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Helm is the only guy who can do it !!!

We'll wait and see on Staal's cap hit but I really don't think he'll come at a cheap servicable price. Someone will give him money Also, hes slow and not good anymore so theres that

Why would Eric Staal take a paycut to come play in Detroit?

lol

Trade Quincey for Vasilevsky He is the goalie TB got with our 1st overall pick for KFQ

Holland kicking tires on moving Pav's contract

The Avs are for sure the front runners to land Radulov

Wouldn't label is as insanity just due to the fact that this was an amazing class of rookies. Any of the top 5 could have potentially won or been nominated in years past. What Gostisbehere did as a defenceman is the reason he was a finalist. He isn't a complete liability in his own end either, although he has made a few rookie mistakes. 10th in the NHL for Dmen for PPG is a pretty decent stat for a rookie. Developing a steady NHL defenceman is one of the hardest things to do in sports.

I can respect the idea about thriving halfway through a season, while others tend to be injured/wear down. I really don't think Mcdavid would have dropped dramatically like Larkin did but yeah thats something we can never really determine. I'd still think the most likely winner is Panarin followed by Gostisbehere and then Mcdavid. I really don't see the NHL giving the award to Mcd, that would actually be flat out ridiculous. He deserves a nomination but not the actual trophy. If I had it my way I would vote for Gostisbehere, its so much harder to produce as a Defenceman, let alone a rookie one.

Curious to know who the third candidate should have been and I'm open to your opinion, who were your three nominations? I think Mcdavid at PPG for half a season is worthy of a nomination. In a full season he probably would have still had 80 points which is awesome for a rookie in this NHL especially on the Oilers. Sucks that he only played 45 games but he still deserves a nomination. Gostisbehere is probably the reason PHI made it to the playoffs. A rookie dman getting 47 points in 64 games is unheard of now. He is easily my pick. Panarin is probably the most controversial pick because of his age, but we were all lobbying for Nyquist in his rookie year when he was 25. You still can't deny the factor that Panarin was, because Kane was not the best offensive player in the NHL last year but is now. He still got 77 points in 80 games as a rookie. If Larkin kept up with him he probably would have won it but he was a literal ghost in the second half of the season. In summary, I think the 3 nominations are all justified for theyre own unique reasons. I really don't see a 4th option personally. Eichel could be argued but these 3 guys were by far the most noticable players and had the greatest impact one the ice when they were playing.

People are actually upset that Mcdavid was a finalist instead of Larkin? Mcdavid has just as many points in half the amount of games.... edit: Mcdavid had more points in half the amount of games

He clearly hasn't seen the Red Wings play since he took off from the NHL. Probably still thinks we're good...jokes on him!!!

I'd say we used to be one of the teams that could handle a player with a bad attitude, but nothing leads me to believe that is still the case. Before we had Babs and our best players were in theyre primes and good leaders who all had a good attitude and worked hard. Now our "best" players are our worst players and they can't lead for squat. The last time it looked like one of our leaders gave a damn was last season. Blashill is also the biggest pushover of all time.

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If you don't like Helm I dont know what to say. Sure, he shouldnt be in the top 6 but anywhere in the bottom 6 and hes one of the best in the league. Its not his fault that our coaches think he should be playing on scoring lines

The fact that the media is even questioning Holland is the start of the pressure he's going to start feeling to be successful I'd say this is a good thing. A part of me was hoping theyd miss the playoffs so this would happen, but winning 1 game seems to have done it as well. The whole team seems to understand that we were the worst team in the playoffs. Not really something to brag about; to be the worst of the best

I feel sorry for those tires

Still younger than the rest of our core Might as well sign him until 2019 like the rest of our guys when we can actually trim the roster and make something happen

Season defining game tonight. Hoping the boys play as well as they did in game 3.

I agree with Z. I still think AA in the top 6 is the key factor here to generating offence. Abby - D - AA Lark - Richards/Z - Nyquist/Tatar

They're still going to score. Our only chance is to keep up with it, our team defence is far too horrible to be trying to win close games

So Andersson and Pulkinnen are in over Tatar? I know Tats hasn't been that great but we are relying on Z and D far too much. We are basically going all in with our top 6 (which includes Nyquist Helm and Richards) to produce our offence.

Glendenning - Abby - Sheahan will be playing against the johnson line, already confirmed by Helene Never understood the strategy of creating a line to "shut down" an opposing teams top line; when said line will not produce any offence at all. This just means youre wasting 20 minutes of the game not scoring. If the other team's top line scores just once, youre basically starting a 2 period game down 1-0. Don't know if translating my brain to a post makes sense there but I'm not a fan of this strategy lol I'd like to use Dats - Helm -AA against that line since it has a balance of speed/offence/defence. (You know, what an ideal top line has)

This just in, Andersson has cleared waivers in the SEL so Holland has decided to sign him to a 5 year contract. NMC.

I think the bigger argument is why we have Richards and Helm in our top 6. Both are best suited on the third line.