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I like this deal a lot. We needed rid of Pearson. We have way to many wingers, we needed cap space, and I feel there is probably some tension between him and the team. We also needed a back up goalie that isn't Martin. Desmith playing 25 games instead of Martin is probably worth 8-10 more points this year. That is gonna be the difference between making it or not, or playing as a wild card or Divisional seed. This trade checks a few boxes for sure. I hate to give up picks, but as long as Alvin is as active as he has been in the "non NHL" Fa market, it isn't as big an issue. Kuzmenko Aman Sasson Bains McWard Hirose Johanssson All of these guys were picked up for free, that helps offset the lack of picks and has helped build some depth on the farm.

Sens are locking in all their young talent to long term deals, mostly based on pedigree and potential. I agree 100% with what they are doing. A small market Canadian team needs to do this to retain talent. Sure they may end up with the odd bad deal out of it, but that is lightyears better than developing your young guys to see them walk as early as they can.

Heading into the offseason, I felt our main objectives were: -Improve D -Improve PK -Improve Centre Depth -Sign/Trade for Backup Goalie. I' say they have done a pretty solid job. I also feel we have made some steps to rebuild our prospect pool. Hirose, McWard, Sasson were solid UFA additions prior to a pretty nice draft. I think Bloom could be a player as well.

Agree 100%. This management group has done a real nice job building out our depth chart. I do think that McWard was a sneaky good signing as well, I am really interested in seeing how he progresses this year after a pretty good sophomore year at OSU.

I can't see the Canucks trading Klimovich. He developed really well last year, and with the likely promotions of Hoglander and Podkolzin, I expect he could really build on his success. I also think Hoglander is going to be expected to be a pretty big part of the Canucks this season. Beauvillier could be dealt at the deadline depending on how things shake out this season. Good article, I think they are bang on with most.

Pretty simple deal: Boeser@ 6.7 x2 for Kuznetsov @7.8x2 Gives us a ton of flexibility in our top 9: Mikheyev-EP-Kuzmenko Beauvillier-Miller-Garland Podz-Kuznetsov-Hoglander Or you have a loaded top 6 Mikheyev-EP-Kuzmenko Miller-Kuznetsov-Garland I get the Cocaine comments will come, but please don't kid yourself, it is prevalent in most locker rooms. Kuznetsov has by all accounts been a very good teammate during his career.

We have a legit #1D, #1C, #1G. If you have that, you build around it. I expect we will see a marked improvement this season with a much improved D, Healthy Demko, and massively improved PK. This should be a team that pushes for the playoffs this year. Next year we have 20 mil opening up, and hopefully a rising cap. I am confident that this management group will fill out the roster nicely once they have a bit of breathing room. I'm a big fan of the Hronkek trade, as I believe this team is starting to look pretty solid.

I'd do Garland straight up.

We got him in a trade prior to this management group coming in. I was trying to focus on the free assets that we have signed. I think that these guys take away a little of the sting from trading away as many picks as we have over the past few years.

Bains Aman Johansson Sasson McWard Hirose Tolopilo That's 7 prospects that I would peg as mid round picks that we have added as College/Euro/Non Qualifiers in the past 2 years. PA has been far more active in this area than most, which has gone a long way to supplement our depth in the prospect pool. Save for this years 2nd, and our 2026 7th, we have a full slate of draft picks for the next 3 years (also have the Devils 4th this year). Hopefully we start acquiring some picks as opposed to sending them out. This group seems keen on adding big mobile players, so the more the better. I am a big fan of what Allvin is doing.

Nice. That is a very very good deal.

Blueger was a penalty killer in Pittsburgh, Cole in TBay. These address big needs for us.

I will be very happy if at the end of today our Left side D is Hughes, Soucy and Cole. That is a pretty good mix, and none of them would have to extend their monutes from what they played last year.

Why? he has been very good defensively for a long time. Hughes aside, he is our second best defender. 1 Year deal is not risk.

Cole for 1 year is real nice, Just a solid physical stay at home D. That is exactly what is needed.

Lots of really interesting Non Qualifiers this year. Last year we picked up Aman and Johannsson, I'm hoping we can take a few more this year. Here is the list: https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/free-agents/2024/age/all/all/ufa-no-qualifying-offer/asc?stats-season=2023&display=weight,height I'd look real hard at: Sprong- 46 points in 66 games playing less than 12 mins per night. Decent sized winger. For the right money, he would be a good add to our middle 6. McLeod- Penalty killing 3rd line C Cal Foote- Big RD with family ties to the team

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This management group had done a fantastic job of rebuilding our pool of D prospects in the past 12 months: Johannson- Non Qualifier Hirose- NCAA McWard- NCAA Pettersson- 2022 Draft Kudryavtsev- 2022 Draft Walinder- 2023 Draft Mynio- 2023 Draft Brzustewicz- 2023 Draft Celebrini- 2023 Draft Obviously not all are going to pan out, but adding 9 young D to what was a pretty empty pool is some great work.

I'd give Foote a shot for sure. Any chance to get a high pick with a strong pedigree for free, especially a big RD, we need to take.

Played on a pretty loaded Seattle team last year. Interested to see if he can work his way up their lineup next year.

No, not giving up on Podkolzin at all, he will be an NHLer. There were just far better options on the table. If you are going with a winger that high, they need to be an impact player, I don't feel Podkolzin has shown at any point he will be more that a 3rd liner.

I don't mean to argue at all, but I don't really thing that is impressive at all. He absolutely blew 3 top 10 picks on Virtanen, OJ, Podkolzin. Considering how high we were picking most years, we should have had far more impactful NHLers.

Nothing wrong with that. 7 D with NHL upside. Who knows where they land in terms of the lineup as they develop, but we are starting to get some depth now.

Not really. Benning found a few fringee NHLers like Rathbone, Gaudette, but most never amounted to much of anything, despite gaining some momemtum. Forsling is the outlier. Hoping Silovs will be another.

Pretty sure in the last 8 drafts only a couple of players drafted in the 4th round have over 100 career points. That is 4 of 240+ player that have made any sort of impact. THEY ARE ALL WILD CARDS. Every guy we picked, and every guy that people wanted to pick have a very small chance of contributing at the NHL level. We got two RD in this draft that have top 4 upside, and stocked our prospect pool with C and D. This is a great draft for us.