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There's a reason Vegas has no sports teams

I think logically one has to choose Lidstrom

Yzerman, Fedorov, and Zetterberg all did/do everything perfectly, text book. Datsyuk writes his own book.

Cause Edmonton, Florida, Buffalo, Nashville, Calgary, Winnipeg, NYI, PHX, Carolina, Dallas and Ottawa have pulled in so many great FAs... Sure

I really doubt any players choose a team bc said had a high draft pick

13 and 40 in the rafters

The logo will be a man at a pay phone calling his wife to wire him more money. "I have a system!"

Get ready for diluted lower quality hockey everyone. Though ill pay to watch a new Toronto team win the cup before the leafs

Seattle, Quebec, and Toronto also getting new teams in 2017

The million dollar question, being asked for the millionth time, then who's ur new GM Frank?

Oh god, someone please go over possible expansion rules. We can protect how many?

This is CONFIRMED??? the league expanding????

It's all hard to measure. All I can say is he he played for 3 different teams after us + Russia and never put up the same numbers. I'm sure he wishes, as we do, that he had stayed here. What could've been...

When Abby scores 2 goals in game four of the SCF to sweep the series I'll side with my MSU man, till then it's Doug Brown FTW EDIT: Forgot to quote F Michael, but yall know what I'm talking about

Right, I merely wanted to bring up how Feds wasn't the same after the wings. I think it speaks to how good our team really was back then.

Both have done very well at their ages, I don't expect either to suddenly dip, maybe a few points off. Zberg is saying his back is the best it has been in a while and Dats is apparently healthy, but that's all I've heard. Injuries to both COULD happened again this season, but it's no sure thing. Only these last two seasons have both really had to deal with this problem.

Not that I'm disagreeing, but Feds numbers significantly dipped when he left us. In 02-03 he scored 83 pts in 80 games for us. In 03-04 he scored 65 pts in 80 games for AMD. Mind you he was 34 at the time, but Yzerman was still a point per game player for us at that age (though declined quickly after due to injury) and Dats and Z are doing better than Feds did at their ages.

Found myself pondering this question: Is Hossa a to be HOFer?

What he said. This isn't a question IMO. EDIT: Although having guys like Oates, Coffey, prime Lidstrom, Konstantinov, Murphy, Larionov, Robitaille, Shanahan, Hull, Kozlov, Fetisov, prime Holmstrom, Lapointe, Sheppard, Ciccarelli, Chelios, Fischer, among others, around for most of their good years, helps the Y Feds cause quite a bit. D and Z have never really had a HOF supporting crew.

Interview is from 2014 if that helps. Uploaded to youtube March 8th of 2014.

Mrazek = Blue chip Mantha = Blue chip Jurco = Blue chip Sheahan = Bluechip/graduated Nyquist = Bluechip/graduated Tatar = Bluechip/graduated I'd venture to say Ouellet, Sproul, Marchenko, Backman, Pulkkinen, and Athanasiou are also all blue chip, or at least very close to it. That's 12 prospects i would consider highly valuable. 9 if you don't want to count our graduates. Also, Hockeys future also still ranks Dekeyser as a prospect, even though I don't consider him one, bc when you think about it he's barely 24. Still very young. There's a reason are prospect pool is ranked so highly. The only teams really ahead of us in terms of having a number of bluechip prospects are teams like Buffalo, NYI, Tampa, Winnipeg, all teams that have been bad for a while. And for most of those teams there is a huge drop off in talent level after their blue chips. With us that is almost never the case. And yes he's serious. As am I. Everyone is quick to say get rid of Holland but then cannot cite one good replacement. I challenge you to do this. My point was not to say "look at all the possible options!" it was "look at how crappy our options would be if we didn't extend Holland". Fresh eyes are good and all, but I'm not going to throw out a great GM whose made a few low-risk mistakes the past few seasons just for the sake of bringing in a nobody or loser just because there eyes are "fresh". If there was good GM available looking to make a change or takeover an original six or big budget team, or we had someone in the organization ready for the reigns, I might be singing a different tune, but there aren't any of those people available right now. I also don't think cutting off the head of the snake is a good thing to do in the middle of a delicate retool when all is said and done. EDIT: Larkin is also our highest pick in what? Like a billion years? Might consider him bluechip as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj3yxUcz2qs All the crap about how Moore can't handle the media seems like BS drama to me. I'm sure he's affected by the injury and I feel for the guy, but he seems to handle the media quite well in this interview. If you didn't tell me before hand, I wouldn't know he had cognitive issues from hearing the guy speak. He also says he was training on his own and expected to return to hockey before his doctors shot that down. No doubt his injuries are career ending, but seems like some people exaggerate them. The best part is when he says the most important thing to him is going to trial and getting the truth out there. Guess every man has his price huh Stevie? I would've taken the money too if I were him, but it kind of irks me when states to the media that the most important thing is truth and justice in court.... and then settles for cash. CREAM.

Viable GM options: Ryan Martin (Wings assistant GM) Shero (ex-penguin who was handed a team consisting of Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Fleury, yet could only manage 1 cup, and has now drained the pens of prospects after chasing deadline acquisitions year after year) Gillis (ex-canuck who botched trading Luongo and Schneider and drained his teams prospect pool to trade for quick-fixes that didn't payoff) Pierre McGuire (Creepy fan-boy) Holland (Been with the organization since 1983, going for 24th straight playoff appearance, recent low-risk signings that didn't pay off, three cups as GM) I'll take Holland for now. EDIT: Others who could be promoted, but that I don't know much about: Julien BriseBois (Yzerman's assistant) Paul Fenton (Poile's assistant) Joe Will (San Jose's assistant)

Gotcha. Though the cap hit still seems ludicrous regardless. Don't you agree?

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