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Is XO ready to step up? Is Marchenko good enough to stay? Smith has been top 2nd-3rd Def. What this team needs: Top 2/4 RHD. So for the next season we have already: Kronwall - Deke Smith - Green Errorson - Marchenko XO How we keep Q. For me, thanks but no thanks to Q.

This team really needs to get tougher. This is no sense that Dats is the most agressive and most agressed out there... Pulk and She for Okposo and Martin

Very Happy for our Captain

So he cleared?! Still thinks that he has some value???

Don't forget: Hatcher Whitney Carlo C

Kindl has no value

True, but Mrazek can't play 82+ games.We don't have a true top/elite DEF but we have 6 top 4a/4b def which was not bad either. However, this team needs a true TOP Def and those ones will rarely hit FA. Caps are having better Def and Off... and they have Carlson maybe one of the most underated def. in todays NHL

Hull was an NHL sniper Pulks is an AHL sniper and should/could be an NHL sniper...

This

Just to make is simple, we had to play Avs before finals. As far as I remember, didn't Kocur scored SH goal in the finals? Darren McCarty scoring a beauty in game 4? Konstantinov huge hit on Hawerchuk... Physicality, speed and skills were all mixed well...

I said that Blash was outcoached by Bylsma... and if you are satisfied with this "win" than your expectations are very low, like picking top 10 in next draft. However, I respect your opinion.

We have overpaid/overevaluted players in Errorson, Quincey, Abdelkader, Kindl, Howard... These guys have no value in market... Kenny evaluated and signed them. How Chicago became one of the best team in last decade (since Scotty joined his son as supervisor)? They have dealt a ton of important players: Ladd, Buff, Campbell... and thay are still CUP contenders. Dallas (Jim) is also doing pretty well for the last 2-3 years and they are still getting better. Montreal (Bergevin), another exemple of GM who is not afraid of making moves and if BAD move is done he will fix it (Kassian). It's wrong to say that trades cannot be done anymore.

He gave Primeau and Coffey more salary than he took on it. He had a balls to make trades... Something which Kenny is missing. Kenny is not team builder, he's more maintenance manager...

Beside Smith, no one can hit... So I don't expect any trades on DEF as we have 7 DEF + Marchenko + Ouellet... There is no real top 4 DEF in minors nor any TRUE TOP 4 def (Russo could develop in one top 4B option). Kenny seems to be very satisfied as we are playoff contenders (1st rounders) and then he's on vacation.

We had a success with mixing speed AND GRIT. Scotty was quick on roster needs and repairs (Shanny trade which changed our face and gave us couple of cups, and dlthat trade wasbdone because the Avs were tougher than us). Saying that we were not big and physical and only fast team is WRONG CALL.

Well it's one of the issue, Errorson, Q, Abdelkader are guys who are overpaid but have no value in trade market due to their salaries and the way they are playing. This team is (at the best) playoff contender and far from being Stanley Cup contenders. Kenny's goal is to make the playoff and that's it.

Outshoted, outchanced, outcoached against f***ing Sabres... Glad with the victory BUT we are talking about Sabres... For the past 10 years Kenny is saying that he wants to bring physicality

I wouldn't say that he's carrying that line... He can't carry himself and he's soft as a butter.

...and Sheahan is epitome of what?

Hornquist is enforcing Detroit... 😭

Clearly Smith scored (unless Smith haters are here)

Smith

Smith in beast mode so far

Are we talking about team with worst sog average? We are happy that we have a strong goaltending otherwise... We would be top 5 picking next season

Babcock was able to get 110% of all players. I don't think that coaching was a problem... Look what Bowman's have done in Chicago, Neil is doing nice work in Dallas - has balls to trade his players... GM should be able to address needs of his team... RHD was one of DRW needs but not the only one.