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Drakrami

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  1. A lot of NHL contracts doesn't make sense anymore.. 9.2million per year for a 32 year old who is probably going to drop in production. Drop by how much? What if his production drops a lot? The league is bloated with disastrous contracts now. Are teams really making that much money?
  2. You only have that much money to spend on defense. Hughes at 6mil and more + Myers at 6mil + Ristolainen at 5.4mil or whatever he resigns at means those 3 are your core. I am not sure I want to place my bets on 2 ex-Buffalo dmen as the core that will lead us to a Stanley Cup in the next 5 years.
  3. So we are re-uniting Ristolainen and Myers who were together on the Buffalo team that couldn't make the playoffs and were bottom feeders for a long, long time. Nice proposal.
  4. Trade Tanev for a 2nd. And then I'd do Boeser for Josi. If Nashville is crazy enough to say yes. One can dream. Funny how our old dmen who we deem unfit to play bottom pairs for us are regulars on a dmen focused Nashville team.
  5. Makes the Leafs a very good team. And Arizona have enough incentive to do it with Matthew's stardom. Nice proposal.
  6. requests a trade.. this guy looks lucky to be in the league.
  7. lol. Ashamed to see you are a Canucks fan. No manners. No class. Can't take an opinion that's different from yours. Childish insults? rofl. Get a life/grow up.
  8. A slump is when you are a good team to begin with. We played well for 3 weeks in October, that's it. And we were awful last season. Can hardly call ourselves a good team.
  9. lol. So you think a 22 year old Tkachuk has already peaked? He can easily break 80 points any time in the next couple of years. Or, worded in another way, Tkachuk is already a top 10 LW in the league. Does that make you feel better?
  10. Juolevi not looking good at the moment, more and more like a bust given his draft position. Other dmen in his draft class have already played 3-4 full NHL seasons.... Bummer he is not working out especially now is the golden time to transition our older Dmen. I just drool when I think about if we had drafted Tkachuk instead. Gritty 80 point top LW. We could be quite a good team right now. My jaws just dropped when we drafted Juolevi instead of Tkachuk, never expected it to happen since Tkachuk was such an obvious choice.
  11. Love your confidence and how you are posting your opinion as if it is fact. Except in reality this is what they say about Jeff Skinner and a myraid of other soft skilled guys, but Skinner goes on to score 40 goals in a season. So your points of Baertschi being soft, can't play in the NHL anymore is just your opinion. The fact is Baertschi is NHL calibre player; around 0.50 ppg. If he doesn't fit here, fine. Don't slander him.
  12. So they got 3 decent prospects, although all 3 seem to be underperforming. Merkley is a great prospect, but again underpeforming. 1st + 3rd; and potentially 2 x 1sts. The potential for 2 1sts is probably what got Devils to bite instead of trading with Colorado. Those conditions are quite reachable. If it was us, we would have to offer Lind, Brisebois, Woo and the same picks. Which we are of course unable to afford our future like that. Pretty funny fans thinking they would take Eriksson in a Taylor Hall trade.
  13. lol... hes not admiring his pass. You need to be aware of how the play is developing so you know what to do and where to go. So with the argument of keeping your head up. So with that aspect, hockey players can't just be following the play. Have to do 2 things at once, follow the play and heads up to look out for oneself.
  14. We were playing poorly since November, way before Edler injured. And if Edler is so good, why has our team underperformed for the past 5 years+? Logic...
  15. Armia is a decent add, dont see any use for Weal.... May be Sutter for Armia straight up and shave some cap in the process, that's good.
  16. Baaertschi's a decent playmaker. Watch him go to another team and shine.
  17. because people dont think before they post. Markstrom's probably looking at 6x6 at the minimum with the way hes playing for us; it's his last payday. And Goalies seem to fetch quite a bit of coin the last few years in the league.
  18. Wow Demko's already had a concussion like last pre-season...? Also in practice and from a shot off the mask...
  19. So what do you think a 70 point defensemen will get? If Hughes keeps up his production, we are looking at 5.5mil per year minimum. Pettersson, 9million minimum. We will also have to give Gaudette/Virtanen a raise to around 2.5mil each. We will have to re-sign Demko to a bridge that's another 3.5mil. Not to mention our defense lineup likes bare 2 years from now with Edler and Tanev getting old. That 16 million you are talking about doesn't look enough, does it? And I am just talking about minimums here. If any player holds out and requests more, then we are in for some fun.
  20. Quite a bit of good teams fighting for playoffs spots in the East. The contenders Washington, Boston NY Islanders, no idea how they are playing so well for the last 2 seasons, their team looks mediocre on paper Philadelphia, AV as coach; their years of prospects finally taking NHL roles Pittsburgh, no need to say anything Carolina, young and fast, decent team Florida, Quenville as coach, clubbed with years of prospects + Huberdeau/Barkov/Ekblad Buffalo, Eichel and their young team And then you also have 2 teams where anyone would consider them contenders 2 months ago on the outside looking in: Tampa Bay + Toronto.
  21. Package Boeser + 1st + Tyler Madden trade for Patrick Kane. Pettersson + Kane to drive 2 scoring lines I can see us being a contender with that core.
  22. A country poking fun at another country's economic performance. How childish Trumps have made the world lol.
  23. Need some winning streaks. We are in danger of losing this season. The other teams are passing us by.
  24. lol on mutiple levels. No way Toronto will go 2 year without a 1st round pick, remember they already traded away 1 with Marleau trade. And you have pondered, if we traded away Markstrom, we are actually in a worse situation than Toronto/Montreal? At least they backups, we have none lol. Not to mention our starter hasn't even been tested yet for a full season. Unless you are saying we are throwing this season away when we are obviously chasing for a playoff spot?
  25. You know what? Can't believe we let this guy play 18 minutes every game for the past 3 years. Quite obvious he's got no offense talent, 3 goals in 21 games on a secondary scoring depleted Oilers.
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