Jimmybigrigs69

Christian Fischer retiring @ 28 to pursue golf Todd Bertuzzi refusing to retire @ 50, just signed with some rando league I've never heard of

Yeah he'll probably be worth that cap hit for 2 maybe 3 of those years

Does that include losing to muh kitties twice last year? Lets be frank, its the year of the feline.

Appleton is a great PK guy, I like it. We can't collapse when Copp goes down again. >Appleton is a massive packers fan. Nvm this is a bad signing. And Yzerman is an idiot. FTP

Leddy on waivers - no buyout - probably a gift for the Sharks

I know everyone is underwhelmed by our lack of moves, but take a look around the league. Lots of teams have also pretty much done nothing. In fact its a lot of the idiot GMs making moves: Holland, Neely, Drury, Carolinas owner.... Kings n Bruins fans are far from thrilled by the contracts handed out. Biggest winner by far is Vegas with Marner, and the agents of any Dman that shoots right.

Kasper

IMO I dont see Savage getting signed. His switch to MSU was initally great for him, but he never blossomed into a consistent top6 contributor for them. And he had great guys around him that couldve helped him do that. I'm thinking he may get a strictly GR deal like Truscott did, and we see if theres anymore growth left in him.

Yzerman was a top player in the league superstar from day 1 though. Larkin is a weak 1st C who can't even get 1 selke vote despite wings homers clamoring to tell themselves how gReAT he is at defense... im just saying, there's a difference. And I don't care about the personal accomplishments or immediate desires of one individual player, especially not a non superstar. If Larks wants to be dour and glum about all this then let him request a trade. So long. Get a nice kings ransom for him. If Larks was the caliber of a late 20's Yzerman I would have a different attitude. But he's not.

Hanas is ANOTHER failed 2nd rd pick by Yzerman. And honestly SYs inability to find talent outside the 1st rd is possibly the biggest reason this rebuild has taken so long. Especially in the 2nd round, thats a place you gotta find it. Everything after the top60 is crapshoot. Tuomisto - career AHL Mastrosimone - dud Ajo - okay, but not great Wallinder - needs to show serious improvment soon Neiderbach - dud Hanas - dud Buium - needs to show serious improvvement soon James - looks like a dud Buchnelikov - could be amazeballs, wont know until he comes over Everyone else its to soon too tell, but its not a fantastic track record in the 2nd so far.

Just realized we qualified RFAs Soderblom and Viro Released Cross Hanas and Gage Alexander

The fella doesnt claim he actually slept with anyone. Just made passes. So maybe not? I imagine if i just handed out a huge contract to a guy like Larkin, and some average bottom 4 Dman started chasing his wife and pizzing him off, you might boot that arse hole Dman into the sun like SY did just as a show of solidarity to make Larks happy.

More than not. Yzerman has a pretty great track record with trades. UFA wise only very recently has it been a problem with Tarasenko, Holl, and Gus. Wasnt Yzerman pretty well fuqt until the mid 90s? Yzerman also wasnt the GM who full on fuqt this team and Larkin for the first 4 years of his career, that lead to Yzerman having to dig ourselves out. And I could give a fuq less about Larkin actually. Ive said it b4, hes not good enough to lead a team to s cup. And if we do win a cup with him on the roster it wont be with him leading the team in scoring or minutes. I agree with all this. He's certainly made mistakes and certainly earned criticism, ive dished out a lot of it. Just trying to rationalize his moves or lack there of today. Cause I know he's imperfect, but he's not incompetant. What my feels are starting to settle on is this: He has a team ready to compete in the playoffs. But he just got burned by Tarasenko, Gus, Holl. UFAs he obviously thought would make us more competitive, but they did not. He's being more cautious now, and this year happened to be the worst UFA class in like 300 years. I mean the contracts handed out today were insane. So many teams overpaying in price and term for scraps. So he didnt play. And would probably rather keep his funds ready to pounce on a trade where the contract coming back is reasonable. He just hasnt found that yet, and may not until a few days from now or not till the TDL. But at the end of day, i do think this is a better team. Gibson is a MUCH better goalie than Talbot or Mrazek or Lyon. Thats a big fix for easily our weakest position on the ice. Mclellan seems to know what hes doing and now has camp and a full year to prepare his team. Other than that were pretty much the same. So we improved, just not drastically. And IDK that I want a 7x7 Gavrikov in order to change that into drastic improvement

4. This was one of the weakest UFA classes, pretty much everyone re-signed with their respective clubs, the remaining impact guys only wanted to play for certain teams, and those who actually explored the market GOT PAID, and Stevie wasnt gonna add a bad contract at this stage.

Not sure if anyone cares at this point, but on another board there's a guy claiming to have a friend close to an NHL team (likely either SJS, EDM, or DET) and that Yzerman shipped out Walman because Walman made advances on another players wife/girlfriend, which caused turmoil in the lockeroom.

Then how do you explain this picture of the player agent that Yzerman was cutting deals with today? 1 of 3 things must be going on: 1. He's in on one of the big names still left on the market, or via trade. 2. My cocoon analogy. He used players like Chiarot, Copp, Compher etc, as initial insultion for the young stars he drafted early on in Mo, Ed, Ray etc. But now these stars dont need to be insulated any longer, and in fact, they themselves will be the new insulation/leaders for a wave of young prospects coming up over the next 1-3 years. Therefore, he does not want to add anymore overpriced UFA insulation at this time. And instead wants to slowly shed that existing "cocoon" over the next two years to clear the path for his other youngens. 3. He is punishing this team. I'm actually not joking. SY is golden, and knows he's never losing this job. So he can in theory afford an approach like this. The message he is sending to his team is: "I've done my job. I've assembled a playoff team. The reason you haven't tasted the playoffs is because YOU are not doing your job, and keep shooting yourself in the foot. Are you gonna nut up and finally get there? Or are you gonna cry like Larkin did this spring? Either way the calvary is not coming to save you, but at least I'll know who the baby excuse makers are, and I can ship them out if you dont make it AGAIN." A lil far-fetched, I know... but if you buy into theory #2 at all, this could coincide with that strategy. This type of attitude/approach may also explain his thumb sitting at TDL time. If it's not 1 of those 3, and he's just losing out on UFAs and trades with $15 mil on the table in an expected playoff year, then he's a poor manager and should be fired.

That he's a passenger basically. Doesn't drive play in either end. Have to staple him to a really good D partner to make him work out. And yeah we have a guy in Seider that we could hitch him to... but those kinda comments about his play spook me. I certainly wouldnt pay top dollar in a trade for a guy like that.

Oh shidt, Yzerman's piss azz offseason literally killed Alex Delvechhio And Kandre Miller is headed to Carolina...

If you recall, SY tried to acquire JVR at the 2023 TDL, but the trade with the flyers fell apart at the last second. Obviously not going to be an impact player for us. Think this is more of a character/leadership signing. And we certainly need more of both of those things.

IDK man, go talk to jacky fans. They liked having him around. He's definately a bottom 6er at this point in his career, but CBJ liked him fot his ability to jump into a top6 role and play well when needed. Buffalo fans dont have a lot of nice things to say about Byram

Here's the current lineup, not including guys that, IMO, are waivable: Dcat - Larkin - Ray Copp - Kasper - Kane JVR - JTC - Berggren Soder - Ras - ______ Ed - Mo Chia - Ajo _____ - _____ Gibson/Talbot I'd go get Grezlyck and Ehlers if possible. Market is dead on RHD so just fill that roll with one of our crap signings at this point.

I will enjoy watching Mitchell, JBD, Laggeson, Holl, and Gus all fight to the death for the honor of becoming the worst Dman on this team