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I mean, he does kinda suck. He's a scorer who doesn't score much lately. Borderline washed up. BUT, we all know forward pairings are all the rage with coaches these days, and Turris & Mantha seemed to show legit chemistry at the worlds. It'd be dope if we could get two solid lines out of a Bertuzzi-Larkin-? pairing and a ?-Turris-Mantha pairing. Sign Turris to a show-me contract with the understanding that he's gonna get juicy minutes (cushy deployment) with good players and no other club's gonna offer him this caliber of cake. Sign a good-not-great veteran winger, preferably a RH shot, e.g. Craig Smith. Trade for Vinnie Hinostroza cuz I like him. Use a compliance buyout on Abdelkader. Maybe Nielsen retires. Tyler Bertuzzi -- Dylan Larkin -- Craig Smith Robby Fabbri -- Kyle Turris -- Anthony Mantha Filip Zadina -- Michael Rasmussen -- Vinnie Hinostroza Darren Helm -- Valtteri Filppula -- Luke Glendening (Dmytro Timashov, Some Guy) Hell, maybe give Fabbri some quality time at center too. Hinostroza's also a converted center, which is why I have him flanking the inexperienced Rasmussen. I dunno. Just thinking out loud.

I'm thinking we picked a pretty good year to get cheated out of 1st overall by the lotto gods. Byfield, Stutzle, Rossi, Raymond, Drysdale...lots of studs available. The pool is strong enough that I'm not even sure Yzerman would take Byfield @ 2. If the draft were today and we were picking 2nd and Yzerman took Rossi, it wouldn't surprise or upset me.

I've done a lot of thinking on this over the past couple of months and my conclusion is we're probably f***ed re: the 2C slot -- and that that's probably ok ("ok"), cuz we're probably destined to suck next season anyway. I'm thinking Nielsen might retire this summer. Flip, I dunno, whatever. Maybe Rasmussen overachieves. Veleno isn't ready. Of the UFA options, I think I might like Soderberg the best, assuming we're just looking for a stopgap veteran. Maybe Yzerman goes outside the box and thinks a Euro like Fredrik Handemark could work. Speaking of outside the box ideas...what if clubs are in fact gifted a compliance buyout or two this summer? There was some talk about that a couple weeks ago. Didn't really dig into it, but I'm assuming it's maybe kinda sorta on the table. So, like, what if Nashville buys out Turris?

Honestly, I'm kinda here for it. Unless we get him, in which case, no, he absoutely IS g e n e r a t i o n a l and will score his 900th NHL goal before he turns 30.

(S***, they're on to us.)

What a game!!!

Shout out to my kindergarten teacher who said I'd never amount to anything.

Jack Hughes did nothing wrong.

HYPE! LGRW!

I'm glad you had a good time! :)

shut your hecking mouth

This season's exit interviews should be a hoot.

Cuz 91 is a dingus.

I believe he's playing tonight.

Very.

Yup, that's the hope.

I guess I've just found myself saying, "Wait, that's it? Really? I mean, I'll defer to your judgment, but, uh, you sure you don't wanna...? No? OK. That's cool. I'm just sayin'." Probably could've been a little more aggressive in free agency. Probably could've been a little more aggressive at the trade deadline. Nothing that makes me want to grab a pitchfork, just little stuff.

At this point...I'm guessing Yzerman's preparing for another tank year. I'd been thinking that placing first or second in the lotto draw would mean he'd try to load up for an honest playoff push, but I'm not feeling that anymore. Or, at least, not feeling it as strongly as I had just a few months ago. Yzerman's Big Message has been pretty consistent: "Things are not very good right now and the only way that's going to change at any point in the future is if we draft really well, and that's just gonna take time and patience and hard work and a bit of luck. We have to do this right. We have to make sure we're doing what it takes to have a really good -- and sustainably good -- team a few years from now. I hope fans will be patient." (Not an actual quote. But basically is.) No one here wants to hear it (and that includes me), but Yzerman is clearly thinking long term, big picture. "Do it the way the league says we need to do it." Pain now, in the near future, gain later, in the distant future. Personally, I'm not entirely thrilled with the way he's going about doing it. But that's life. It is what it is. As for the head coach position? I dunno. Could be Blashill. Could be Gallant. Could be Lane Lambert. If Yzerman 1) feels the younger players like Blashill and buy what he's selling, 2) finds that no one would be interested in taking over for him anyway, and 3) anticipates next season being another painful tank season *regardless of who's behind the bench*, Blashill will be back.

YOUR MOM IS A CRAP MUSIC VIDEO

Y'all are headass poopclowns. srsly.

larkin suxxx i hope eyezermin duznt pay him 2 much that would be bad becuz larken is goin 2 be gud 4 mayB 2 yeers butt thin hez not so eye hope yzurmin noes wut hiz doin

Should've signed Hossa.

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