Hockey-78

13 shots in 5 games. Man, sounds like Parise had just enough time to leave his legacy. Speaking of The Mentor: 6 games, 12 shots, 0 points. The Wild bought him out 5 years too late. But if the Wild could elevate itself to be a contender within 3 years, one could argue they bought him out just in time. Might be Parise's last season, who knows.

I believe he's on pace to score 0 + 82. Wouldn't it be funny if he did just that. I mean I reckon that'd leave 50% of the fans happy and 50% unhappy.

No, you are right. They lack strength to do anything about it. All of those three you mentioned are finesse players with small balls. They need someone like Oleksiak or Zadorov to show how it's been done.

These modern puppies lack the mentality to do that. The offensive corps have probably 2 or 3 players who are willing to do that. The rest of the forwards are just a bunch of pu**ies to put it bluntly.

Nah... he did. Fenton just didn't fancy him.

Sorokin - what a stud.

Now it occurs to me you were horribly, horribly wrong. Jesse is in the middle of making the U-turn of all the U-turns, for real.

So the big question is: are we witnessing the direct result of the departure of both #20 and #11 OR is this totally unrelated to that? OT, Suter amassed over 6 mins. PP time against the Bruins and they lost.

Hammond's been toast for a while. They should show him the door and let some kid take his spot. Experience is good but not when you can't hack it anymore.

Svechnikov did enter the league as an 18 y old kid, Kaprizov was 23. That's a pretty big difference. Will Svechnikov make as many headlines as Kaprizov in two years, I don't know but the difference between those two IMO isn't really that big despite Kaprizov's awesome rookie season. I'm sure you and me and the Russian hockey channels will be much wiser after the upcoming season. I'm thinking Kaprizov will have his hands full of keeping Andrei behind him in that pecking order rather than surpassing any of those guys above him. I guess it's pretty clear already but I really, really like Svechnikov as a player.

Alex, who is "they"? IMO that's some list "they" put him on the 6th place. Vasilevskiy is the least experienced of those 6 and to this date he's played 302 games and won both Vezina and Conn Smythe Trophy. IMHO Kaprizov's cinderella run under extraordinary circumstandes is getting way too much appreciation. I wonder who was right behind Kirill in that list?

I was comparing their contracts. Both risky at the time of signing, no denying of that. Lion? We'll see. Last season he had something to prove. In the upcoming season, who knows. If the Wild win more in the regular season than last year, it was an ok move. If the Wild have a deep run, you could argue it was an excellent move. The time span is short though; the Wild have to get some results in the next two seasons, otherwise they're screwed. Guerin agreed? It would've been a real marketing failure to express contrary feelings right after the signing. Guerin: "I mean, he's a nice guy but not really worth the money." Helluva way to motivate a player.

The Wild organization repeating it's own blatant errors from time to time with these anchor contracts even if that you-know-who schmuck is no longer with the team. Too much money and years cemented on a seemingly selfish player who's even not fully committed to the team to begin with. First he won't sign and then he demands two years worth of NTC. To be or not to be. A very bad deal which most likely will haunt the Wild, like it did in the case of Parise and Suter. Nice job Wild of ensuring to stay in the path of failure for a decade and counting. You can't make this **** up. Your turn, @rottenrefs.

Lol, I already posted about it in another thread. Pure folly. Let me just say some organizations never seem to learn.

Now Russo tweets the Wild are anxious, again, to hire him BACK!

When you've had the taste of being THE Boss and dictating things, how can give up on that... you can't, it's in your blood. And Suter with a NMC... Goddamn, what are those clowns doing in Dallas. They sign and seal the deal with the same clause that was the very reason player was bought out to begin with?!

Kirill, I'm sure you're a nice guy and all, but for crying out loud: If you can't and won't wear your smelly jock straps for no less than $9 mil. a year, you can come and ki$$ my rear when I fart after five burritos. Seriously, grow a pair.

Can we split the difference and say 2012?

Yeah. Someone needs to go and rub that article in Parise's and Suter's face. Like today.

IMO a very beneficial deal for the Wild.

Yeah. $70 mil. isn't enough based on such a small sample size of games? You've got to be [insert] kidding me. How the Wild is always able to draft and acquire these money-grubbers is beyond belief...

25 year old scoring 14 points in 31 games in Germany? Probably little reason to get excited about him, huh?

The Flyers.

That is not a contender unless Suter and Parise were even bigger cancers than everyone believes.

I agree. But, in some strange, eery way to me Golikoski and Kulikov look on paper better than Suter and Cole. The Wild might have a better mixture on D next season.