Jimmybigrigs69

I'll be the first to say it. John Leonard is a 1st line forward.

I actually don't mind Shep. Sure, there may have been better options, but for a rookie DC I thought he did very well, and he should improve from here. OC has to be fixed in a huge way. Morton was terrible and Dan wasn't much of an improvement. Ben Johnson took the Lions offensive mojo to Chicago with him, and look where they are now and where Detroit is. We need a really good OC, and yes, we need to start drafting QBs to replace Goff.

What is good? The inverse of lazy and it sucks?

So the packers blew it against the bears, and the Lions blew it against the steelers, which basically means no playoffs for the Lions this year. My takeaway: This is still a very good team, but we tried to bandaid major loses and it severely hurt us. #1 losing OC Ben Johnson to the Bears. As a new HC he's taken the bears from bottom of the division to kings of the division in less than 1 full season. Meanwhile our replacement for him in John Morton was so bad he lost his job halfway through the season. Finding a new good OC is critical for this team. #2 losing Frank Ragnow decimated the offense. I'm a big believer in that having a strong trench makes everyone - the QB, the RBs - better. His loss has been significant... We need to bolster the Oline through the draft or FA immediately if the window is to stay open. #3 draft a QB soon. I love Goff, but the cracks and age are beginning to show

Yeah, now that we got John mafuqqin Leonard

John Leonard with 2 pts in 3 games! Time for some Jack... This kid is better than half our forwards. More than a few times so far he's set other guys up and they just can't finish. He would have more points if our players didn't suck.

Fun fact I learned today... Early football teams typically chose their name based off of the baseball team in their city. So the Chicago Bears were named after the Chicago Cubs. Detroit Lions was chosen because of the Detroit Tigers. And the name Packers came from the old Milwaukee butt fuqqers of the federal baseball league.

To add, Ajo and Soderblom have been terrible as well. I'd send down Soderblom as well and call up old reliable, Dominik Shine, to take his spot. Ajo we don't have an internal replacement for. Trade for someone. Our bottom pair D is poop.

It sucks losing a 2nd Rd pick to waivers, but Bergs has 65 pts in 171 games. For a guy that doesn't bring much else to the ice besides point scoring, that's not very good. I'm more surprised SY didn't send Kasper down... Having only 1 assist in 35 games, in a pretty good top 6, you almost have to be trying not to help... The tenacity and engine we saw last year appears to simply be gone from him. This is one of the worst sophomore slumps I've ever seen. All his energy has disappeared, send him to GR already. That all said, the Griffins have been absolute titans of AHL hockey this year. I think it's good to show those guys that play like this is rewarded. Leonard has been their #1 guy by far, and we don't risk much by calling him up (or sending him down). TLDR: I like the Leonard call up, but I would have sent down Kasper over Bergs

John Leonard called up. Has been a beast for the griffins. Well deserved.

Quinn Hughes traded to Minny for Rossi + a huge haul of shidt Detroit apparently tried on Hughes, but I doubt we had a chance based on the package Minny gave up. Not sure what the Nucks are doing. Retooling the retool?

HF mods are out of control. Soupnahtzee is the worst. Any non-commonly held opinion about the team = locked, suspended, banned. My first account there, I wrote a long post about why I didn't think Zadina would be a successful NHL player and why. Banned. 1-2 year later the entire board agrees Zadina sucks and now you can post "Zadina is a child molesting demon" with no sources or reasoning behind it... I've had several accounts banned for shockingly frivolous things there. But if you're a regular, and the mods like you, you can get away with just about anything. Gotta be part of the cool kids club. We had a similar thing happening here for awhile... There was an ongoing personal message thread between like 12+ accounts called "the pool party". It was number9/CRL (me) + Kickazz + jimmyemeryhunter + krsmith + nervedamage + marcaractac + several other users, some of which still post here.... So I won't mention them. The message thread was mostly for sharing things you didn't want on the public board and discussing drama on the board among other "cool" guys you trusted. But it often escalated to the users in that group conspiring to mess with the board. Like we would decide how we were all gonna gang up on one user we didn't like or something in an argument. But that group never had any mods in it... Reason I'm sharing this: This same thing happens at HFboards, but on a larger scale, and it includes a mix of users and mods. All it takes is you politely disagreeing with the wrong popular user and that user will tell his mod "friend" to ban you. There's a club at HF... And you n I ain't in it. Team still sucks. Nothing will change until then.

Plante - Plante - Plante, next year at Duluth is gonna be Hanson bros for sure. Puttin' on the foil.

I think we should be signing this kid. Older brother of Max Plante. Playing with Max at Minnesota Duluth. Together they are ripping the NCAA apart. Undeniable chemistry together. Zam just turned 21 this summer, so he'd be an older prospect. But I think it's clear Max is ready to move up to the AHL next season, so why not bring the older brother with him? I'm willing to bet that chemistry comes with them and their reign of terror continues in the AHL. EDIT: Sorry all, I'm regarded. Just realized Pittsburgh owns Zam's rights. That said, the Plante's youngest brother Victor is draft eligible this coming year. I'm thinking take him. He's committed to Minny Duluth as well, so I'm guessing all 3 bros will stay another year and form an all-Plante line. But so far we def have the best brother.