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Sorry to steal your thunder, Lefty. Just figured we might as well have a liveblog thread for tonight's action!

(I give Hughes the edge over the others because he already has a year of Big Ten hockey under his belt. His skating helps.)

Honestly, I don't know. I just work here.

FWIW, Hughes is probably the most NHL-ready of those four defensemen. Almqvist is a project, Dobson and Bouchard are both probably a year away.

What does Brad Richards have to do with any of this?

Kenny, don't do it. Don't you dare do it. Or so held me God... Who are you calling on your phone? Let me see that phone. *yoinks phone from Ken's hand* *checks who he was calling* DAMN IT KEN

Quarterly reminder that Wayne Simmonds grew up a Wings fan.

LOL! eff that ess

Getting Faulk would be more of a quick retool move, tbh. (Semantics, I suppose.) Which would fit the Wings' apparent goal of being back in the playoffs within the next couple of years.

Man the f*** up, you big baby.

Almqvist + Marchenko + Backman + Sambrook + Sproul + Ouellet + Lashoff + Kindl + Smith + Quincey + Ericsson + DeKeyser + Jensen + Hicketts + Renouf + Saarijarvi for 10th overall.

I'm guessing Chiarelli, pathologically self-sabotaging though he may be, is doing the logical thing here and fishing for a sexy impact player who can immediately and significantly improve their top-six forward group or their top-three/four defense group. I doubt Nyquist (on an expiring contract) or AA would quite fit that profile in the eyes of the Oilers Brass. We're probably talking about, like, Jeff Skinner or Justin Faulk. We could throw picks at them, but anything outside of the top ten probably isn't going to interest them. Again, I've gotta think Chiarelli is hoping to engineer a dramatic turnaround that sees the Oilers looking like a contender straight out of the gate next season. The good people of Oilers Land have approximately zero appetite for anything resembling a(nother) rebuild. And Taylor Hall winning the Hart has them all staring daggers at the GM.

Yo, @GaryBettdawg. Get on this s***. He's running. Hamilton 2020.

Dude, what's up with this 7 PM start time? Has Day 1 always started that late? I feel like it hasn't, but I'm probably wrong.

Is it tomorrow yet?

#BeLikeMarc

Why do GMs hate fun? The fans demand seismic trades, damn it.

Word. Getting Zadina without having to trade up would be absolutely amazeballs. Get Zadina and Karlsson and we might be able to bypass a rebuild entirely.

So all of a sudden everyone remembered Andrei Svechnikov is a person who exists and he's now the undisputed consensus #2, I guess: https://www.nhl.com/news/2018-nhl-mock-draft-final-rasmus-dahlin-no-1/c-299112416?tid=277764372 The consensus 3-10 pool is more or less set, but there is zero frking agreement re: order.

Jeff Marek has us taking Zadina at #6: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/2018-nhl-mock-draft-brady-tkachuk-canadiens-no-3/

Translation: "I've been cheating on LGW with WIIM." There's a special place in Heck for hockey forum traitors. Just sayin'. (Welcome back.)

Look at you sad sack defeatists, waving your tighty whitey flags and crying into your overpriced Somalian craft beers. You disgust me.

I honestly believe Svechnikov's preseason injury is the major reason why he sucked for most of the season, only really starting to come on towards the end. Head/neck injuries can f*** you up.

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