greenrebellion

Per title...

No thanks on Hall.

Looks like the answer is no. 20 losses in a row!

It will affect salary cap for 2020 / 21...perhaps quite dramatically.

Sad times...I'll miss hockey, now need to figure out something else to distract myself with in the coming weeks and months.

Poor ovechkin. Two lockouts and then this.

agreed

2 in a row, am I dreaming? Fun game to watch, haven't been able to say that too often this season.

I hate all of you all of the time.

We are paying Abdelkader about $1.5 million per point this year.

You a funny guy!

AA is playing 12:00ish a night, down from 15 and 17 in the first two games. Doesn't look good. Those are 3rd line / 4th line minutes...and he was removed from the power play after the first three games.

What is this, the fourth time in a row Howard's been pulled. What is the point of starting him, either leave him in the whole game to rest Bernier or don't even bother starting him. Honestly, it pains me to say it, but I'm not sure I'll be watching any more games from here on out this season, it is simply unwatchable for me. I'm okay watching losses, but not like this.

Why does no one mention that we are #3 in man games lost to injury. On a team with no depth to begin with, losing so many games to injury is extremely devastating. But sure, let's just blame Blashill.

I think the biggest thing that came out of it was that he seemed to imply that Blashill might be staying beyond this season.

First off and for the 100th time, your list is wrong. Many of these are deals for value + a dump, that is not what I am talking about. But even if your list is correct, what are you complaining about, you have 2 examples in 2020 and Yzerman was one of them. Seems like he did a great job.

There are not multiple pure roster dumps for picks/prospects per year. They hardly ever happen. You've cited zero examples that weren't part of a larger deal. If Boston was interested in AA, they would have traded for AA. They wanted Kase.

We didn't have a Kase to move, my point is that Yzerman would have done the deal if the opportunity presented itself. Bruins didn't come to us with the Backes move because they were looking for a winger and dealt with both Backes and acquiring the winger in the same move. Could Boston have broken it up and shipped Backes to Yzerman and separately acquired Kase to the Ducks? Maybe, its more of a transaction of convenience, it is very rare that teams are just running around looking to dump a contract in a pure prospect/pick for bloated contract trade. Sure it happens, but it happens rarely and there are 30 other teams in the league. Yzerman isn't going to get all of them, heck...even if he "performs average" the average probably would be him getting in on one once every 10 years.

But he has a creamy beige friend so its all okay

The trade was for Kase, they didn't give up a first round pick to get rid of Backes. This is a business folks, there is a price to taking on millions of dollars and it sure as heck isn't a third round pick.

Because this is a business too, you want to become competitive as soon as possible to maintain the fan base. You also don't want to build a culture of losing. I mean really, did people want us to ship off Bert/Larkin/Mantha this deadline? And finish last in the standings for the next 5 seasons. NO Can't do your first point, see comment above. Just because we have cap space, doesn't mean other teams want to trade picks or prospects to alleviate themselves of bad contracts. Do you realize that A LOT of teams have cap space at the deadline and there weren't any straight 1st round picks or valuable prospects traded to dump contracts. Teams would rather buyout a player or just eat his contract unless it becomes absolutely necessary to make a dramatic move...but these types of moves are RARE. It takes two to tango. Again, I am so sick and tired of this "why didn't we take bad contracts" line. These types of moves are not made because teams only move picks or high value prospects in extremely desperate situations. These are rare trades. I'm certain that if a GM showed interest in giving Yzerman a first if he takes a bad contract, he would have done it in a second. But so would a lot of other teams.

This is 3-5 years to make the playoffs, 6-8 years minimum to be a cup contender. 10+ years to win a cup. Mark my words.

What else can you possibly do with a trash team with mostly trash contracts. Draft is the only way back to the top. Once the team is a bit more competitive, then you can start trading to fill the gaps but for now, it really is all about the draft.

I can't wait for the forum blowup when he's brought back.

Why fix what's not broken! Gotta keep the tank going.