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Price confirmed not selected. Rot with that contract, Habs

You're not wrong. His WJC performance admittedly clouds my judgement on him sometimes, as there he was the shut down center and did a damn fine job of it. He definitely had struggles when he went pro, but he did show improvement in the AHL at least. I'm not gonna hold the SHL against him too much based on the differences there with style and ice size. I guess it's more reasonable to say that while the potential is there, he definitely has work to do. His small NHL sample size showed some promise, fortunately.

Names likely. I'd be shocked (and pumped) if they take Svech.

Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for sure. I think I'd rather Tyler Johnson though. Mainly due to the asset we'd get back in such a deal, and his cup winning leadership along with Leddy. And he'ds only be around for 3 seasons. Denault probably looking for something much longer.

Fixed.

Nobody is accusing Veleno of being at that level in the NHL yet. But based on his play in other leagues, it is what is he is expected to grow into. Hence why locking up Denault would not be all that great. Short term would be fine, sure. But we are starving for an offensive-minded center right now.

Oh I know. 3rd pairing dman Stecher who basically lost his job to Lindstrom. You haven't been in Discord. It was the one time things almost got heated there.

I don't care if we lose Stecher or Namestnikov. I just wanna see if anything comes of Cholowski.

Kraken closing in on deals with Larsson and Oleksiak. Maybe we'll only lose Namestnikov!

Bruce Garrioch reporting that the Kings are shopping the #8 pick. Time to trade Bert?

Bernier + Ulmark - Greiss. Best of both worlds

I'm a pretty low-risk guy

Nobody is signing Glendog to no damn 8 year deal haha. I'm gonna go out on a limb to say Glenny and Bernie have contracts ready to sign post Seattle draft.

Seattle gets to negotiate with UFAs early. Pretty sure they need to draft a UFA to get that 8th year though.

"The best goalie since Carey Price" We've heard that line 3 straight years now. Which one is it? Oh right, it's likely neither. We'll hear it again next year too. Just watch.

Absolutely possible

I take Luke Hughes if it shakes out like this draft day.

That's just one aspect of it though. Perhaps they'd rather just lose Bean than lose Bean and Niederreiter for a 33OA pick, which may not amount to anything close to either player. It's one player for nothing versus two players for next to nothing. GMs clearly not making them Vegas mistakes again.

These teams are clearly of the mind that they can only lose one player. So do your worst. The second you flip guys for cheap just to "get something for them," you are suddenly down two players instead of one.

If we can add a guy like Tyler Johnson to shore up shop down the middle, it could be a fun season. Especially if guys like Raymond and Berggren start making the roster during the season.

They have one RFA year left. Contracts will be similar, as with both you're still paying for mostly UFA years.

What we lose in this draft will be even less of a loss than Nosek. A solid year from Leddy and he fetches much more than what Stecher would. On another topic, remember when people were so mad about Will Butcher? Those were the days. Saw his name in the Devil's s exposed list and had a chuckle.

We are gonna lose a third pairing dman. There is literally nothing to complain about.

So we're gonna keep Veleno in GR to make room for Svech? No thanks. We're gonna trade Fabbri to make room for Svech? No thanks. We'll dump Erne to make room for Svech? No thanks. And this is all assuming Yzerman signs ZERO forwards, which will not happen. People need to face facts. Svech is done in Detroit.