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Is this guy any good?

Ovie missed almost 2 full seasons of prime/semi-prime scoring because of lockouts and covid. Any Wayniacs that wanna count his 46 will have to account for that. Give Ovie two full seasons of scoring and he's probably got 100 more goals right now and nobody would be talking about IF he breaks the record, but when. Greatest goal scorer the game has ever seen.

I meant "screwed" in the sense that we'd have missed our opportunity to land Werenski. Not "screwed" in the sense that we'd be f*cked on left side defense. I don't mind Zadina. I definitely don't think he's someone I'd be looking to trade. I just think that we're pretty heavy with left shooting "skill" wingers and I don't think Zadina is better than Vrana now and I also don't think it's unreasonable to think Raymond and maybe Berggren will pass him on the depth chart as well. As far as trading 1st rounders I tend to disagree with you on this. Assuming we improve over the next two years our 2023 1st probably lands somewhere in the 12-20 range. I trade that pick all day long for a 24 year old top pair defender.

You could do this, but I don't think it's necessary to protect the 2023 pick at all. Presumably if you're adding Seider, Werenski, Raymond, and Berggren over the next two years, plus your growth from guys like Veleno and Rasmussen, plus any other trades/ufa signings, you're going to be good enough to not worry too much about winning the lottery. I think Columbus pulls the trigger on this without any protections on the 1st. I also think they probably do it without the 2nd as well.

I think the argument would be that we could get better, sooner, with Werenski on the team and under contract. Plus, a lot can change in two years. Say he gets traded to Colorado or something and loves it there, then we're screwed. If he's available now there's a good argument to trade for him and extend him so that he doesn't get the taste of another team. That said, I've argued in the past for pursuing him in free agency so I don't think you're way off base here either.

That probably gets it done, and it's something that we could live though I'd rather Bert be going the other way. Zadina is a pretty good player, but redundant with Vrana, Raymond, Fabbri, and Berggren in the depth chart. McIsaac is probably going to be decent, but we don't need him with Edvinsson, Johansson, and Wallinder on the left side along with Werenski. I'd do it.

Yeah, but that's really risky considering Toews is old and coming off a serious injury and Dach is super young and coming off a serious injury. They also let Suter walk. Asking a lot of Toews and Dach if they're planning to go "all in" this season. Then again I don't know that they even have the assets to land Eichel considering what they just paid for Jones.

I genuinely think they're going to come out of nowhere and land Eichel. Otherwise I don't understand their moves this offseason. Despite adding Jones and MAF they're dead in the water without a top producing forward up front.

You're right. I've been thinking today was Wednesday all morning long haha. Darren Pang shilling pretty hard for his old buddy Stevie Y on this one. You love to see it.

It is, starting at noon.

It's not a reference. It's just me being a dork.

Ugh, this godd*mn bar. It’s Pink Floyd tonight.

Years ago a buddy of mine started dating this gal with a little boy from another relationship. Jerks that we are, the rest of our group used to mock him with “Papa, teach me baseball” any time he mentioned the little feller.

Papa, teach me baseball!

Boston isn't qualifying Nick Ritchie. 25 year old power forward in the same ilk as Adam Erne. Have to think some other team picks up him, but if not I'd look to sign him if I'm Steve-O

This is literally how I imagine @krsmith17, except flabbier around the middle and with scrawnier arms.

Seems like a respectable young guy. I’d definitely hire him if I owned any business other than a professional hockey team.

I haaaaaaaaaaasate Ronnie James Dio. Hate that little imp so much. Sorry to subject you all to this rant. Sitting in a bar in Ohio and someone apparently played his whole catalogue on the juke. F*ck them, and f*ck Dio.

Aatu Raty falls all the way to the 2nd day of the draft and is taken by the Islanders at 52. That same day he hangs 4 on Team Sweden at the World Junior Summer Showcase. Gotta be happy with that pick if you're the Islanders.

Poor Mike Milbury. Cancel culture has left him used and broken. Thrown away like a piece of trash. Left with nothing. Nothing but his fame and his 6 million dollar net worth. But aside from that, nothing. The Libs must be stopped before their Twitter Gestapo forces other rich people to shut up for a while.

Yeah, I'm not really mad about it. A little underwhelming from an entertainment perspective, but the trades and the 1st rounders made sense to me. I don't know anything at all about Buium so I'll reserve judgement on that one.

So going into this draft we had 5 first and second round picks. We traded two picks to get a LD (Leddy) and a goalie (Ned) and then selected two more LD (Edvinsson, Buium) and a goalie (Cossa). So pretty clearly this was the year to address LD and goalies. Hoping next year might finally, mercifully, be a year for centers?

Gotta say I love a top four: Johanson-Seider Edvinsson-Hronek

But also soooooo true.

Oh, so you know better than Steve Yzerman does? Gotcha. Here’s a fun thing for you to wrestle with, Yzerman deliberately passed over the guy you thought was better and instead chose to draft for position (LD). The guy I wanted, Kent Johnson, was off the board before earlier than expected and Steve couldnt pick him. Then he traded up to draft for position AGAIN. No matter how you slice it this is a big old loss for you buddy.