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Everytime the forum goes down, I send him a facebook message, then all of a sudden (coincidence maybe) it's back up and running. This last time, it was down all weekend (or more) and today I sent the message, and it was back up shortly thereafter. I will continue that as long as it seems to be working. Hopefully he will promote a couple more of us and we can help take care of this place.

If I recall Matt is a pretty public guy right? He's all over socials and whatnot? Someone who has those platforms should tag him in a post saying that the site has become overrun by Russian bots, vulgarity, racism, and vitriolic political arguments. Specifically mention how people casually throw around offensive terms about black people, homosexuals, and women and that Matt has been contacted over and over and doesn't bother to do anything about it. Let all his friends/followers see him tagged in the post and see if that gets his attention. I bet he pays attention after that considering he's a pretty vocal liberal online from what I remember.

This team isn't going anywhere until we've got two or three quality (not just serviceable) centers, four quality defensemen, and a regular NHL caliber starting goalie...at the same time. We've got one quality NHL center and it looks like Kasper and Danielson will slot in right after Larkin, but we aren't there yet. We've got two quality defensemen (Edvinsson and Seider) and it looks like ASP will be a third. We need four. I'd trade for Ivan Provorov. We have zero (long term) NHL caliber goalies. Talbot has been a stud, just like Bernier was a few years ago, but he's not a long term solution. Cossa is a beast and Augustine might be even better, so I'm not worried, but they're not ready yet. The only position where we've got actual talent aside from those guys is at wing, which is the least important position and the easiest to find talent in UFA. Our team is built in an idiotic way. The common refrain is that you build from the net out, and SY does seem to be doing that (to his credit). But we need a little more time to get those guys in NHL roster spots. IMO that means two things, 1) promote guys when they're ready and not let unenthusiastic vets crowd them out (Berggren, Edvinsson, AlJo, Kasper), and B) be just a little more patient with the guys who aren't quite ready (Danielson, ASP, Cossa) My list of tradeable assets from most to least valuable: 1. Dcat: this guy is a puss and is a total passenger. A contender with scoring/powerplay issues might be interested. 2. Talbot: He's been a stud so he's valuable. But I'd be bummed to move him because I think Cossa could learn a lot from him next season. 3. Compher: Marco makes this dude redundant as 2C and we only need one of Compher/Copp to be the 3C. 4. Kane/Tarasenko: Old, slow, unmotivated scoring wingers will only fetch marginal returns, but I'd be happy to replace either of these guys in the lineup with Mazur (as soon as he's healthy). 5. Rasmussen/Veleno: Both are solid defensively and don't cost much, which I'd imagine would appeal to contenders who need help on the defensively side of things. 5. Chiarot/Petry/Copp/Motte/Fischer: No real value here, either because the player is too expensive or because most organizations have guys like this already.

Just what we needed, another aged vet with nothing to play for. Stamkos is on pace for 45 points. Hard pass. Bullet dodged.

TL;DR THERE ARE RULZ GADAMMIT!!!

I feel like this place just needs 2 moderators (Lefty and Rick D) and a site admin (Mabus) to become a great place again. But it has to happen top down. The site has to be yours, Mabus. If you can alter the sign up process to one that has to go through the 3 mods (you, Lefty, Rick D), then we could avoid spam all together. Lefty and Rick D are the most level headed and neutral posters on here, so they would rule fairly. And they're always here. Kip would also make a good moderator if needed for those reasons. But first things first, the spam bots have to be stopped. There's ZERO chance of this place regaining its former glory if the site is always crashing. Gotta get a site administrator that can keep the site active through establishing good protocol. Then we can work on turning the wild west into a civilized society.

At this point, I wouldn't mind a minor to middle of the road shake up. Fire Lalonde is a no brainer, but I say trade Rasmussen and Veleno and cut ties (however you can) with Petry and Chiarot. Rangers are now talking desperate when it comes to dumping some players. They are still talking Trouba and have added Kreider to the mx. I think that the Trouba to Detroit trade is still on the table and will happen. But now in their desperate attempt to make their team better, they will definitely need to retain some salary and also add a sweeenter to the pot for this to happen. Anaheim still talking about getting rid of Zegras. Acquire Trouba. Acquire Zegras and Fowler. Fire Lalonde, hire Fedorov or Larionov. (or both) Rangers retain $4M, you LTIR Husso and waive Petry and Chiarot. It's time for a shakeup!

I don’t drink, but I figured an IPA drinker would be intolerable to all the real macho men around here.

Don't look now but Dmitri Buchelnikov is third (1 point off the lead) in KHL scoring. Say what you want about long term projects that take a few years to develop, but I'm pretty happy to have this dude coming at some point in the next couple years. He's on that Kuztnesov/Kaprizov/Buchnevich developmental arch so we should be getting a pretty polished offensive player when he finally comes over.