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With Boeser off the table, I really can’t see any other options to accomplishing the goal of long term sustainable success without obtaining more higher end draft picks and prospects over the next couple of years without trading one or both of JT or Bo. While I’m more comfortable keeping Bo on a reasonable deal, I’ll be very surprised and disappointed if we keep JT as well even with reasonable term and AAV. I love how this management team isn’t telegraphing what they want to do. Unlike JB.

EFF YEAH!!!! Congrats to our boys... Danny, Hank AND LUI!!!!!!!!!

Or...the next global pandemic hits and WW3 erupts and the global economy crashes, making any long term deals signed now look brilliant for them. You just never know.

I don't mean to sound negative but as much as I like Miller as a player, where he's at and where the team is at don't align IMO and to me regardless of term and AAV, if this organization is serious about long term sustainable competitiveness, then Miller needs to be moved for as much as we can get. This team can't keep doing the same thing it's always seemingly done...signing long term and expensive deals for players in their 30's and eventually ending up with no prospect depth and pipeline.

I've driven out to a game in Kanata and always wondered why they put a bloody rink out in the middle of nowhere at the time. Actually I was more interested in seeing tech giant Nortel's head office campus than that ugly rink anyway. Great move to go downtown and the renderings look beautiful. Good luck to them.

I guess Kuzmenko wasn't as impressed with Mess as Connor was. LOL.

Wait a minute. How did that Canucks swag get into Russia with all these restrictions and embargo's?

“He will play. You know he’ll play! He’ll play on crutches! He will play! And he’ll play at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night!”

Expecting Allvin to announce shortly that the Canucks are ditching the blue and green for the blue and yellow.

It seemed highly likely to me that it was him from the beginning, but after over a year to show up at the home, arrest him and take him in knowing it would be front page news to release him and not charge him does smack of desperation and a possible publicity stunt timed for her 50th birthday. It's painful to watch from the outside and I can't imagine what family and friends are going through.

So maybe the Bruins will be tanking for Bedard after all. Well run teams seem to find a way to end up bad for one or two years and drafting high in those years where there are elite franchise prospects are available to be drafted. Or at least it feels that way.

I firmly believe that new management is in retool mode for the next couple years and expect (hope) that they'll maximize the return of prospects and picks for Miller/Boeser to get that started right away. We're not in a position to be paying a 30 year old coming off a career year the kind of numbers being bandied about at this point of the teams cycle. I hope we can remain competitive but I'm willing to accept a couple years of pain if I see a real plan by management being carried out.

If he works really really really really hard, the dominoes fall correctly, and Jupiter aligns with Mars in the Northern Hemisphere in February then there's a chance he could possibly become a third liner in a couple of years. Sarcasm aside, we need more depth in our prospect pool on the farm. But this feels like a JR/PA type of Penguins signing where that organization seems to always have a pipeline of valuable depth players coming up like Guentzel, O'Conner, Rust, Marino...etc all in that mid-20's age range. Getting Nils over here soon at his age now to develop for a couple of years then makes sense.

Yup this is why I was hoping they'd move him at the last deadline where his value was likely it's highest. Still think they need to move him though.

Good summary. Basically saying what management has been saying for a few months now. Creating cap space and depth means at least one of our top players currently on the team may not be around much longer so the lead-up to the draft has me really excited. I really like what I'm hearing but we shall see.

I don't think management is playing hardball with BB at all. They've been pretty clear about what both parties agreed to when he was hired. The team exercised it's option so now it's over to Bruce. He wasn't forced to signed the deal when he was hired so why is there an expectation in the media and this market that he's suddenly owed an additional extension based on a portion of a season? Now I'm not an analytics person at all and I find it all quite overwhelming tbh, but outside of the shiny and sparkly record the second half of the season, there's a lot of analytics that suggest that the way this team plays, the "structure" if you will, is not that good and not conducive to longer term winning. Which is why I believe management is not sold on Bruce and may want to institute a coach or staff sooner rather than later so that will be able to create the analytics-positive data that they want to see as soon as possible. Maybe they're actually hoping he opts out of his option? I think the option deadline is mid-June. We'll see.

New management pretty much responsible for the Pens team we're watching in the playoffs right now. Yes, I understand that they have high end players, but they have so many that I've never heard of. And that's where management wants to get to with our team. Not get emotionally attached to anyone other than a handful of core players and manage the rest of the assets to increase depth. To create an environment where they can plug and play non-core players into a system or style of play so that discussion around Motte and Richardson and other players becomes moot. Just plug and play.

Don't even go there. LOL

I just have a feeling it won't be here. Management has being prepping us for a while now. I just hope we hit the motherlode and get a great haul of high picks/prospects/players.

I find all this consternation about the presser quite amusing. After hearing what both JR and PA had to say, I actually came away feeling really good and comforted that this organization is finally in the hands of a management team (emphasis on team) that knows what they're doing and has a plan to build this organization at all levels for long term competitiveness be it composition of the team, practice and medical facilities, scouting system...etc. IMO, the message from them has been pretty consistent for the last 3 months and this seems to have been lost with many in the media and these boards simply focused on and blinded by the teams' record since the coaching change without hearing what's been said all along... "lack of depth", "lack of speed", "lack of structure", "lack of prospects"...are all things that have been communicated by JR and PA for a few months now. How will this play out? Who knows, but they could do a lot if they can maximize the value of Miller in the offseason. Yes that trade would hurt in the short term but I'm prepared for a step back next season in order to get our house in order. For the first time we may have a management team that doesn't appear to have any intention of managing by fan expectation and to just try to make the playoffs with short term job-preserving decisions. That's why we are where we are to begin with no? I'm looking forward to an exciting summer.

@JM_ That animal welfare and research might not be at the top of their priority list. Not saying they're poor owners because I don't know that and I don't know what their reputation is with their other aquariums. But cutting corners to make bottom line look better could become an option.

Considering the owners are in the entertainment field, sadly I'm not surprised at this news. Current properties[edit] Amusement parks[edit] Owned/operated[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Dollywood Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 1961 1976 Sold stake to Dolly Parton in 1986 Kentucky Kingdom Louisville, Kentucky 1987 2021 Owned by the Kentucky State Fair Board but operated by HFE Silver Dollar City Branson, Missouri 1960 Wild Adventures Valdosta, Georgia 1996 2007 Purchased for $34.5 million ($43.1 million in 2020 dollars[8]) Water parks[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Dollywood's Splash Country Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 2001 Hurricane Bay Louisville, Kentucky 1992 2021 Included with admission to Kentucky Kingdom Splash Island Valdosta, Georgia 2003 2007 Included with admission to Wild Adventures White Water Branson Branson, Missouri 1980 Aquariums[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Adventure Aquarium Camden, New Jersey 1992 2007 Newport Aquarium Newport, Kentucky 1999 2007 Vancouver Aquarium Vancouver, British Columbia 1956 2021 [9] Attractions[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Stone Mountain Stone Mountain, Georgia 1998 Owned by the State of Georgia; operated by HFE Talking Rocks Cavern Stone County, Missouri 1969 Dinner shows[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Dolly Parton's Stampede Pigeon Forge & Branson 1988 & 1995 Chain of dinner theaters. Pirates Voyage Myrtle Beach & Pigeon Forge 1992 & 2019 Dinner Theatre first opened as a Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede but converted to Pirates Voyage in 2011. Pigeon Forge location opened in 2019. Showboat Branson Belle Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri 1995 A dinner, show and cruise originally known as Kenny Rogers Showboat Branson Belle. Lodging[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Dollywood Cabins Pigeon Forge 2010 Cabin style lodging in the Great Smoky Mountains Dollywood's DreamMore Resort Pigeon Forge 2015 Full Service resort and spa Evergreen Resort Stone Mountain, Georgia In partnership with Marriott International, Inc. a conference, golf and spa resort Stone Mountain Inn Stone Mountain, Georgia Stone Mountain Campground Stone Mountain, Georgia Silver Dollar City campground Branson Log cabins and campground Sports Entertainment Franchise[edit] Name Location Year Opened Year Acquired Notes Harlem Globetrotters International Inc. Atlanta, GA 1926 2013 Exhibition Basketball team

JR is an old hat at this negotiating game so I love hearing he's irritating a young GM who's maybe not used to dealing with a Jedi Master. Feels good for a change to know that our guy actually knows how to play the game.