The Datsyukian Deke

What about the input? The input comes from people that Holland either hired himself or continues to pay, for giving that input. If the result isn't good, the person in charge should get the blame. That's real life, oh yes. Plus, Holland never did anything to deserve any benefit of the doubt by anybody. But this has been discussed here all over, again and again. For years, for trillions of posts...

I'm all for the strategy of "take the best player available", and sure you can say Holland failed on that (again), but since we got the kids we got, I just say let's take a positive look at them, especially Ras, because kid cannot do anything about Holland selecting him too early.

Said it before, say it again: Both Lindstrom and Setkov, who plays in SuperElit for Malmo, are likely Hakan Anderssons picks, and that makes me very confident they'll be good and that the early pick for Lindstrom will be justified in the future. https://futureconsiderations.ca/player/Michael-Rasmussen/ https://futureconsiderations.ca/player/Gustav-Lindstrom/ https://futureconsiderations.ca/player/Keith-Petruzzelli/ Just read these reports (for our other picks there were none) and have to think, Ras sounds better there than I've heard so far, and Lindstrom..sounds like in best case, we can just cut the "n". Petruzzelli sounds like a steal and Setkov apparently wasn't even ranked at all. From a danish article, per Google translate (): Still growing..maybe we've drafted the next Chara?

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=212379 He was ranked much lower than where we actually picked him, but the good thing about it is...this might very well be Hakans pick.

A lot of sleep later, I still shake my head seeing Valimaki with the Flames. Sure, we needed C and D, but I liked everything I read about Valimaki and so I would've gone for him and D first.

Goddamn..I would've liked Valimaki. Apparently the Flames did, too...

So we're just one fake injury away from getting rid of Errorson? Good to know...

I guess losing Mrazek stil is odd just for the fact we didn't protect Sheahan either. He comes cheap and bouncing back isn't that unlikely. Plus, there are no "issues" reported in any kind of way. They probably take Sheahan and pick up Fleury as their starting goalie.

Only NMCs? Hell.. That makes it even dumber...should've been Hank, AA, Mantha, Nielsen, Goose, Tatar, Sheahan / DD, XO, Jensen / Mrazek then. Expose Howard, Abdelkader, Helm, Green and hope Vegas reliefs us of one of those contracts. Which in that szenario most likely is Helm.

Green and DD both have NTCs and had to be protected. What I'm thinking is...should we even had protected Goose and Tatar, or make them available because they both might not evolve into anything more and Goose is already overpaid, if thats the case? On the other hand, even if he is, it's just two years and he could get traded for some asset possibly. Low level journalism at it's best. No substantial background to the headline whatsoever in the whole article. The headline over that text should be "might've led to", not "led". But maybe dude was just too dumb to learn anything better..

So you're "taking one for the team"? Let me look at her twitter pic again - wow, you're brave.

Oh my...you gotta be desperate..

Somehow Kenny will fail...my gut feeling is very, very bad about this..

Same s***, different day - other GMs make the deals and we just "kicked the tires"

Don't forget the nice favor the refs did us on the Abby hit when it was still 0:1...if they go on a 5 minute PP, like they should have, we most likely go down 0:2 and then fall apart..

Unbelievably bad return...jesus....

Maybe, but honestly..should've sold and rebuild a few years ok. It was obvious this team wasn't going to win it, first round exits, second round at best, and that shouldn't be enough.

You know, my first thought after the Smith trade was "maybe they never sold because Mr. I valued the streak so much...but his son wanted to rebuild, and just now ordered Holland to do so".

I don't think we could get something. Remember last year, we had to give up a pick to move Datsyuks contract, and that had just one year left. I don't think there is any team desperate enough to pay for Franzens contract. Plus, there is no disadvantage for us in burying Franzen on LTIR right now. Ok, we could bury Kronwall there after we get rid of Franzens contract...

Yup, please get "Smith for pick to anyone" done.

I really like XO, would never leave him unprotected. Jensen too. Leave all the overpaid guys for grabs and hope for bad management in Vegas. Best chance to fix your cap you'll ever get.

What opportunity? You could count the times, where he was used the way he should be (2nd or 3rd line) for 5 or more games in a row, on one hand... You want talent to develop? Put it in the right situation, enable it to grow, have a little patience with it. Jurco was mostly on the 4th line trying to do checking with guys like Luke and Drew....lol...

I don't get these people...why wouldn't he do that??

Btw...usually, you can disable status messages like that Tapatalk nonsense...

Friend of mine said, selling all out at this point doesn't make sense, at least not for this years picks, because next years draft might be a lot better than this year...