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How would everyone feel about this roster? Olofsson-Eichel-Reinhart E. Kane-ROR-Sheary Skinner-Johansson-Frolik Girgensons-Larsson-Okposo Jokiharju-Risto Bogo-Pilut Miller-McCabe Lehner Ullmark I have that cap figure at around $80 mill. I doubt Kane re-signs here. God only knows what would have happened if Lehner was able to overcome his issues here. I think GMTM could have gotten to a similar place. I'm probably his only proponent at this point. He was at least willing to take some chances, some of which worked out, others not so much. The roster at least looks like a competent NHL team. Defense maybe a little suspect and there were goalies to be had other than Lehner if that went the current route.

Yeah it definitely too early to make any sort of judgement but a nice two goal giant swoop of emotion, ala Steve Bernier, would have been nice.

A scoring line.

Which is cool and what I come to this thread for but unfortunately it makes up 2% of the content.

Fixed

The anthem singer? Yeah I did not like that version. Just all over the place. Too much American Idol wannabe not enough actual signing. Sounded like a sheep.

Its his face. His fat chubby cheek mug of a 14 year old. We want our hockey players to look like Bogo or Dalton Smith. Toothless, Scruffy bearded warriors. Not the kid who serves Chalupas at Taco Bell.

Since there may be an actual bona fide trade rumor (I know what exactly is that?) every 50 pages, lets rename the thread "99.5% Speculation with a trade rumor sprinkled in every month or so" Just useless meaningless verbal JO. If thats what the people want, who am I to argue. Seems a little pointless but here we are on page 213.

So as I said before it's the 2019-2020 BS and very little to do with trades thread. Just people making stuff up. It would be cool if we had actual inside knowledge but instead we get Derek Roy for Malkin e5 type posts.

I think his line last night was with Dea and Remi Ellie

We do make a lot of Aldi products, all of which I stand behind but unfortunately garlic knots aren't one of them. My company is pretty strict about allowable verbiage on labels but parent companies can override us. Aldi is not one of those companies. Now whether or not someone plays with the term "hand tied" is a different story. I find it hard to believe a company would go out of its way to call something hand tied without actually doing it as it doesn't have a health or dietary benefit. They are almost certainly hand packed so applying the process to the from end doesn't seem far fetched.

I don't actually think any of that information is true. It's made up fanboi *****. Which gets back to the heart of the issue with this thread. Most if not all of the posts in here are just people making things up. If I want that, I'll go watch the Mandalorian.

https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/tage-thompson-player-news

Nope

Every player should be individually ranked so there is always BPA. Player 1, Player 2, etc. That way you don't let short-sightedness blur your vision.

No one should ever draft for need. Even if that player is good enough to make your team out of the gate (which has to be less than 10%), he won't be good enough to make a trendous implact until 3-4 years down the road. Exception being Connor McDavid/Sydney Crosby types. Free agency and trades are how teams need to fill out rosters. The draft is where you get talent so take the BPA.

The thread title should be changed to '2019-2020 BS and very little that has to do with actual trades thread'.

Agreed. He's fired up. He hasn't been dominating but he wasn't invisible like he was his first 5 games.

I'm guessing it was figurative rather than literal.

Amerks go to shootout. Mitts misses the first attempt. Amerks lose SO.

Patrick "The Little Ball of Hate" Verbeek (born May 24, 1964 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a former Canadian NHL ice hockey right winger who played 21 seasons in the NHL. He was given the nickname "The Little Ball of Hate" by Glenn Healy because teammate Ray Ferraro was nicknamed "Big Ball of Hate". -wiki

A better view

A better view

Mittlstadt Scores on the PP. Looking very reminiscent of VO, and I could have sworn he said "That's ***** Right!" immediately after scoring (reading his lips on the close up replay). Amerks tied 1-1.