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Limp Bizkit were bad and they should feel bad, I guess. But, honestly, I always liked this tune. Or, at least, the chorus. Primo butt-rock.

YOU CANNOT STOP THE (pregame) HYPE!

I mean, don't get me wrong, I want Karlsson wearing the Winged Wheel. I just don't see it happening...and I'm rationalizing that as a good thing. After Suter and Stamkos, I've sworn to never get my hopes up about a marquee UFA ever again. NEVER AGAIN!

Nyquist wouldn't get us a 1st. If Green gets us a 1st, it'll probably be in the 25-31 range. I'm pretty sure Tatar has no trade value at the moment and I reckon Mantha's trade value isn't as high as we'd like to think it is. IMO, we have no shot at acquiring Karlsson via trade, for a number of reasons. Holland('s successor) will wait to see if he hits the open market in 2019...and Karlsson will sign elsewhere, and we'll learn that he never even spoke to Holland('s successor). I'm ok with not landing Karlsson. He's a generational talent and he's exactly the kind of player we need, but his $100M contract could be a death trap. Every year, a team that isn't paying Erik Karlsson $12M a year somehow finds a way to win the Stanley Cup. The Wings have to be patient and smart. Keep drafting solid players in the 1st round, hope we hit the jackpot and get a Dahlin or a Svechnikov or a couple of Adam Boqvists within the next several drafts. Don't go chasing waterfalls. Target the not-Karlssons of the 2019 UFA class. Make a savvy, low-risk trade or two or three or four or five.

Ryan Lambert (hisss): https://sports.yahoo.com/learned-erik-karlsson-blowing-senators-164621165.html It’s an unenviable spot for Dorion, because if you trade Karlsson (and you basically have to, either now or in the summer) you might as well rip the whole thing down and sell it for scrap. A Senators team without Karlsson is a squirrel on the highway, and it’ll only be a matter of time before it’s crushed again and again by oncoming traffic. I know we’re supposed to think, “Oh he’s in such a bad slump right now, how can he make these demands,” but let’s be realistic. Ottawa has a 53.9 CF% when he’s on the ice this season, and when he’s off? It’s just 46.9. Karlsson has been on the ice for 27 goals in 23 games. Ottawa as a team has just 49 more in 28. And this despite the fact that Karlsson has an on-ice shooting percentage right now of only 7.9 in all situations (the league average is 8.9). [ . . . . ] Of course, we also don’t know what a Karlsson trade ends up looking like. Given what GMs have recently had to give up to get okay-ish, cheap-ish middle-pairing guys who have a little bit more room to grow, there’s no calculable package a GM could give up, especially in-season, to acquire a player of Karlsson’s talent level. No such trade has ever been carried out in the cap era, and would therefore rewrite the book. If you can’t even get full value on a Hall-for-Larsson swap, the raft of picks, prospects and young skilled NHL players you’d have to concede would be incredible. I know we talked a lot about sticking to your guns with Joe Sakic throughout the Duchene saga, but in the end, Colorado didn’t get anything much that’s going to help the team be competitive in the near-term. He got the best haul he could, which was a young, good NHL defenseman (Samuel Girard), a pretty good forward prospect (Vlad Kamenev), an okay-but-by-no-means-great first-year college player (Shane Bowers), a salary dump (Andrew Hammond), and four draft picks (including two first-rounders). Could Ottawa reasonably expect more of a haul than that? Especially if there’s only one other team involved? It’s tough to imagine they would, simply because few would have the ability to give up more than that. Can you really ask a team for its entire draft for a year or two? You’re not getting Karlsson, or even a semi-reasonable facsimile, back, so you have to accept that any Karlsson trade is one you probably end up losing, and losing badly.

HYPE! LGRW

I feel they overachieved last season, caught teams by surprise. What we're seeing this season is probably a combination of natural regression and teams having a season's worth of tape that they can dissect. Oh, and they turned Eberle into Ryan Strome. That hasn't helped. *facepalm*

Incompetence, thy name is Oilers.

Honestly, their roster really isn't anything to write home about, aside from McDavid. They might be underachieving, but not by much. Chiarelli's reaping what he sowed, IMO.

I don't think Mrazek has any trade value right now. Might even have negative value. His cap hit is $4M and he's playing like hot garbage; there are numerous safer options, like the guys you listed. I'm thinking if Chiarelli really has expressed an interest in Mrazek and Green, it was just due diligence. This is not the Oilers' year and everyone in Edmonton knows it. If Chiarelli's smart (and, granted, the jury"s kind of out on that), he bites the bullet and embraces the suck for "one more season" and sells at the deadline. It's looking like they'll have a decent shot at Dahlin or Svechnikov. Possibly better odds than ours, amazingly. ("McJesus died for our sins.") P.S. Blashill has prolly lost the room I dunno lol whatevs.

I like ya, krbro, but there's no way in hell Green and Mrazek would get us that package, especially with the Oilers being a real longshot to make the playoffs.

Carley Johnston tho.

Someone, can't remember who, reported a few days ago that Chiarelli has talked to Holland about both Mrazek and Green. For what it's worth.

On a related note... Ottawa Senators to ask for all no-trade lists

Can I be honest with you, LGW.com fam? I'm feeling optimistic about the Wings' future. The 2018 draft class. The 2019 UFA class. I see possibilities and they excite me.

Buffalo?

wejustneedtogoonarunhere

#SquadGoals

K. I was debating whether I should go out and do social stuff and I think that's looking like a good plan right now. ttyl fam

Blues score. 3-0. Awful Kronwall turnover.

Blues score. 2-0. One of those games. Shoot the damn puck, Dylan.

PP

PK. Kronwall, interference. End of 1st. Blues lead 1-0. Solid start for the Wings, despite being down by one. Did pretty much everything but score.

Whole team looks pretty decent today, honestly. Nice to see. Gotta cash in on this power play.