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Short of injury Rasmussen will never play center again. We have Larkin, Copp, Kasper, and Veleno. Fabbri can also play there as well. Ras solidified himself on the wing last season

How will the league respond to an attempted murder at an internationally sanctioned hockey game and how did Greg Kruppa "get it right" despite talking about a whole different on-ice incident? I'm sure one of your dozens and dozens of fake accounts will be sure to let us know. And there's absolutely nothing pathetic about that at all.

None of it matters, at all. You're trying to turn this into something because you're bored and you think it makes you clever to debate nonsense on the internet.

Benn's punishment will come pretty swifty I suspect. Remember that he's been in management's doghouse for a while. Anybody remember the Jim Lites comments about Benn and Seguin? Lites is old friends with Jim Nill and the two were more or less raised in hockey together. Not hard to surmise that Lites' comments may well closely reflect those of Nill. At the time of those comments Dallas' owner was also apparently very unhappy with the duo. If Dallas loses their next game, resulting in a sweep, and their Captain wasn't on the ice for (more or less) two of those losses he's toast as the captain of the team. He's clearly about to get suspended. Imagine getting suspended, losing pay, losing your captaincy, losing the respect of your teammates for not being on the ice, and watching your team lose in the the conference finals from the pressbox...all based on one stupid play? That seems sufficiently punitive.

Those are three pretty significant things to get right tho. So kudos to you. You've clearly demonstrated that you're able to think about the game more intelligently any almost every single one of your countrymen.

Evil Jamie Benn nearly decapitates Mark Stone with his barbarian club only days after bloodthirsty Joe Veleno practically severed Nino Niederreiter's leg with his foot sword. Hockey must be reigned in for it's own good. Just think of the impact on the children.

He's too violent, kill him!!! KILL HIM!!!!

"YoU MeAn tO tEll mE hoCKey leTS pLaYers haVE feeT WeAPons?!?!!? WhAT iS THiss, ThUnDerDome?!!"

Shout out to Jamie Benn for running away from the media last night after failing miserably to provide quality leadership to his team in arguably the most important game of his career. Who knew that the consequences of your actions could be so damaging to one's own psyche?

Let's not get too excited. Tomorrow is a different day. lol

I'd have to think about it more, but on the face of it I think that it sounds okay. Refs already have the power to blow the play dead for a number of other reasons, why not stop it if a player is stalling the game? If you threw your body down on top of the puck so that nobody could move it they would stop the play. Likewise, closing your hand over the puck is already a penalty. I see some rationale, and precedent, to what you're saying.

I agree with the first part, but don't agree with the 2nd part. The past DOES give an indication of what's going to happen. But the winner ISN'T unexpected IMO. For example, if winning the President's trophy made you a Cup favorite then why do most President's Trophy winners not win the Cup? Likewise, if having the best player in the world makes you a Cup favorite then why have guys like Gretzky, Crosby, and McDavid lost far more often than they've won in the playoffs? How many times in the past have we seen goaltending win or a lose a series for a team that clearly didn't deserve that outcome otherwise? It happens ALL the time. Yet you can almost set your watch to it. Next season the same dumb dumbs will say the same stuff...almost certainly because their job is to sell interesting narratives and not to actually say anything intelligent about the game.

There was a game earlier in the playoffs, I can't remember which one, where a team was on the PK and a dude pinned the puck on the boards with his skate for a good 20 second. It was SOOOOOOO boring.

It's not that I expect everyone to get it right all the time, I don't (and didn't). It's that the margins are razor thin in the NHL and it seems odd to me that none of the so-called experts A) acknowledge this, and B) ask themselves "are there any valid points that go against my line of thinking". It's just "durrr...McDavid...durrr". I expect that from fans, but it's fun to watch the media guys do it and then flounder.

I think my favorite thing about the playoffs has been how wrong all the so-called experts have been about everything, pretty much the whole way through. I listen to a lot of hockey podcasts and it's always fun to observe the awkward silence when someone makes a "Toronto is clearly the better team here" comment before a series, and then not even bother to address how wrong they were afterward. -Boston will run away with the Cup -You never bet against McDavid and Draisaitl -Toronto's outplaying Florida all over the ice -Dallas is the most complete team left in the playoffs What's especially fun about it is that almost all of these declarations were obviously flawed to begin with, but nobody in hockey media bothers to think about things before they say it. It's social media mentality flooding into everyday interactions. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not, it only matters if a bunch of people agree with it. -Boston's top six centers are injured and 87 years old. -If Draisaitl and McDavid were such an unstoppable duo why didn't Edmonton win their division? -Toronto's offense is almost entirely dependent on powerplay goals -Dallas' goaltending has been a no-show for two rounds.

This whole thread is the softest sh*t ever on LGW. "I...I...I...um...I can't believe it. I...*wipes away tears*...I can't believe how rough the game of hockey is". I imagine Jamie Benn's crosscheck on Mark Stone last night had you all in fits. Don't worry p*ssy babies, I'm sure your therapists can fit you in this week.

Clearly

Patience and trades aren't mutually exclusive. We've got four 1st round picks, and at least four 2nd rounders, in the next two drafts. It's not like trading a few of them is going to gut our already top of the league farm system. If the playoffs this year has taught me anything it's that when premier talent becomes available you need to act. There are a million excuses to talk yourself out of going all-in on guys like Eichel, or Tkachuk, or Stone, or Pietrangelo, or Reinhart, or Bennett, or whomever. Most teams do. But it definitely seems like its paying off for the teams that go out and get what they need. We need a 2C, some scoring, and a top four defenseman. We're not getting that without giving up assets. I'd rather it be picks than guys like Berggren, Mazur, Wallinder, Sodorblom, Lombardi, etc.

And? At some point we've got to stop kicking the can down the road and try to actually win games. We've been making our first round picks since Mantha and it's gotten us nowhere. Maybe we should try to flip those extra 1st rounders for established talent this time. Or we could just keep using them on guys like Veleno and Cossa and cross our fingers.

Gotta make it to the playoffs for that to matter. Your roster above is a long shot to do that.

Woof.

Trade 1: To Det: Timo Meier To NJ: 2023 17OA, 2023 2nd, Perron, Albert Johansson Trade 2: To Det: Mark Scheifele To Winn: 2024 1st (Boston), 2023 2nd, Zadina, UFA Signings: Miles Wood Scott Mayfield Meier-Larkin-Kubalik Copp-Scheifele-Raymond Ras-Kasper-Wood Berggren-Veleno-Mazur Fabbri Walman-Seider Edvinsson-Mayfield Maatta-Chiarot

Does it give you the vapors? Are you just beside yourself with worry? I imagine it's hard to sleep.

I. Don't. Caaaaaarrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee. Joe Veleno could cut Nino's head off with his skate and it wouldn't be much worse than what I see on the news all day everyday. Grow up.

Maybe playing meaner is the key to unlocking JV as a player. Maybe he's always been this guy, but he's been shoehorned into a "scorer" archetype because of his early success in the CHL. Maybe he just needs to embrace being the new Claude Lemieux. I've got a lot of time for JV after this.