smithers joe

Exactly, @Ghostsof1915. That’s why signing Schneider makes more sense. All it costs is a roster spot and the league minimum salary.

Thompson had an incredible season. Though Hill got all the playoff glory Thompson played 10 more reg season games and showed fantastically I had him in my hockey pool. If he was available I would offer a lot more than a 3rd. 

Thompson would cost far more than a 3rd, unfortunately.

That is acceptable @Ghostsof1915

Got to be Mikheyev, RT seems to like the combination of a grinder (Mikh) who can forecheck well, a playmaker (Petey) and a sniper (Kuz).

i kind of see mikheyev's speed and defensive play a perfect fit with miller and boeser, who aren't fast or good defensively. i think tocchet wants some grittier guy with petey and kuz, who will throw them down if need be. hard to play against and strong on the boards. someone like burrows, big burt, fraser or kurtenbach. i don't see that player on the team yet.

joshua and garland could make suters 3rd line very effective. diguiseppe and pods with blunger or aman could be gritty enough.

i have boeser, beauvillier and Hoglander fighting for that 2nd line winger.

would anyone say, this team is hard to play against?

and good old "Dirty 30".

I have a feeling Comtois and Miller on a line together could cause some havoc. I would love for us to sign Comtois, hes exactly what this team needs. He's got that Bertuzzi meanness and physicality.

Comtois has denied the allegations, and has cooperated with investigators for the 2018 WJC.

Yet he's a UFA.

Anaheim has lots of cap room. It's not like the Ducks can't use another good player.

What gives?

Too far behind the depth chart on LW?

Not to sure yet but I have the feeling something is going to happen before games begin.

Big Train? Well before my time, but Lionel Conacher?

your right mudge, can you name the 3 proffesional sports he played? how is the carlton kid doing these days?

Ha, ha, ha. I can't, but Google can. But whenever I don't know the answer, I don't use Google to look it up. So, I only go with what I am pretty sure I know. I think know that Conacher was named best athlete of the half-century (1900-1950), and I think he might have played for the football Argonauts.

It's raining men?

TTC attacks Smithers?

What kind of madness is this???

Me & my buddy Alf at the nursing home put this song on to get the ladies dancing!

San Francisco will never be the same.

One of the slickest, smoothest voices ever.

RIP. What a great musician and person.

Wow I was just listening to some music he recorded with Diana Krall the other day!

Heaven got another good voice.

I think there should be a parade of some sort.

when does the parade go through smithers?

I would rather the Canucks sign someone healthy.

Don't need another Ferland on our hands.

Me too Joe. And I think they will when he’s recovered from the shoulder surgery. He’s the perfect partner for Hughes. 

It's probably going to come down to Podz can bring different elements to the table than Hogs can.

Training camp is going to be interesting this year. The bigger question is who's going to be #3-4 centres this year? And will some of the farm players impress enough to grab a job in Training camp and pre-season?

imo, we still need a rh3c who can play up the line up if neccessary. sounds like we have 2 4c, blueger and aman.  our pk should be better this year.

hopefully next year they can find their 3c and gritty wingers, hard to play against.

I think Rick will go for skill in the top-6, all grit in the bottom-6, but one good forechecker on each of the top 2 lines. Mikheyev has the first line forechecking role, PDG had the 2nd line role but I think that's up for grabs.

Hopefully Hoglander or Podkolzin (or even Garland or Beauvillier) can nab that spot but PDG and Miller had some nice chemistry last year.

If Pearson is somehow healthy he'd be the perfect Tocchet-type player so you never know.

Good luck

Ain't going to be having no crumpets without tea as well Joe.

never had tea with my crumpets, usually jam or just margarine. but boy, i love them.

Amazing how much difference when management seems to know what they are doing. Instead of just stop gap measures. 

Oh they are just stop gap measures, just short term ones.

Like that they aren't crippling us with LT deals but still think overall we squandered opportunities to be better.

This is definitely a transition period over the next couple years waiting for some of Benning's bad contract to expire.  

In 2 years when the OEL penalty balloons we should be clear of Myers and Brock and have a bunch of young talent getting ready to break into the league.  Raty and Klimovich have been paired together in Abby and probably need another couple seasons before contemplate full time NHL, Willander and EP2 should be coming to NA about the same time as well we may see JL coming into replace Brock on wing.

Lots of young cost controlled options coming in if they develop.

Now that is brilliant... hope you had a fab day gentlemen... 

Hope you're both doing well. Happy Canada Day Joe!

Love you guys!

Probably alot considering he's on a cheap contract for next season & and Vegas has some work to do on that front (re: cap).

Why would we do that Joe?

his seems to be a good young goalie, probably better than our back up.

he could challenge silovs for goalie of the future. and if they traded demko next year we could still be set in goal.

mky thought was we could sign barbashev as 2c and roslovic 3c and peeke to play with hughes.

My last coach played for the Regina pats and Ottawa 67s eventually finding his way out west and playing SrA he stressed positional play. Each dman was responsible for 1/2 of the ice but in a limited role in the ozone.               ( pinching in) only done if it seemed it could be done successfully and not done if you had the least bit of confidence in pulling it off ( getting caught up ice) as for east west d zone play the defender had his side from the corner to the slot area , as play moves from one side to the other both dman are moving laterally in unison switching out who’s in the slot position as play goes from side to side. I seen Myers and OEL screw this positional discipline up so badly it became laughable. 

but why can't all defensemen do it? i see modtly left shot d men who can play the right side. not as many right shot d who can play both sides. i would imagine it has something to do with taking the puck off of the opposite boards and transferring the backhand to forehand.

since there are several players in the nhl that can do it, what exact skills do they have to be able to be as effective on both sides?

hi chonsy, still living the life of reilly

I’m good driving again in a relief role which is fine.     I played for 1 coach who was staunchly opposed to doing the switch and having been paired with the same guy our next coach preached doing it as he seen it was a way to gain the shot edge but also a way to confuse their pk. 

So this is gonna be a home run pick, or an absolute bust? There is no reason to gamble at 11. The players are gonna be pretty good at this point.

Wood

Does it say who's available at 11? Even in a mock draft?

they have sale #11, but many more good players.