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Injury-prone; missed at least 30 games in each of the past three seasons. And he's just not an Yzerman-type defenseman (e.g. Trouba).

Yah, I have a feeling we got a top 5 guy at pick 15.  Thinking this guy is Maltby reborn.

If you go back and watch the pick... Red Wings turn comes and Drapes, Yzer, and Lids standup and all three are cheesing ear to ear and look like they are joking/happy and in very high spirits. Not the typical all business, don't show emotion, Yzerman. Seemed like they were VERY happy to be taking the Norwegian Nightmare at 15. 

Hockeyallsvenskan/SHL scout Jonathan Hedstrom ranked MBN as the 5th best acquisition of the SHL this season says hes "something of a young Alex Ovechkin-lite. A forward with enormous upside. A sharpshooter with skill who competes hard".
He wont be Ovi but as a player comp stylistically it makes sense. MBN plays like a bull in a china shop and has an elite shot. Anyone not excited about this pick isnt paying attention just listening to the talking heads "its another typical safe Yzerman pick". I hope its another Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson/Kasper/Danielson pick all looking like good-great players. "Shoulda picked upside". MBN oozes upside.

We don't - and almost certainly won't - have any generational talent. I've long since accepted that. It is what it is.
My thing is this: If we're gonna do the win-by-committee approach...and we're eyeing the playoffs...and we don't have a particularly deep team (the kind of team that can do the win-by-committee thing)...then we need to load up on really good talent from outside the system. That'll make us competitive now, and foster a winning culture for the young guns, and keep pressure off said young guns.
The key is...you have to actually do it. You have to lean into it. If you half-ass a win-by-committee approach, the team will suck and everyone's time and money is wasted. You always need to be on the ball. There's no "Well, maybe we take a step back this year, but it'd be worth it in the long run, because we have some good-not-great prospects coming in four years." That's dumb.
I get frustrated when I feel like Yzerman's taking his foot off the gas in that regard. I know that sounds like I'm just an instant gratification junkie (guilty as charged, I suppose), but it really is more than that. I really don't think treading water is an option, if win-by-committee is the model. If we had two Raymonds and two Seiders and a 2C who's better than Compher, that'd be one thing. But, well, we don't.
Tarasenko's a good add. If we add a really good defenseman, I'm happy. Fingers crossed.

The HYPE! rises.

Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:

Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:

Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:

Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:

"...HEY ELAINE"
"What is it PUDDY???"
"...Feels like a Boss Man Show night"
"A WHAT???"
"Boss Man Show... DBoss, Mankos, Showtime. I'm puttin em on the same line"
"Puddy, are you telling me you gave away Walman for nothing, to save money... and then spent it all on two over the hill oft injured superstars from the 2010s who don't play defense...??"
"Yeah that's right"
"That. IS. IT. I've had it with your STUPID line combos. WE ARE BREAKING UP"
"OK. I'll be at Arby's"

Well, yeah.
I heard MBN banged Corey Perry's mom. All he does is win. It's incredible.

1 Year at $4 mill with performance bonuses potentially 2.5 Mill (unconfirmed on CapFriendly) if this is what he signed for, Then Im more then happy to have him back 

It's official 

I heard he banged Perry's dad too for good measure.

People are saying MBN's another safe, underwhelming, high-floor-low-ceiling Euro and that Yzerman needs to cut it out with this crap. I get the frustration, but, to me, MBN's actually pretty close to what these people are clamoring for. Good size (not very tall, but he's got meat on his bones). Plays big boy pants North American hockey. Good at both ends of the ice. Can play in all situations (PK). Lethal shot. So basically: a modern power forward who probably won't take the usual 20 years to break into the NHL, given the selling points I just highlighted.

He's just not the raw, oozing talent, fancy playmaker, that everyone wants us to draft (every season).
Reminds me of the Rasmussen pick. Nobody really complains about that pick anymore... though I would love to see Newsy give Ras some real offensive minutes this season, but I digress...
MBN is probably going to be similar. A swiss army knife style player that can play either wing, and on any line, and be responsible. And just like Ras he'll make the team faster than usual. And of courrse theres sniper potential with his shot. 
If you listen to Yzerman (and Verbeek) he always says the number 1 thing he looks for is compete level. MBN has that in spades. The new Finnish kid we just traded for has that in spades. Meanwhile Walman was day drinking at the Tin Can on days between games during the slump. Where is he now?

Having Kane AND Stamkos would be pure unadulterated chaos on so many levels. The final scores of all our games would be, like, 10-9. It'd be antithetical to everything Yzerman and Lalonde have preached (re: needing to improve defensively), but it'd be so much fun lol

MBN = JTC

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Having Kane AND Stamkos would be pure unadulterated chaos on so many levels. The final scores of all our games would be, like, 10-9. It'd be antithetical to everything Yzerman and Lalonde have preached (re: needing to improve defensively), but it'd be so much fun lol

So Kane and Stamkos were seen golfing with Larkin the other day, cue the Stamkos to Detroit rumors and the Kane extension.

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