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Watching Kane is crazy. Like, I've always known he was really good. But he's WAY better than I ever thought. That pass was unreal. Seider with another huge block and he gets the clear. I don't care if he's only a 1% corsi, I don't want him getting healthy scratched for Wyatt Newpower like some around here do.

Now that's a dagger up the anus!

ANAL DAGGERS!!!!! Do the Nerd Numbers have a Beast-o-meter?

That was absolutely purty!!!!

Seider just blocked an absolute bomb. Clearly stung him. What a beast.

He's driving that line right now. He creates something on every shift. And just like that, Raymond scores!!!!

Has a team ever won the last 24 games of reg season and then 16 straight in the playoffs? Did you chase Scott away? Jesus Petry!!!!!!!

Jensen prolly underrated - but not good enough to not still be traded or anything at that time. Mantha overrated through most of his time here. The finals years it seemed like no one was high on him anymore.

I'm confused, didn't Zadina dump the Red Wings to "bet on himself"?

Thank god. I just learned today that he was blocking Antti Tuomisto from making the big club.

Edmundson realllllly trying to kill a Red Wing tonight. Keep those heads up

Ghost on hat trick watch

Emily Kaplan: Wings are shopping Holl.

What a snipe by Joey V lol

That's insane. Since January we're the 2nd best team in the league by points percentage. Behind only Florida, and ahead of Edmonton (who won 16 in a row).

I for one am happy to see Raymond off Larkin's line...Playing alongside Rasmountain/Compher will see RayRay having to work on his 2 way play and overall game...He's becoming a better player.

Kind of what I’m thinking; if we picked Suzuki at 9, I doubt Ras would have fallen back where Suzuki was picked.

Everybody knows I love Rasmussen, so take this with a grain of salt, but I don't think that pick was a reach. If you look back at the first round Rasmussen is roughly the 8-12 best player and we took him with the 9th pick. Hischier, Heiskanen, Makar, Pettersson, Necas, Suzuki, and Robert Thomas are all definitely better Oettinger, Mittelstadt, Tippet, Vilardi are all roughly as good, so it's a pick your poison type situation when Detroit gets to the podium. Obviously in real life Necas was still available, but there were questions about Necas on draft day or he wouldn't have fallen to 12th OA. In a redraft he probably goes fifth. But I don't think Ras is a "miss". He's probably the 8th to 12th best player and we got him with the 9th pick. People are obviously welcome to prefer different players, but he was selected basically where he should have been.

You're misunderstanding the rules. The premise is that we either get lottery luck in the two years we had the best lottery odds (and take the concensus 1OA pick in both years) OR we never win the lottery but essentially have better scouting in any two different years during the rebuild. So you can't have Stutzle. You either get Raymond or Lafreniere in 2020, and either Seider or Jack Hughes 2019. Those were the only two drafts where we had realistic odds of winning the lottery, and in both cases there was never a single doubt that Hughes or Lafreniere would go first overall. So if we HAD won the lottery we would almost certainly have ended up with those players.

And gloved by Seiders

Adding Durzi or Andresson would be an upgrade now and for the medium term, it goes without saying we want to dump 2 of Holl, Matta, Petry and not resign GhostBear.

Don't get me wrong, I completely understand the appeal. He's a great player. I watch a lot of Calgary hockey dating back to last season so I've seen Andersson play a ton. He's really good. I think we'd have to part with a ton to get him, but given that he's under contract he'd be worth a lot too.

You trade for Andersson to bolster the d this season but more importantly going forward. Imagine a top 4 of Walman-Seider / Edvinsson-Andersson next season. Chiarot/Maatta-Holl/Petry as 3 pair with Johansson/Wallinder/ASP all knocking on the door.

Andersson is a stud. He's also a righty, which I think we need more than we need help on the left side. Stylistically he plays a lot like Chiarot tho. He's more offensive minded then you'd think by looking at him. Not sure how those two would fit together. But that would be a good problem to have I suppose. Or just put him with Maata and leave Chia and Petry together as a third pair.

How is it that half the league qualifies for the playoffs...but qualifying for the playoffs is this tough a grind? I mean honestly now. Who's the manager? I want to speak to the manager. I want to file a complaint. I'm not paying for this meal. The service was terrible. We've been on an unholy heater since January 1st and we could easily go to bed on Sunday night with 70 points in the bank...and I still won't feel comfortable. And the soup was tepid. This f***ing division, man.