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Not directed at you, but someone has to help me out with these "offensive" defenseman vs "defensive" defenseman. I really don't understand why we would need a defenseman to produce offense for us when we already have offensive players? Why exactly would we need a defenseman to run our PP?

No warning needed. I can confirm this rumor. So, in effect, it's no longer a rumor: Boston fans are . Is the ink dry yet?

The same could be said for any other team talking up Vesey's ear; he should be grown up enough to make his own decision. But, it's still tampering. Hell, people are acting like a 23 year-old is some old curmudgeon set in his ways. This dude is still a kid who is going to absorb stuff people say to him. If I'm the Sabres, I wouldn't call the league as that could sour relationships, but I would be calling Toronto to remind them of the rules.

This will be the Las Vegas club, right? Maybe Vesey has a gambling problem and has been pining to play in Vegas.

But, his Dad said...

I think if GMTM really wanted either of them, he very well could've sent their teams a 5th rounder. But, he didn't. He must have other plans.

I don't think being a top 6 player or being on a championship contender are the deciding factors in his decision. He was promised both in Nashville. And neither is money for that matter.

Sounds like a dick to me. He better grow some man balls and realize that just playing in the NHL is an opportunity relatively few get. Makes you sympathetic to guys who just want a huge payday, this guys a whole different beast. And I hate young hockey players' dads.

And that'll be the contract he'll present to other teams. Let's hope it's not matched.

I'm not going to hold my breath he signs with Buffalo. The guy has already shown he won't hesitate to eff a team. Plus, he obviously felt he owed nothing to the team who drafted him, so I doubt he gives preference to a team who traded for him. I really hope he signs, but we need to be prepared for him to stick to his guns and hit FA in August, just like he promised his old team.

Yep. Minor detail. Just like the deflated balls.

What's the Instagram post?

That and how exactly can a player who had a NMC be traded to us? Wouldn't he have had to waive that NMC before being traded to us?

I'm pretty sure Stankos will use us as a bargaining chip with Toronto. He's from Toronto, but wouldn't want to play there? And what better team is out there that is able to and would overpay for him than ours? Pretty much the same thing happened with Babcock.

He can go to the KHL...but only after we trade him.

I'm unsure if Vegas will be trying to build a "team" the same way we would look at building a team. They need bodies to field a product and a draft is the fastest way of doing this. Of course, they're not going to draft just wingers, but I would suspect they're going to take the best players they have a chance to get and then they'll think about forming the "team identity" in subsequent years. Sort of like our tank years, but just without the worst player available.

I'm sure it's in the forebrain of GMTM, but I would be looking to sign an expansion draft decoy, someone LV wouldn't be able to look past. I don't like the prospect of losing Ennis, Bogo, or Pysyk for nothing. But, I like the idea of losing a player GMTM wouldn't want playing for his team.

Agreed. Not a really cerebral thing to say. I've also heard Gregg Williams did a pretty damn fine interview too.

I really don't see the value of having 5 2nd round picks, most of which will never make it to the NHL. Same could be said if a team dumped on us 10 2nd round picks. We need quality, not quantity. I'm not into giving charity (#8) to another NHL team for peanuts unless Bennett is coming back.

I don't want McEichel, you play the game to win. Whoops, that was also said.

What has he [Darcy] done wrong? Wait, that was actually said.

Offseason. I guarantee we'll be "draft focused" this time next year.

If Arizona wants Matthews, they better bring OEL into the conversation. And rightfully so, because OEL won't put butts in the seats and Matthews will.

Not overly harsh. The guy should've gotten to his point, instead of name dropping or whatever he was doing.

Knowing how winning NHL teams roll with multiple lines, I don't know how I would feel about depleting our system of nearly a whole very good 3rd line (plus a defender) for 1 winger, especially when Eichel would make most wingers look good. I hope GMTM doesn't go for the shiny toy model of building a team.