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    3/17 GDT Wings @ Penguins (6:00pm EDT)

    If Danielson only becomes a 4C, then it's a waste of a top 10 pick. Waste of a 1st round pick. This is why Rasmussen and Veleno are busts. You don't draft bottom 6/3 talent in the 1st round. BOTH Danielson and Kasper better be top 6 when they are consistent NHL players. Edvinsson better be top 2-3. You just don't draft (keep these top picks) for them to be bottom anything. Rasmussen has not earned his contract and Holland blew a #9 pick by drafting him. Not saying he sucks, but he's never played up to his draft position, will be a career 4th line player, and does not deserve the contract. At least Veleno was a #30 pick.
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    3/16 GDT Sabres @ Wings (12:30pm EDT)

    Not excited about this....sad...
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    3/14 The Revenge Tour Begins GDT - Yotes @ Good Guys - 7PM EST

    The wooooo is regarded. This team is a disgrace.
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    News From Around the NHL *Mod warning page 75*

    IMO, each time there's expansion there should be 2. Keep this crap even, odd number teams screw up playoffs. Also fug the expansion draft. I hate when that comes around. It seems teams get to protect less players each time. Although I know the last 2 have been the same. Another good reason to keep middle of the road aging vets on the team!
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    2024 Draft

    Time to start looking at this again. With about 50 rolls at Tank-A-Thon, we never moved out of 16th spot. If the losing trend continues, we'll move up more, but right now we're 16th.
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    2024 Offseason Thread

    at this point, all may be lost. We have fallen out of the playoffs, when just 2 weeks ago we were 12 points in a spot. Can't sell now, so what can we do to make next year better? It's of utmost importance to get Kane convinced that next season is going to be THE season we make some noise. We have to convince him that we are going to trim the garbage and upgrade the team from outside and within! Get this man signed ASAP! I'd keep Fischer around as well, although he might not want to stay. Here are my subtractions, and by any means necessary. Perron - Walk, he is just too old and his skill is diminishing. I would welcome a coaching role though. Sprong - Walk, he's had the last 6 games to prove he is worth a big payday and that he can carry a team, he's failed. Let someone else pay him. Fabbri - Trade, this has come to an end. He is no longer top 9 material and we have better prospects or can replace him via UFA. Ghost - Walk, it was fun while it lasted. Again, a chance to carry a team on his shoulders and he failed. He does have 42 points though ...so, maybe? Holl - Trade, at whatever the return, it just has not worked out. Chiarot - Trade, while a bit better this season, just not going to be justified keeping his cap hit. Petry - Buyout, not worth keeping, even for a 7th guy. Time to retire, Peaches. Reimer - Walk, no explanation necessary Husso - Trade, he is not a starting goalie and he has become injury prone. I'd even consider buying out his last year. Ok, additions (re-sign) to make this team a playoff team: Kane - Obviously. Fischer - Re-sign, very serviceable 4th liner. Seider, Raymond, Veleno - Re-sign, first two obviously, but I'd have Veleno on a short lease. He's my first casualty next season if we get bad again. Berggren, (Mazur or Kasper), Edvinsson, Johansson - Promote permanently I don't think we're going to be able to afford to sign a top UFA D or G, these will have to come via trade. Although I would try hard for Hanfin, but I feel he's going to Boston. Chychrun, Ullmark, Saros, Andersson, there's just too many options and these all depend on availability. There are a lot of interesting UFA forwards that we could upgrade to, but it's going to cost money! That is why trading the contracts above will be a necessity. Few examples for top 6: Stamkos - I'd try to coax him away, he would slot right in our top 6 opposite Raymond with Compher at C. (or does he actually play C? ) Geuntzel, Bertuzzi, Tarasenko Middle 6: DeBrusk, Foegele, Roslovic, even Mantha, just to name a few. We're going to be a lottery team again, hopefully we can get a top 10 pick.
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    YzerFails @ Sabers. 7pm Regard Time.

    The problem is roster spots. You can only have 23 total. Just sitting those two doesn't remove them from the roster. I don't know the solution. But we need to get Kane inked before he just decides to jettison.
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    YzerFails @ Sabers. 7pm Regard Time.

    How can they be this bad minus Larkin? Of course they were 0-2 before he went out. I thought this team was better and I wasn't that mad the Yzerman didn't add last week. I guess I'm second guessing this plan at the moment. At this moment, come summer, gut the team. We can't go forward with this D or G tandem. We need to re-sign Kane and say goodbye to all other UFA's. Trade who you can. I'm sick.
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    YzerFails @ Sabers. 7pm Regard Time.

    He hasn't stepped up at all. When we're down a guy, we need players like him to step up. They all need to step up, bit he's doing nothing to prove he deserved that big of a raise.
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    YzerFails @ Sabers. 7pm Regard Time.

    Seriously.... what the f***? This is going to be 0-6. Get rid of the patch! Where's this teams heart? Yzerman kept them together and this is how they thank him. No clue why Rasmussen got $3.2M. Say goodbye to Kane.
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    Yzerplan Problems

    Fedorov was a wing on the Russian 5 line. Plus he also played D. Does any of this have anything to do with The Yzerplan? We have 2 pages of arguing about who played C and now plays W. This could be it's own thread. Yzerplan. I, as well as most people, tend to give Yzerman lots of leash and lots of passes because he's such an icon here. If Holland were still GM, we'd (still) be calling for him to be fired if he made the same moves or lack of moves that Yzerman has. Especially after this past TDL. While I don't really have too much of a problem with his plan so far, but if you think of a couple of other teams that were also rebuilding the same time we were (Rangers, Canucks, Devils) we are still way behind in our rebuild. Although Rangers and Devils have been gifted 1st overall and in some cases, multiple #1s, and top 4s. But nonetheless, we are still way behind them despite having top 10 picks the last 6 or 8 years. Holland absolutely killed us with Zadina. Vancouver drafted ahead of us the year prior and just behind us the Zadina year. Not going D that year was the most...nevermind that could be yet another thread! Point being, they were rebuilding the same time we were and now look at them compared to us. I'm not convinced Lalonde is the guy to lead them either. My biggest question with the plan was, why did he keep Blashill around so long? That makes me afraid that he'll just keep Lalonde around far, far too much longer than he should. Obviously we weren't there when he was interviewing coaches, so we don't know who he called or who wasn't interested. It just seems Lalonde was the guy no matter what. IMO there were at least 3 better choices. Larionov, Fedorov and Grönborg. Fedorov being the wildcard. But they didn't call Igor The Professor for no reason. Nobody thinks the game like he does. Again, maybe these guys weren't interested, but to me, it just seemed like Lalonde was his guy from the start, and he wasn't going to consider anyone else. I would've liked to have seen a coach that was new and had ideas that 31 other coaches don't already have. There's nothing special about Lalonde. Nothing that sets him apart. And my one gripe about TDL. I think Roslovic could've and would've been an upgrade to our top 9 and think most definitely he would've been worth the 4th(3rd) that Rangerd paid for him.
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    2024 Offseason Thread

    A lot of great stuff on this one. Maybe the two can be merged somehow.
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    2024 Offseason Thread

    I don't. Just looking at age and when we'll contenders. Plus if we need to improve, some players need to go.
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    2024 Offseason Thread

    Oops, this was on page 2 of threads.
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    2024 Offseason Thread

    Trade Fabbri, Veleno, Holl and Maatta. Ghost, Perron and Reimer can move on. Unless Perron takes a team friendly deal. Sprong will be too expensive. Kane is important and Fischer shouldn't cost too much. UFA D isn't very deep this year. If we want an upgrade, there will need to be a trade. We NEED an upgrade. We also need a top 6 upgrade up front. It is 100% playoffs or bust next season. 1000%.