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There was never a doubt in my mind. Edvinsson’s game winner. Suck an egg Jesper! https://x.com/HockeytownWpod/status/1763033395653730513?s=20 And here’s Kasper cucking Jesper as well. https://x.com/griffinshockey/status/1762999899602166030?s=20

Lemme guess, this guy had Edmonton-Boston meeting in the finals last year? I always love how authoritative these guys sounds without a hint of irony after they've been so consistently, massively, wrong year after year after year.

B*tch I don't project anything. I'm not poor. I have a 65 inch LG Signature OLED M4. It's the Rolls Royce of TVs. Enjoy your Vizio, loser.

I actually kinda wish they'd trade him. Tnias Mathurin is clearly AHL ready and Edvinsson is blocking him. If Shawn Horcroff isn't careful AHL ready guys like Mathurin, Jack Phelan, and Larry Keenan will get sick of being held back and start requesting trades. Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!! Hey hey ho ho Simon Edvinsson's got to go!!!!

Aaaaaand Edvinsson goes it alone and wins the game for GR in overtime. Hell of a solo effort to win the goalie duel. Wallstedt looked good and was the only reason that game was close. Nice try

The internet is saying Tanev to Dallas is about done

AHL tv online is the way to do it. You can buy single day passes for 8 bucks. Edvinsson is a beast. https://x.com/HockeytownWpod/status/1762995431712096453?s=20 Lol…Kasper just tried the Michigan. GR announcers straight up said “I don’t like that”. They both said “it’s wrong” and “not a hockey play”

I think he’s going to be really good, he’s still so young tho.

2-0 Griffins. Rebound goal from Aston Reese and Kasper beat Wallstedt clean on a breakaway

Cossa vs. Wallstedt head to head tonight

Another thought: It's hard to score in the NHL. Teams may only score two or three times a game on 30-40 shots. So if you're bad defensively, but good offensively, you have to do the hard thing (score) a lot more often to win. But if you're good defensively you don't have to do the hard thing (score) nearly as often to win right?

That's a really good point. Justin Holl and William Wallinder for Radko Gudas please.

I'm not worried about Gudas' AAV. I'm worried about the term. He's 33 and it runs for two more years. Guys start falling off cliffs pretty rapidly at his age. Its iffy.

Given their history it's probably Little Caesars Pizza. Remember when everybody wanted the new arena to be named something cool like the "Gordie Howe Arena" or whatever? All the brainiacs were like "they'd be stupid to leave all that corporate money on the table". Then they gave the naming rights to their own corporation. Because clearly Little Caesars needed to raise awareness of their s***ty Hot-n-Ready pizzas.

My mistake, I missed it. You sure did. Overall I don't hate it. Don't love it (because none of the guys you mentioned are both RHD AND play solid defensively) but I don't hate it.

Generally speaking I agree with most of this. I do think the calculus changes a lot for RFAs and veterans without a Cup though. Like, if you're Jeff Petry and you've never won a Cup and you get a chance to play for a contender, but that contender is in Winnipeg, you're probably more likely to do it than you would be if you were 27 and hitting FA for the first time.

Overall I don't think this is the worst thing in the world. BUT one nitpick I have is that it doesn't really make sense to buy out Petry (creating dead cap space over multiple years) AND ALSO leave a hole at your 7th defenseman spot. Why not just keep Petry for the final year of his deal and make him the 7th defenseman? He's basically making 7th defenseman money already. He costs less than Holl...our current 7th defenseman.

But it's not because they don't HAVE to stay. You basically get stuck with the team that drafted you for a few years and then you get enough leverage to leave. Tkachuk did, so did Debrincat. The only players who are stuck on miserable teams are guys that are just barely good enough to be in the league. Like, it's better to be in Arizona than the AHL but it's better to be almost anywhere else than Arizona. So as soon as you're good enough/old enough to get the hell out of there you do.

I get what you're saying, Vancouver is an absolutely beautiful place. But I wouldn't want to play there either. I think there's a lot of wisdom in drafting players from close to home like SY does. No matter how gorgeous the place is, many people just don't want to live and work a zillion miles from their families and friends.

You're talking in generalities though. Can "random human" live in Calgary just fine? Sure. Would American professional hockey player Matthew Tkachuk MUCH rather spend his limited career (these guys are basically done in their 30s) playing for a winner in Florida instead of a loser in Calgary? Absolutely. I'm not maligning western Canada. I've traveled all over Canada and find the country beautiful and the people pleasant. It's a really lovely country. But I wouldn't want to work 3,000 miles away from every single person on Earth that I give a crap about. Especially if that place is in another country, and it's one of the coldest windiest places in North America.

Counter point, would YOU want to play for Calgary or Ottawa? It's not like these guys are requesting trades out of top organizations. As soon as I had enough leverage to get the hell out of Calgary I would too. Especially if I wasn't from Western Canada.

I genuinely think that the hockey media has owned the narrative forever, and they don't know s***, and that's why nobody knows how to make sense of teams like the Wings. I was listening to a podcast the other day and Max Bultman (and other people from the Athletic) were debating something and Max offhandedly mentioned that maybe having a McDavid type player is actually bad for team building and those other dorks couldn't scoff hard enough. Like, how DARE he impune the notion that superstars aren't all they're cracked up to be. The entire calculus for hockey media is "You've got stars and you shoot alot, ipso facto you're a contender". Except there are tons of examples of that not working. Worse, there are almost zero counter narratives in media. I give Jared Keeso a lot of credit for this. He's the only guy talking about hockey who dares say something like "maybe giving a s*** and not being a p*ssy matters more than being pretty". There are several episodes of "Shoresy" devoted to it. But his show is "fiction" so nobody runs with it. I'd give anything to see hockey media address a few of these questions: If star power matters so much why do even the most legendary players (think Lidstrom) only win a few times in their careers? If statistical modeling can only tell us what we already know (Colorado is good) but not what we don't know (Vancouver is GOING to be better than you think) what value does it really have? If players matter so much why does a team like Vancouver go from terrible to exceptional from year to year with almost no change in personnel? If puck possesson matters so much why do GMs and coaches not just load up their teams with the best possession players they can get? If the draft lottery is such a game changer why haven't Edmonton and Toronto even won a conference title? Why doesn't Buffalo suck? Why is New Jersey regressing as they put more lottery picks into their lineups. IMO these are all super interesting questions that I'd love to read articles about, but nobody working in the hockey media will even ask the questions. Instead we get "Who's the most stylish Maple Leaf".

Not at all. I think Edvinsson is a stud. My rationale is that I don't want to change the roster too much because we're winning and clearly have chemistry. Also, I don't think there's any problem with the left side of our defense. If Edvinsson was a righty he'd be on the team already. Swapping Gudas (for example) with Petry and moving out Holl accomplishes both. It upgrades the right side without moving anybody important off the roster or out of the locker room. Plus adds some defensive acumen and snarl too. Edit: Also, I'll readily admit that Durzi and Andersson are better players than the guys I mentioned. They are. But there are two big reasons I don't want them. First, the cost to acquire them would be significantly higher IMO. Second, stylistically they're more offensive than defensive. We already have one of the top scoring defense corps in the league. I want a guy that can help nail down good teams in the playoffs. Neither Durzi nor Andersson are that guy IMO. Given a choice I like Tanev/Gudas/Kesselring/Barron, in that order.

For sure. I think teams like Edmonton and Toronto would kill for Olli Maatta right now. But that's exactly why I like him on our third pair too. I'm open to moving him, but I think it would have to be a really big upgrade. Personally I'd just like to see us chase an upgrade to Petry on the right side of the 2nd pair and move Petry to the press box. I think Petry has been reasonably good considering his age and what he's been asked to do so far this season, and I'd be thrilled if he was the guy coming into the lineup in the playoffs in case of injury. I just don't think he's got the legs for 20 mins a night anymore. In my ideal world we'd look something like: Walman-Seider Chiarot-Gudas/Kesselring Maatta-Gost Petry

I was thinking about this last night and I'm not sure where to put it, so I'll put it here. But seeing how fundamentally sound we're playing right now makes us a better team in the moment, but it also bodes really really well for the development of our younger guys. I'll give you one example, next game watch our line changes. We ALWAYS get pucks deep, get changed, and make the opposition come 200ft with our forecheckers fresh, in place, and ready to battle. It's like a machine. I watched it last night and it was like clockwork. Even Kane was content to flip the puck deep and get off the ice, he wasn't trying to skate through three defenders to make a one on one play (which rarely works and always leads to chances against). He just flips it deep when there's nothing available, gets off the ice, and lets Veleno, Copp, Fischer, Ras, etc. go to work. So now think about that from a development point of view. If you're Kasper or Danielson and you want a center spot on this team you've got to be better than one of Larkin, Compher, Copp, Veleno, or Fischer and those guys don't f*ck up...ever. They make safe plays, they battle, they win faceoffs, and they don't take risks. That's the standard. Same goes for the wingers. Raymond and Debrincat are "offensive" but you don't see those guys putting the team in a bad spot to try and cheat for a goal (think Mantha, AA, and Bertuzzi here). So if Berggren wants to play in the top six as a scorer the standard is set. In Detroit nobody really cares if you've got sick breakaway moves or whatever (unless you're Kane I guess). They care that you manage the puck and don't put the team in a bad spot so that you can be on ESPN the next day. I'm here for it.