Jimmybigrigs69

Fuqq yay Watdog. Kasper can either start wrecking shop or wait his fuqqing turn

I don't disagreee. His frequency of injury is high so far in his career. But he's also never had a serious injury or needed surgery. For example, when he split time with Binnington in STL he got injured. But he still managed 40 starts, and played more games than Binnington did. His first season in DET he got injured twice in March, but still managed 56 games. Most goalies don't play that many games a season. Last season was the outlier, but again the two injuries he had were minor. He came back too early from his first injury which caused him to basically have to restart on his recovery time, and then got another minor injury right after finally returning. I wouldn't say he has an injury problem. He just seems to tweak something at least once a season, but he usually recovers from that quickly. It's his last season on this contract, and he has a limited NTC. It's hard to trade a goalie with an NTC because most teams are set in that dept and he can easily block the few that aren't. Just let him finish the year and we can decide to move on or not at that point. Like i said, so far he's been the best in net this year.

Husso was our best goalie in preseason

Sorry I was being regarded

Waivers: Holl, Lagesson, Rafferty, Dries, Snively Still 22 men in the lineup. So another transaction is still being decided.

I've completely 180'ed on him. Because as it turns out, he was secretly the manipulative sociopathic mind game player I've always wanted THIS ENTIRE TIME. First two seasons he was happy funtimes friend coach. Wouldn't even say a negative thing last year when we were blowing huge games on a huge skid. And as a fan it made me want to rip my own hands off. But listen to Derek now. His attitude has shifted so extremely, it's clear he was wearing a mask the first two years. The boys play a decent preseason game and he says stuff like "we lacked spirit, emotion, focus, and it's not acceptable". I'm like hell yea, gloves are finally off, lets go. Friend Derek is dead. It was a ploy to get closer to the players the first 2 seasons. Probably helped him to cut guys like Kostin, Walman, and Fabbri out. Now he's shape shifted into "get your ass in gear or get off my team" Derek, and I like it.

You should watch Newsy's last interview. GR is only 2 hours away. "It's not a big deal 'who makes the the team'"

Which means "Apple bottom boys"

For anyone who missed it, this is probably the best Wings clip in years: Big clean hit, then Simon being completely uninterested in beating up a Sens midget. Almost an annoyed "ok calm down little boy" look.

Anyone else noticed we've ONLY won the games that Watson has played in? He's wrecking shop out there. This lineup severely lacks any sort of toughness outside of the physical dominance of Mo and Edvinsson just being plain massive. You'd think this would be a missing element that Derek and Steve would like to find and add, which I assume is why he's here. Now I know what you're gonna say: But look how Derek played Kostin... All I'll say to that is, I suspect there was more going on with Kostin than just "Derek not liking bruisers". Trading Kostin for Simek - a guy who was making way too much money to be playing in the AHL - and 7th at the TDL was beyond strange. Steve didn't need Simek or the 7th. I suspect he was simply unloading a bad character in the room. Verbeek gets to unload cash in Simek and gets a 24 year old troubled project piece in Kostin, and in return Stevie gets a measly 7th... but also cuts out the weakest cancer prior to a potential playoff run. Probably a nod to the teams leaders that he hears their concerns and is behind them, but it's not part of the plan to BUYBUYBUY right now. And of course he would go on to cut fabbri and walman out for nothing a few months later, probably for the same reasons Think about how Kostin came to us as well. Holland said here you can have Kostin and Yammoto for free. He did that for cap space, but Yammoto was a majorly undersized scorer, who wasn't scoring, @ $3.1 million. Kostin was 2 years younger than him, also a former 1st rounder, big, nasty, and just had his first good season. Holland could have chose a number of other guys to package Yammoto with, but he prefered to get rid of Kostin. And now Kostin is on 4th team after 4 years in the league... He's being passed around like a hot potato with an IED made out of aids inside of it. Kostin was also a 24 year old former 1st when he got here, who probably wanted a chance to prove himself and crack a top6. So he may not have been exactly happy to be relegated to 4th-line/13th-forward. Watson on the other hand, he's 32 and he's been doing this for years. He knows his role, and he's BETTER at it than Kostin. He fights more than Kostin does, and he actually blocks shots and defends. His forechecking this preason has been to my liking as well. bUt JiMmY iF kOsTin iS CAnCer sO iS wATsOn, hE BeAT uP hiS GiRLfRieND Watson was arrested at a Tennessee gas station after witnesses reported an alteraction between him and his girlfriend. The altercation began because the couple were on their way to a teammates wedding, and Watson's girlfriend was already so wasted that she didn't want to go anymore. Imagine missing your teammates wedding because your date is too drunk AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE WEDDING YET. Nevertheless, Watson, who was sober, admitted to responding officers that he "pushed" his girl and was thus arrested for domestic violence. That girlfriend afterwards issued an apology to the city of Nashville, stating that the entire incident was her fault, there was no domestic violence, and Watson had never abused her, and that she had a serious drinking problem. She later entered AA and Watson and she are now married. TLDR: I think we should sign this guy. How we work him onto the roster at this point IDK, but he said in interviews he's seeking a 1-way contract. It's not an ideal time to explore a trade either. I think Kasper and Edvinsson HAVE to start the season in GR. DCat - Larkin - Ray Tarasenko - JTC - Kane Ras - Copp - Fischer Berggren - Veleno - Watson Motte Chiarot - Seider Gustafsson - Petry Maata - Holl AJo Husso/Lyon/Talbot And that's our 23 man roster to start the season. Kasper and Edvinsson can come up and fill in as soon as the injuries kick in. We would be incredibly deep, and injuries would almost be a complete non-factor with the talent from GR we can inject in. By Christmas we will have a good idea of who want to move out, and what we need to bring in, whether that's outside help or clearing space for Kasper and Ed.

Thank you. I forgot this existed. Gives me chills everytime.

We have Gylander and Gage and Bednar and Lethemon in Toledo

Jack Campbell has entered the player assistance program. Now I know what you're thinking. Why now? Why right when the season is about to start? You had all summer to get sober Jack! Well I'll tell you why. It's NOT because he wants to get paid to F off and do nothing for a few more months. It's because NOBODY gets sober in the summer. NOBODY. Everyone knows that. You're sitting by the lake... it's warm... the twisted teas come out... beautiful gals in bikins... they're drinking twistys too. Can we come on your boat and get twisted with you Jackie?? Then the next day you find out one of them was 16, so you guilt drink martinis. But theyre good martinis. Something a pro athlete can afford. Not that shaken crap. You'll bruise the gin! I'm not drinking bruised gin! So you stir and stir until it's 9 am and you already have that warm glow radiating off of your cheeks. You haven't even had breakfast yet! And before you can count the olives its suddenly preseason again! NOBODY. GETS. SOBER. DURING. SUMMER. Use the PAP. That's what it's for. I don't want to hear any of you mongrels say one negative thing about my man SOUP!

Debrincat - Larkin - Raymond Tarasenko - Kasper - Kane Berggren - Danielson - Compher Mazur - Copp - Rasmussen Veleno Chiarot - Seider Edvinsson - Gustafsson Johansson - Holl Wallinder Talbot Cossa Lyon Would we even need to add to that lineup? Just save the money for the TDL and... take another step in the yzerplan

Bye bye Motte, Fischer, Maata, Petry, and Husso. Re-sign Kane and Lyon. Promote Kasper, Mazur, Danielson, and Wallinder. Maybe swap Cossa and Lyon between DET and GR. *tents fingers aggressively* "Interesting"