LeftWinger

Fire Sale! Dump vets and bring up kids! Rest of the year "training camp!"

It might happen, Jimmy's injury is upcoming, as it is the new calender year. Honestly though, instead of arguing and saying it'll never happen, just say, looking back at Blashill's tendencies, the odds of a string of starts happening are slim. Look at that, me being a voice if reason...must be a new year!

Ya, I mean no trading players for players unless they're prospects. We aren't a Cup team missing a piece or two. We need to dump salary and acquire kids and picks. Acquiring any top D would cost us one of our kids AND our 1st. No thank you. We may not get the #1 overall, but odds are, if we're looking D, we're getting one of Dahlin, Boqvist or Hughes, any if which will be our top guy on D. Get multi 1sts and even more 2nds if we can. This draft is Great with talent.

Salary dump only. Acquire draft picks.

I honestly don't know if I'm serious.

Sarcasm.

Wrists never heal correctly, it's over. It'll always nag him, we'll always hear that he's not 100% healed. His faceoffs will suffer as will his shot. This is very unfortunate. As much as I was taken aback by him being drafted, I was really wanting him to become a force. Oh well....our luck.

To rid us of much needed cap, I'd get rid of Nyquist or Tatar for a project. But you're right, it's not as if we need him.

Quick Note: Mattias Samuelsson has rocketed into the top 20 on some lists, as a matter of fact he lands at #13 on hockeyprospects.com list. Could be a sleeper for someone. Maybe a high 2nd for us if drops a bit?

You have to ask yourself, if we do not get #1 and Dahlin, knowing we really need a defenseman, is Quinn Hughes the way to go? ISS has I'm at #5 right now, he doesn't rank any lower than 7 right now. OR do we just go for the best available? We drafted for need last year, should we do the same with a top 5 or go best available? I see Boqvist is ranked above him in 3 of the 4 below as well. Wonder why he falls to 8 in ISS when he is high as 3 in two of them and 4 in the other. Lets say you get #4 overall. If Hughes and Boqvist are there, which do you grab? Or do you go with Tkachuk/Zadina up front? FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS TOP 31 - FALL RANKING 1 Rasmus Dahlin (D) Frölunda HC SHL 26 5 6 11 12 2 Andrei Svechnikov (RW) Barrie Colts OHL 16 14 7 21 22 3 Adam Boqvist (D) Brynäs IF J20 SuperElit 17 11 7 18 16 4 Brady Tkachuk (C/LW) Boston Univ. NCAA 19 4 10 14 18 5 Filip Zadina (LW) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 32 24 22 46 17 6 Quinn Hughes (D) Univ. of Michigan NCAA 16 1 9 10 16 7 Joseph Veleno (C) Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL - - - - - 8 Ty Smith (D) Spokane Chiefs WHL 35 5 32 37 18 9 Oliver Wahlstrom (C/RW) U.S. National U18 Team USDP 26 16 15 31 20 10 Jared McIsaac (D) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 34 4 16 20 42 MCKEEN'S HOCKEY TOP 31 - DECEMBER RANKING 1 Rasmus Dahlin (D) Frölunda HC SHL 26 5 6 11 12 2 Andrei Svechnikov (RW) Barrie Colts OHL 16 14 7 21 22 3 Filip Zadina (LW) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 32 24 22 46 17 4 Adam Boqvist (D) Brynäs IF J20 SuperElit 17 11 7 18 16 5 Quinn Hughes (D) Univ. of Michigan NCAA 16 1 9 10 16 6 Brady Tkachuk (C/LW) Boston Univ. NCAA 19 4 10 14 18 7 Oliver Wahlstrom (C/RW) U.S. National U18 Team USDP 26 16 15 31 20 8 Ty Smith (D) Spokane Chiefs WHL 35 5 32 37 18 9 Jared McIsaac (D) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 34 4 16 20 42 10 Ryan Merkley (D) Guelph Storm OHL 33 10 32 42 34 ISS HOCKEY TOP 31 - DECEMBER RANKING 1 Rasmus Dahlin (D) Frölunda HC SHL 26 5 6 11 12 2 Andrei Svechnikov (RW) Barrie Colts OHL 16 14 7 21 22 3 Brady Tkachuk (C/LW) Boston Univ. NCAA 19 4 10 14 18 4 Filip Zadina (LW) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 32 24 22 46 17 5 Quinn Hughes (D) Univ. of Michigan NCAA 16 1 9 10 16 6 Oliver Wahlstrom (C/RW) U.S. National U18 Team USDP 26 16 15 31 20 7 Joseph Veleno (C) Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL - - - - - 8 Adam Boqvist (D) Brynäs IF J20 SuperElit 17 11 7 18 16 9 Ryan McLeod (C) Mississauga Steelheads OHL 34 9 26 35 12 10 Rasmus Kupari (C) Kärpät Liiga 19 3 1 4 0 HOCKEYPROSPECT.COM TOP 31 - NOVEMBER RANKING 1 Rasmus Dahlin (D) Frölunda HC SHL 26 5 6 11 12 2 Andrei Svechnikov (RW) Barrie Colts OHL 16 14 7 21 22 3 Adam Boqvist (D) Brynäs IF J20 SuperElit 17 11 7 18 16 4 Filip Zadina (LW) Halifax Mooseheads QMJHL 32 24 22 46 17 5 Brady Tkachuk (C/LW) Boston Univ. NCAA 19 4 10 14 18 6 Rasmus Kupari (C) Kärpät Liiga 19 3 1 4 0 7 Quinn Hughes (D) Univ. of Michigan NCAA 16 1 9 10 16 8 Joel Farabee (LW) U.S. National U18 Team USDP 26 13 14 27 22 8 Ty Smith (D) Spokane Chiefs WHL 35 5 32 37 18 9 Oliver Wahlstrom (C/RW) U.S. National U18 Team USDP 26 16 15 31 20

If they'd take Nyquist or Tatar in a deal for Duclair, I'm in. I would take a pass of Letang, it'll cost a fortune to acquire him. Well, at least more than I would like to give up.

Anything less is pointless. Get picks/prospects all while cutting $20M-$25M in cap PLUS what we already had for next year.

Trust the surpress....er, I mean process.

You mean we could actually "rape" a divisional team this season at the deadline? 1st and a 2nd please, thanks Toronto.

at AA & Frk on the 4th. This Blashill guy has GOT to go. Think I'll skip this one.

Nah, he bought a Doofenschmirtz clonenenator and accidently cloned Sammuelsson and Bertuzzi.

I know what you did last summer!

Here's some hype. Yesterday just south of where I live.

Isn't that the Coyote? That simulator is horse crap. There is no way it uses any kind of math to show results. I did it 30 times and Detroit only win once, while 20 of the 30 were all teams out of the top 10. It Just randomised them IMO.

Nyquist/Tatar, one of them. Found a taker for Kindl.

I can see us moving four players at the deadline. Green, XO, Nyquist/Tatar, Mrazek.

Right now, I keep Z, Mantha, AA, Larkin, Frk, Daley, & DD. Everyone else I'm listening to offers. Gathering picks/prospects and doing my best to get the #1 pick.

If he got called for slashing, why did he get fined for spearing?

Could also be said Judge no man unless you've walked in his shoes.

The only playoff is for the #1 pick.