Hectic

hahahaha

agreed

dovetails. beauty

Murray Baron tho

Drouin was drafted in the same year and has a higher PPG than Horvat. He signed for 6 x 5.5M. I think it's only fitting that Bo goes for 6 x 5.3M

absolute beauty post, +1

Great first post! +1. I agree with the points you made. I'll go a bit further and say that I think Benning and co. drafted Virtanen for the reasons you stated, in addition to him being a local kid. The way they've treated him and advertised him extensively as a big part of our future, in my opinion, has instilled a sense of entitlement in him, and it's unfortunate that this happened. A tour of his place, all the media being fixated on him, coupled with the "sniper" type personality that he has = recipe for potential failure. Any other draft pick with such high status on our team ever get treated like this? Looking at Ehlers, Nylander, Fabbri, Larkin, Pastrnak.. of course hindsight is 20/20. But when you look at the fact that this is a local kid, and the way things have been going, I'm not really looking forward to JV being a middle 6 F (perhaps a 20G 50P guy) when the reasons for drafting him and overlooking the other options was because he was a local kid. I know it's early to give up on prospects, but I would be absolutely stoked if JB had the courage to trade Gudbranson and Virtanen for Landeskog or Duchene. He won't do it, but that's the type of trade that I would totally be on board with, and feel the organization needs to take it to the next level. Essentially our 2014 1st round (Virtanen + McCann) for a top 3 pick - makes sense to me.

saw that yesterday too... scored his 5th of the season!

Granlund / Sutter / Hansen could be the surprise of the year, with Baertschi / Horvat / Rodin also providing secondary scoring

im interested to hear people's perspective as to why they prefer Ritchie over Virtanen or vice versa, they seem like similar players

looks good wonder if we could get him second round

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum.

No they should not Sportsnet just getting attention however they can Why are people still talking on this thread

I feel like Schroeder is a smaller, more skilled version of Santorelli. Made me realize that if Schroeder can stay healthy it may make Santorelli an odd man out next year.

Great post

Agree - if he's with Hansen on the third line then we look pretty deep

I think I'd still rather have Booth than Erat.

ntc