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Definitely. He'll get his retired by the pens obviously, and that's how it should be.. I doubt any other number ever gets retired league wide.

Nah but no one will wear it until the isles finally bring up another highly touted rookie

What a nice goal.. seems like that's all AA scores. I'm for it! I can only imagine what the fan reaction would be if Howard were that aggressive on a poke check in OT

Woooo Tatar! He's been looking great lately

Stoopid Larkin.. any goalie can see that coming from a mile away. Maybe he REALLY wants to play with Nolan Patrick

Just because something "happens all the time" doesn't mean it's okay.. there's some overreaction around everything Crosby does; good and bad, sure. But this kind of stuff is so unnecessary no matter who it is.. the sack tap at all let alone so close to this slash doesn't exactly help the reaction level to this incident either.

Ref: "hey don't touch him.. boss' orders." Haha I can't wait until the day he actually tries to fight someone and gets his ass handed to him. Theres no place for that kind of hacky bulls*** in the game.. star player or not..

Aww yeah! Pretty stoked for these two guys. Here's to a smooth transition to the minors!

Just saw that Mantha goal. Woooeeee looking forward to many more highlight goals from him. LGW!

Was checking out stubhub for a pair of tickets earlier today and the cheapest deal was $74 each. Around the same row in the upper bowl. It was around 90 each on Saturday for the avs game (top couple rows)

Depends.... what's the retail?

Just saw that a fan got hit in the face with a puck that went thru the camera hole in the glass?? Woah also wooo #21!

McCarty pounded respect into their players' teeth!

If we only get to 100, can he hit a post? Sheahan for comback player 2017-18!

Did he at least pick up pickards jock for him?

Yea yea but I'll never root for anything but opening up a good ol fashioned can of whoop ass against the likes of Colorado, Chicago, and Toronto And probably also Montreal haha

I hope the wings beat them tonight too; but I REALLY hope we can beat them out for Nolan Patrick.. taking the rivalry to a whole new level! LGW! Let's bury them 7-0 for old times' sake!

Same but I'm a 90 so slightly younger, maybe.. but to all of my friends and I, that rivalry surrounds our first memories of hockey. It's what made me want to play hockey in the first place and I haven't stopped since. Amazing article, thanks for sharing. I read it like three times over.

Nice! I haven't actually been following him.. he just has a great name

Hampus Melen is a god amongst men.

I guess I could see the players potentially feeling ranked by importance or whatever messing with some egos.. but I would think GMs will be open about who is/isn't being protected with the players themselves whether the lists are public or not. Making the lists public a little before the expansion draft results are announced would get the casual fans more interested in the draft/speculation surrounding it. Obviously most of us on here will still follow and speculate whether the lists are public or not, but i think many more people would actively follow the expansion process with more information being conveniently available to them. The only concern I could see is Vegas using other fan bases reactions as help on who to pick; and even that seems like a little bit of a stretch. I don't think there would be any negative effects of releasing the lists after vegas picks/before their picks are announced.. I guess it's not really a big deal though.

Good info. Samberg is also ranked 89 by future considerations and I'm sure, assuming they use them, the wings will target defenseman with the three third round picks.. hoping one pans out long term. By what you're saying about Samberg, it seems like a decent chance we target him with one of our third round picks. I'd be for it.

Thanks for the scouting report. He sounds like he may take a couple years playing D1 to really round out a couple areas of his game but still sounds like a promising prospect. Sad he doesn't get a shot at the title when that's mainly why he went back to Eden Prairie.. maybe I'd move him out of the top five but I don't know about out of the top ten when the first round of this draft seems like a lot more of a gamble than usual. Hows the rest of his team? I'd think he'll benefit from playing with what I assume will be more skilled players when he gets to college but he also seems like the kind of player that would make everyone around him better.. especially if he rarely loses faceoffs.

I haven't watched a full game of his or anything but from what I've read/highlights, that's disappointing.. maybe it's too easy for him? Or is that just the style of play in MN high school hockey? Either way, hope he picks it up the rest of the tourney. Updates would be appreciated

And they said this season wouldn't be exciting!