Neomaxizoomdweebie

I keep telling my wife this, but she'll have none of it.

Let's not.

Max Domi. 26 yo UFA Center. 5.2 mil this season. 0.64 P/GP. Should Yzerman go big to fix the 2C problem?

Ryan Murray. Former #2 overall. LH 2way defenseman. Coming off a 1 year 2.0 mil deal. 28 y o. His stats don't wow you, but seems like a solid pickup for the top 4. Thoughts?

Have you seen the morons who vote on this?

Zurich Lions. Six figures.

Its a fake trophy, but I still want one of our boys to win it, Demmit.

Normally I would agree. But remember that Hronek will be going into his 5th season next year. At 25, he is already a vet. Seider already plays like a vet. Lindstrom is young, but doesnt seem to be prone to rookie mistakes. Oesterle will be 30. And I will assume another Leddy or Staal type vet will be brought in too. I was more concerned when our vets were DeKeyser and Ericsson, lol.

Height and nationality. The only things that matter.

Disagree. Since his first full season in 2014, Namestnikov has really only had 2 "bad" seasons, 2016-17 and last year. Chances are, last season was the outlier moreso than this season. Erne, on the other hand, has never scored more than 20 points in a season, and has only been a + player once in the NHL. His best season was last season. And at only 25, he could have been a late bloomer. Sadly, he wasn't.

Nope. It wasn't. And signing a player after a good season is when you should be signing them. Nothing contradictory about those 2 statements. Both can be true. You cant assume that because one player regressed, the other will too. Erne and Namestnikov are not the same player. Entirely possible. But SY is right more than he's wrong. And if Vlad is an SY guy, I like the odds. Who said you were?

I predict a Darren Helm breakaway that actually ends up in the net.

If McIsaac and Edvinsson make the roster next season, that only leaves one spot on D with Seider, Hronek, Lindstrom and Oesterle returning. I would rather see a Leddy/Staal type signing/trade than a big FA contract. If Edvinsson turns into another top pair D, you only need one of the other many LH D prospects to develop into a 2nd pair D (pretty likely based on reports). I just dont see a need for a Lindholm type signing. If SY is going to fork out that kind of deal, it should only be on a 1C/2C.

Namestnikov is a jack of all trades/swiss army knife type player. You need guys like that on the roster. He is still under 30, and definitely a Michigan guy. Any player should be available for the right price, but I want more than a 3rd to trade him. The fire sale is over. It's time to start building the roster.

Raymond leads in points. Seider is already a top pair defenseman and leads all rookies in assists and TOI. So Zegras will win the Calder.

Cossa was expected to be a long term project. That's one of the reasons SY was fine with drafting him so soon after trading for Ned.

Wasn't a bad decision at the time, IMO. Erne had had a pretty good year. Looked like he had developed into an above average 3rd liner. A lot of question marks at the time. Fabbri and Bert futures with the team were not certain. SY had no way of knowing that Raymond was going to jump to the NHL and play that well. Berggren wasnt tearing up the AHL yet. And the jury was still out on Zadina and Veleno. Unfortunately, Erne has regressed back into a spare part 4th liner, with little trade value and a year left on his deal.

Seider, Hronek, and Lindstrom make Stecher the odd man out. If he isn't traded, they shouldn't re-sign him. Erne sucks now. Not worth keeping. Leddy, Staal, and Stecher should all be available. Namestnikov is a guy I would like to have back.

4 pts in 26 games is not good.

So you want to trade our best shot (1st round pick) at filling our biggest position of need (2C) to acquire a position (top 4 LD) that will almost certainly be filled from our deep D prospect pool.

Better than Marchenko. Nick Jensen would be a better comparable.

The anti vaxxers are the masters of anecdotal evidence. There was a woman who died after her 2nd dose of the vaccine and they immediately jumped on it as proof that the vaccine was worse than the disease. Turns out she overdosed on Tylenol to treat the side effects of the vaccine which led to liver failure and then renal failure and then death. But they refuse to accept that and claim its a "coverup". Like the US Government is even capable of maintaining such a conspiracy.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/decoded-how-do-vaccines-actually-work/

True or not? If its true, its not a "s****y point".