derblaueClaus

Vancouver Croud does not disappoint.

Too old by the time our core gets going.

With the Kings I agree, but the Avs are in a "Win now" mode, not tanking. If we offer them Green, our first and retain some salary for their 4th overall and 2nd - or 3rd round pick it's a reasonable offer in my eyes.

If he isn't taken at 4 or 5 maybe we should trade up ? If the Avs and Kings want to that is.

He is. He went from barely making the opening day roster of the Adler Mannheim all the way to our National Team this year. And in his first WC-Game he did this: I'm still not sure if I'd jump on the hype train that fast. But if he drops to us in the second round I'm all for taking him.

This. We need defense and badly. By the way Krebs means Cancer in German. You really want Cancer on this team?!

Basically he fired himself.

Maybe we can get Lidstrom, Franzen and Z coming back too.........

He definitively is overrated. Babs most successful seasons came in an era when defensive play ruled the ice. But the game has changed over the last years and I think Babs has missed the ship. Add to that his infuriating management of young players and his unshattered love for defensive forwards and you have a coach that certainly isn't the best anymore, if he ever was. Looking at the TOI during the TOR - BOS series looked all too familiar.

If you are subscribed to The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/934612/2019/04/19/how-steve-yzermans-most-defining-moves-as-a-gm-can-be-applied-to-the-red-wings-rebuild/ If not: What are you waiting for ? To summarize the article: He basically turned Steve Downie into Andrei Vasilevskiy ( the KFQ-Trade, Vasilevskiy was our first rounder). He dared to trade away a franchise star player in Martin St.Louis and got a hell of a return for it. He did trade up from pick 80 to 79 to take Brayden Point, so he isn't shying away from taking risks if he is convinced that it will pay out. He build an exceptional competent staff in Tampa. And he did build a team that had one goal above anything else: Winning a Stanley Cup. The example the article states is the discount Stamkos and other stars took to keep the Lightning competitive.

You mean realgud. But agreed, Babs love for defensive minded forwards is puzzling sometimes, especially if you have other weapons on that Leafs team.

I'm not so sure about it. Yzerman has been much more aggressive during his stint in Tampa than Kenny has ever been. I for one will be much more excited for the next trade deadlines and free agencys. Not immediately, but the next trade deadline will give us a pretty good idea how Yzermans tenure as a GM will look like.

I thought resurrection was reserved for Easter Sundays. This might be Detroits biggest signing over the last decade. In Steve we trust from now on.

What a player and what a captain. Thank you for all Z and may your beard always with us.

Wait and see.With the Drafts and trades Kenny had the last two seasons and with us finally in a rebuild I wouldn't mind if Kenny stays a bit longer. But No. 19 back with the Wings? That would be a dream come true.

If he stays on pace that deal is almost a bargain. Very happy with term and salary.

It's pretty much as Prolix described it. The draftless system leads to prospects already worth millions and getting transferred to the big teams. It's a the rich get richer system with a few big teams playing for their national championships and then competing for the Championsleague on a europewide level. If your favorite team has a superstar in the making he is bought off pretty much immediately by the big teams.Just imagine Larkin or Zadina getting transferred to the Lighting or Penguins. It does make the national leagues very boring affairs, at least the German Bundesliga. The champion the last 6 (!) years was the FC Bayern München (or Munich for you guys ) and it was not even close most times. The relegation system plays a part in that, too. Every relegation breaks the teams neck in financial terms making those teams that could face relegation far more cautions. But with cautious investments you don't make up ground to the leading teams, which cements their position even more. I don't like this system at all and I don't think it will do the DEL any good in the long run. I love your North American system with the Salary Cap and the Draft in which every team has a decent chance to win a championship in the next decade.

But maybe his agent is......

If we can sign him for cheap one year contract then yes. He will then turn into some pick probably and that won't hurt us. If we want to play Hicketts, Hronek, you name him, then we can also waive XO, or Jensen if need be. Here is the next test for Holland. If he hands Green a NTC or a deal longer than two years then resigning him was definitely a mistake. But I doubt that after the last few press conferences.

3rd pick is near. It's 4:0 for the Flyers at the end of the 2nd.

What a tragedy. RIP.

The tank is real. Lot's of good hockey tonight. Would love to watch Blues vs. Avs but it's far too late me.

As others already stated: Not bad fans, it's the system that is bad. I remember a Sabres Game a few years back where Sabres fans literally cheered for the other team, because a loss would draw them closer to a No. 1 pick. It's a ridiculous league that evokes such behavior in fans.

We got capspace and picks. Even with Green being still a Red Wing it's hard to rate this Deadline worse than B.