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Just want to add looking over their forwards…. Dear god are they pretty ugly beyond the top line. Marcus Johansson is their 2LW atm.

That was a filthy goal by Perry; entirely thanks to McDavid

That is true but even so they aren’t exactly hard pressed unless they feel drawn into a corner this year with 14mil in dead cap and their “starting” roster being already locked in with 12 F 6 D and 2 G and 6 mil to put on the scratch list. That being said their roster is rather concerning; their defense is ok but getting pretty old and their offense is more or less 1 line + Rossi and Foligno

I cannot fathom why Minnesota would want to move JEE unless they are purely looking to get younger Also would you mind linking the comment page.

Hefty payday, definitely throws a wrench in some of Vancouver’s hopes to bring back Zadorov or Lindholm

Young Crosby and Vet Crosby are great, early 2010’s Crosby was a drama queen with a penchant for injuries and being goaded into stupidity between whistles. Then around 2014 he seemed to have a Eureka moment and figured out that he doesn’t need to fight Flyers players; just go through them and score.

He’s terrible now, would legitimately be a bad pickup. Goodrow is one of those toss ups, player fits the mold we need but he’s making about 1 to 1.5 mil over what he should be making. Would I personally take him on… probably; if he fails miserably he’ll probably find another taker with retention due to his playoff experience. Otherwise he’s a solid rolepalyer

Mixed feelings on him; his analytics weren't great this year but he was also being played 20-80 with Zone starts which is insanity

The difference here was one was a foregone conclusion/in the past tense and the other is projecting forward

Someone proposed Skinner(3mil retained) to the Isles for JG Pageau Pageau is pretty well shot but his 5 mil deal is a year shorter, avoids the cap hits years 4 through 6 and gives us a 3/4C player who's really good at faceoffs

There are big reasons why I wouldn't buy out Skinner 1. The cap is far more tolerable next year with a buyout 2. I don't want him to sign in Toronto on the cheap and give them a 30 goal scorer for free. You should see all the salivating people on Twitter hoping to give him a Duchene deal to play with the Leafs, Rangers, Vegas, etc. 3. I have zero interest in buying out Skinner so we can turn around and spend it on Necas or like player. I'd much rather trade him at 50% retention to be perfectly honest. I will say this however; if Skinner departs; I'd be all for bringing P. Kane here on a 1x3mil deal with incentives. Defensively he's no better but he does bring legitimate playoff experience and drive.

He looks scary to me for unknown reasons; the hair just unnerves me I think. Feel bad for their fired coach as he got screwed both in and out of season.

While that is true to some extent. (I disagree with the one reporter who claimed he never interviewed anyone) I will certainly say that Ruff was very likely his target for quite some time and he merely interviewed a few guys to make it less of an obvious foregone conclusion. As for how he wants to build his team; I can't imagine him merely telling us what we want to hear since if he's purely speaking out his ass he'd get far more fan backlash by claiming and not doing than by merely not claiming anything at all.

Frankly while he definitely caters his language to the fans; I don't think he's trying to deceive us. He wanted a Top 4 D last year and made mention of that. He went after Chychrun and Pesce who for different reasons didn't succeed. The UFA market wasn't great so he signed a vet in Erik Johnson whom had played Top 4 minutes up until the Avs Cup year and Connor Clifton who was a Bottom pair RHD that could possibly elevate but wasn't an issue in of himself if he couldn't be a Top 4. Later on he traded Mitts for Bo Byram to which wasn't the type of Dman I wanted but was certainly a Top 4 talent Dman.

Alright, there are plenty of other fish in the UFA pool

I think 1 is moved; barring a strange falling of the board

Well, there are certainly priorities that are wrong such as fame or underhanded bribery.

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/5239647 A simple solution that at least better rounds out the lineup

I hate any idea of shortening the draft as it gives an advantage to a small number of teams who can "bring them in" either via being their local team or top teams in the league. Additionally it would wreck the trade market as picks from Round 5 through 7 have always been filler assets and since fans don't want to see anyone traded for nothing; a 5th is a concrete asset we can look at.

I’ve said similar things as well; I said Benson could become a slightly less speedy and dirty Marchand

That would explain the lack of oomph to his goal calls

Now I certainly agree with you

Got to say I've missed Lindy's candor that is a nice mix of honesty with bits of humor.

Even if the Sabres are interested I doubt Girgs is based on his house sale including furniture since he didn’t want to truck it to likely Pittsburgh

I could see him returning as a non-player but not as a player