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I went with good but incomplete... I love what we did to the 3rd and 4th lines but if we're now relying on Zucker to replace Skinner then it ruins everything they just did. I thought for certain when they bought out Skinners contract that they had a solid plan in place. It turns out it was just to save money since we're once agai9n several million under the cap saving it for a Pegula Yacht. To think all this team needs is a swift kick in the ass from Ruff and some bottom 6 players just seems like more reasons why we haven't made playoffs in 13 years imo.

Can you play left wing? I hear there’s an opening.

True, I already had youtube TV before they got the games so it was no big deal for me although the price hike sucked regardless. I don't have netflix and I'm not paying for it either just to watch a few meaningless regular season games. These money grabs are getting insane and if we all keep paying for them then they;ll just keep doing it.

I'm sure Adams will be signing them all to 8 year 7.5M deals shortly.

It must be nice to have a competent GM, it's been so long I couldn't tell you what that looks like.

29.99 per month is outrageous. $240 to watch hocky games for 7 months is just a money grab imo.

I don't think it was the only reason but the bottom 6 basically added very little toughness, little secondary scoring. We added the toughness for sure and hopefully with Zucker, McLeod we now have the secondary scoring as well.

I 100% think these were Ruff types of moves had had alot of say who to go get imo but of course we'll never know that but the fact that Adams has never picked up these types of players other than Green way in the years he's been GM makes me think it's correct.

Yeah I get what you mean and it's taken Adams almost 5 seasons to finally add toughness to the roster and probably only did so because Ruff wanted those types of players.

I actually like the addition of Malenstyn alot, not because of the lack of moves we made getting a top 6 but because we finally have toughness in pretty much all of our lines right now aside from line 1 that is (I like Tuch but I wouldn't really call him tough but an argument can be made he adds toughness to our top line). Cozens line 2, the entire 4th line , Greenway/Benson on line 3.

You should never be done tinkering with the roster. I still don't see the Skinner replacement, Jokiharju can 100% be upgraded also.

Jack Hughes was a minus player all but 1 season with Lindy as the HC.

I’ve not heard a singular rumor about Zegras to Buffalo has anyone else?

Well I doubt he’s even an option then. We got rid of Skinner because he has no defensive game so why would we bring in a similar player?

Does anyone have the numbers on Zegras' defensive stats? Not some weird chart with his skating speed or garbage like that. I keep hearing that he's a 2 way forward but how are they determining this? I'm just curious because I usually use my eyeballs rather than relying on a chart.

You know the narrative is going to be "I tried" from Kevin Adams. KEEP TRYING KEVYN!!!!

I'm not a full on yes or full on no which probably seems like a cop out but I just don't think UPL will sustain that level of play as last year but i don't think he'll revert back to his former self either, more like a step back which would make him an average goaltender. I also think Levi is going to be one of if not the best goalies in the NHL in the not so distant future to which KA already expressed that Levi will be up in the NHL in interviews and although I'd prefer to have Levi in the AHL for a full season I'm sure they don't want him pissed off before his contract is up. Levi has all the characteristics imo of an elite goaltender. I know alot of you guys are down on Topias Leinonen but since the goalies take a bit to develope he should be no different and I thought he played really well at development camp, his future is bright imo. I really liked the pickups of Ratzlaf and Leenders also, there is talent there but of course not all of them will make it here so we'll just have to wait and see but I do like the future as well.

I'm not so confident, a half a season of top notch play in a contract year always has me a bit leary but I'm hopeful. I'm pretty sure Kevyn Adams has already stated that Levi will be in the NHL this season in an interview.

"Doesnt pan out" to me means the same UPL we've seen up until midway through last season. That UPL was on the way out and if that's who he really is then even at 4.75M that will be a tough player to trade so that's what I meant by that and of course if he plays good that contract is a no brainer whether we keep him or trade him. Levi should bring out the best in UPL and vice versa so it should be interesting.

I disagree but we can agree to disagree.

I'm not a fan of the 5 years but I also thought he'd be getting 5.75M, pretty solid deal although I don't get of the logic saying "If he doesn't pan out it's a tradeable contract", if he doesn't pan out why would teams want to trade for him? I hope it works out for us and hopefully he can continue his late season success from last year. Not much we have to do at this point other than pick up a top line forward.

We have lately imo, Anton Wahlberg, Olivier Nadeau, Brodie Zeimer, Ethan Miedema (later pick in the 4th round) but the question is why weren't we drafting these types before this as it seemed Adams only liked small, skilled forwards.

As long as Beck Malenstyn is on the opening day roster I'm still more than fine with the 2nd round pick for him, he gives us the size, speed and physicality we've sorely missed. The hope is that the physical play of that 4th line also brings out the beast in Mr Jordan Greenway, that to me would be a huge bonus if we can get him going as well. Now here's to hoping we can use the rest of the money on a top 6 forward in a trade.