RonJeremy

Through Executive Order I am eliminating the lame shootout and instituting a ten minute OT and after ten minutes if it’s a tie, then it’s a tie and the loser gets zero points . I don’t believe in participation trophies.

There is no way, we were getting any impact player unless you traded TK, we don’t have anything else to trade that will get a great return . We cannot win anything with the centers we currently have . Frost is playing first line but he’s more like a second line. guy. Poehling and Laughton are certainly not second liners and Coots is washed up. We have a long way to go.

I’m just concerned about his small size, Nieds and Lidstrom weren’t physical but they had solid size and weren’t hit with multiple major injuries before they hit 22. I don’t think having two small guys like York and Drysdale as my first pair is gonna work in the long run. I hope he works out, but I have a sick feeling that we are gonna lose the Gauthier trade big time. if we could use him to move up in the draft and get a guy like Dickinson, I’d unload him in a minute.

He basically the Nolan Patrick of defenseman, he always hurt and his development is way behind due to injuries. I hope we trade him at the deadline.

To me he’s another Ghost, all offense and zero defense, we got robbed in trading him for Gauthier. I know we were handcuffed in the deal. I wish we would have got Byrum, I know Briere tried to get him but Colorado ended up trading him to Buffalo .

Drysdale is also horrible defensively, if we could trade him for a high pick at the draft or use the FLA pick and him to get a top ten I and grab a dman, I’d do it. He’s a small injury prone softie.

Come on, he hit a career high in goals this year, he’s been our best defenseman. He’s obviously not a true #1 dman and Torts has his him playing huge minutes as I’d he is, that’s been a big problem with our team for years in miscasting players. If we had a better player group of dman he would be a better player because he’d be on the second pair where he should be.

I hate it, it’s nothing but a gimmick

and I will nominate you as VP

Sanheims goal looked like the highlights from his junior career, where he was an offensive force. I think next year he really steps up to another level. He always had the talent but it took him a little long to develop it.

The Great Pumpkin has arrived. We overachieved all year, the collapse just didn’t happen as soon as we thought it would, they waited for the last ten games of the year.

We have overachieved all year, it’s finally catching up to us.

That question has been answered Coots is shot and Atkinson is completely shot.

Because he reminds Torts a lot of his favorite player…Laughton.

He’s recovered , he just sucks defensively.

Poehling is a much better player, he’s good defensively, has good size and speed and has some untapped offensive skill. To me, he makes Laughton expendable.

The problem is all the defensemen we currently have are also complementary pieces, we do not have a legit #1 offensive dman and we don’t have a legit shutdown defender either . Adding more complementary guys isn’t the answer. For example the Rangers have a perfect duo , Fox is the two way guy with high end offensive skill and Trouba is the physical shutdown guy. That’s the way you build a top pair, one big shutdown guy with and offensive guy. Two small non physical guys like Drysdale and York are not ideal for a top pair. Our top two needs are a #1 center and a legit top pair on defense. Maybe York becomes a Desjardins type guy for us and Bonk looks to be very skilled but he’s not ready. We still need a stalwart defender with size and skill and some snarl also.

We definitely are going to have to draft a center, and in order not draft another Poehling or Laughton we can’t be picking 18-25. We are gonna have to trade up in the draft plain and simple, we are already loaded at right wing and Michkov is also a right wing, sooner or later a right wing has to go. So you have to deal from a position of strength to shore up a weakness. The only way we move into a high enough position to get a center is via a trade. Unless we move two 2024 first round picks and one of our 2025 picks to acquire a top 5 pick. The reason Poehling and Laughton are being used in their roles is not that they are Torts’ pets, it’s because other than Frost we have no skilled centers, Poehling is big with speed and Laughton is quick but neither are offensive dynamos. Coots is skating like Brad Marsh, he is out of gas and possibly washed up. We really have no other options at center right now.

We can sign all the dmen we want, we are going nowhere with Laughton or Poehling as the second line center. Frost is a second liner, we need a real first line center and then Poehling is perfect as third line center Laughton can be traded and Coots can be fourth or switch with Poehling depending if Coots bounces back next year. His days as a top two center are over.

You are right ,Ginning has been better defensivel. Attard takes a lot of chances in the offensive zone, I don’t think he has been burned in doing so but Torts probably prefers a defensive type.

That dman apple stroudle is really laying the lumber on our guys.

Well if that’s the case , then they deserve what they get and their careers are toast. I hadn’t heard those details.

20 year olds are not exactly the picture of maturity, have you ever seen what goes on at college parties and spring break. I’m not defending them if they are guilty but just being there doesn’t make you guilty. Time will tell.

I don’t know ,the NFL and NBA allow wife beaters and convicts second chances, I know the NHL is different, so some teams may want him. You know how it goes these days, people are all outraged and then it’s soon forgotten. The mayor of DC was caught on camera smoking crack with escorts, resigned and was re-elected . Maybe Hart plays overseas for a year and comes back. The Flyers would still own his rights for a trade, unless they outright release him. Plus , how many 18 yr olds have good judgment when drinking and at a party.

No, Montreal is smothering them and hitting everyone hard. It’s a tremendous checking effort by Montreal, we can’t get any sustained attack and they are winning all the battles. After that high octane game against the Rangers you knew a letdown was coming.