Dogbyte

Anyone that doesn't see this as the right move don't understand numbers.

Stats and economics are only difficult if you're a complete moron. I can easily say you are in the lowest 30% of human beings on the face of this planet. The sad thing is that POS get good jobs all the time and never know how literally stupid they really are. It's like that "I told you so", feeling. It's not that satisfying when the idiot realizes how dumb they are.

That's even a weak troll job. People like you are completely useless to the rest of us. You are a complete waste of skin. Empathy is the only reason we actually let leeches like you live but honestly the world would be a whole lot better off if we just held your heads under water.

Lives of the rich and entitled?

Okay it seems like such a troll job but just in case this guy is serious there is one big thing he's missing. When your parents and life told you that you would be succesful if you stayed in school and got a degree they didn't mean you'd be better off than all of your friends, driving a Lambo, and dropping money like a hip hopper. They meant your parents wouldn't be worried and you wouldn't be starving and living on Hastings. You can make a lot of money with a degree but as was pointed out employers pay for quality and experience. Face it. You have none that an employer can see right now. Factor in that it sounds like you slipped your way through school without doing much work and you'll be spotted instantly. Work isn't like lying to your prof about an assignment and if you feed them any of the stuff you've been spewing here then good luck! You'll need it.

Ha ha yeah that's the guy. I hope for the best for everyone but people like this really deserve nothing. People like this will completely bomb out or they are one of the few that end up actually making good money and then they're the people that you sit back and wonder at how the hell they ever got a job in the first place, and how they actually got a decent job. What does your rent or the cost of your degree have to do with your salary? Nowadays you can almost make more money in a trade then you can with a degree, in fact you can probably make more. What school is giving you a degree, there is no way you did that on your own. Not that a communications degree is anything to hang your hat on. Maybe I should move into a mansion and get a $500,000 dollar raise. Now why I didn't I think of that.

Russianfan meet real life. The average wage in Canada if $47,000 per year. You would be lucky to get that right out of University as a marketer. Aren't you the guy that thinks that life is all about money? Ha ha. Justice.

Well I did say that I don't know the players enough so I don't know what more you want. I was just talking point wise. At the same instance that people look to his 16 points he scored 1 against the 2 best teams in the tournament. I would make that part of my evaluation. I just don't put much stock in an U-18 tournament that happens in April and likely has a lot of these players playing in an international stage for the first time. My apologies to you Mr. Hedman, I did not make the comment to condemn a prospect it was just a comment based on what I've seen over the years, and I didn't call him crap I just said it would raise awareness if I was the one doing the picking.

Totally inferior tournament at the end of the year where 80% of the players don't even show up. It's not a good judge of hockey future. This, if anything his play in the tournament should put up a red flag or two. He does absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, nada against the only good teams he played and then piled on points against crap teams when most players would have been content being up 5 goals thats where he pours in his points. This tournament can't make a player but it can break him. I don't know enough about these guys to say who to draft but if it was my job I'd be very worried considering his performance in this tourney.

Anybody catch the A.V. presser on nhl.com? He does the Netflix spoof. You know that one, you seen that coach ... well I'm that coach. Ha ha AV

I'm fine with giving away any roster players and a prospect not named Horvat in order to get this deal done.

I've been trying to get this point across forever. Some of these guys think they have infinite assets to screw around with. We're already going to be short as it and we got people trying to bring in a 6th top 4 defender.

Says it all right there.

Exactly why you can't sign him on a blind hunch,or a shot as you put it. We already have 8 3rd liners not to mention Sestito, Archibald, or youth. There are player and money limits to consider here.

Well said. One is bad enough, two is disaster.

They asked Drew Daughty the other day about how he gets the offence to his game. He said he doesn't think about it all. He said he is a defenceman and his only job was to play defence. He seemed insulted and bewildered by the notion that people would mistake offence from the defence as a defining quality.

People just want everything without figuring out how we are going to get there. I can't see us keeping him at the expense of Santorelli or youth. Best thing would be to add him as a package or trade him for a draft pick. He's a first pick, he should be able to get us a fourth ... no?

Lemieux, Sanheim, or if Scherbak/Schmaltz/Bleackley fall. Not a big fan of drafting a goalie. We've got way bigger fish to fry.

Ahh, horrible mistake Trevor. You wouldn't be the first hockey guy to say that and be wrong. Oh well, broken defence continues.

I don't want anything to do with Morrisey. Very unimpressed from what I've seen from him.

No way, Tanev is RFA and will be too expensive for us with our smorg of average $4.5 m per year dmen. Jensen is a quality piece that gets the trade done. I would trade Jensen for Reinhart any day of the week.

Yeah it was more of a hail mary request. He looks like the real deal. Gilmour but grown man sized. Amazing.

We need Bennett http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=721037

Well Prust will slot in and Briere will keep his spot.

The epitome of a bell curve. Terrific in his first 3 years and then all down hill. His role as a player agent definitely compromised his judgement. That signing was so unbelievably stupid. It just explemplified MG's stubborn, eogtistical God complex behavior in that he couldn't let any player go because he was also acting as everyone's agent. In a perfect world we all get NTC's and live on the beach but even the little babies that make $5 million dollars a year should have to try in life every once in a while. I hope to hell that country club is gone. Unless of course you can do simple math in your head and realize this is hockey and not a stock market portfolio, then you realize it doesn't matter and just fix the problem. Keeping a player that you don't want on your roster for a year or 3, in order to maximize value, is just plain dumb.