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I really hope we clear out some guys at the TDL. Flip guys like Erne, Sunny, Suter, etc for whatever you can get... retain salary, etc and bring up some guys like Elmer and Vrana (iffy I know). I view this TDL as the year where we purge older vets, and give good stretch run time to some kids... if they go on a run great, if not they get experience and a head start on next season.

Agreed, something happened... I'm surprised it's not leaked out into the public. Steve has better control over the news than most dictatorships.

Hope he gets a 10 game audition to end the season...

That's obviously not what he's thinking or he'd have sold in the off-season to take a real shot at the top 3 centers in this draft. He committed to moving forward can't go back now were past the PONR.

I view this as an opportunity... no extension has been mentioned. Hopefully we can get Larkin and Bo under contract. Larkin, Horvat, Copp and Veleno down the middle is a strong C group. In 2 years slide Copp down, Veleno to wing and Kasper on the 3rd line. Very strong. Not flashy bur DEEP!

No lol not that it's an option now.

Bert looks so slow thus far. If resigned... my offers to Bert. 1 year x 5 mil 2 years @ 9 mil (4.5 mil avv) 3 years @ 12 mil (4 mil avv)

I don't think it's at all wise to sign Bert for more than 3 years... I'd pay him more on a shorter term. He's not aging gracefully at all. He is injury prone... regardless of the nature of the injuries their are a lot of them.

To be clear I think he's an orthodox catholic, which is an actual religion... unlike the for profit "Christian" churches in the US, which are profit centers and tax shelters. Either way it's an excuse to make bigotry, well excusable. I'd have respected him a lot more had he been honest and said I hate those people for who they are, rather than hide behind "religion". Atleast he'd own it.

Yea I hope Bedard ends up there before in our division with Ottawa or ******* Montreal.

I saw it. I watch all their pods on YouTube. I see both sides of that, BUT the religion angle was clearly an excuse. Just come out (no pun intended) and say it Provorov.

I don't mind WWP, but they do go a bit soft on the Wings, management, etc. No doubt because they are trying to maintain "relationships".

He's lazy and he sucks.

Smith and Jurco spring to mind. We also boxed out Janrkrok such that we traded him.

Over ripen = rotten I thinknit destroyed a few if our prospects back in the day.

I think if you can upgrade any position you do it, with reason of cap and allowing spots for rookies. How can we be happy with our D with how we play defensively? In a perfect world Chariot would be gone, Matta would be 5,6 or 7 and we'd add 2 good NHL dmen. Cast off Osterle, Lindstrom, Hagg, etc. Promote Edvinsson.

If we can't have him, far better he's in the western conference than in our division playing for Ottawa, Montreal or if they slide Buffalo. We'd be his ***** multiple times a season for 15 or 20 years.

I think this team has finally broke you @kipwinger.

That seems to be going well... I wouldn't go that far, but we're not making the playoffs for another 5 years.

Frankly, we made a huge mistake not having a Larkin deal done and then signing a bunch of decent FAs. We're a bad team, with no hope of getting better, welcome to mediocrity. In 5 years we'll be doing the same hand wringing about Seider and Raymond, after wasting part of their prime years. We should have endured 1 more year of pain.

I don't like that trade at all... Hronek has term he should get you a 1st and a 2nd himself, or you keep him. Zadina is worthless like a 5th+ round pick. If you're helping a team by taking salary then the price starts at a decent prospect/2nd rounder. Since we didn't take on salary to any degree the past 3 seasons when it was easier for us and more advantageous for teams under a flat cap, I don't see that happening anyway. I think we're trading any or all of: Bert - late 1st or a high 2nd and low 2nd Kubalik - early 2nd Sunny - late 2nd or early 3rd plus a 4th Suter - late 2nd or early 3rd plus a 4th Erne - 3rd Wallman - 2 x 2nds Hagg, Lindstrom, Osterle - take your pick for a 4th rounder

I have a feeling Larkin is going to leave in FA, and all the expensive mid-tier FAs we signed last year will keep us in the forever 500 territory. I think Yzerman needed to tank 1 more year, he got nervous and f***ed the rebuild. Not a popular take, but I am the Zadina soothsayer afterall.

Your post is funny and manages to perfectly lampoon why the WWPD is so mute... they collab with Ken, Mick and Carley at times. You can't be interesting/controversial and have access to team adjacent media figures... so party line it is.

Knies is a very good prospect.

If you're Toronto you don't offer that... If you're Detroit you say yes in a flash.