PavelValerievichDatsyuk

Only 17 artists from any time or place have sold more records than Eminem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists Dude is pretty famous.

Well, If you're serious about the charity, you can donate to the victims of this tragic Vegas shooting. This charity is listed on a couple major news networks as reliable and says 100% goes to the victims. https://nationalcompassionfund.org/

Not exactly, though. Under the idea of a 2 year deal they have a demanded amount. If they were talking about a 1 year deal, I'm sure both sides would be arguing about different numbers. And the 4 year deal idea would be another thing as well.

Google search of "Ken Holland contract talks" and the first link on the Dekeyser negotiation: "We had a number of productive talks until a couple of weeks ago," Holland told Ansar Khan of MLive, "[but] it's gone quiet the last couple of weeks. It's gotten to a point where it's difficult because there aren't many comparables." https://www.thescore.com/news/575364 Not sure why you challenged this part. Of course GMs are always looking at comparables for negotiation. That's why we often get deals in waves in the offseason, when the market is set.

We don't know if a deal like this was offered. It's entirely possible. In coverage of Tatar's deal and, I think, Abby's I've read that Hollland's approach was given 3 offers of different length. Then again those were UFA deals so maybe he has a different approach to these deals. Anyway, I doubt AA would consider it since he and his agent know he would almost definitely be giving up money long term just for a longer deal. And I don't think that would be attractive since I doubt he's questioning that he'll be in the NHL for at least the next 4 years. Young players would want to get a shorter bridge deal so they can get at the real money/term.

Yeah, I think we all knew Sproul was going to be waived. I don't think he'll get picked up since he didn't pass his physical for camp and been reading that him coming back from the knee surgery could take a while. In other news, Tootoo, Jurco, and Pulkinnen were waived. That's also not incredibly surprising, but the one aspect to this that's funny is that the Blackhawks protected Jurco in the expansion draft. Wonder if there's a way they could have protected TVR (who they lost) instead of Jurco. Probably not since you can't replace a F with a D in the 7/3/1 protected list format.

No worries, I didn't think it was disrespectful. Sorry if it seemed like I was saying that. I do think Tatar was dressed up as Hefner and from what I've seen, the man definitely liked the character he created and I do think he'd like people dressing up as him. He'd probably see it as an honour and fine way to be remembered.

Posted in honour of Mr. Hefner?

The Josh andersson situation does seem to be very similar. Same agent. Both players had 29 pts last year (AA had 1 more goal, 14 less games). They were even both 4th rounders in 2012. Columbus is offering 1 year at 1.9 or 3 years at less than that. WIngs offer was 2 years at 1.9. http://www.tsn.ca/report-jackets-anderson-still-far-apart-in-contract-talks-1.862670

I thought he would be going back to St. Cloud State like last year. Wonder why that change was made. Seems more talent comes from the CHL, though, so I think it's a good thing.

The NBA and NFL are pretty popular in China, so it's really not farfetched that the NHL could get a fanbase in China. The extra income from tv contracts and merch to the world's largest population could be huge. Don't see why there's a reaction against this. Especially since this year the winter Olympics are in South Korea and will especially be followed by East Asians, there could be a lot of people that get into hockey through that. That's also an argument for why the NHL should go to the olympics, but hey...

Undefeated at Little Ceasars Arena

FRK! Could use a great shot on the powerplay...

Helm from Nielsen! 3 pts for Nielsen.

Even if Larkin and Z play together, I'd prefer Helm at 3C. Lark, Nielsen, Helm would still be ahead of him in my book. I agree Sheahan should be 4C to get him back into a position he's good at while he's still here. I just think there's better options for 3C , which is why I say ship him out. To put him at a place (3C) where he'd raised his trade value, you'd have to move 2 better canditates (Nielsen and Helm) to wing (where neither are great - Nielsen I don't really know) - I don't think that'd be a great option. As for how he plays into the future, we have Nielson and Helm for the next 5 and 4 years respectively as candidates for the 3C spot. As for the top 2 lines, you yourself said that Sheahan not going there, so why would we keep him around to hypothetically replace Z, Nielsen?. I think we're betting on Larkin, Rasmussen, AA(?) at this moment for those top 2 center in the future - plus future draft picks, of course. Keeping Sheahan around hoping he can be a fill in at 2C doesn't seem like it's worth it since I also don't think he's a 2C

Completely disagree. Sheahan is slotted as the 4C as is, since we have Z, Larkin, Nielsen slotted in front of him at center. I think Helm would definitely also be a better option as 3C. Sheahan struggled last year because we played him at wing (and he's not so good at the wing) because he got squeezed out of his role. To me, he has no place on the team in any forseable future - perfect trade bait. Also, anyone who complains about Glendening as a 1.8 4th line center should recognize that we'll have Sheahan at 2.075 this year if we keep him.

Wondering if this means P.A.P. has the edge over Booth. Not sure either will be signed, but I think it's a definite possibility. Also wonder whether Bertuzzi being injured might hurt his pitch for the starting roster in favour of one of these two.

Yeah it would be a way to fill our 2 biggest holes (and the 2 essential spots on any team IMO), but my "stars aligning" scenario wasn't meant to be realistic. I don't think anyone would trade the top pick, especially with those players in line. We'd have to finish at or near the bottom to get Dahlin ourselves. And doing that would mean that at least some of our key young players would not excel which would hurt the rebuild and probably our chance at attracting JT. I guess just hope for some luck in the next draft - there's plenty of good players it seems and Dmen are hard to predict are often found lower.

I'm not saying we couldn't be a contender if all our stars aligned: we get JT, draft Dahlin, and key kids (Larkin, Mantha, AA, Mrazek, Cholowski?, Svech?) all take huge steps this year. Just, if JT is looking to to win a cup in a year or 2, I doubt that Red WIngs would anywhere near his top list of sure things. I think the more likely line of thinking that would bring him here would be, as Pierre says, that he'd have center stage here. The only problem with that is whether he'd want to be the captain and ultimate leader of whatever team he plays for. Z is rightfully that guy for as long as he keeps playing.

This does seem like a long shot, but who knows... Was he close with Nielsen? That also could help us out, if that were true. Orig 6, Close to T.O. so can be around friends + family. Brand new arena (Islanders still don't even have an arena), There's definitely some attractions. If he were looking to win right away, though, he would probably look elsewhere

Apparently he went from 217 lbs to 230 lbs in the offseason. Guess a broken finger doesn't stop one from lifting weights. I think putting Abby and Mantha with Larkin will help Larkin with the physical side of things.

LOL at the guy yelling "you blew it"

Your title's a bit worrisome, but congrats to Cleary. Reports were always that he was good as a mentor to younger players.

"..in peace and harmony..." From those lines, I'd say that Bert definitely makes the team. They already stated when they signed him that Witkowski wouldn't play every game. Obviously P.A.P. is in for AA, so if both those guys were on the team, it'd be questionable, but I doubt that would happen - might not even possible under the cap unless Parenteau would be signed for a low contract like Bert's.

That'd be like Fredo being named head of the family.