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Not too bad from Lemieux here...just in case you thought he couldn't hang.

Is somebody out anti-euroing me? Anyhow, that list is all shaken up from the last one I saw! Suzuki has broken the top 10 and Yamamoto is in the top 20. I was hoping to snag one of these guys in the 2nd. Maybe Tippett drops into the 30's and we can get Hague in the 3rd. Imagine this, we get Vilardi with the #4, Tippett falls to us at #35, then we get Hague with one of the 3rds we have! Nice!

Odd that they're falling, do you have a link to that list? I'd like to check out a few other names. I'd take the best available at our spot, I'd prefer it not be the same type of player that we're loaded with though. If Hague dropped to 55, I most definitely take him in the 2nd round. Again, if we somehow could trade up to get another 1st near the 20-25 mark, I'd certainly snagged Tippett if he's there. Best player with our 1st, trade a nhl player to move up to grab Tippett and draft Hague in the 2nd. I'm happy!

No I think it's the system more so.

I'm so sick of Blashill's dump and chase hockey! This is not a dump and chase league! No wonder every player on this team has regressed the past two years! There's no reason Mantha should have the puck with no one on him and he dumps the puck in the corner! Also I'm tired of the whole pass first mentality! Nothing against Z because he is carrying the team, but shoot the damn puck, forget the fancy pass! I bet we could make no changes player-wise and just hire better coaches and we'd be back in the playoffs next season. It's no wonder our defenders are always under seige and are made to look worse than they are, we just dump the puck in and it's right back in our end within seconds, we go for the pass instead of shooting and it's taken away from us. Our D has been besieged all season long! As well as our goalies!

If the right couple of moved are made over the summer, along with new coaches, they could very well be back in the playoffs in 2018.

Not even sure what the prices are today...double?

Best game I've ever been to! My birthday is 3-12 and my buddy called me up and said he has tickets to a Wings game and he'd like to take me for my birthday. I was 26. Just remember saying It SHOULD be a good game since they have a rivalry going on at the moment. Little did we know!

Hence my preference order...but we'll pretty much have to get the #1 to land Patrick...and if we're to have a chance at that we have to stop winning, period. Probably not win another game. #7 doesn't get us any of my top 3...maybe Tippett falls, but I doubt it.

Patrick, Tippett or vilardi. In that order. But any one of them would be great. I prefer Tippett because I believe in 3 yrs time, Larkin and AA will be your 2 top centers and Tippett will be your #1 Right handed power forward. I looking to the future, not next year. We'll need Tippett considering we have nobody like him in the system.

If Nyquist got us a 1st, and it led us to picking Hague, PLUS we kept our #1 and got Tippett, Holland would be my personal hero and I would forgive him for all the abused tires from his past!

While I agree that Holland will probably re-sign him if he feels he can play, but he'll probably do the 1 yr at a time thing like with Lidstrom. You fill it with nobody big. You play your youth and have some cap space for once in our cap history in case you're at that point where you need to acquire that one or two players at the deadline. Having cap breathing room is not a bad thing in a reset/rebuild.

Owen Tippett. carry on....

If by "boring" he means the odds of him getting shot in Chicago are far greater than whichever Northern suburb he lived in here makes living there much more exciting, then he can have all the excitement he can handle! I'll take the boring life not filled with flying bullets! Shame on Chicago!

NM....my bad

Oh, ok... meh, if he doesn't then we'd still have about $22M in cap space. Still much, much better than we have projected now.

Either I'm tired or I am missing the jest....

I think maybe his $2M salary guarantees it!

Thats ok, Riley will score another way tonight, I'm sure!

Winnepeg is right ahead of us with 69 points....if we can't get that top 4 pick, I'm still liking the Trouba for our #1 plus player trade! Then we trade up to get Hague in the organIzation and our D will be just dandy moving forward!

Ugh! We's Got's ta lose some games!

Tatar with 20 goals now....can you say $5M+ per season? He'll get 7 years $35M with a NMC.

Ok, in order to reset we need to cut salary bigtime! Here's a optimal scenario: Helm gets claimed by Vegas, we are able to trade BOTH Howard and Ericsson over the summer, Kronwall goes on LTIR (or even better, comes back 100% and ready to be "kronwall" again.) (I only says Helm gets claimed to avoid the fight over Nyquist again... Ideally one of the $4M+ guys gets claimed by Vegas, no matter which, Nyquist, Helm or Abby.) We draft Tippet in the top #5, trade up to draft Hague in the bottom 10 of the 1st. I know the argument about buy outs, but if we cannot trade E (retain some salary) then the buyout is a nice option. With the buyout it doubles his length to 6 years, but the cap it is modest at $1.6M, $1.3M, $1.3M, $1.3M, $1.3M, $1.3M. I'd much rather trade him and retain $1.5M for the next 3, but buyout is always an option. Which ever way, we need to open up that D spot and cap relief. DK is most definitely and building block. He has had a couple of bad seasons, but as many of you have argued to me about other players, he's not the only one to regress under Blashill. I agree that with legit top #1 and #2's on this team, Green and DK would be much better suited at #3 and #4. If we lost Helm to Vegas, traded Jimmy, LTIR Kronwall and Franzen and bought out Ericsson we'd have $26M in cap space for the summer. No problem's now with money or roster spots.

He has been demoted this year and has gone up and down the draft board all season long. He seems to be overrated by some, which means he is also could be underrated by others. With having our highest pick in ages, I'd rather use it on a consistently ranked player.

Blashill will still be the coach next season and Liljegren will be your #1 pick by Holland. That's truth, get ready, because, well, Ken Holland.