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Zibby or Crosby for a freaking goaltender

Love it. This dysfunctional foreign legion of an F troop is just a hot mess. At least the AHL coach will miss Tyson Jost. Recent moves Jost cleared waivers and was shipped. Tage Thompson activated, healthy ready to rock than set for personal reasons. Defenseman Ryan Johnson shipped to minors Friday at 11am, recalled four hours later The coaching fiasco. God I am glad none of this anywhere near Detroit

Wings fan coming in peace lol. Lots and lots to like, although the Wings are banged up and on a skid right now. Husso out, Klostin on IR. Maatta game time decision. Still, Kane on fire, Debrincat looks so very happy. Larkin a dynamic two way center. The wings lost quite a few games against mediocre teams lately, I think that of all the teams in desperate need of four days off it is Detroit. 5-3 Wings, Edvinsson with the Gwg on the second power play

I was there!! First time watching Ovie in person. He set Mantha up on his first goal, then took his sweet time with the winner. Lazy, he hung around the blueline but when he needed to bang he did. Jensen looked really, really good, his confidence is through the roof. Nobody got a good shot past him all night.

Nolan Patrick announced his retirement today from the NHL. He is 25. He was the second pick in the draft behind Nico Hischier, the next three picks after Patrick were Heiskanen, Makar and Elias Peterson. Patrick saw his career derailed by migraines. 32 goals, 77 points in 222 games. That's it.

That's me!!! Thank you!!

Thank you sir!!

Hayes. And vrana. Krug. Saad, kapanen and Sundqvist are rumored to be a line. Leddy and scandella are on America's most wanted for stealing a paycheck. Blais was traded away (smart) but then overpaid to get back (dumb). Armstrong is the culprit. Period.

The Chief is dead After yet another killer loss Doug Armstrong fired Berube. AHL coach Drew Banister takes on the interm coaching gig Berube took over and won the cup with the blues but over four years Taresenko, pietrangelo and others moved on while Armstrong tried to bring lightning in a bottle with poor results, vrana on waivers, krug wants dealt, half a dozen baffled adds that went nowhere. Berube tried to make gnat sh1t outta pepper. He deserves better

Traded Robinson to buffalo for a 7th rounder. Nothing for nothing. Greaves in the mix in net, didn't move the needle although he played very sound last night.

IDK about Hughes man. Pure offense, his defense is poor, he moves the puck very well but the best way to pin him in is to force him to play pinned in. Very flawed, incredible teammates, I just feel his scarier moments are ahead. Still hiskanen unless someone comes along for the Norris ....

A bit of this and that ... TOP TURN RANKINGS 1-32 32 Sharks. What a disaster 31 Hawks. Sigh, at least they have bedard 30. CBJ. Lost without a clue 29. Sens. Half the team is unwatchable 28. Sabres. Fools gold 27. Oilers. A bit of a spark. 26. Wild. Two steps forward three back 25. Ducks. Bright future bleak today. 24. Kraken. Ugly nameless team. 23. Blues. Can win or lose 6-0 any day. 22. Canadians. Play hard but so many holes. 21. Preds. Saros, forsberg quietly being shopped 20. Flames don't look now but getting there 19. Penguins 5 stars, 15 slugs. 18. Yotes. Always in every game. 17. Flyers Torts says they have balls. He's right. 16. Jets. They played as a team every day 15. Capitals three goalies. Underrated. 14. Lightning. Something very wrong 13. Wings. Man only missing is a tender 12. Canucks. Built western tough. 11. Isles. The new preds. 10. Leafs. Trying a stable back ender 9. Canes. Big holes, hard work. Need something 8. Rangers steamrolled most everyone 7. Knights resting until playoffs. Deadly 6. Devils. Yep forget record. When healthy a twelve game streak coming now. 5. Bruins. Slipped a gear. 4. Kings. An elite of elite 3. Lanche classy wants healthy at the right time 2. Stars perfect top 50 or so organization 1. Panthers. Just resting and retooling HART trophy gotta be McDavid VEZINA shester CALDER bedard. Duh ADAMS Spencer Carbery, coaching ,Capitals hitting the buttons. LADY BING again, nobody cares. Quarter turn, lots and lots to play. MC Jesus strikes me, moreso than Hughes who is crushing it.

I know rumor and innuendo can ruin things indefinitely. Anyone can make jokes .........

@Brewin Flames mentioned, cannot go wrong. I have Sabres in Danny Gare which kinda sorta tells my age lol. I would go with Thompson and Levi personally.

So anyway, no depth, no lower six, no bottom four, two elite level contracts. You could go top six forwards, top two blueliners and maaaaybe a stretch of top two back ends. The problem was it was everything. Crazy top six, middle six sux. Top two elite pair bottom four couldn't stop anyone. That's the problem, they looked up inch and death and decided, that's the problem, we need this and that. Sometimes you can win with a golden ticket but maybe ten percent of the time. Claude giroux signs a four year deal.lets grab Korpi or boom or bust chychrum or batherson. It's maddenly slow takes process, hell about four dudes are hear but it works. For ten years give or take but they slowly, glacially, methodical they put the brutes down, very tickled. We are young deep and raring to go. Yzer-plan as you were.......

Ldk dude, the coach is a bit of a mess, the lines aren't set up everything wrong, inexperienced. IMHO the Sens have skilled depth fun run, elite level.

Wild flat. Bit flat, Kaprisov a nifty but he when push comes to shove it's over. Seriously they lost when the Wild was over. Seriously Seider took over, ghost went crazy and that is something. Pushing just on dictating. Freaking love it.

Just wanted to post it out here

Fair to say this was the flames Best game of the Year. By far. Even huberdeau and Zadorov seemed engaged.

We more or less write the same thing same time

Agreed, watched the Stars against the Leafs early in the year, paid attention to Seguin (usually I study blueliners or favorite players or scouting for my fantasy teams lol). Anyway he is a North/South straight line player with no cutting ability or speed. He is a fearless and capable net front presence on the power play. Still highly skilled but nothing like he once was. He is blessed to be surrounded by highly skilled young players and a system that still utilizes what he can still do. Overpaid? Oh my God yes, he and Benn both but unlike other teams with bloated contracts who cut the player Dallas, one of the Smartest teams in hockey manages to take advantage of what they can still do. Seguin on one leg is still very useful and skilled and a warrior. Overpaid but still talented.

Numerous sources have Kane going home to play this year and next with Buffalo, just under 4million per. It makes sense, the Sabres want to contend, Kaner a local boy the hope to move the needle. I would be weary, backstrom had the same hip surgery and just walked away from the game. Still if he is 90 percent the player he was the Sabres added him for nothing but money.

I know he is an icon, but lou lamiorello IMHO is insanely overrated. Drafted martin brodeur which won him several cups, but his signings (see Kovalchuk, ect . All...) His very questionable trading record and especially his piss poor drafting over the last 20 years make him the GOAT of all time over hyped execs. Now with the Islanders he signed the entire damn team to seven and eight year deals which is questionable for Tampa but at least they have recent cups, on the island they are a middling team, aging, nowhere to go because even 4th liners and backup goalies are overpaid for too long of a term. Other than drafting Brodeur he has done very little to earn his rep. Reporters glow about how secret he is, how privately charming he is in a curmudgeonly way but seriously, going back two decades he accidently took an 8 seed devils team to a surprise final in 2011, the leafs were good but he deserves at most little credit or even blame if you count playoff failures, he took over a mediocre isles club and made them more so. His reputation is far overblown. Honorable mention Brian Burke. The man's voice makes grit my teeth so hard my fillings nearly pop

@JR Ewing Man I agree with you on Holland. The happiest day for me in the last ten years as a Wings fan was not the signing of yzerman but Holland moving on. His drafts in later years after Jim Nill left were wretched, his trades were overpayment for bandaids and signing mediocre plays such as Weiss, abdelkader, HELM, Ericsson and so many more to long term crippling deals was dreadful. Some day he will go to the hall as an executive. I won't watch. He left scorched earth, less than five players remain in the organization he left in Motown. He inherited a team built by the great jimmy devallano took advantage of Nill draft picks Zetterberg and Datsyuk to win a cup in 2008 and then slowly ruined a once proud franchise with one inept move after another. He is one of the two most overrated exes who ever built a team in NHL history. Just awful. I thought McDavid and Leon might be able to carry the team in spite of him but it looks like not. Holland should have never been hired.the game literally passed him by the day a salary cap was implemented and he could no longer sign a hull/Hasek/robitaille with pizza money to buy a cup. (Sound of me climbing off my soapbox).

Had to happen. Knoblaugh a good rep in the AHL.