The 91 of Ryans

In before my edit. Well done!

Sure. They can offer-sheet AA in two years. I'd take an Aho for AA swap any day. Never heard of either guys lol

Here's a couple of revenge scenarios that would make me happy, with respect to RFA offer sheets. - Marner get's max deal offer sheet from NYI and the club (and Lou) and fans get to stick it to the Leafs for poaching Tavares - Detroit offers Aho a contract just under 10M (negating the required 4 1st rounders). Carolina would match this right? If the deal was front-loaded with 20M in signing bonuses over the first 12 month period, that might make things more interesting. 20M is approx what Carolina make in one season of gate revenue. lol (I thank Gord Miller for this insite). This would, of course, be the ultimate revenge for the Fedorov offer sheet in 98.

Exactly. This ex draft is coming at the perfect time for the Wings. If Seattle joined the league in 22-23 instead, there would be much butt clinching

RIP Martin Frk. 2nd round pick, former hype-kid and another cautionary tale of how we have absolutely no clue about how a draft will play itself out.

Team D prospect pool needed serious upgrading. Now we have an U22 group that includes: Seider Hronek Cholowski McIssac Lindstrom Tuomisto Johansson And people are mad. SMH

IF ALL CAPS IF Green goes on LTIR and they can dump Daley I'd like to see Stralman get a 2 year deal. DeKeyser - Hronek Cholowski - Stralman Kronwall - Bowey/Kaski Ericsson

Veterans maybe? Three of those forwards I mentioned are all in the mid-late 20s age group. Too young for Yzerman's predecessor no? So perhaps not quite BAS for management.

Ferland Donksoi Myers Connolly guys like this will be Yzerman's targets. IMO. Mayyyyybeeeee Duchene.

Speculation is/was that he want to go back to San Jose. A buyout by Carolina allows him to sign with the Sharks for less money and fit under their cap.

Caufield is sliding

Hold on guys. I'm going to grab my bottle of whiskey and settle in here. Don't say anything stupid until I get back. K?

Hahaha. Great pick (I think)

Wouldn't surprise me to see them take Sogaard or Wolf with one of their late 2nds

Patiently sitting here waiting for Lou to offer-sheet Marner for 15.9M/year

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Not to wander too deep into futile territory here but you do know that the only thing keeping Rasmussen from being a perennial 20+ goal scorer in a few years would be if he lost one or both of his arms/legs. You know this, right? He may not be a center or a top 3 forward. But he'll score 20 just by getting up each day.

6 or 7 years from now Detroit will be playing Colorado and Rasmussen, standing in front of Colorado's net, is just going to reach down and pick Byram up and eat him in two bites. Then he'll score 6 goals on the PP.

I was more referring to RFAs wanting out because of how they've been treated. Fedorov and AA come to mind as hold outs but that was more about $$ (although AA may have had some beef over ice time and useage) . He's lost plenty of guys as UFAs

Yeah. I'm beginning to hate the Rangers as much as the Leafs. They are a (traditionally) poorly managed team that gets rewarded occasionally through free agency based on location and they also got s***-ass lucky in this year's draft.

They probably will, after Colorado takes Byram.

As it stands, the Rangers rebuild has more pieces in place (counting Kakko) to compete for a cup sooner than the Wings. Just saying.

Kenny's the MAN. Says a lot about Red Wings culture that he never really had to deal with a situation like this in his bazillion years with the Wings.

Traded term for money. Not a bad signing. It'll be a few years before Van are a max cap team.

Close your eyes. Imagine this year's version of a 19 year old Rasmussen as a 28 year old, 9 year NHL vet. That guy will be an absolute wall-wrecking unstoppable net-front beast. Nothing underwhelming about that.