SirCosmoDuffGordon

The fact Kucherov is in game shape tells you he was ready at least a month ago. The lightning better lose a first round draft pick for this.

9th overall most likely not too shabby.

Not surprised by this with how cheap the Aquilini's look to be right now.

Sorry but Demko is the MVP by a country mile.

Really just a dumb hit. Coleman doesn't turn or anything Bennett just decides to smoke him from behind.

I was inferring McDavid is underpaid for what he does for The Oilers. Around 15m is league Max and McDavid would be worth every penny of that.

McDavid is worth a league max salary. There is no player who is even close to him.

Edmonton has the cap space this coming offseason. Florida, buying out Bobrovsky would make it possible. Colorado another team that has the cap space to take him on and would look scary with him. Colorado also has the prospects to easily acquire him. I would bet on them landing him if he wanted to move and win.

I don't see what the team can do either he should just ask for a trade if he wants to win cause I don't see free agents fixing their problem.

Your argument is completely facile. Literally, you are insinuating I am ranking players better than scouts and then go on to say the top d in the draft are pretty obvious. The kids played shortened seasons or didn't play at all so scouts have to use older data to form rankings. That is what makes this draft so difficult and scouts can't get accurate rankings. There are going to be rankings all over the board. You are completely disregarding this common knowledge that is spoken almost every time a ranking is provided because you've decided there are 3 D you want on the team. When what I have said is if a full season or all the kids got to play then these 3 D may have moved back in the draft and others moved forward. We had NHL GM's not wanting to do this years draft due to this very reason. You're trying to be condescending and let me tell you it is not working out very well for you.

Doughty is worth his contract and still has around 4-5 solid years left of play. There are around 1-2 years were he won't be worth his contract but that is pretty good looking around the league at contracts like Karlsson and Vlasic. Our team needs a player like Doughty regardless of his attitude. Every team needs a player as good as doughty on their backend if they want to win a cup.

First off, who knows who wins the lottery. Second, show me a draft where the kids leading up to the draft didn't even play hockey? Your logic is complete fallacy. You know what I am hoping for that Demko plays lights out and proves he is not just a one hit wonder and is actually a top 5 goalie in the league.

The top picks in this draft don't even matter. A lot of the time players ranked highly at the beginning of the year fall way back and others move way up and this year hardly anyone played. Not only that but the lottery keeps getting won by teams outside the top 5 so who cares where we finish.

No one even knows how to rank these prospects with so little or no time played. I really don't think it even matters where we draft from even if we won the lottery there is no player that stands out.

tanking doesn't even matter cause who knows who is going to win the lotteries. We lost like 3-4 times? from the top 5

Luigi Aquilini getting involved is not a good thing. Hopefully Francesco can remain in control.

Well didn't Benning take over for president when Linden left? Maybe they are trying to find a new president someone to keep Benning in line.

demko is god

eric francis is crying the flames aren't tanking saying markstrom shouldn't be playing any of the remaining games, lol

I wouldn't argue against first round pick but I would argue against a top 10 pick which ours likely will be. I also don't think he would be that cheap. I see Buffalo saying the same things you are and know he is an RFA and likely want a first plus hoglander or something like that. I just think that is too rich for a team that really struggles defensively and need to land a top 4 young dman somehow. Also, I don't see anyone taking Eriksson.

This went to the NHLPA, a counselor and the Blackhawks all of whom never saw any wrong doing and then suddenly when there is a conviction someone comes forward and starts suing? Yea okay, believe whatever you want but from the facts that are available right now this looks like a money grab. When did Fleury go to the NHLPA, a counselor and an organization? Also, when I met Theo Fleury, about 10 years ago, he was trying to sell me on a forex get rich quick scheme that was obviously a scam. I wouldn't be surprised if Fleury coming out was due to needing money or seeing it as way to make money off a book. edit: I'll add that counselor denies even hearing of anything like this. So really until there is more evidence there really is no reason to believe this is anything more than a money grab.

No kidding? This is a public forum we all have different opinions. I for one am going with the NHLPA (these guys represent the players they aren't going to let NHL coaches just blindly abuse players), and The Physician/counselor and not the guy who came forward after he sees someone arrested hoping for a payday. If we see text messages that show misconduct I will reconsider my position.

There is a plethora of other things they could have said. You also have a Physician and NHLPA who were both made aware of this apparently and neither thought it was worth pursuing and then combine that with the guy only comes forward when he sees the guy was convicted of a crime and decides to sue. To me this looks like it's all about a pay day.

He's an average top 6 winger and a terrible centre. He isn't even worth a top 10 first round pick.

The Blackhawks, The counselor(who denies knowing of it), The NHLPA didn't do anything and then the accuser sees an article about this guy being convicted and decides to sue? Looks like someone just trying to get a payday. I don't buy that both a team counselor and the NHLPA both heard this and decided to "sweep" it under the rug. Sounds like what The Blackhawks are saying its a meritless lawsuit.