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In this house we have a tradition. The night before the season starts we watch hockey movies all night long. First up tonight…Mystery Alaska. Thank god hockey is back in my life.

MBN looks really good, but Finnie is ABSO-LUTELY making the team. Not only is he consistently scoring, but he's out there picking pockets and making defensive plays. And this kid just turned 20... Buy a Findog sweater now while theyre cheap.

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Bold Prediction #2: Toronto will make the playoffs as a Wild Card after struggling without Marner.

At special teams, whatd id like to see: PP1: Debrincat - Larkin - Kane Raymond - Seider No explanation needed. Our 5 best offensive players. Dont overthink it. Just let em cook. PP2: Finnie - Kasper - Compher MBN - ASP The young studs. Let em be young wild n creative. This is our future. Go build chemistry together boys. Uncle Compher will chaperone. ASP's ability to walk a blue line MBN's slapper could be a deadly one two for years. PK1: Copp - Appleton Chiarot - Seider PK2: Compher - Ras Edvinsson - AJo First and foremost, Ras is approaching being done with this team. He's being phased out. Appleton is the better PKer and it's hard to justify Ras in anything other than a 4th line role in regular minutes. He still has more value than Bergs n Soder as a PKer though.

Genborg is underrated. When we drafted him he seemed like a safe pick, but he has all the tools and is way ahead of his same aged peers. Like you say - just like MBN - hes bigger stronger faster, and playing with men. At 18. Lotta hope for him.

Wow, Holl and Gustafsson on waivers.

I am super impressed with MBN as he seems to be in the right place at the right time. I am hoping Steve is working the phones to allow some of these young DAWGs get on the roster. I would even be okay missing the playoffs to give them a year of "seasoning" in the big league.

They should cancel the Feds retirement ceremony and give Finnie 91

After cuts the remaining prospects are Finnie, MBN, Mazur, ASP, Wallinder, and Postava. Finnie - already has made the team if you ask me MBN - looks poised for great things, but I think he will go down to get more ice time. That said, he will certainly be a #1 callup kinda guy Mazur - its simply time for him. Time to see what we have ans what he can do. Will likely be the #1 forward callup unless MBN can out compete him ASP - Going down. Not a bad thing. Just needs more time to cook and get more ice time. Wallinder - looks much improved. Should be #1 D callup. Hopefully threatens Berndock and Hamonics jobs. Postave - think hes simply around so the wings can get more looks at him. Absolutely going down.

Not expendable... slotted properly as a 2nd line center.

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You don't think FLA will coast in the regular season? I think they squeak in and wreck shop in the playoffs.

1. Florida - might as well call the season now. Another cup for the cats. 2. Tampa 3. Toronto 4. Montreal 5. Detroit 6. Ottawa 7. Boston 8. Buffalo Hot take = Finnie scores 50+ pts

Just to be clear... It doesn't appear to me that Holl and Gus have actually left the team. It appears this was a paper transaction... probably in order to: 1. Create roster spots for MBN and ASP for a 9 game tryout for each 2. Create cap relief. By burying those contracts Steve gets a little extra acrued cap. Steve was probably going to make this move regardless of how MBN and ASP played because of reason 2. The extra roster spots this created is a bonus. And with JVR out as well, might as well see what our top 3 rookies can do through 9 games and then reassess. Gus and Holl will prolly get reactivated if Steve decides to send any of these 3 down. That will obviously depend on how they play, and also how Todd plays them. If the rookies end up with low minutes at all I can see SY sending em down just to get more gametime for a while.

He's listed as "out" but "not injury related". His wife had twin boys a few weeks ago, and he said that one of the boys had to stay in the hospital for a few weeks after the birth. Which is why we havent seen much of him, and I'm guessing this is also why he's now out again. Hope his son's okay.

if 4th in the division gets us into playoffs WITH all the young blood inserted I would be ecstatic for the season. I think the schedule up front gives Todd a way t gauge push the buttons and get things rolling in the right direction. My worry is the players that go to the Olympics , 4 nations killed our mojo last year.

Im expecting this: Finnie - Larkin - Raymond Debrincat - Kasper - Kane Copp - Compher - MBN JVR - Ras - Appleton Berggren/Soderblom I expect Berg + Soder + JVR + Ras + Appleton - and to some extent MBN and Finnie if they falter - to all ride pine at some point. I think Finnie and MBN will be given more than fair oppurtunity to prove they deserve the spots they just won. A lot of the rest will be a dog fight. JVR has the advantage of being a seasoned leader who can play up n down a line up as a powerforward... Appleton has the advantage of being a premier penalty killer on special teams... These two will be hard to knock out of the lineup for Bergs n Soderblom. Elmer is big and shows flashes of brilliance... but hes got to learn to use that size or else hes just a big AA with flashes of nifty goals.... berggren same thing, lack of physicality, and we have no room for pedestrians. And this: Chiarot - Seider Edvinsson - JBD Johansson - ASP Hamonic Seider and Ed have big workoads ahead of them, with pretty meh partners. But through flame they will be forged harder. I expect AJo and ASP to start the season sheltered, but with every oppurtunity to unseat Chiarot and JBD in the top 4. Both, and JBD, may have to sub out at times for Hamonic, Gus, Holl. IMO defense is still our weakest position. But AJo and ASP could change that as soon as this year...

Let's call it an off night... he's been good in his other games.

And Nate

I hope it's about that, or not much more...Not to say there would be discontent in the locker room if he got more due to the cap rising, but both RayGun and Mo are on solid cap friendly deals and will be deemed underpaid in a few seasons from now.

I really hope Compher starts out hot and pumps up that trade value a little bit. I think he's a genuinely good trade piece. His contract is a little bit of an issue, but he's going to be attractive to some team with Cup aspirations that's a little weak in their middle six. I fully expect Florida would be interested, given Barkov's injury. But also teams like Toronto and Carolina in the East and Dallas or Vegas in the West. After watching them in camp and the pre-season I genuinely think MBN-Danielson-Finnie/Lombardi/Mazur would be a qualitative improvement over any combination of Compher, Berggren, Sodorblom, or JVR. Trade Compher (plus whatever else) for help on defense and roll with a sheltered "kid line" as the 3rd line. Do what Tampa did with Kucherov, Palat, and Johnson en route to cup final when they were all super young and on the same line.

More ppl need to be shot with guns