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That American roster Woof... not much star power there. That may change with playoff eliminations.

I agree the trade cost should be less than what they paid, maybe not that low though... especially where we're a division rival. I'd throw a lot of draft capital at Keller and Crouse out of Arizona. Those 2 would slot into our top 6, add scoring and in the case of Crouse grit.

On that list the only team that would really concern me is Montreal, since they ate in division. Maybe Washington short term, but even with Bedard they'd need a rebuild for depth. If only, we're far more likely to drop 1 or 2 spots lol.

FYI, rank tankathon.com 50 times... Washington won the 1st pick 14 times and the 2nd pick 5 times. I'll bet when the NHL fixes this lottery the contenders will be: * Montreal - history, young core of budding offensive stars, etc. * Chicago - obviously a league favorite of old. The fan base disappears if they suck for long. * Washington - the hand off from Ovi to Bedard. Bedard riding shotgun when Ovi breaks the goals record. The fairly tale BS about a changing of the guard., etc All of these teams are in the East, or will be with a Huston expansion. I don't see them allowing the current top star and future top star of the league both being in the West, out of sight of the east coast prime time viewership. It goes without saying our 5% chance is really 0% since we're not allowed nice things in Gary's NHL.

What's the tie break? We have exactly the same record now.

Mazur and Wallinder playing 1 game would burn a year of their ELC, you won't see them. Cossa is 2 years from the NHL, I'm very high on him but the slow play is the way to go. Lombardi's not close, but aside for that sure.

He's the goalie we need to finish this season, not the one we want, but the one we NEED!

Are they joing the Griffs? I saw Wallindier was didn't think the forwards were. That's excellent. I think Stevie is set for a big off season... I think we're going to see the summer of Steve.

We have two options. Trade him for what we can get. Play him as a bottom 6 roster filler until the contract ends. He is garbage, that's it, that's all... I wish someone had only warned you all... LOL

Ran tankathon a bunch of times this morning, the Blues who are 10th and the Canucks are 8th (oddly, despite more regulation wins) won the lottery in multiple simulations. The Wings didn't move up once. I think tankathon has build in the leagues anti Detroit bias into their algorithm.

He's looked pretty good... Zadina has looked awful. Slow to process the game and getting man handled physically. Not that he's alone there... this team needs to add some tough, defensively capable players or we're going nowhere.

Nah, he's a Donkey; you Ass.

BUT BUT BUT...... ohhhhhh check out his Advanced Stats.. his Expected blah blah blah. Even that crowd is now re-envisioning him as a defensive forward/mucker and trying to somehow convince themselves that's a good thing.

Zadina will be a bottom 6 POS until he slinks back to Europe with millions of unearned dollars.

Chaisson might be the new Hirose, career AHLer that goes on a spring heater to f*** the tank job.

You forgot Zagina lit up the Q also... and we know how well he fill nets these days...

He got above market value on Hronek and Bert. Market value for Sunny... he also got something for a guy they couldn't give away and were going to buy out putting an extra year on the cap hit. The returns may not meet your homer overvaluation of the players traded but these trades were made in the real world.

Who knows who in the locker room he may have a beef with... coulda banged someone's wife, etc. That they wanted him gone from the room is all we need to know. They valued having him gone paying half his salary and getting a 7th vs attempting to pop his value.

Stay strong grasshopper... next season we'll have Elmer and Simon up with the big club... growth from within is the way to win.

Zadina likes butt stuff, so the story goes.

We need to save that cap space and make a huge swing for Matthews or another star player. Maybe after another 1st round exit you could get Marner or someone from the leafs... sometimes you're better off not spending extra Cap.

I'm actually hoping both picks get punted in that case, in both cases the teams will be worse and the lotto is very much in play.

I'm clear that it's top 10 protected, BUT in the event they do get a top 10 pick in 24, is it an unprotected 1st in 2025?

I'm really hoping the Islanders 1st we got from the Nucks gets pushed to 24, I think it'll have a strong chance of being a lotto pick. What do you guys think, do we do a mini rebuild and use the picks or swap them for NHL players? The next 2 days will be fascinating. I assume Bert (if not traded) will sit tomorrow... Let the Macklin Celebrini hype train roll out of the station!!

And their career statistics bear that out. Thank God you're not a GM.