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Lol, awesome response.

Vanek to do well, rooting for Miller, and Ott as far as wishing he was on the team. However, it wouldn't matter since he would tecnically be a UFA. Unless, he was resigned this quickly.

God I love what San Jose is doing LA in this series. Good for them to "possibly" get a series defining win. Not that I hate Jon Quick or anyone really on that roster, but if there's a harder working player than Couture, I'd like to know. From the outside looking in this playoffs has been fun so far. From the Colorado series to SJ ripping up Quickie. Here's hoping that St. Louis can shut Chicago up in their own arena on Monday night.

The giveways were great to see. I loved the tempo of the pressure from the Amerks offense. High intensity. The Crunch seriously started to get manhandled and threw some cheap shots. The one against Catenacci against the wall which led to the Petrecki fight was ridiculous. If Luke Adam could play like that at the NHL level....sigh. It sucks for him, he works his tail off from what I've seen. Ristolainen looked impressive, as was Ruhwedel with his movement of the puck. Makarov who is my favorite goalie prospect (I've seen in the system)...until Ullmark comes in.

If Ehlers were chosen over Draisaitl, Bennett, Dal Colle, and Reinhart (unless taken 1st), I would scream. Ehlers is a nice thought with the second pick (if NYI decides to tender it this year). But over the others. No thanks.

Was at the game last night, Luke Adam was all over, the team looked fresh and another really strong game for Makarov. Gotta love this team going into the playoffs. Syracuse was horrible in transition and really had no puck movement, it was choppy and sloppy at best. The game was over basically at the end of the 1st period. Go Amerks!

That was single handily one of the most amazing plays I've ever seen and it's completely routine for Datsyuk. Crazy!

Totally agree with that. Short and sweet.

Any idea on what Florida would be looking at? Bennett or Ekblad more likely? But who really knows.

I love Murray for his upfront nature and the way he handles things. His tanking responses were great, and he's so abrupt in answering things to get ahead of the curve, it's awesome. So refreshing.

Here's hoping this is a good sign. :D

Go Minnesota! Excited for the game. Lucia's boys can get it done.

It just seems like when you're down, you're going to get kicked. Just have to make it through the next 6 days or so alive.

Gillis is out in Vancouver, about time. Now the next duck to fall would be Torts.

That's a really good point. I just like the blood lines. I am basing it on that. However, you made a very valid point on my newbish kind of response. All is fair.

I'm sold, his daddy was Claude Lemieux. Amazing!

Love the first three. I know nothing about Brendan Lemieux, best place to look more into him?

I think Karlsson is a very interesting late first round depending on where he falls.

Seriously, more injuries. LOL. Rinaldo aka Carcillo aka any other typical goon on Philly. Ouch, I just saw that gif. Ridiculous that you can still do this kind of nonsense.

I can understand that. He would have been so awesome in Buffalo blue and gold. Hopefully, the hockey gods can finally give some pittance to Buffalo and get McDavid here. I would settle on Eichel, but the better talent please! One of the NHL.com mocks has Ehlers falling all the way to Detroit. That would irk me. It would be another really talented winger, to fall to them like Mantha (who I loved in his draft class).

McNabb says, "hello". However, I don't see him being traded in the relative future. I didn't watch the game but between Paul Hamilton and Nolans praise it seems like he's an upgrade over almost anyone not named Ehrhoff, Myers, Ristolainen and possibly Pysyk. That would also vary on if someone pays an abnormal high price. But, again unlikely. I really thought Folin was a nice idea, but for whatever reason it wasn't in the cards. Good for Minnesota.

Something exciting for the rest of the season. Also with all of the injuries seeing him on the ice potentially with Ristolainen might be a nice treat. Either way welcome to Buffalo Jake!

Custance had Reinhart to Buffalo at 1 overall and Dal Colle at 4 to NYI.

Reinhart and Draisaitl is my dream for the top of the first round. Though I would gladly suplement with Dal Colle, Bennett. (Potentially). I like Nylander/Ehlers more than Kapanen, but that's tailing towards 6-10.

I can 100% agree with you. He needs to take the longer path to make it back to Buffalo.