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Having Kane AND Stamkos would be pure unadulterated chaos on so many levels. The final scores of all our games would be, like, 10-9. It'd be antithetical to everything Yzerman and Lalonde have preached (re: needing to improve defensively), but it'd be so much fun lol

https://x.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1807553041974915114?t=NNlxBUI7VGg64Mshr1Cvsw&s=19 Looks like it

One-year deal for Kane.

https://x.com/DetroitJoeChapp/status/1807217060054712766?t=EwXlQcDJ0_cdeZHYCA_M_A&s=19 Good quote from Kane's agent

Domi 4/15m I would have done that, but I guess the Make Be Leafs are getting a hometown discount.

You get to make a whole pitch under no pressure. No other GMs driving up cost and making promises while you scramble to get him to sign on the dotted line. You can put him on the phone with Cooper and explain where he'll be used and who he'll play with. You can pitch the franchise, the staff, the area. Plus you get to find out from Jake and his agent exactly what's important to them in a new contract, and have it tailor made for them before tomorrow. Huge advantage. 3rd rd pick is pricey but there were probably multiple other teams bidding on his negotiating rights. Guentzel is pretty much the last tickle me elmo on black friday. Bribing the store manager with a pick gets you into the store the night before. You can't buy it yet, but you get to see what aisle he's in, what shelf, what price, what financing options there are...so you get a big leg up on the other shoppers when doors open in the morning.

Why? Wings dont need a small left dman.

But you get a bit of extra time to convince him that no state tax is better than an extra year in Carolina with taxes

Yes he Will Mo cheese the cow says so

Anyone know why Tampa would spit up a 3rd rounder for the negotiating rights to Guentzel? Come July 1st he could still listen to all offers couldn't he?

I’m good with Zadorov and Pesce, but no thanks to Domi unless he signs for a real gud price.

Hey everybody get a load of this idiot who hates ASP!

Just the NHL rules for not signing a 1st rounder. MLB if you don't sign a 1st rounder, the next year you get to pick one spot later as compensation. I guess the NHL wants to protect teams that are dumb.... lol

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So Kane and Stamkos were seen golfing with Larkin the other day, cue the Stamkos to Detroit rumors and the Kane extension.

Agreed. Playoffs are the expectation now. Rookies can play, but they won't be asked to shoulder the burden of those expectations. Problem is, we discovered this team lives and dies based on one single veteran leader (Larkin). So that has to be addressed. And it seems Yzermanager's pretty hellbent on doing just that. Which makes me happy. Goaltending's also crucial, but maybe not as important as giving this team some more leadership and steadiness and confidence and swagger. (Though, I guess that and goaltending aren't exactly mutually exclusive.) I mean, sure - ideally we have a superstar prospect kicking down the door and/or we add Guentzel and Roy. But we don't have the former, and I don't get the sense that we've become a realistic destination for non-flawed marquee UFAs. So we have to work with what's actually available. And, with the collapse at the front of our minds, that means (flawed) leaders like the captain of the Rangers and the captain of the Lightning. Does Trouba suck? Yeah, kinda. Is Stamkos - at this stage of his career - a power play specialist who's gonna take exactly zero reps at center because he can't play defense? Yeah, I suppose. But there's a human element to this. We saw it in small bursts with Kane. If you put *STEVEN STAMKOS* in our top 6 (which means no Kane, realistically), that's what I call "introducing exotic energy" - and I'd expect the team to respond in a positive way, like with Kane. Even if all he's doing is helping the power play, that could be enough to get us into the playoffs. We're not getting into the playoffs without solid special teams. Trouba's big and physical and dirty. This sounds like cope, but, honestly, we could use some big and physical and dirty. He's not gonna beat you into a pulp, but I'd like to think there's a bit of a Kronwall factor where players don't feel 100% comfortable crossing our blue line or going into our corners because there's a possibility you'll catch a cement elbow from a psychopath (or his 6'6 D partner will sit on you). I know "being hard to play against" in "the new NHL" means you have real good fancy stats - but there's still a place for "Hey, my teammate just leveled that guy who took a shot at our captain and now I wanna level someone too. Let's f***ing go, I'm scoring the OT winner!" Hockey is still a game of momentum swings. Little things still matter. In the age of parity, I'd argue they matter as much as they ever have. (See: missing out on the playoffs because of a tiebreaker.) tl;dr F*** this league, we're gonna do a sequel to the 2002 team one way or another. F***ing candy-ass cap league.

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