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It’s a brutal story and there is obvious trauma on Linus’ part. Look into it. Don’t be a dick.

I agree. I realize there is a star a couple yrs out likely at the top of the draft, but Robertson is a star now, and even if you finish last overall, the odds of getting that star is, what, 25%? Robertson is pretty much what the rest of the first round will have as a target for performance. This team needs the fully prime elite talent, not a new timeline for KA to follow.

It isn’t how I phrased it. It is how Linus phrased it. He said directly that after his dad died he needed to make some changes in his life, including the team he played for. You are disregarding his own words, essentially saying he lied about why he took the Boston offer over Buffalo’s match. To me its pretty simple. Ullmark has never given us a reason to doubt his honesty, and he said very candidly and directly that his decision to move on from Buffalo was related to the emotions he was feeling following the death of his father. This surely doesn’t seem like an instance where it is more complicated than what is on the surface.

Yeah, I know. You continue to be afraid of high risk, high reward situations. You and Kyvyn.

Every spot Ive seen Quinn in the lineup makes me shudder. Just ruins the line.

i’ll counter with a yes and no. Yes, bridging him set up the opportunity, but his decision was an outcome of his father’s death. I can’t speculate on what led to his decision.

McLeod’s 3rd period usage will look alot different than his usage in the 1st teo periods. He’ll end up in Kulich’s spot when the team is up and looking to keep a lead.

That looks so much more palatable that what we have currently.

Revisionist history. We didn’t let Ullmark walk. Ullmark decided he needed a change of scenery.

Yeah, no. You need a Rubber Man toy to stretch generational that far.

Man, last season I said I was more concerned with the forward group than the defense. They let me down. They played alot worse as a group than I expected. This season, show me, Im from Missouri.

And Kesselring had PP time in Utah. He’s an option for the big shot off the dot on the 2nd unit.

Long term starts with one. Figure it out. Get in. Make it next season a priority too. ***** happens.

I’ll go so far as to call it incompetence if they don’t make a reasonable effort at using Dahlin and Byram together in the 1st unit. Our strength right now is in elite skill on defense. Feature it. That doesn’t mean we have to have both up top. One can certainly be stationed on the wall, and they both have the skillsets to make it work. And that would mean one more decent forward for the #2 unit as well. It would also mean Byram gets what he wants, and if the points come his value outside of the organization grows as well.

No idea, and I am not inclined to expand upon one of an uncountable number of possibilities and run with that to some conclusion. It’s literally fiction.

Fan fiction.

Where is this other teams just want to give us futures coming from?

I think the only risk is if Byram chooses a 1yr term, all this uncertainty repeats again next year.

You only get the stuff that JohnC is so interested in. You have to bring g lower taxes to the millionaires bracket to trade for the good stuff.

I am not so sure you aren’t injecting alot of bias into this opinion. And we’ve already traded one high demand player for two lesser assets with dubious expectations for on ice results. Why the ***** would you want to do it again?

You have to admit that trading for Andersson has the same risks as re-signing Byram in regards to kicking the can down the road a season or two. The risk of Andersson not signing is every bit as high as the risk of Byram leaving at the end if a short term deal.

Wtf, dude?

Same vacation schedule here. My plan includes lots of time paddling, a little time with some small chores, and at least 1 bottle of Tequila Ocho.

I guess it all depends on how you want to view “promising”. Helenius seems to be developing as hoped. I think Östlund is maybe Savoie level, which isnt a given for an NHL future. Rosen is what he is at this point, which is probably a minor star in a European league. Wahlberg, harder to say. I suspect he may have more runway as a potential role player.