Tomdog

Just gives more room for the D to support or recover.

It's time for Kaprizov to take the puck deeper into the zone before he curls and tries that rink wide pass. 

5 minutes ago, wildstars95 said:

wild are in 12th spot for draft position ...need to loose both games 

These dopes will probably win them both and then brag about having perseverance. 

So they're playing Goose so he can get a goal this year?

I wish they would try Rossi on the PK.

Does Goligoski have some kind of bonus clause that gets him paid for x #  games?

I'm fine with putting guys on waivers if that's what it takes to get rid of these over pass happy passengers as well. 

Just now, ClusterChuck said:

Have to do some firings of coaching staff for that.

OK, I'm fine with that. 

I'm hoping Hynes does a complete overhaul on every facet of the teams strategy. 

When will they stop passing up shots from between the face-off circles to pass to an open man by the dots.

Look at all those empty seats

15 hours ago, ClusterChuck said:

Here's another thought I've been wondering about 'Tanking'.
How do you sell the idea to the team that it'll better their future getting a better pick?
Because take away the core players who are locked in for years to come. They get paid so no big deal if they lose and will eventually reap the benefits of a good player in the draft.
But what about the other 1/2 of the team who probably won't be with the team in 2 years or so?
They'll want to get their stats up for potential Contracts/Trades and yet they're told "Sorry kid, Make it look good but don't score" 
 

After thinking about your question of how to put it to the team I came up with this strategy for the GM.

GM to team. Hey guys here's the deal you guys get us into a playoff position by the All Star break.

If we're really looking like we're not going to make it, due to injuries or just plain poor play, we're going to experiment with ice time, line combinations, PP strategy, PK strategy. 

We may lose games that ordinarily we might win, but we're going to take advantage of a bad year for better draft position,  without a full blown team tear down. 

We might only get 1 year of a better draft, but we feel this is worth it in the long run.

If you don't like this strategy,  make sure you put us in a playoff position. 

SSDY Same S#$t different year.

Boldy scores.

I'm a fan too, but I don't want to watch them sneak into the playoffs and lose, I want them to go into the playoffs like true contenders.

I want them to be a dynasty team similar to Pittsburgh,  Tampa, Chicago and now Vegas. (But without the cap cheating)

And all but Vegas became dynasties by being bad for a while. 

I kind of wonder if CL doesn’t just want the money. 

Not sure how the Parise/Suter buyouts work as far as what they actually pay out.

But I'm pretty sure CL doesn't mind NOT paying the $14 million that the buyout cap hit prevents. 

The most frustrating part of this is it was clear as a bright sunny day at the all-star break that the Wild would have to play so far over their heads to make the playoffs. 

They wouldn't have had to tear the team down to the bone to get into a top 5 to 8 pick.

The difference between where the Wild are now to the #5 pick is 7 wins!

Lose 7 more games between the all star break and now and they get a top 5 pick.

Unfortunately for us I don’t think the Wild could possibly play bad enough to lose to the Sharks.

Picking out of the top 10 again. 

43 minutes ago, Alexandron said:

According to CBSsports, our game today is the most cheapest one. Starting ticket price is $18.36. Still I would like to see from our team a winning motivation. Motivation is the most important part for any success in hockey. Tanking is not a solution for winning a Stanley Cup. We have seen so many teams with 1st round pick 1st overall which were not able to get even into the playoffs. Fresh example is Chicago team with their Bedard or even Oilers with their McDavid.The main weather for the team are making the extremely motivated players to get a Stanley Cup. The more we have in the team the more success we will have. And it doesn't matter from which round they were picked or undrafted. The nicest example were Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights, and Florida Panthers who impressively was capable to reach finals last season. Conclusion: We should look for the most motivated players for the team which is very hard to find, but possible.

I know you are entitled to your opinion and I do appreciate your positive attitude, but you really need to take a better look at where the top talent in this league comes from. 
Most of the top players in this league were top 10 picks. It takes talent to win. 

That's game! 

It's too bad the rest of the league doesn't just lay down for St.Louis and just battle to the end against Vegas.

I would love nothing better than to see Vegas miss the playoffs this year.

I looked at cap friendly for Vegas next year. They have under 2 million left with 10 forwards 7 defenseman and 3 goalies under contract for next year. 

That leaves moving a goalie so they can sign 2 forwards. 

17 minutes ago, Mad Dog said:

 How much cap space do you currently have as is?

40,000. Until Spurgeon comes off LTIR, then someone needs to go. 

5 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

If Ohgren follows Eriksson-Ek's trajectory, he'll be good in about 10 years, and Khusnutdinov has been described as a 3C, so we just replaced Dewar with Khusnutdinov. So I'm not holding my breath on either of these guys...

From what I have seen of Marat, I would say we downgraded from Dewar. 

So can they delay extending Rossi, Faber and Marat for 1 year and have a little extra for one year?

IMO I don’t think the cap hit disappearing from Suter Parise is going to go as far as they think. The young guys coming up and Kaprizov will eat into that money considerably. 

Can you imagine how bad it would be if Mackinin was going against Merrill? 

2 minutes ago, Jimtown guy said:

What pick was Makar?

1st round #4 overall