Phil_314

Lol get McDavid, or Hughes' partner.  And, go!

Lol her broomstick and chicken feather duster will be your one-way ticket to LTIRobidas Island.

Lol take your chances @Odd. She'll smack you across the back with a broomstick with a motion and velocity that'll make Ovie/ Matthews' shots look slow and weak by comparison  

@smithers joe @Ghostsof1915 1 day contracts to all of them to retire as Canucks and get raised to the Ring of Honor.

Richard Lorry Floodbank

Probably one of their cheesecakes?

Yup!  Not a frequent visitor but it is quite nice

Ooh where did you go for dessert?  Come back soon

Nice, coming up for Saturday Brilac?  Have plans already also but hopefully another time (heading down to catch the Mariners game on the 26th!)

Summer's beautiful outside, can easily live without hockey (and can talk about it in anticipation).
Actual losing sucks.

Was initially going to say that that's too low given how other generational talents (McDavid, Crosby) finished point/ game or better, but I think they also had veteran help on the roster.  Bedard's pretty much got Hall, maybe Seth Jones/ Tyler Johnson/ Lukas Reichel/ Athanasiou(?) if you consider that a supporting cast. 

Other #1 overall picks (Stamkos, Matthews, Tavares, Mackinnon, Hischier) ended up with around 50-65 points too.  Pat Kane had 72 in '08 but the rest of the dynasty was in place.  The anomaly that's Ovie's 1st season in 2005-06 (106 points in 81 games, 12.2% shooting percentage) does show that Bedard could really blow up (Alex's main help that year was a 57 point Dainius Zubrus), but (unless Bedard reallyyyyy finds his footing right away) I think you've found a good range for him.  

Just for completeness sake, also looked into other shifty scorers (Robertson, Pastrnak, Kaprizov) and their 1st seasons:
- JR: 51 GP, 17 G, 45 P
- DP (first two seasons): 
46 GP, 10 G, 27 P
51 GP, 15 G, 26 P
- KK (as an older rookie):
55 GP, 27 G, 51 P

So I think scoring a bunch is reasonable but unless they're older or a true phenom, it's probably unlikely that they'll score much more than a point per game (now I'm preparing myself for him to explode Ovie style).    

Datsyuk's got Bergeron's defensive IQ but also add Pat Kane's ridiculous hands to do the things he did.  All the respect to PB who just retired, but just look at these glowing compliments e.g. from Brett Hull
 

@Ghostsof1915 I tested positive over the past weekend 
@Citizen Erased yeah I was really fatigued too, slept two full days then got better thankfully.
@Eddie ah I see; do you know how did they/ you recover it?  Food tastes so bland this week and I love food so really hoping it's not permanent.  

PTO for Ritchie, but pass on Motte and Nemeth IMHO.  See if he could develop some consistency, but Motte's a bit too small (even though he's smart and a good defender) and I'd rather see what we have with Wolanin and let Hirose develop instead of blocking their ways to the NHL.  I think if the latter two would accept 2-way deals then sure, they would be good depth to stock up.

Wouldn't they trade Pesce to SJ if it's rumored that they want EK65?  SJ could flip him for a major haul.

When's the BBQ?  Thanks for the invite

@Neil HD I SURE HOPE SOOOO!!

I don't think we really need to package anything with Boeser, as "overpaid" as he is, he'd have value in the eyes of teams that want/ need to revamp their roster to stay competitive (e.g. Boeser to Pittsburgh for Rutta [slightly overpaid 3rd pair RHD], Hallander [C prospect in development] and a pick would replace Zucker well).

@Drive-By Body Pierce that'd be something, could see the news headlines, "Rookie Robo-GM Leads Pricey, Inefficient Bottom-Feeder to Miracle Championship Run, Old Boys Club Human GMs Collectively Break A Sweat" 

Lol unfortunately our good buddy Allvin is the one in love with the Swedes, so I doubt OEL goes anywhere 

Joshua, Miller, Bear/ Schenn, uhh..., Raty?, Boeser/ Myers (after next year).

By most accounts, Miller's improved lately, so even if there are fans that fear regression back to a lazy/ diva attitude and want to move him before his NMC kicks in, it still looks unlikely that it'll happen at this point.  The possibility of trading for a Russian does make it more likely that we trade for Kuznetsov (though he's not a Milstein client ).

Yeah no worries; he's been good, played more minutes than even Hughes in one of the games from what I heard.  Could always use a stable RHD, which is a commodity.

Lol are you saying trade him away?  (Also he cost more than a 1st to acquire, FYI...)

1000%.  Either one goalie holding the fort by standing on his head, or a strong defense in front of a good goalie (I'm not of the belief that you can score your way out of your team's defensive woes, unless you had Pittsburgh Penguins prime Crosby and Malkin, though Murray was pretty good during his run with them).