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Wait. What? They can take their clothes off? My wife's been lying to me for years.

Honestly, I don't think a "merely" impressive showing in preseason would do it. I'm thinking he'd have to absolutely crush it. And that's assuming he has no shot at becoming one of our top two or three centermen straight out of camp, i.e. he'd have to be a (top-six) winger. Which isn't to say that I disagree with the idea that he needs to be playing big minutes every night, preferably as a centerman (and, therefore, as a Griffin).

I sexually Identify as Henrik Zetterberg. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of skating over the ice of JLA whipping nasty back-handers into the nets of enemy goalies. People say to me that you can't identify as an already living person, and that I am not Henrik Zetterberg trapped in a less athletic body, but I don't care, I'm beautiful and this is my truth. I'm having a plastic surgeon install more hair follicles into my face to make my beard thicker, and I'm transplanting my vocal cords with Swedish ones. From now on I want you guys to call me "Hank" and respect me as the captain of this team. If you can't accept me you're a Z-phobe and need to check your privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

Or we could be the new Montreal Canadiens. Not good enough to get good picks, but not bad enough to win anything. That scares me WAY worse than having a good team in place and then having to find quality goaltending later. It's also hedging a little bit. You're using a top pick on a goalie in case you don't get a solid young core piece when you could have just used the top pick on a solid young core piece.

I tend to think you don't really need an elite goalie, you just need good goaltending come playoff time. I know I've said elsewhere, but the three best goalies of this era (Lundqvist, Luongo, and Price) have zero Cups between them and at least two of them completely disappeared in the finals when they had their chance. Why use a bunch of cap space on a guy like that when lesser goalies tend to have just as much, or more, playoffs success?

I'd rather assume for now that one of Larsson, Eliasson or Petruzzelli emerge as a number one goaltender, of trade for one later on. I know a lot of people believe that you should build from the goaltender out, but I believe the opposite to be honest. Besides, goaltending is such a crap shoot. It's a lot harder to predict where a goalie will be in 3-5 years at 18, than it is to predict where any skater position will be in 3-5 years at 18...

I totally believe in building from the net out. The goalie is the only player on the ice the entire game. You need him to be great. Dmen are playing 15 - 25 minutes a game. You need them to be good. Forwards are on the ice for 8 - 20 minutes to game. You can get buy with them being just ok. Granted centers are like an extra Dman these days so you do need to be strong down the middle as well. All we have in net is basically a 35 year old Jimmy Howard and a buncha so-so prospects. We now suddenly have Hronek and Seider coming up the D ladder, so if there's anytime to make a not-sexy pick in the first and add a possible star future goalie, it might be now. Bertuzzi - Larkin - Mantha Athanasiou - Veleno - Zadina Cholowski - Hronek McIsaac - Seider Askarov Larsson Suddenly that looks like a complete core of young players. Of course we could add another awesome forward piece or something and go shopping for goalies or something. I think a lot will depend on how Larsson plays. I hate to say I'm hoping Howard goes down with an injury at some point and Larsson gets a callup over Pickard. If we can at least establish that YES or NO this kid is the future of our net, it should help us with this pick. If he's not I'd love to add Askarov. Mrazek got like 10 games in at 21, and we all pretty much looked around and said this our guy. I'd like to see something like that this year. Probably Shoulda. Q Hughes looks much better than Zadina to me.

Identify as female bc gender is a social construct. Decide to JO. After I'm done identify as male again. Just got JO'ed by a girl. Cya virgins.

How can we possibly know about things we haven't seen?!? Like black holes. Or, for half of you guys, a naked woman.

Just look at them. I'm not sure whether to fight him or pluck those little chips off his chest and make chocolate chip cookies with them. Pathetic.

Interracial marriage is a sin I reckon I can take tiny nips here

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Because his current gig probably pays WAY better than your average NHL scout? Yeah, he's higher on Seider for sure. I've seen those articles. One of the things I generally like about the guy is that he routinely re-drafts and shows what he got wrong. Not many people in any profession who are willing to do that.

Smitty goes through the goalie and the net to score the insurance goal... Red Wings are about to win the Stanley Cup, that's wut... Also, if there's one thing I've learned from this prospects tournament, it's that all of our prospects are elite.

Yzerman will somehow end up with THREE 2020 1st round picks... One top 3, another top 15, and another late 20's...

got it, than join the conversation again once he´s playing there and let us have our thoughts and HYPE!

Quiet you filthy saxon

stop gaslighting me bro

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