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Blashill said a few days ago, in reference to Cholowski, that it'd be nice to have a left shot running one of the power play units. For what that's worth.

Would be nice to get AA and Seider the national broadcast exposure, but I guess AA really is a bit banged up and Seider's probably exhausted. Oh well. I'll take it!

I've been playing around with possible 2020-21 lineups. Feels to me like the potential for a young, exciting, overachieving lineup is there, especially if we land an NHL-ready stud in the upcoming draft. I think my biggest concern -- to be clear, *about next season*, not the long term -- are the middle-six center spots. If neither Rasmussen nor Veleno is ready to be a full-time NHL 2C...surely we wouldn't just go with Filppulaweissnielsenfilppula for yet another season...right? Do we put AA back at center as a stopgap? Before Blashill came out and said he and Yzerman want Rasmussen to be a shutdown centermen, I'd thought there was an outside chance that we might pony up for Schenn or Nugent-Hopkins or maybe even Backstrom next summer. But the vibes I'm getting now are "We're gonna wait and see what we have in the center prospects."

DeKeyser - Hronek Nemeth - Green Daley - Bowey Hicketts

All the streams I've found are out of sync. Maybe it's just me? meh

Cool, another completely out of sync broadcast. Nice.

Was referring more to the sitting part, but I'm sure somewhere out there has a thing for spleen-breaking.

Is she hot?

Has an NHLer ever been sent to Gitmo? How would that work? Would the organization get cap relief or would they still be on the hook for his contract?

Well, I guess it's better than seeing them in Philly. At least in Pittsburgh there's a chance you'll see the Wings win (in regulation).

I hope he sits on them and breaks their spleens. (Not sexually.)

Missing some of the top kids tho. No Moose, Paisano, or Not-Hughes. I'll watch for Seider tho.

It's ok, I didn't want a win tonight anyway. That's what you get for going to a Pens game. You have no one to blame but yourself. Go sit in the corner and think about what you did. I'm ok with this; he's been totally invisible in these preseason games. [laugh track]

HYPE! LGRW!

I do think the term on the deal is...well, if I'm a Blues fan I'm not super-thrilled about it. But I'm sure management is thinking short-term not long-term. In the here & now, this looks like a really good add. Faulk isn't a superstar, but then, Ryan O'Reilly and Alex Pietrangelo and Brayden Schenn and Jordan Binnington weren't superstars. Speaking of Pietrangelo...I mean, I'd love to see us get a shot at wooing him, but I fully expect him to stay in St. Louis. They'll find a way to pay him whatever he wants. As for Green...yeah, I'm not expecting a big return, assuming he even gets traded.

I'm gonna go ahead and treat any Wings-Virtanen talk as moot. Reasons: Yzerman wants soldiers who give their all at all times. That would seem to rule out Virtanen as a desirable. We don't really have any "change of scenery" players, unless you want to count, like, Svechnikov. But by all accounts Svechnikov is the kind of good soldier Yzerman wants. Yzerman's already added a Virtanen-esque player in Erne. Virtanen has the sexier draft pedigree, but I dunno that he's clearly the better player. Last season Erne put up 20 points through 65 games while Virtanen put up 25 points through 70 games. *shrug*

Is Naslund still playing?

Gives them more scoring punch on the back end, eases some of that pressure off of Pietrangelo and Parayko, possibly boosts forward scoring. Makes sense that they'd make a big move like this if all it costs is a few whatever pieces. They just won a Cup (against pretty much All The Odds) and I'm sure they realize that they captured lightning in a bottle and that teams will be scouting them harder than ever and that they'll need to bring something new to the table if they want to repeat. I'm kinda disappointed we couldn't take Bokk off their hands. Was hoping we'd start collecting all the German Pokemanz. Alas... Maybe this increases Green's trade deadline value, if only by a bit. One less right-shooting veteran offensive defenseman on the market.

Does Darren Helm count as a "change of scenery" player? Asking for a friend.

HYPE! LGRW!

If you ever wondered what an AHL team backstopped by prime years Hasek playing against an NHL playoff team would look like...this game. Alas, Isles win it late in OT.

lmao give Howard the Vezina. Poor guy. OT

SVEEEEECCCCHHHHH (Sorry, I've been dipping in and out. Kinda preoccupied.)

0-2. This could get ugly.

Isles strike first. Wings trail 0-1.