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Fedorov was a wing on the Russian 5 line. Plus he also played D. Does any of this have anything to do with The Yzerplan? We have 2 pages of arguing about who played C and now plays W. This could be it's own thread. Yzerplan. I, as well as most people, tend to give Yzerman lots of leash and lots of passes because he's such an icon here. If Holland were still GM, we'd (still) be calling for him to be fired if he made the same moves or lack of moves that Yzerman has. Especially after this past TDL. While I don't really have too much of a problem with his plan so far, but if you think of a couple of other teams that were also rebuilding the same time we were (Rangers, Canucks, Devils) we are still way behind in our rebuild. Although Rangers and Devils have been gifted 1st overall and in some cases, multiple #1s, and top 4s. But nonetheless, we are still way behind them despite having top 10 picks the last 6 or 8 years. Holland absolutely killed us with Zadina. Vancouver drafted ahead of us the year prior and just behind us the Zadina year. Not going D that year was the most...nevermind that could be yet another thread! Point being, they were rebuilding the same time we were and now look at them compared to us. I'm not convinced Lalonde is the guy to lead them either. My biggest question with the plan was, why did he keep Blashill around so long? That makes me afraid that he'll just keep Lalonde around far, far too much longer than he should. Obviously we weren't there when he was interviewing coaches, so we don't know who he called or who wasn't interested. It just seems Lalonde was the guy no matter what. IMO there were at least 3 better choices. Larionov, Fedorov and Grönborg. Fedorov being the wildcard. But they didn't call Igor The Professor for no reason. Nobody thinks the game like he does. Again, maybe these guys weren't interested, but to me, it just seemed like Lalonde was his guy from the start, and he wasn't going to consider anyone else. I would've liked to have seen a coach that was new and had ideas that 31 other coaches don't already have. There's nothing special about Lalonde. Nothing that sets him apart. And my one gripe about TDL. I think Roslovic could've and would've been an upgrade to our top 9 and think most definitely he would've been worth the 4th(3rd) that Rangerd paid for him.

Screw this. If this team can't be bothered to actually try to win games, why should I be bothered to watch

Look... do you think Stamkos is a center or not?

I don't see us scoring 4 more to win this one but figure it's a good excuse to drink a bit

Seriously.... what the f***? This is going to be 0-6. Get rid of the patch! Where's this teams heart? Yzerman kept them together and this is how they thank him. No clue why Rasmussen got $3.2M. Say goodbye to Kane.

BUT WAS STAMKOS A CENTER OR NOT?!

IDK either. But if hiring an account means regaining 20% of my taxed income every year I'd be doing it. Maybe I'm dumb.

I think more likely it ends up evening out because most US states without income tax tend to have higher property tax. IDK about Canada, but I suspect they are the most fuqqede by this. God bless America. I do have a notice of "REFUSAL OF ENTRY TO THE STATE OF ISREAL" framed in my home.

WHY @kipwinger WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MOCK BROCK NELSON???

https://www.nhl.com/lightning/player/steven-stamkos-8474564 I emailed NHL.com and let them know Kip said Stammer is a Wing.

1. Should not have traded Hronek 2. Should not have traded for Petry 3. Should not have signed Holl 4. Should not have traded for Kostin 5. Should have sold Ghost, Perron, and Sprong 6. Should not have traded up for Cossa 7. Should not have hired Lalonde

Trade Fabbri, Veleno, Holl and Maatta. Ghost, Perron and Reimer can move on. Unless Perron takes a team friendly deal. Sprong will be too expensive. Kane is important and Fischer shouldn't cost too much. UFA D isn't very deep this year. If we want an upgrade, there will need to be a trade. We NEED an upgrade. We also need a top 6 upgrade up front. It is 100% playoffs or bust next season. 1000%.

Hi I’m Scott. I’ve been bitching all year about GR kids not getting a chance to play and MY favourite part of last nights game was the time Bergrren entered the zone and reversed right to Hanafin to Eichel to March to net. Like it was preseason. At a critical moment in the game no less. Love it!!!!!

Why's that? The only difference in their games is that Point scores marginally more. Which is to be expected when you play your entire career on a Cup contender with Nikita Kucherov as a linemate. Larkin's been on a rebuilding team his whole career and until this year his best winger was Tyler Bertuzzi. Otherwise they're extremely similar players both in style and in production.

It's possible he already did. Lucas Raymond is scoring about as much as Mitch Marner and Nikita Kucherov did at the same age. Seider is playing like an elite 1D, and is probably ahead of where any other "elite" defenseman was at this age. If his point totals don't reflect it that's because he's been asked to eat defensive minutes, against top competition, more than comparable elite players. Victor Hedman wasn't out there starting in the defensive zone 60% of the time when he was Seider's age. Didn't score as well as Seider does either. We've all got this impression that "elite" looks like McDavid, or Mackinnon, or Hughes, or Matthews but it doesn't always. Elite might look like Bergeron and Pastrnak, or Kopitar and Doughty. We'd better hope so anyway. The challenge for Yzerman is to figure out how to build around the talent we do have and not hold out hope for a particular type of talent we don't have. The good news is that we've got a Brayden Point level 1C in Larkin. We've got a Sergachev (or better) in Edvinsson. We've got a Markstrom (or maybe Demko) in Cossa. Maybe we have a Quinn Hughes in ASP. I really do believe that the pieces are there, but I think we've got to start playing winning hockey. Integrating these guys onto winning rosters. Letting them see what it takes to be a playoff team in the NHL on a day by day, game by game basis. And that's not going to happen if we get THIS close to the playoffs and our front office refuses to put their thumb on the scale a push us over the top.

Awesome. I gave myself a headache yelling at this team