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Whoa, don't you know he had a Vezina caliber season one time? Hasek was a late bloomer too. Also, Jimmy was hurt last season. That makes Mrazek good.

I know we disagree on Sproul, but this was kind of the point of my take on Lashoff last week. I would rather have seen Sproul/Saarijarvi in GR than Lashoff/Saarijarvi. Wouldn't you agree?

New = Good Old = Bad Respek da systum

The golden boy and future of our franchise, who we mistakenly exposed and Vegas mistakenly passed on during the expansion draft, has a save percentage of 0.898 since 2/14/16 (70 games played) When's the Vezina coming?

Oh yeah f*** notre dame

This

Guys, Nyqvist is the future

Holland: "my philosophy is to build through draft" Fans: "where are the big trades???" The guy vocalized his philosophy on how to build a hockey team in the cap era a long time ago. The fact that he doesnt make big trades should come as a surprise to no one.

Wow, the legendary Riley last-goal-at-the-Joe Sheahan is no more. No more teletubby jokes or pics of him holding doggos I guess. Bummer. Penguins fans saying Wilson is a fast skater who brings energy and PK work

Was gonna say... Ottawa used our pick to take Puempel back when Puempel and Sproul were both waived earlier in the year and cleared, so they can be sent to AHL without passing through waivers again. So essentially an AHL swap. Neither of these jabronis are making the big show.

Read Smiths post about apples and oranges. There seems to be an underlying thought that if we hadnt signed Witowski, and to a lesser extent Daley, we could have just thrown more money at AA and had him signed sooner. That couldnt be farther from reality. The organization gave him an evaluation of 1.9 for 2 years. That evaluation doesnt change whether we have 0 cap space or 9 million in cap space. Youre arguing that Holland throws too much money at certain players, but then you also suggest throwing money at AA. Its a contradiction. Im happy with the way this worked out. AA has another season now to prove hes worth what he wants.

Athanasiou was know for attitude problems long before we drafted him. This isn't a new thing guy. He refused to play Blashill's defensive scheme. He has himself to blame for being stuck on the 3rd line. Witkowski's contract does not influence Athansiou's contract whatsoever. He priced himself higher than the organization priced him. If we hadn't signed Witkowski AA wouldn't just get the money Witkowski was offered as well lol Did you just contradict yourself in the same paragraph?

Per Ken, Wings will apply for AA's work visa on Monday. This process could take anywhere from 2 to 14 days. After that he has to pass a physical. So AA is definitely not set to go yet (also gives the Wings times to explore a trade)

Kenny will address the media in about 35 minutes

No way, pay the man

Yeah well you can shut up

This is actually really good for us. He'll probably slide down the draft rankings because of this giving us a better shot at drafting him.

Projected lines I pulled from a Capitals website: Mantha - Zberg - Nyquist Tatar - Larkin - Abby Helm - Nielsen - Frk Witkowski - Sheahan - Glendening Kronwall - Green Ericsson - Daley Ouellet - Jensen Mrazek Howard Ovechkin - Kuznetsov - Vrana Wilson - Backstrom - Oshie Conolly - Eller - Burakovsky Smith-Pelly - Beagle - Chiasson Djoos - Carlson Orpik - Bowey Orlov - Chorney Holtby Grubauer

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Am I the only one happy with Blashill so far this season? We've had a pretty decent start considering what was expected this season. Larkin is finally getting big minutes as 2C and excelling. Frk is being given every opportunity to excel offensively. Daley and Green are eating our biggest minutes on the blue line. The guys everyone loves to hate, like Glendening, Sheahan, and Ericsson, are getting very minimal minutes. I guess if you hate Abby you could moan about him still being in the Top6, but that's it. We've gotten most of what we asked for.

This kid has been known to have arrogance/attitude problems since his time in London. This isn't some isolated incident. His unwillingness to commit to Blashill's defensive scheme kept him out of the Top6 last season. His unwillingness to accept fair compensation has kept him completely out of the lineup this season. I think you're being more than a bit naive if you really think it's as cut and dry as you suggest. This isn't all just numbers on paper, it's people with personalities. AA's personality has shown that it's not exactly in tune with the rest of the organizations so far in his short career.

It will be hilarious to me if he has a sophomore slump like Larkin did, and gets shut down this season after all this drama. If I'm Ken Holland, and I'm looking at the pieces I can trade that have value... Athanasiou is at the top of the list with his name highlighted and underlined. He needs to be hella productive this year, any good graces he had are long gone.

So what do we do with him going forward? Sweep it all under the rug? Trade him at the deadline? It will depend on how he plays this year I guess.

yeah

Ya know how people salvaged the seats from the Joe as souvenirs? Somewhere out there, there's a man with the troughs from the Joe in his home bathroom, and it's awesome