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  1. tell me everything you know about zone starts. oh, you just did - one-liner champion!! insert emoticon here. fun stuff but I'll have to 'cap' it at only one response to your combination of one-liners and attention seeking.
  2. could mean that they feel the top 6 no longer needs 'foundation'. Miller added. Boeser and Hoglander - both showing excellent game without the puck. EP we didn't get to see much of - but his bubble performance - and his defensive game in general - have taken strides. Pearson returning as well - with Horvat... Aside from a number of young defensemen - they may feel the team is ready to transition the 3rd line. Still certainly need a hard minutes 4th line though - unless they intend to continue to divide Horvat's line off. Regardless - with Sutter expiring and Beagle's future health unknown - they're going to need a hard minutes bottom six C. Graovac's showing at season's end bodes well for the depth, though, imo.
  3. nice rainbow text gif. it was fun, but obviously...diminishing returns.
  4. 54 / 275 x 82 = 16. really easy stuff. one liners about Benning - are easier than math.
  5. really. yes. your fiction was 5 minutes 'regular duties' - for a 22 year old - are not the kind that Juolevi played. try again. try harder.
  6. derp. you have no idea. that was pretty much exclusive fact. next.
  7. 54 goals in 275 is what it is no matter how you attempt to respin it. yeah he was injured - has literally nothing to do with his on-ice performance. oldnewsflash - players get injured. do we need to upgrade at 1LW as well, because of injuries?
  8. Fail. Juolevi played 13+ minutes. He had 44.1% ozone starts this season and a secondary penalty killing role. Harder minutes than the vast majority of rookie blueliners play. Certainly 'critical moments' where he was on the ice. Your take is flakey and based in wrongful assumption.
  9. another solid one-liner attempt. 'lazy Jake' isn't a bottom six center. otherwise, good effort on your part. Sutter has averaged 16 goals/82 games here. next.
  10. I'd be interested in that - would definitely ask a question about OJ.
  11. who asked a good question? the potential expansion draft deals will be fun to track.
  12. that's disappointing. I'm hoping LE has the SEL in mind. aside from that, if Gaudette did in fact request a trade due to 'lack of opportunity'- then good riddance.
  13. lol what does the bottom six need? veteran centers that are healthy.
  14. I highly doubt the price tag on Edler will be 6 million this time around - my guess would be a fraction of that. I'm open to Murray, Oleksiak types -absolutelty vital if Edler moves on. The problem is that you have a green media in Vancouver, that state and repeat things like 'Rathbone is ready, he can take a lot of Edler's minutes' etc....mixed in with 'Hughes is in his prime' kind of takes - really weak perspectives. Edler is better than the typical GDT takes that fishbowl any mistake he makes.
  15. it would be foolish to write OJ off. did you watch any of his game this season?
  16. on the contrary - impossible to take many of you seriously, at all.
  17. Idiot wind is blowing....is that Paterson? What a constipated individual.
  18. I don't think that's the only take away possible here. In fact - I thought that the 'right' way to go about the last offseason - would be conservatively. For me - the Demko/Markstrom decision - the e.d. somewhat dictated a 'trajectory' choice for the franchise - and imo they made the right call. I 'would have' executed a similar 'plan' - of letting at least two of our three expiring UFAs move on, in spite of the quality of players that they are/were. For me, the most difficult to replace was Tanev - and critically, he was Hughes' partner - so I'd have prioritized him for a number of reasons, additionally, not least of which was the relative wealth we have in youg goaltending and young RW prospects (I thought Hoglander was likely ready) - and he's not the only RW in the pipeline, so as difficult as it was to let go of Marky and Tofu - there were mitigating circumstances (including the covid cap stall) that I think made it reasonable to 'set back' the trajectory more in line with Demko and the rest of the youth. That said - the team still had the potential to uptick from within with youth emerging - and had a few good additions - that gave them a chance to relatively 'sustain' where they were - but that really depended on Demko, EP, Hughes, etc sustaining or improving....In Hughes case, the loss of Tanev was 'Hughe' - in EP's case, he simply wasn't healthy, in Demko's case he had a rough start like most of his peers....But still, I loved the way the team rebounded, went on runs and got themself back into striking distance pre outbreak - that imo was the 'representative' stretch of the season after working out some of the early/preseason puck moving braincramps.... I think they should be conservative again this offseason. I 'expect' more uptick from within, and more youth push - I think they 'should' bring back 'foundation' - will still need Edler, Sutter, Beagle types in transition - but be conservative and short term about it - with the exception of perhaps some opportunity shopping for youth via the expansion draft and some of the players that might be available as a result (ie Cal Foote - and we also might have 'room' to add a forward we could protect).
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