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He sounds really serious about making a career in North America! Gotta love his attitude. I'm excited to hear how much his English has improved by training camp.

As we now know, there's nothing JB could've done about Vrbata. Not trading Hamhuis was the real letdown. Hopefully Dan will sign a really cheap retirement contract with us to help teach the kids how it's done with class.

Yeah but I would imagine the distribution of nhl players' height and weight isn't normal.

Not at all. Draft picks are worth exponentially more the higher up they are, and Boeser has already turned more heads than McNally ever did. Also as others have already noted, McNally doesn't appear to be much of a loss at this point.

What should Benning lock Brock in a cell and force him to sign? Everything's going to be ok, Alf. Just take your pills and breathe deeply.

He's probably very used to bus rides.

I missed the game and can't wait to see Brock's highlights. Sooo excited to see how much more he can improve!

Given the thing you are responding to literally mentioned a couple of weeks, it would make sense to wait at least that long. But you do you, Desi.

Man BC looks like an entire team of Sbisa's and pre-allstar break Virtanens. No chemistry or smarts. Frustrating to watch.

I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing at the tweet. Unless it's aomething about the shirts that I don't know about, the pic is totallly irrelevant. I recognize Gaudreau in the picture... so maybe those are past HB winners?

...And none of those players are in that picture haha.

Probably not. There's really no need to rush him. Just let him dominate the ncaa for another season before signing him.

I really hope we draft Matthews, for obvious reasons, but also because it would be cool to have that all-American core of Demko/Boeser/Matthews for the next 10-20 years!

Wow! That goal was unreal.

I think Melanson and Cloutier have something to do with that.

I'm I'm really happy it's Maguire and not Demko hahaha. I wouldn't be able to put up with that noise for the next however many years when he would play for the Canucks.

Do you have something you want to say about John Negrin? The difference is Higgins is a much more interesting talking point (evident by the 3 oages so far), so why shouldn't there be a thread for him?

His play is bafflingly good. His hand eye, vision, poise, stride and speed all appear to be elite level talent. And only 11 games in, there is still sooo much time for Hutton to improve even more. We'll see if he can keep it up down the stretch, with so many more games played compared to the college season, but i see him as our #1 defenseman by the start of the 2017 season. Maybe even a Norris candidate one day. But maybe I'm being over optimistic.

It's interesting. After going on the Oilers forums, it seems like most fans there have a decent amount of respect for Virt because of that hit.

Huh? Mccann is a forward...

He reminded me of the 18 19 year old Sam Bennett in that regard.

Yessir that's what I meant. I get that that the initial reaction to the Zhuk pick is to be surprised that our gm did not pick the player projected to go much higher. What I don't understand is how a lot of people on here assume it's because JB is incompitent, and not that he knows more than us. He's the pro, and we are the ones sitting in front of our computers on a forum. Of course he knows more.

Reading the first page of this thread is pretty funny in hindsight!