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St. James reporting that the 2nd for next year was originally Ottawa's.. so hopefully they miss the playoffs next year

Even better considering this years draft depth (or lack there of)

Two trades so far, two good returns.. keep it up kenny

Sheahan for a first, while optimistic given his year, is literally what he has been reported to cost. That's why it's being talked about.

could hopefully push them to offer a better deal for smith?

Darryl Sutter. And yeah, good adjustments.. not sure if they'd be as high in the standings without them. Now if only he could get Kopitar going

Commodore is that you? also this as of 30 min ago

I do like that plan with the hopeful Vanek return. And good points on tippet. I'm not saying I'd be upset with him but just that I'd prefer a center. Hopeful but unlikely situation: we win one of the lotto picks, get a center.. team that gets Vanek doesn't protect the pick for missing playoffs, misses, we get Foote/Hague

Sounds like they're very much not interested in selling low.. rumored to cost a first round pick for Sheahan. That leads me to believe he's not going anywhere. But a first doesn't sound low even if he were having a decent year.. I'd take it.

Agreed. Glad they got rid of it

Free press:

I think because torts would've still been under contract were he not fired..? whereas Babcock was done with his contract. I don't know, I never really agreed with the compensation rules (at least as far as coaches who finished their contracts or were let go)... and they only lasted a year. we just got lucky that they were in effect when Babcock left https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-to-end-coach-and-executive-compensation-policy/c-791590

There are too many centers at the top of the draft for me to like us drafting tippett. Also I'm a little higher on Liljegren but I kind of agree on Hischier.. I'd prefer for us to get bigger. I think my top five might be Patrick, Liljegren, Middelstadt, Vilardi, Hischier but i'm sure that'll keep changing due to my indecision

If we don't end up winning a lotto pick and assuming those guys are the first three, I hope we land Mittelstadt. Dudes got some good hands and speed and coming out of high school into the draft makes me think he could be a little underrated (kind of like when we picked Larkin lower). I think he'll go to Minnesota and tear it up as a freshman like Larkin did at UM.

Yeah that up tempo scoring style stuff is a lot more exciting than what the kings have looked like most of this year. They've been the second team I root for since around 08ish when I started paying more attention to the rest of the league. Their usual style is a lot of fun to watch imo. And yeah a lot of that revolves around having a very good tendy because that style leads to odd man rushes the other way.. no offense to budaj but I wouldn't trust him in that system either. Quick going down hurt them a lot more than losing their starting goalie would hurt most teams.

Second tweet is responding to the first one got me good haha

Sure seems likely, doesn't it? Jensen has been a pleasant surprise in a season severely lacking them.

Wings should get tyler johnson.. that way they don't have to face him anymore

At least he should get some playing time there of all places i guess.. does seem weird that they didn't just claim him on waivers. Weren't paying attention maybe?

They get lottery odds as if they were third from last.... they can draft as low as 6th if the three lotto picks go to teams above them and (likely) the avs and coyotes. That most likely won't happen obviously, but they're not automatically the third overall pick. The first three picks are still being auctioned off.

Yeah it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to play anyone we know is getting dealt.

Hahahaha I didn't even notice it said smith twice. Whoops. I just copy the tweet URL from my twitter app and paste onto the mobile site and it does it automatically. I primarily use my phone for LGW so I'm not sure if it works in the regular browser but I'd assume so? (edit: just tried it on my desktop in the bishop to LA thread and it worked)

wait, is jensen hurt??