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I'm going to guess Briere saw it this way. We need a skilled center. I can get this guy cheap. Maybe Tocchet can get him to play to his potential. If not, he's a placeholder for whoever they draft 6th overall this year and is likely the guy in 2 years. idk if him being Drysdale's best friend matters and it might even be bad but who knows, Zegras still makes me think of this and likely always will:

Trade only works if you are adding others of value. If it's a deadline deal it'll always be for picks and prospects or occasionally cap dumps.

Hard to say. I think he's an upgrade on Quinn. In the long haul I'm not sure if he's better than Kulich might be. He's like a lot of what we have in many ways. This I would not do. I think Peterka is better.

Not a prayer. Major league franchises are too valuable to allow this. Relegation is a quaint anachronism from English soccer. However the USL has announced they will now have relegation between various levels within USL, but MLS will not take part. This is the equivalent of relegation between the AHL and ECHL. FYI Buffalo will be joining USL1 next year.

They aren’t the same player, but I have a real fear that Rossi kinda slots the same way Casey Mittelstadt does: he’ll get you 50 or 60 points as your 2C and get overwhelmed in that role in the playoffs. He really slots best as a sheltered middle-sixer on a team with two matchup horses (Point/Cirelli, Barkov/Bennet), as opposed to getting leaned on in a centre spine with Norris and McLeod. I’d be happy to add him, but happier spending the price on someone else.

Peterka for Rossi straight up then?

I admire Bennett as a player. It took a little time for him and teams to recognize his role and a how he best fits. Whether he scores a lot of goals or not his ferocity is what defines him as a player, and adds value to a team. I would love to have a Bennett type player to this languid team.

Yes

Is Rossi really an upgrade from what we have?

I have trouble reconciling a team built around the likes of Michkov and Zegras in Philadelphia. Interested in home they complement that.

I am worried they are going to pass up the best return for Byram if it involves mostly futures. Make the best deal possible and flip those assets for established NHL players if needed.

What do you mean the multitude of 50/50 bets I placed didn’t all turn out my way? If they would have, we’d have been good. Can’t argue that Ya, you have to sign him trade, viable too, but dont really see it

haha - nice. well, this was the first i saw from ye. 🤘

Maybe for Peterka they would do that....and I would too to be honest. I know Foligno is older but when we traded him that was just a terrible day, I havent forgiven that deal ever. Rossi + Foligno for Peterka and Id even add if needed, there is your two forward additions, then all your efforts move to reshaping the back end

They might. Foligno's getting pretty old. Rossi doesn't fit there so if they value Byram it's not a huge ask.

The Wild, unfortunately, would not.

Look at it this way, if you do not sign Tuch you are clearly not making any progress you are going backwards and then you will lose Dahlin and more when they want out. You want to shift things you commit to veterans and leaders and you spend to that cap.

Yep. If anyone wants to torture themselves, here is the press conference to announce the Granato firing. At around the 11:00 minute mark Adams is asked, by Yerdon I think, if he could have done more to give Granato a better roster to work with. Adams points out that he does not have a crystal ball and did not know Jack Quinn would get a 2nd injury. I mean, what can the guy do without the benefit of a supernatural tool to help him plan for the season?

Roughly correct. I don't like Zegras and I do wonder why Anaheim (who many people think are going to push for the playoffs now) decided he wasn't a fit for that so clearly they think he's a lost cause, but that's a low risk price for Philly. If Zegras can get it together now that's a heck of a deal for Philly.

How the Zegras trade ends up will be interesting to see. I've talked before about comparing Philly's rebuild with Buffalo's. We were skilled young players first and then build the culture and add leadership. They were build the culture first and then add the talent. It will be interesting to see if that culture (if it is rebuilt) can contain Zegras and make him into the player he's always had the skill to be but never shown the desire or work ethic to actually become. It was certainly a low price paid.

Given the Zegras trade that's more than enough but I'd still be fine with it. Rossi and Foligno for Byram I would do.

Okay I put the line in brackets to avoid this but you didn't read it I guess. I was not saying Peterka would be Bennett. That would be dumb. What I'm saying is Sam Bennett was not Sam Bennett when he was drafted and he became something else. The final version of what JJ Peterka will be is still unknown, that's the point.

Like a few others I got to see Allison Krauss with Union Station and Jerry Douglas this weekend. Check out the venue: (Dillon, CO)

The little girl is abusing Sabretooth, so I assume it means that Tuch can go away? That's the best I got

Branching off this, we are of course the exact opposite, with Tuch: caught between 2 inconvenient choices; a poor problem to have.