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We beat the champs. The torch has been passed. Our destiny has been foretold. DANIEL CAMPBELL SOUP WANTS TO EAT OUT OF A BOWL THAT IS SUPER.

If Raymond hits 82 pts this year he will probably be smart and sign a 3-5 year deal around 7-8 million. If we wanna lock him up for 8, a good agent is prolly going to move his AAV into the 9-10 range. 21 year old ppg players are valuable.

Holland wasnt a bad drafter. He was always pulling Franzens, Hudlers, Nyquists, Tatars, Fils, Jarnkroks, Berggrens, and so on. But his record with high firsts and 2nds is atrocious. Hes terrible at bringing a team up, but good at maintaining one. The brain drain is also worth mentioning again. Holland was a great "Manager". When his team was great he was great. When his staff became mediocre so did he. A manager is the sum of his parts. Yzerman seems to defy this notion. Because Yzerman seems to be a man with true vision. Hes not reacting to 50 opinions. Hes directing 50 opinions. We are truly beyond lucky to have this man. When he steps aside and gets promoted to president of illitch sports its going to be an interesting new challenge to see who takes over. Horcoff? Draper? Lidstrom? Kronwall? I lowkey think Horcoff or Kronwall are the best choices. Draper has always been kinda a dumb f*** IMO. Lidstrom is super aloof. Horcoff on the other hand seems to be a verbeek clone. And kronner is supposedly an insane workaholic. All of Seider, Eddog, Wallinder, Johansson, and so on are going to write in their bios one day that Kronwall made them the players they are.

Garrioch: Debrincat did not like his role as a 2nd liner behind captain Tkachuk Apparently the midget is gonna be big mad when he gets moved off the 1st line

Gibbs is legit - if he continues to play like that we have a seriously fast running back threat. f*** Montgomery.

Jim Nill going to Dallas begins with Jim Lites. Lites was the mastermind behind Fedorov, Konstantinov, etc. Ever since he left in the late 90's early 2000's he has used his insider knowledge of the Wings to poach Nill and scouts. He's still involved with the Illitch family to this day on a personal level. Dallas in a way are our kissing cousins. Yes Nill is good, and he probably could have gone anywhere with an available spot. But he went to Dallas because of Lites 100%.

The Detroit Brain Drain is a very real thing. You have everyone - especially Jim Lites in Dallas who literally knocked up one of the Illitch daughters before jetting to Dallas - poaching the Wings front office talent. Hell even the Detroit loyal Yzerman got poached. Very much also a factor. You come up and the rest of the league will scavenge anything you have.

Yes - I have a friend who scouts for the Islanders. The difference between you and I is I don't care if you call me a liar. Because you're right, I could just be BSing my butt off. I have no way to prove it. But you have no way to prove your own rumor and then whine and fuss like a lil girl when you can't back it up. BTW the name of my friend is Jeremy Bachusz. Western NA scout for the Isles. Look him up.

If we simply drafted based on finishing order - assuming all players still got drafted in the same order 2017 1. Colorado - Nico Hischier 2. Vancouver - Nolan Patrick 3. Arizona - Miro Heiskanen 4. New Jersey - Cale Makar 5. Buffalo - Elias Pettersson 6. Detroit - Cody Glass 7. Dallas - Lias Andersson 8. Florida - Casey Mittelstadt 9. Los Angeles - Michael Rasmussen 2018 1. Buffalo - Rasmus Dahlin 2. Ottawa - Andrei Svechnikov 3. Arizona - Jesper Kotkaniemi 4. Montreal - Brady Tkachuk 5. Detroit - Barrett Hayton 6. Vancouver - Filip Zadina 2019 1. Ottawa - Jack Hughes 2. Los Angeles - Kaapo Kakko 3. New Jersey - Kirby Dach 4. Detroit - Bowen Byram 5. Buffalo - Alex Turcotte 6. NYR - Moritz Seider 2020 1. Detroit - Alexis Lafreniere 2. Ottawa - Quinton Byfield 3. San Jose - Tim Stutzle 4. Los Angeles - Lucas Raymond 2021 (Not including Seattle expansion) 1. Buffalo - Owen Power 2. Anaheim - Matty Beniers 3. New Jersey - Mason McTavish 4. Columbus - Luke Hughes 5. Detroit - Kent Johnson 6. San Jose - Simon Edvinsson 2022 and 2023 no movement, so we still get Kasper, Danielson, and ASP IDK why I did this or what my point is.

Mantha was not a bust - a big fat floater who underachieves? Sure. But not a bust. Veleno = probably bust Cholowski = bust Svechnikov = bust Zadina = bust McIsaac = probably bust Lindstrom = probably bust Givani Smith = bust Nastasiuk = bust Frk = bust Jurco = bust Ouellet = bust Sproul = bust Sheahan = bust Ferraro = bust McCollum = bust Brendan Smith = bust Emmerton = bust Axelsson = bust Kindl = bust Out good drafting ended after 2004 - which owes a lot to our abrupt downfall that was only kept afloat temporarily by Kronwall, Z, Dats, and Lids. After they were gone we had no roster and the cupboards were bare. And then Holland continued to select more busts. In that time we hit on Helm, Abby, Matthias, Nyquist, Tatar, Jensen, Jarnkrok, Larkin, Hronek, Rasmussen, Berggren, and Mantha. So we nabbed a few depth pieces like any team would and Larkin. But the amount of 1st and 2nd round picks that got absolutely pissed away... that doesn't make up for it. Before 2004 we were getting Franzen in the 3rd. Howard in the 2nd. Quincey in the 4th. Hudler in the 2nd. Fleischmann in the 2nd. Filppula in the 3rd. Kronwall in the 1st. Kopecky in the 2nd. Fischer in the 1st. We were hitting on almost all the picks we needed to hit and then some.

Bringing him in to the supply closet to "talk" to him. Sure Derek. Yes we give the saints credit for teaching him the cheerleading part

Something something bait something something bored

I would let Dan Campbell go goblinmode mode on my bussy. Maybe he should coach the Wings.

Seider is pretty much a lock for a 10x8, his contract can probably completed during the season. For Ras and Ray, like kip said, its going to depend wildly on how their respective seasons go. They prolly dont get signed until next summer. Id consider 8 year term on both though if Ray can hit 70+ pts and Ras can flirt with 60. I think Ras will be looking for term since hes older. Ray prolly not. Im guessing he will want to beidge so he can get a higher AAV during his prime.

Then he should have been down in GR developing his skills. Thats an SY screw up

I don't believe that about you. If we stuck a 1st round pick like Kasper on the big club roster, but then only played him 20 games, and in those games only gave him 10 minutes a night with Veleno and Fischer, you wouldn't be happy about coaching or management's choices. When did KR ever complain about a player who wasn't getting played? He moaned about Smith and Jurco, who had all the playing time in the world and just sucked for YEARS. Svech couldn't even get a half a season.

Blashill screwed up his development. Leaving him constantly benched in favor of useless plugs. Giving him next to no playing time when he did play. You can't expect a prospect to develop if you never play them. Maybe he should have been in GR instead, but then that falls on Holland/Yzerman.

Hes only made a few mistakes so far. 1. Letting Svechnikov go to soon 2. Trading Regula for Perlini 3. Drafting Cossa over Wallstud Those are the big ones IMO. But hes more than made up for that by drafting Seider and basically robbing the Blues blind of all their talent.

Its gonna look real bad if the Avs really were inflating his numbers Big Ben is gonna go beast mode once reunited with Petry

Lethemon will probs go back and forth. Im rooting for him. Pretty sure Jan Bednar will be with the Walleye fulltime as well.

As if the fake rumor posters didn't already self destruct this place.

Ah the Phalanx. I see you know your judo well sir.