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Eichel not quite out of party mode. "Here's Risto playing legit defense." Thanks, Rob.

Who?

Didn't catch that. I was moving around.

Rob Ray said on WGR if Risto stays the team is better.

I was just going to paste this: ...and leave it at that. Except, this is the Leaves. This will somehow all be okay/a non-issue/forgotten in, oh, a week.

Giving Botterill the benefit of the doubt, he had all of this calendar year to address the 2C. Probably had December of 2018 as well, since, by then, it was obvious Mitts wasn't a Dahlin or Eichel equivalent.

Sent Mitts and Tage down. For my friend @Randall Flagg, I'll add waive KO, Sobatakaka, and Scanderella. Not wait until September 2019 to see what options were available for the 2C.

Between the 2C in general, Mitts and Tage on the regular roster, and the goalie situation, Botterill has ignored a lot of important things.

The devil you say!

There's one extra dude there. Plus there's a Mitts, a KO, a Sobotkaka, and a Scanderella. Yikes. There's also a Hutts. Doom.

If they're happy with Johansson as the 2C, what if they trade Hutton and Risto for a goalie?

Yes. Too bad he's so young.

No one was going to the net, otherwise Cozens might have had an assist there.

Meanwhile, this Redmond guy...

McCabe - trade him!

Tage looks better than Mitts. That's not saying much, though.

Semantics.

That's very generous of you! Has it ever occurred to any of you that perhaps YOU are refusing to see what's right in front of your face? Pretty common theme throughout history for people great and small.

Okay! Okay!

People don't communicate solely through words. How many times have people like yourself or liger said something to the effect of coaches and/or players will say the right words. The words mean s%^t. Compare his body language and tone of voice (the way he says the meaningless words) between when he's speaking about Mitts vs. when he's speaking about Borgen. Very obvious distinction.

That's fine. I do.

This gives me some hope. It doesn't sound like he likes Mitts very much. It sounds like he has a higher opinion of Tage. And he clearly seems to favor Borgen.

I'm shocked...shocked, I say...that this didn't work out.

The D, okay. Mitts on the 3rd line. Okay. The rest?

It's the Tank™ 3.0 lineup.