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Vrana locked in for 3 years, 5.25 per. Friedman with the news.

Which means Detroit drafts 4th.

Wow! I have to laugh! I'm glad I don't have alerts set up when I'm tagged! Weird that I said maybe a trade and maybe Cossa. I got both! I'm still tired at 1:50. I get on the road at 2:20 to get the GR for work. I'll have to read through all this and check out who's left for our 2nd round. My hopes were Hughes or Edvinsson at 6 and Cossa at 22. Darth Yzerman must have felt a disturbance in the force and had to get Cossa earlier. So glad he's our GM.

Waiting to see who hires Howard as their nutritionist.

Well you have to like this!

Wings fans should be deliriously happy. I certainly am. Why? Because the impossible dream seems to have been realized; YzerMADMAN seems to have pulled a gem from each of the past three drafts. 1. RAYMOND Raymond is a monster – and this isn't even his final form. He's still... As I've said before, he's going to bulk up. He's going to get stronger, quicker, faster, more confident. When the rest of his body catches up to his brain and eyes and hands...look out. "Fluke?" Not really. The eye test, the underlying numbers, and his pre-NHL body of work all tell us he's this good (though, of course, he's probably not a legit 82-point player right now). Even so, I can barely believe he's been this good this soon. Dude leads all rookies in points and goals and +/-. 14 points through his first 13 NHL games. 14 points! FOURTEEN! "OK, yeah, but what about all NHL skaters, not just rookies?" Dude's tied for 6th in the league in points. At 19 years old. (Turns 20 in late March.) We needed a Pettersson/Pastrnak-tier forward. It appears we found one. (Hence needed.) F***ing pinch me. 2. SEIDER Seider's been exactly the player we all know he is. The only question was point production. As with Raymond, we knew the production would come...just not this much this soon. Dude's 3 points off from leading all defensemen in points. "Fluke?" Nah. Like I said, he's been exactly the player we all know he is. He's not, like, riding an unsustainable shooting percentage. His production isn't tied to an Ovechkin/McDavid-tier. I don't think he's really catching teams off-guard. We badly needed a defenseman you could mention in the same breath as Hedman. We found one, and quite possibly two... 3. EDVINSSON One of Edvinsson's teammates – a vet, I think – recently said Edvinsson's the best defenseman he's ever played with. In explaining this, he said something to the effect of "Dahlin was amazing. But Edvinsson is something else." Nuff said.

I wonder if WASH getting Cholowski from Detroit for free (via SEA) makes them think they're still recouping losses from the Mantha deal?

My main takeaway from Vrana's night was that he scored four goals in four different ways, which is what you have to be able to do if you're going to reach those 35+ goal totals. He sniped the first one, tipped the second, breakaway on the third, and jumped on a loose puck for the backhand on the 4th. This guy is not a one dimensional scorer, and that kind of offensively skill has been sore missed around here.

Hronek's pretty good. Zadina makes him look like @ChristopherReevesLegs scrambling for a new sock account on this one.........

Is there a no fighting clause in this contract?

I think I remember posting before the start of the season that people here in sweden are really hyped for the kid. Like you, I had no real expectations or hopes for this season other than him being healthy. Now I'm working real hard on tempering my expectations of what he can become.

Daley is the first ex-wing to get a new job this offseason. Off the ice.

Took me FOREVER to vote 98 times.....

wow, what a game! not even mad at the loss.. we showed we can score with the best of them. Larkin getting the boot while Joseph got nothing was complete bulls***. Would've liked to see Smith beat his face in. Larkin, Joseph, and the entire officiating crew should be under review after that game... holy trigger happy whistles and inconsistent calls. Hopefully tomorrow's game is that exciting. I'll be there

NO ONE WILL EVER SCORE ON THE WINGS EVER AGAIN

Seattle declined all of Detroit's players.

Ahhhhh f*ck Morgan Rielly and f*ck the Leafs! Yeah I've been day drinking, what of it?

He just blew by Larkin on the celly but then realized Larkin did all the work so he went back in for the hug haha. You love to see it. Really though, I like Brome. He’s a gritty little bastard and he scored there because he’s not afraid to play in the hard areas.

1. Predicting or demanding?

Hell yeah, Mantha! Now there's a four year extension we can all agree on!