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Daaaaaaaaaaang

You may be right. I guess I read it differently. I'd imagine one of the big hurdles that rebuilding teams must overcome is the fact that any veterans playing for your team either A) suck, or B) don't want to be there. I remember the Ottawa players griping in the Uber a few years back. When your team blows and you know you're not going to be around long it's probably hard to stay positive about it. Ideally you'd want someone like Bedard (who is supposed to be the future leader of the team) to be part of the solution and not gripe that he "wants out". But that could all be overblown as well. My knee jerk reaction was that this all seemed a little too Lindros for my liking.

Why is it a clown show? All the Kyle Beach people were fired already. Perry was fired for whatever he did too. Promptly. Most of the guys in that locker room had nothing to do with any of that. And now they've got a rookie (supposedly) complaining that he's not getting enough respect from guys in the locker room. These are professional players, not fans. I'm sure Bedard is used to walking into the rink and being fawned over. That's basically Canadian hockey culture in a nutshell. But if he thinks well respected veteran players like Nick Foligno, Tyler Johnson, and Seth Jones should fanboy out over his presence he's completely out of touch. Perhaps they should treat him the way Toronto treats their prima donna stars. I mean, that's clearly working out really well.

Boo hoo. You mean a room full of career NHL players didn’t fall all over themselves trying to accommodate an 18 year old rookie? What a clown.

In speculative news that doesn't involve Perry or Kane, what do we think is wrong with Larkin? Because he's been playing injured for a while and it would absolutely crater our season to lose him or have him playing at 80% the whole season.

The Blackhawks organization has PROVEN that they're willing to lie and compartmentalize when it suits their purposes. There's no way they'd come out and say "Corey Perry banged Bedard's mom". So until the "real" reason behind all of this comes to light I'm going to choose to believe that Davidson is lying and that Perry did the deed. The Hawks have no credibility anymore.

Is Patrick Kane gonna hook up with Lucas Raymond's mom now? Does he even have the guts? I say he does it.

So we all agree that Corey Perry is awesome now right? Like...f*ck the Cups...put this dude in the HoF for being an absolute legend.

According to Friedman the deal for Kane is 2.75 million for the remainder of this season.

I'm hoping for something a little better than getting demolished 4-1 in the first round.

Jesus Christ you're being pedantic. Let me re-phrase my original post: I hope the Red Wings have more success with Kane than they did with Alfredsson, Richards, or Modano. Better?

How's it disrespect? The team did jack squat with any of those guys in the lineup, which is what I was referencing.

There's no way he plays tomorrow right?

By all accounts he was pretty beloved in Edmonton and they moved him (and Yamamoto) to clear cap space.

Kostin hasn't "fallen out of favor". He broke a team rule and was scratched a game. The same thing happened to Walman a year ago. Don't get carried away.

Here's hoping this goes better than Alfredsson, Richards, or Modano eh?

Nobody. We have been running 11 forwards and 7 defensemen throughout the season and have used guys like Czarnik at times as well. Our team will look something like this (Don't pay attention to the line combos, just the roster): Veleno-Larkin-Raymond Dcat-Compher-Kane Fabbri-Copp-Perron Kostin-Ras-Sprong Fischer Walman-Seider Maatta-Gostisbehere Chiarot-Holl Petry

This season has been absolutely wild. Who had "Wings sign FA Patrick Kane" on their bingo card?

Not that I disagree with you, but let's just say (hypothetically) the return is a 1st? I know it's unlikely, but do you trade him for a 1st?

Rough night for the Wild. Hartman gets a couple game suspension and the Red Wings get their coach fired. I've got no hate for the Wild or anything...but damn.

I guess we'll see. It's not all that uncommon an occurrence. Not too many veteran players are willing to ride the bus in the AHL like Ericsson did.

I think Petry retires after the season and I think Maatta will get a long look at the deadline. Holl and Chiarot are pretty much locked in though, can't see anyone wanting those contracts.

The curious case of Shayne Gostisbehere... What do we do with this guy. He's really good. Like, good enough that he'd be a huge boost to a playoff team. Which obviously argues in favor of us keeping him for our playoff push. Or...argues in favor of us trading him to another contender and reaping the benefit of his stellar season. If we could get this guy on a 3 year 4.5(ish) million dollar deal do we keep him? At this point I think he's clearly established himself as our 3rd best defender behind Walman and Seider. You need talent to win.

Let him to go Buffalo and then immediately trade for Jiri Kulich since they won't have room for him and they've got all the skilled wingers they can fit on their roster.

He's definitely worth taking a look at. He's having a bad season this year but Calgary isn't helping him much.