Gordie Howe hat trick

He'd fit right in in Pittsburgh.

No, just stop

Brendan Smith is our trade deadline acquisition  

This honestly makes the NYR looks so bad. Not even hating on Smith right now but just appalled at NYRs decisions. That was a high paying contract they gave him... just to waive him..?

It's also the Sens 2nd pick, which is basically a late first rounder 

Oh nice so we got Zach Gallant and a top 40 pick for a player that is actively hurting another team lol
Faith in Holland restored

Oh my goodness! I think that kid's brother tweeted about him dying and how they were so much best friends. Bittersweet I'm sure because you never want a tragedy like this to even happen, but can you imagine the joy of finding this out?

At least the Hawks are out!

Karlsson and Tatar are such different needs.  But this is not bad of a trade.  Wished we could have gotten something for Green though. 

1st 2nd and 3rd is what I'm hearing. That'd be a great haul - although I was not in a hurry to see Tatar go myself. 
 
Now I'll be interested in finding out who's draft picks they are. LV had acquired a few so the picks could be theirs or from other teams. If the 1st if LV's, I'd be ok with it being next year's draft and bank on their magical run this year being a magical fluke and have them drop to the lottery next year!

http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/hockey/nhl/red-wings-fan-maple-leafs-raise-money-charity-1.4372393

We can talk about UFA's...... But why do that to ourselves? We have no cap space. We can't even sign our own RFA's.... Next year we need to resign Mantha and Larkin and AA isn't signed yet. Then there is Mrazek, Sheahan, etc.....

Oh man... it's gonna happen. I feel it in my bones.

Lmao what kind of source is this? The team is bad I don’t understand what you expect a coach to do. He’s nowhere near the same situation as other playoff caliber teams. If the team is anywhere near the playoff hunt he has done a great job as coach
I can’t believe you guys allow yourself to get so worked up about every aspect of the team when everyone knows they are bad. They are going to do things poorly. Theirs no magic trick that will make them good instantly. Blaming the coach when a half ass roster doesn’t do well is for casuals who don’t understand sports

Hats don't have feelings like dead sea creatures do

Most likely. This franchise was legitimately on top for about 20 years which in completely unheard of. Since things started to go downhill, have some questionable/bad moves been made? 100%, there is no denying that. But no management team in sports can keep a team on top forever given the cyclical nature of sports. Had Yzerman taken over and this team went downhill, fans would be screaming at the captain, and wanting Holland back.
Whoever was steering the ship during the decline was going to get s*** on.
As far as this video goes, I'm not going to say that there are zero relevant points, but you guys can't be serious when you say its well done. For me, his tone is way too over the top.

Doesn't Howard have a NMC though?

The rangers also had more points than ottawa but don't get home ice lol 

Yeah I dunno how they ever reached the 10+ million mark with him. Honestly, no player is worth that, and Chicago has two. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

who would want to pay 10.5M for <60 points a season?  Personally I think its one of the worst contracts in the league right now.

No one would take that contract unless Chicago takes a bunch back, which would defeat the purpose. So we can just keep watching them sputter in the playoffs for the forseable future. 

Does anyone remember why he left for the KHL? If he hadn't done that he'd probably already be up there.

Not sure what the numbers are for career totals, but I see Jagr probably playing next season as well..
at this point of his career he has the knack of disapearing for 58 minutes then putting a point on the board, so hes pretty consistent in that way. Seems to have a knack for getting points