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The team has to get ahead of his NMC that kicks in during the 2022-23 season. You can’t let another top player rag doll you because of a clause. Get the best deal now.

I heard he has a sponsorship deal with McDonalds and will be changing his name to McEichel.

I might be harder on Ullmark than I should be because I actually like him. I've always liked his kind of light-hearted humor (the minions mask was great) and think there's a solid chance he is a guy who should be on an NHL roster for a while but I don't believe he's the starting goaltender when you're contending which is basically all I care about in net.

I've long had interest in him ... but that changed when he signed this current deal. We'd have to include Skinner in the deal which I don't think San Jose wastes any time thinking about.

He was playing the best hockey of his career before getting hurt. But also this team doesn't have much talent so it's not hard to put him high.

Drugs. I don't know who is taking them, him or me.

I laughed purely because the Reinart > Eichel troll job. I didn't really think about Ullmark when making my list. I think he's a backup goalie. I think Asplund is going to continue to improve his game and play a good role on the bottom six here. I'd rather have that than a backup.

I don't think anybody is sitting here and thinking "man, I really want roster turnover." I think they're more likely thinking "man, I really want better players."

Yes, I know this is wildly unlikely but had a little fun. Victor Oloffson, Rasmus Ristolainen, Mattias Samuelsson and this year's 2nd (our own) to Vancouver for Brock Boeser. Sign Jaden Schwartz (LW from STL) Forward group something like this: Schwartz - Eichel - Cozens Skinner - Reinhart - Boeser Bjork - Mittelstadt - Ruotsalainen Girgensons - Asplund - Okposo

1. Eichel 2. Reinhart 3. Dahlin 4. McCabe 5. Jokiharju 6. Mittelstadt 7. Olofsson 8. Cozens 9. Risto 10. Asplund

THIS would be an incredibly dumb move. It’s not quite Florida trading Marchessault and Smith to Vegas but it’s similarly bad.

Yup. It wasn’t that he traded too many away it’s that he acquired so many (as had Darcy) that it wasn’t reasonable to just make all those picks. I also disagree strongly that he overpaid for O’Reilly in any way. That was a great price for what we got. The Kane trade can be debated but I think the price paid was fair there because they also go Bogosian. Bogo didn’t exactly pan out here but the trade wasn’t exclusively about getting Evander (who is damn good and entertaining).

Let's look at his transactions as a GM. Below is every single trade in order of which they happened. Source. Steve Ott and Ryan Miller to St. Louis for Jaroslav Halak, Chris Stewart, William Carrier, 2015 1st (traded, see below), 2016 3rd (traded, see below) Halak was traded along with a 2015 3rd (Robin Kovacs) for Michal Neuvirth and Rostislav Klesla Stewart was traded to Minnesota for a 2017 2nd (post-Murray selection) Carrier was selected in the Vegas expansion draft 2015 1st was traded to Ottawa for Robin Lehner and David Legwand 2016 3rd was part of the deal to move up with Florida to get Rasmus Asplund, further details below Michal Neuvirth was traded to New York I for Chad Johnson and a 2016 3rd which was then traded for ... Dan Bylsma FINAL TRADE: Steve Ott, Ryan Miller, 2015 3rd for Dan Bylsma, Rostislav Klesla, Robin Lehner, David Legwand, 2017 2nd, part of Asplund/Kulikov Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick to Minnesota for Torrey Mitchel, a 2014 2nd (traded, see below) and a 2016 2nd (traded, see below) 2014 2nd (Vitek Vanecek) was traded to Washington for a 2014 2nd (Vaclav Karabacek) and a 2014 3rd (Brycen Martin) 2016 2nd (Chad Krys) was traded to Montreal for Josh Gorges Torrey Mitchell was traded to Montreal for Jack Nevins and 2016 7th round pick (Vasily Glotov) FINAL TRADE: Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick for Vlaclav Karabacek, Brycen Martin, Josh Gorges, Jack Nevins and Vasily Glotov Brayden McNabb, Jonathan Parker, two 2nds to Los Angeles for Hudson Fasching and Nicolas Deslauriers Hudson Fasching was traded to Arizona for Brandon Hickey and Mike Sislo Nicolas Deslauriers was traded to Montreal for Zach Redmond FINAL TRADE: Brayden McNabb, Jonathan Parker, two 2nds for Zach Redmond, Brandon HIckey and Mike Sislo 2015 Condition 7th (never converted) to Winnipeg for Jordan Samuels-Thomas Luke Adam to Columbus for Jerry D'Amigo Jhonas Enroth for Anders Lindback and a 2016 Conditional 3rd (Casey Fitzgerald) Tyler Myers, Drew Stafford, Joel Armia, Brendan Lemieux, 2015 1st to Winnipeg for Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian and Jason Kasdorf Not doing a trade tree here because the trade of Kane was not done under Murray. This is his final version of the trade. Brian Flynn to Montreal for 2016 5th (Vojtech Budik) Nikita Zadorov, Mikhail Grigorenko, JT Compher and a 2015 2nd to Colorado for Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn Jamie McGinn was traded to Anaheim for a 2016 3rd 2016 3rd was traded to Nashville for Jimmy Vesey who did not sign Rest happened post-Murray FINAL TRADE: Zadorov, Grigorenko, Compher, 2015 2nd for Ryan O'Reilly Mike Weber to Washington for a 2017 3rd (post-Murray selection) Minor-league deal with Ottawa involving Phil Varone leaving and who cares about the rest Mark Pysyk, 2016 2nd, 2016 3rd to Florida for Dmitry Kulikov and a 2016 2nd (Rasmus Asplund) 2014 4th to St. Louis for Anders Nilsson Daniel Catenacci to New York R for Mat Bodie By my count there's a mixed bag here but I firmly believe the Evander Kane and Ryan O'Reilly deals were absolutely brilliant that should have been franchise-changing type deals had he been given more time to fill out the roster.

That’s how I was on shrooms. Never been more clear-headed and calm in my life.

Agreed but I think he’s more deserving than several up there. 11 and 39 should be the only ones currently retired.

Mhm.

Jack Eichel is a peasant compared to Connor McDavid. Holy *****.

There hasn’t really been an opportunity because this has been a competitive franchisee for almost all of its existence.

Ugh. Going to text someone now.

Yea this is kind of an old, predictable formula. You fire a coach and put kids in a position to excel. It happens all the time. There’s ZERO pressure on the kids so they okay their game. It’s not sustainable. I’m surprised a fan base as trained and tainted as this doesn’t see it.

What an embarrassing, flop ***** way to go out. ***** Don Granato.

I wrote this exact post word for word and then DM’d it to Weave.

I remember when I used to compete with that MAN.

On it. Shrooms was the best solo experience of my life so I’m on to the next one.