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We get neither. This thread jinxed it. Thanks a lot, guys. (jk)

I'd love to see what Helm could do on the second line. I've been meaning to say so. Thanks!

Silly old bear.

This, I imagine, is what it reallly came down to. I think the "team salary cap" (i.e. no one gets paid more than Datsyuk) is kinda wack, but in this case, I'm ok with it. Semin should NOT be the highest paid player on any team.

So we'll score even fewer goals in the postseason. Oh, what fun this season is going to be.

Kenny, you bum.

I'm almost hoping for a lockout.

Sitting in his nowhere land...

Let it all out if you need to. I'm hear for ya.

Friendship is kicking our collective ass this summer.

He's a real nowhere man...

Just to be clear, I was quoting The Joker. Point being, I agree with you. Holland's the best GM in the league, hands down. But, the way this summer's gone, you wouldn't know it.

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message." The very simple fact is that our roster sucks.

Gee-zuss.

I want to believe he has a master plan, a rabbit in his hat, an ace up his sleeve. That we're gonna get that power-forward and that elite #1 defenseman, no worries. That what looks like incompetence and reeks of failure and disappointment is all part of The Plan. That if we lose five key players to injury, all in the same week, we won't be icing the Grand Rapids Red Wings. But we all know Lilja is coming back.

Y'know, now that I think about it...this does irk me.

Oh God, no you didn't.

I was being sarcastic.

We're a hard-nosed, hard-working team now. We crash, we bang, we muck, we drive. No room for soft, lazy, underachieving Euros.

The 'canes are my second-favorite team, and I really do like Semin - just not in the context of our team. So this is pretty sweet.

It'd make for a good, fun side-discussion - this hypothetical question, I mean. We all like to daydream about different scenarios and alternate possibilities. But using it as some kind of counter to the notion that Holland should've been better prepared for Nick's departure is lame. Dude, come on.

Holland wasn't adequately prepared for Nick's retirement. That's self-evident. I don't like that I'm apparently beholden to justify this with an answer to a hypothetical, retrospective, alternate-universe question that is altogether essentially moot, not to mention kind of stupid. If I say he should've traded for Dan Girardi several seasons ago, I'll get "Yeah, but hindsight is 20/20. You're looking at Girardi through the lens of now, with the knowledge that in several seasons he'll become one of the NHL's premier defenseman" etc. Our top-4 is Kronwall-White, Quincey-x. That is called not being prepared. What I say he coulda shoulda woulda done doesn't really matter.

Ian White is our #2 defenseman. That's borderline outrageous. Holland should've been better prepared for Nick's departure. It's really that simple.

Want Wheeler wearing Winged Wheel.