BadgerBob

From what I saw of Mittlestadt this weekend, no thanks. Didn't stand out against his peers at all, looked invisible at times even, and got knocked off the puck pretty easily.

Blue Moon at a Monster Truck event? Bold move. Hopefully all those busch light boys were nice to you!

So like when he picked Cholowski? Wasn't he rated like a late 2nd round pick?

There's a couple good kids on his team but yeah it just seemed Eden Prairie didn't play very well as a team, just a group of talented individuals. However, I've been following Hermantown closely and they just won the class A championship going into OT twice and 2OT for the championship and they have a 6'3" defenseman named Dylan Samberg playing at UM-Duluth next year and wow is he impressive. Logged a ton of minutes, physical, smooth skater, plays the puck really well, and scored their game winning goal. He'd be a good player I hope the Wings would at least keep their eye on. I believe he had 12 shots in the championship game.

Well Eden Prairie lost tonight so they'll be playing the 3rd place game which won't be on tv tomorrow. One thing about Middlestadt tonight was he won just about every faceoff he took. He looked faster tonight but was easily knocked off the puck. Grand Rapids did a good job of making him disappear, and when the puck was in his own zone he was often the last player to appear in the picture. He had a few really good passes, but on the PK also tipped a cross ice pass through the low slot right into his own net. He looks like an player but I donno about a top 10 pick. He doesn't dominate his competition like I'd expect from someone who was asked to skip their senior year to play D1 or anything like that. But that's from my small sample size. For what it's worth Grand Rapids is also a pretty awesome team, and each forward on their top line has around 55 points, one of them over 60 and their 6'4" goalie was phenomenal all night.

Definitely not the style of play here. IMO Northern teams have always been more physical, but that's seemed to have evened out lately. The game is at 8 CT tonight, I'll keep ya updated.

Watched Middlestadt last night during the MN state tournament, he didn't look to impressive. A lot of floating around, not very fast. I'll keep an eye on him the rest of the tournament but he doesn't look like a top 10 pick to me.

Could definitely throw Ber2zzi in one of those 3rd line spots. GSmith could fill the other one in a few years. So you technically only need 3 spots.

Yep. Call up All-Star John Scott and put him out there too. If the Wings are gonna suck, be the suck that's fun to watch. Tell Sean Avery we'll let him design all the team apparel if he comes and ruffles some feathers.

We need Paul Bissonnette to guide us through this rebuild.

I'd say Palat is pretty good.

See ya Ott. Thank god.

That's fine. I don't want to give the Pens anything that magically blossoms for them.

He passed through waivers, how likely is it he gets traded? No one wanted him for free.

As long as we don't grab another 5'10" 175 lbs forward. Tired of our "goal scorers" being small and easily thrown around.

I donno. Highest pick this team has had in decades, when this team can't score at all, and they trade it? As much as defense is needed I just don't think trading that pick would be a good idea.

I'm hoping Tippett becomes available.

Wild did a moment of silence for him this afternoon as well. Mr. I's photo up on the screen and blacked out everything else. Very understated but I thought it was nice.

Cossetta's? I've yet to eat there but I've heard great things. I don't get over to St. Paul much unless it's hockey related.

No, he was in plain clothes. No Red Wings or even Wild. I didn't know Vanek was out today until gametime and made and audible response about it which struck up a conversation with the guy. He looked to be with 2 other people. Really nice. Said he also tried to go see Grabner for a series of games last year but he was traded right when he got to the states. Some bad luck.

Was at that game and just got home. All I can say is what the hell?? Nyquist...wow. I have no words for a guy that can look right at someone and jab them in the face with their stick. Coreau looked awful. Mantha, Z, AA, and Larkin stuck out to me. D is horrible, that 4th line has to be worst in the league. All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't the guy from Vienna sitting next to me that came to watch Vanek.

Meh. They're a Minnesota team, they'll do what Minnesota teams are destined to do and ruin it.

The look on Petr's face in his post game interview...man. Made me feel bad for him.

Fixed that for you. Doesn't matter the sport. They're the worst.

He's lucky Jimmy got to him before Bert did.