nyqvististhefuture

When the 2016-2017 season ended we had on the back end playing for the wings an aging kronwall,dekeyser,green,ericsson,renouf,lashoff,smith,marchenko,sproul,ouellet,jensen,russo,no top end d prospects in the pipeline .... yet we draft rasmussen? When guys like brannstrom,foote,valimaki went right after ... please save the best on the list crap thats just a line teams use , theres no doubt we took rasmussen cause we liked his size ... you think its just a coincidence 3 out of the first 4 picks the wings selected last season happened to fall to a defenseman? Teams have a list but when the time comes theyll also look at their pipeline to factor into their decisions ... also depends where you pick , if your #1 you wont pass on a mcdavid but when your 9th other factors might come into play No one was askin for holland to take a dman every single draft but the last time we took a dman with our first pick before cholowski was 2007 , twice in 12 years with lidstrom/rafalski retiring and no plan to make a deal or draft a future franchise dman ... thus yzerman not wasting any time last draft and if he can make a move for a young dman now with upside he wont hesitate

Rather have smith in the lineup over ehn , brings something to the lineup we lack ... either way ehn is player who can be flipped in and out of the lineup and wouldnt be greatly missed i wont get into an argument over ehn’s value ... hes a cheap 10-13th forward who’ll likely be tossed around some teams before its all said and done

Cause the rangers didnt wanna take on a 2.85 cap hit off staal knowing theyd already be down like 13 mill with lundqvist bought out? i dont think theres too many teams out there willing to take on contracts , hell of a lot more teams trying to get rid .... think people will be shocked at how low cost these trades will be for some teams and how much teams will have to pay to get rid of bodies as well as ufa players getting alot less money than expected

No clue what your on about , i thought people didnt get banned here anymore ... guess we have to watch out for peoples feelings thus more . Shame He signed guys he shouldnt have and we been stuck with them for what feels like forever . Our defense had been horrendous since lidsteom left and he ignored it for years at the draft besides the cholowski year and i dont think its a coincidence yzerman came here and straight away drafted 3 dmen out of our 4 first picks ... now you can say they were “the best player on our list” but i think that would be way too convienent

Man that 10th pick would be awesome but thats alot of $ , personally think jets hold on to the pick and hope sanderson/askarov fall to them, could be wrong but i dont think theyd pay the price to move little ...think perreault is the likely candidate id take perreault for a 2nd though but id tell them 100% has to be this year (40th) and if push comes to shove and they want 2021 i say its 2022 2nd for me or not Id probably end up doing it but id try and play hardball for this year as theres only so many teams who Can take money on but alot more teams trying to shed some , which makes me question the return from staal . I want to see 1sts coming our way

Friedman is reporting bruins/canucks are two teams ekman larsson would waive his ntc for . If they get larsson krug is gone

He’s my second choice but wouldnt shock me to see steve take him

Whats my old regular username? ham

Just go back to your regular username its getting old now

Your right yzerman’s not crazy . Lucas raymond it is Perfetti’s boss thinks hes great and thats not stopping us , don’t s*** on the guys coach who probably banged his mom

Still think we shoulda pushed harder with the staal trade , actual money is less bur the cap hit is still high at 5.7 , we start doing a few more of those and just get 2nds itll be a f***en waste saw the video and arizona wants a team to give a 1st , a young d prospect and take all the money off ekman larsson .... goodluck with that lol would anyone here force arizona into doing cholowski + pick 32 for no rention? They have no picks till 4th round ....i think his numbers have gone down cause of where he is my thinking is he plays with us bounces back and we flip him at the deadline or 18 months later with salary retention or we flip him right away with 50% retention .... surely we might be able to land at least a few 1sts for ekman larsson at 4 mill a season . Gotta think a bunch of teams would come knocking ...ya just remembered it would be for 7yrs , dont know if thats realistic lol oh well ... if we did that it would have to be 2 1sts, top prospects + player(s) to even think about wasting 28 million .... maybe that would get melnyk to salivate and get the 5th overall pick included in the deal lmao

You say f*** taking a goalie but i can totally see us taking him , wouldnt shock me at all . Look how good everyone is and sre getting in the east and our division ? Were going to need an elite goalie to compete .... for me its raymond by far #1 l askarov 2 with of course top 3 being who everyone thinks will be Was a big fan of him at the draft and his play and still am , think he’ll be force come the playoffs but whatever like i said im not mad , how can i be? Holland f***ed us up badly and yzerman quickly had to try to fix our defense with top end prospects ... i like seider and he’ll be a big minutes eater dont know if he’ll be that big top d pairing guy thatll get the 50+ pts ... hope im wrong , but its a good pick,one we needed and need Could i be wrong ? 100% , i wouldnt bet any money on him being better than raymond thats for f***en sure ... we have a 4th overall pick if we take perffetti and hes a 50ish guy and a 2c then that pick would be a disaster , we cant afford to f*** up a pick so high . If your more sure askarov has a higher potential of being an elite #1 you do it and as much as id hate it same with drysdale/sanderson for d pairing i think raymond has all the tools to be an elite #1 line guy and we’d be f***en stupid to pass on him

https://www.tsn.ca/trade-bait-frozen-cap-makes-franchise-changing-players-available-1.1532623 Bring on the trades

You know the answer to that lol I dont believe everything i read , just my own personal belief is askarov is in the mix 100% and i think hakan andersson would be bigtime pushing raymond/holtz although i think raymond more after that who knows I like seider , still not sure id have taken him over podkolzin , i dont know if seider has the offensive production needed for a top d pair but i like him , yzerman had no choice but to fix hollands mess . We been avoiding fixing our d issue for years which is why i pushed for a dman in previous drafts and yzerman wasted no time with seider/tuomisto/johansson in 3 of his 4 first picks so i cant fault him Well might as well not do any research on prospects, sit back and enjoy the picks we take as being the right one and hope for the best

More unoriginal idiots with the same old recycled cole perfetti to redwings nonsense .... how about someone go off the board and say yzerman says f everyone im taking the goalie? same old bs khusnutdinov is definetly one of my preferred targets at 32 , im also high on niederbach at 45 but im starting to think he might not make it

Yes , but like i said we have a TON of bottom line guys and guys like smith,pearson coming up who are all cheap , heck even turgeon as unlikely as maybe be can probably play 12/13 for a stint but how can anyone ever come here when we have so many people tied up under contract in the bottom line? would i keep ehn dirt cheap? Course . Would i be surpised if he was let go or traded? Not in the slightest

Buf he doesnt have the skills so .... like i said np keeping him buf we have way more than enough bottom guys , if it was up to me givani smith would be on the team 100% brings the hits and is willing to fight if need be , capable of getting the odd ugly goals ... something this team lacks sadly he wont even get a chance with all the bodies here , pearson is also someone id have on the 4th at some point this season ... stevie has alot of work to do

Too many dead weight on this team as it is , hes an option to hit the road although cheap since we have helm glendening abelkader timashov erne smith etc... never ending

We’ll see what happens man should be an interesting 2 weeks

It all depends right? I can see the habs taking hopkins for instance, its just one year x6 thus allowing edm to pursue stamkos ... id have to look at everyones situations but theres always an option . I think as crazy as it is with nyr having 12 mill wasted in buyout money would be able to fit stamkos

Ya im sure theyd try and move russell and a few other guys , maybe nuge? 6 mill one year left, maybe he demands more $ ... theres always a way to make things work your right about how this isnt a normal year and i suspect we’ll have good options for ufa because of it which id be all over (simply to get trade bait for the deadline) stamkos is a special player though and im sure teams with $ and a chance at winning the cup will make things happen . I can picture jim rutherford trying to desperately clear space and offering 1sts from 2022-2024 to make it happen

Ehn possibly on his way out . Hopefully hakan andersson’s pushing hard for raymond

I dont know if that gets it done ... edm alone would probably take him and put him with mcdavid and they have the 14th pick to bargain with just think there will be better offers from other teams who will be going for it now

Id want more than just demko for that waste of space of eriksson

Na , doesnt speed up the rebuild progress, we just got a forward who aged 4 yrs basically... tampa isnt a match ... anyways its not like mantha would be dealt tomorrow ,if hes here x3 he can probably play out the season