Kenny Blankenship

This thread is about the Poolman signing, no? I understand Benning has had plenty of blunders, no one is denying that, but this isn’t a Loui 6 x 6 we’re talking about here. It’s a 2.5 million dollar contract. This isn’t a signing that’s gonna put us in a hole, and we’re not gonna have to potentially pay a 1st to get rid of it. I think most people are just tired of the negative always being the first thought. What if Tucker ends up being a bargain down the road? Well worth his contract? I just don’t get why that can’t be the perspective of lots of folks around here.

Lmaoo horribly wrong? That’s more than a little bit dramatic. It’s 2.5 mil, this contract is being blown way out of proportion.

JB on an absolute free agency bender

In all seriousness, Eagle was an absolute warrior for us throughout his career. Too bad he couldn’t retire with us, but that’s too much money for the player he has become.

Los Angeles? He’s a damn traitor!

An awful lot of complaints considering a 2.5 million per year signing isn’t really that much. I guess there always needs to be something to whine about.

Are you a miserable schmuck all the time or just on this forum?

How are you feeling about our picks/lack there of?

If someone says they’re withdrawing from the draft you should be unable to draft them. It’s ridiculous that he got picked. How are we to know there wasn’t some under the table nonsense going on there?

Uneducated fans everywhere

That’s a real nice forward corps

You’ve clearly run out of stuff to complain about mate. This is gonna upset Demko? Lmao

Well Jim went out and got his two top 9 forwards (though Garland is top 6) and upgraded our defense before free agency has even started. Where are all the whiners now?

I like this, but need to see the finished product. This makes our team significantly better

I reckon Barkov is one of the least available players in the entire league

Anyone know if there’s a place that I can stream the draft? I’m on the island and have no cable available to me.

Makes sense. It’s weird, I shoot left, golf right, and switch hit in baseball, although my dad drilled that into me from an early age.

Sorry, I agree with you, maybe that was a little unclear. I meant that on these boards it keeps coming up that he rubs guys the wrong way, which doesn’t make much sense to me.

Yeah but they didn’t need another player to play on their top line, they needed better depth pieces all over their lineup, and just an overall more solid d corp. Not to mention they’re banking on a 39 year old Mike Smith to have another good year, which I hope fails miserably.

What about Svechkov?

On D, where they actually needed improvement, they got significantly worse. I think there’s an argument to be made that they will be as good as they were last year, but I wouldn’t call them an improved team.

While I don’t necessarily agree in regards to him being an alternate captain, I do agree that it’s good to have personalities like him. People keep saying that his attitude rubs people the wrong way, which I can’t really understand. We gotta be the most boring team in the league if Nates personality is deemed a bad thing.

Is there any critical thinking involved with this fanbase? JB put this rumor to bed already, not to mention it makes zero sense for us to be trading a top 4 dman for more wingers. Seriously, the media nonsense needs to stop being taken as gospel.

Makes ya wonder what Larsson was thinking. He needs a new agent lmao

That’s a pretty generous projection. Nothing that he showed last year suggests he’ll even be an NHL regular, let alone a 20 goal scorer in less than two years. I could be totally off base, just seems high to me.