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I agree with you - but I guess I'd also say Ras is a bit better than a bottom 6er. A 6'6" 220lb wing/center that kills penalties, and tracks to put up 40 pts a season, and is about to hit 300 games played at age 25, is pretty valuable. His best years are still ahead of him. Hanafin is a more valuable piece in theory, but Ras is not a piece I at all want to give up right now. They can have Berggren+ instead.

Totally agree. I really like Johansson as a player, but Hanifin is a better fit right now. I don't care at all about the 1st at this point in our rebuild so that doesn't give me heartburn either. And while Maatta is playing great for us at the moment, he's no Hanifin and he's not really effective on the 2nd pair anyway. This would really shore up the defense and leave plenty of additional assets (Berggren particularly) if we wanted to go shopping for a forward.

That deal definitely would get it done. Only issue would be if another team had a better offer. But if on deadline day that was the best offer Calgary had I think they take it in a heartbeat.

Maatta, Johansson, 2024 2nd, 2025 1st for Hanifin. Who says no?

To add - the thing I am most pleased with Ras and Veleno right now, is they are finally forcing Larkin off the PK. Larkin is not the defensive dynamo that Zberg and Dats were, and those two didn't even play the PK as much as Larkin has. Larkin is a scorer and you want his time dedicated to even strength and PP. Compher was huge for the PK this year, but Ras and Veleno's emergence are finally putting Larkin where he needs to be. And it has been fantastic for our top6.

We're probably not going to agree on this, which is fine. IMO if it takes Rasmussen to get Hanifin you should just promote Edvinsson instead and look to sign Hanifin in the offseason.

Let's say for argument's sake any team with games in hand on us win them all. It could happen and definitely be the worst case scenario at the 50 game pole. Laughs to 3rd in Atlantic which matches to your thought Pens would jump to 3rd in Metro once again matching above NJ/Washington both would be a point behind us for WC2 Philly down 2 to us So even in the worst case scenario we are sitting pretty good I think the 5 games after the break will really help to determine our fate. Nucks @ home Oil away Nucks away Flames away Kraken away No games are back to back on the trip. Oh how I wish we could have eeked out 4 more points in December but happy to be here. Going to enjoy the ride it's been a long time since I was scanning the standings every other day.

I love David Perron. He's the prototypical "glue guy". He was once a very good hockey player, now he's still a decent hockey player, but he brings the right attitude every single day on and off the ice. He's basically Shoresy. He talks a ton of sh*t, is dirty as hell when necessary, will do basically anything for his teammates, and doesn't accept losing.

I gained some respectfor Perron actually when he stuck up for Larkin. F ing Frenchie doing un frenchie un glover things. Went from "will be glad" to "might want him back" when he's gone.