MJDDawg

It’s not even loading the new site this morning. Will assume preseason bugs.

Nothing to see here. Players have been doing this for years.

I can’t shake that gut feeling that we’re going to regret not drafting him.

On the one hand it means that we’re doing something right with the initial hire, but on the other hand do we have a problem keeping good people, and if the latter then WHY???

Will make him more streamlined so he can skate faster. Sort of like Homer’s speed holes:

I’m just excited I’ll now be able to say the name Blueger without people looking at me funny.

You are correct. Button was the only guy who had Virtanen around 25 iirc.

LOL. You’re way undervaluing our package here. We should be able to get a first or second round pick plus a teams’ top prospect.

Bingo. Hence the term “colour”. Ray has so many stories to share and imo will pick right up where Cheech left off. He’ll be a fantastic addition if this is true.

This exactly. We have zero flexibility and every GM in the league knows that we have to move out salary. Any trades we make will likely have sweeteners on the way out, meaning either more picks or more prospects on the way out of town. This management team made their decisions with signing JTM and trading the first rounder for Hronek to reduce any flexibility we might have had. Both these moves make sense for a team that’s on the upswing and ready to compete now. Not for a team with little prospect depth, few draft picks and handcuffed by cap mismanagement. I don’t think anyone would argue that individually and in a vacuum that these moves are good ones. But much like loading up your credit cards and punting the consequences down the road, there is and will be a huge long term price to pay for the hope of one good season next year. So much for new managements goal for long term sustainable success. Now I’m just hoping we can win a cup in my lifetime.

Aquaman pulled out of a deal with the owners of the Plaza of Nations property across the street for reasons unknown. My guess is they tried to screw the property owners at the last minute. Idiots imo as that’s the perfect site. The property owners were never told why and if iirc, might have even been suing Aquilini for a costs they incurred. If true we shouldn’t be surprised as this is the way this owner does business. There’s a long list of lawsuits against ownership across all their companies.

They’re likely limited to club seats…not us riff raff.

Don’t like it but would understand it. And only if they can take OEL and say Boeser or Garland. I can then look forward to Boeser, who’s a good dude and person, score 50 goals on Bedard’s wing.

Now imagine if we still had the Horvat first rounder and possibly having both these players. I still believe we’d be further ahead in three years going the draft route than we’ll be doing what we’re doing now.

Good riddance. We need to stop being a dumping ground for projects like this.

I should’ve been more clear, I didn’t mean Miller’s deal is a bad contract (although I believe it’s not the right timing for our team at this stage) but what I meant was that perhaps we can get a team to take one of our bad contracts along with Miller without them having to give us any assets. Wishful thinking I suppose.

IMO, the market for Miller should be wider given the really strong teams that have been eliminated earlier than expected and that could obviously use him to get over the hump. I’m hoping that new GM’s around the league looking to make a splash will be more willing to pay up in terms of assets or taking a bad contract.

Saw this in Global News. Thought it was well done and very powerful.

My biggest fear being set in motion…that a Blackhawks rebuilt core with Bedard will win another Cup before we get our first. Almost resigned to this now.

He’ll do it at the draft retroactively.

This exactly. It’s the Pittsburgh model. Always wondered how they’d always have another “no name” young player ready to make the leap from Wilks-Barre. This is how. Keep ‘Em coming.

Boy does Milstein have a lot of leverage with this team. Better not piss him off.

I just think that his message is not really understood sometimes. I mean I actually laugh at some of the words he uses because i don’t know what they mean half the time. But I understand his overall point that by doing what they’ve done the team has put itself in a pickle. I think it’ll probably hit home for most this summer when the team can’t find trade partners willing to take a bad contract without significant incentives. Like maybe that first round pick burning a hole in Rutherfords pocket. And maybe more.

No doubt they tried hard to move cap. But it ain’t that easy. Which is why the whole win now plan doesn’t make sense. In order to move their previous mistakes, they need to make it worth it to another team by retaining salary, taking back other bad contracts, or offering sweeteners like picks and prospects. But by doing what they’ve said they’d do, they have much less room and opportunities to do any of that. Sure buyouts can provide some relief but you still have to sign players so the team will probably have to wait until some of their bad contracts come off the books in the next 2 or 3 years without being able to truly build around the core until then. Seeing that we’d be in this position for a good couple of years, now would’ve been a perfect time to collect the high picks needed to draft future stars and have the draft capital needed to really make an impact. I believe now we’ll be having the same discussions about the dearth of high end prospects and roster depth in 3 years that we’ve been talking about for the last three. I hope I’m wrong. Very very wrong.

Of course it’s about cap. Sadly this so called retool that currently leaves us over the cap and with depleted draft capital will IMO cause us to once again simply play around the fringes of this roster once again, just like the previous management.