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I don't know what to think about this. He has shown offense his last two seasons, but he was 20 and 21 and playing in the QMJHL. Veleno scored 105 points as a 19 year old in that league and he's clearly an offensive juggernaut lol. The "entry level contract" part is what confuses me. If you wanted to see if he could hack it in the AHL why not give him an AHL deal similar to Kirill Tutyayev? They must really see something in this guy, but I don't get it.

That old chestnut eh Kenny? Holland is absolutley petrified of trading away a draft pick or prospect that could be a franchise centerpiece down the line. Trouble is, he's horrendous at drafting players who could be franchise centerpieces down the line. So he ends up failing to make trades that could help his team now because he'd rather not trade Teemu Pulkkinen.

And yet he only got 3.3 million. I'm pretty happy with that outcome.

This is ugly, our guys are just trying to escape this game right now.

Well this doesn't even look like the same team that we've been watching for the last 10 games. Who knew Ras was such a lynchpin for this team?

Detroit and Ottawa can just take turns getting powerplays every two minutes and save the refs the effort.

I hate the Drake.

Remember that time I said "plays die" on Veleno's stick and KRsmith nearly cried? Those were the days.

I like Veleno...as a 4C. Larkin ??? Copp Veleno Works for me.

I dunno dude, I think both the Berggren and Hronek penalties were legit.

I love Chiarot. I just think he needs to be "the man" on his own pair the same way Seider and Hronek are. I'd love to see: Walman-Seider Maatta-Hronek Chiarot-Jensen Get a good solid defender with good skating to stay back and play defense while Big Ben wheels and deals. Edit: I was 100% wrong about Walman on the top pair. That dude is a monster. Love him.

Tired: Ben Bros Wired: Chia Pets.

To Dallas: Bertuzzi (50% retained), Vrana (50% retained), 2nd To Detroit: Wyatt Johnston, 1st To Buffalo: Dallas' 1st, Albert Johansson To Detroit: Juri Kulich

Jensen would be fine, not thanks on Boeser. His contract sucks and he's basically the exact same player as Kubalik.

Prediction: The Elias Lindholm to Detroit at the deadline.

Media reporting that Vrana isn’t going back to GR, just a paper transaction to reduce the number of days until he has to be exposed to waivers again.

So I'm genuinely a genius right? Since posting this we've gone 9-4, clawed our way back into the playoff picture. Ras, Berggren, and Fabbri - in particular- have been excellent and Vrana has returned. Worship me as your God you f*cking peasants.

Berggren was really good last night again. Had two world class passes to set up scoring changes, one Veleno botched and the other Walman put off the pipe. His assists are going to skyrocket the minute we get a finisher or two playing regularly on this team.

Big game tonight. Gotta hope Larkin and Berggren stay on their hot streak because without Raymond and Vrana we're short on offense in the lineup tonight.

Could be, hard to say. At the end of the day I'm not mad about it, I just assumed that after the year he'd had (and given his cap hit) that he'd be pretty desirable to teams looking to go on playoff runs. Then again, we aren't exactly out of the Wildcard ourselves so maybe this is SY giving his team a vote of confidence.

If anyone here is religious, like really genuinely religious, then when you're brushing your teeth before bed tonight you should look at yourself in the mirror and think, "I'm one of the dumbest f*cks alive today". Just profoundly, disgustingly, stupid. Tyler Bertuzzi stupid.

I think Chiarot has played the right side in the past.

Something I noticed last night that I found interesting. Neither Berggren nor Kubalik played in overtime nor shot in the shootout. Lalonde sent Seider out for the shootout (which was predictably terrible) and not Berggren. You'd think those would be the exact scenarios you'd want those guys (Berggren especially). I'm not sure if they were in trouble or whether Lalonde is just THAT conservative of a coach. Our shootout order was: Fabbri Perron Larkin Seider Suter

Seider had an absolutely beastly stop on McDavid during overtime as well. One on one situation and Seider bodied him, completely nullified the play, and Detroit got the puck back. He was fantastic against McDavid all night long, no easy feat...obviously.