing here in Detroit. Blind ******* passes all the live long day.

Got two guys on here that obviously wanna take Bert on a touching date. This tweet must have been meant for them.

I think you genuinely need that many games to statistically differentiate between good and bad teams in the cap era. Think about how different the playoff picture would have looked this year if there were only 50 games (for example). For starters, Florida would not have made the playoffs and Washington and Pittsburgh likely would have (woof!). Because of the cap, the talent level is so even that you genuinely need 82 games to figure it out now. Not so much in 1986...or 2002. But I think it's a better product because of that. If you're a fan of Detroit, or Buffalo, or Winnipeg, or Florida, or Calgary your team was playing meaningful and exciting games into March and April. In the old days you'd have been watching spring training baseball by that point. In short, I think there are more meaningful games now than there have been in decades. Maybe not a perfect system, but a really entertaining one for fans across the league.

I think the NHL should be more like the NBA. I'd prefer to know who's going to win a championship before any games are even played. That's WAY more fun as a fan.

What? Let's review: - 2020: only Holland CoreTM player to take the team to abritration - 2020/21: only Red Wing to go unvaccinated - 2023: Larking signs reasonable deal. Bertuzzi won't Sounds like a real winner/team guy. Also, that FLA series, he turned the puck over more times than the bot that paints NHL on one side of the puck and the team logo on the other. This team will win someday but we all knew looooong ago it wouldn't be with Sudbury Cletus.

BERT MAN BAD Bro is gonna paid this offseason

CENTER At present, Larkin and Kasper are our two key centermen. Larkin's very good but not necessarily "elite, elite." But that's OK. And that's my point. Kasper realistically projects as a gutsier Larkin type. He absolutely has the potential to be better than Larkin - but I dunno that I'm betting big money on him becoming a 95-point powerhouse. But that's OK. And that's my point. WING I said during last season's training camp (2021-22) that Raymond's a special player who has the potential to be as good as Zetterberg. And I stand by that. Now, will he actually be as good as Zetterberg? Probably not. But I think he can pretty easily be elite. Beyond Raymond, we don't have much to latch on to in terms of, like, actual bodies of actual NHL work. Mazur and Lombardi (who may or may not be a centerman) are promising, but so were Nyquist and Tatar and Jurco and Pulkkinen and Mantha and Athanasiou and Bertuzzi and Zadina. I'm happy that Rasmussen is trending up. I'm happy that Berggren potted 15 goals. I'm happy that Soderblom appears to be an NHLer. I'm happy that Veleno isn't a total bust. But Raymond's currently the only winger in our system who we can point to and say "That guy. He's a core guy. He's gonna score 30 goals next season." DEFENSE Seider's a total stud. He's elite. He's gonna win Norrises. The players who drive championship teams are players like Seider. Edvinsson's ceiling is stratospheric - and I think his floor is very high too. I feel there's a decent chance he becomes roughly equal to Seider in terms of overall value and what he means to the team. In theory, an Edvinsson-Seider pairing could be every bit as good as Niedermayer-Pronger - and we'd have it for a decade plus. Seider and Edvinsson are the main reason I don't think we necessarily need superstar forwards, and they're the main reason I'm not even gonna bother discussing any other defensemen in our system. I think Seider and Edvinsson - whether they're a pairing or not - could potentially make a lot of discussions moot, in a good way. I can picture a plausible future where this is among the very best five-man units in the league: Soderblom -- Kasper -- Raymond Edvinsson -- Seider I dunno that any of those three forwards is scoring 40 goals or winning any individual trophies. But they wouldn't necessarily have to. And that's my point. We don't necessarily need star power. Because all a team really needs is to win matchups. And if you have a well-coached team full of really solid players, you've got a great shot at doing that every night. And I think, realistically (and pretty self-evidently), that's what we're building.

BRUINS lmaooooo

Holland got that one right.