PerreaultForever

Yup, meanwhile Linus Ullmark scores a goal the other night and steals a win for the Bruins tonight despite facing 59 shots. KA blew it, but it's been talked to death.

translation - I won't be doing much of anything at the deadline or in free agency but please renew your tickets for next year anyway.

It's funny but those are the 3 things I said we needed before the season started (and possibly a 2 way 3C) and said they were missing an opportunity by not getting them. These holes have been there all year and are still there.

Well you don't make the playoffs with efforts like that. Last 15 minutes or so we decided to skate and if we'd played the whole game like that we'd have won easily, but we didn't. Flat, low event garbage for the first 2 periods. hard to believe they could drop off from the Washington game that much at this time of the year. I guess you blame the coaches and/or leadership for not drilling it in to them that you have to show up in this league every night and against everybody. Rubbish. Just plain rubbish. So disappointing. They should put Peterka onto the first PP unit instead of VO until Dahlin comes back. I'm also really hoping they take Bryson out if they play Stillman but watch, they'll sit Clague instead.

Well the landing spots are disappearing so if I was him I'd re-offer whatever my final offer is/was at the 11th hour just to see.

Just the leftovers. and there's still Chychrun........

Can't miss out on picking up the needed points in games like this. Should win them. Have to win them all. These way out of it teams though play loose and free and if you take them lightly they can still burn you. Just shut down their one line and we should be fine (or score 10).

He's definitely far from what he was, but on any given night or moment he can still have an impact. For that bargain price the Rangers win the deal. It still makes them a better team than they were. It is a bit like Taylor Hall actually. Unless their goalie stands on his head though they're still not getting out of their division.

This would be my guess (Chychrun?) but they have been trying to unload Puljarvi for a while. Don't think he really makes Carolina any better.

Oh I read an earlier thing on twitter that had him as a 4m cap hit but I guess they mixed up his 3 year total with his annual. Shows you how little people know about this guy, myself included. So that's better, but it's still a nothing gained deal imo.

He is similar to Fitz but with a higher price tag and we gave up a prospect to get him. I still say not claiming Mike Reilly when the Bruins waived him was a big mistake this year. He could have played in Bryson's spot all season. Knock at the time was he had a 4m ish contract and we would be stuck with him next year and now we traded for a bottom end guy with a 4m ish contract that we are stuck with for next year. I had hope for Bloom as, pardon the pun, a late bloomer that would be a gritty power forward somewhere down the line for us. Maybe not, but it's too soon to give up on him imo.

Well I do and I don't. But it's really no different than listening to the people around here. The thing about this I'm noticing is there isn't any dissent. It isn't like 5 happy with the trade 1 against or whatever, it's every single post is some level of happiness on their side, and on this side a lot of head scratching and speculation and even hope it's part of a bigger move that'll make it all make sense, cause at this moment, it doesn't.

Read it for yourself, there seems to be a lot of serious dislike for Stillman.

Possibly, but I wouldn't count Ottawa out yet either. They are a long shot, but they might also be the best built for the end of season hockey we will see now. But yes, at the moment, it helps us. Tampa paid a fortune for Jeannot, but he should be a force for them in the playoffs and they will give the Leafs (if not everyone) trouble.

All I know for sure is Canucks fans seem really happy with this trade and most of them don't even know (or care) who Bloom is. That kind of says it all to me.

Kyle has provided leadership but he is kind of slow and past his best before date. Pretty easy to upgrade that bottom line and I think we should. Time to let the younger guys assume the leadership (Cozens, Dahlin, etc). I think Kyle should retire and take that NHLPA job if that rumor is true.

So is this why they never play Comrie? Keep him from getting re-injured so they can trade him ? Just hoping.....................

watch him turn into Cam Neely to reverse Canuck Karma.

Just for perspective, if you go to twitter almost all of the Canuck fans are 1. ecstatic to get rid of Stillman 2. are glad to unload his contract 3. don't have a clue who Josh Bloom is but don't care, and 4. are praising their GM for this deal.

OR, he has to toss in a D man from the roster to make that deal happen (maybe Jokiharju) and so he needed another D body for depth. Especially if Dahlin is more banged up than we think.

I thought Josh Bloom was supposed to be the power forward we all wanted coming soon................ I guess not. Seems too early to give up on him but I guess they don't like his development. Stillman? He's not good. I don't think he's any better than Colin Miller or Robert Hagg was. I DEFINITELY don't think he's any better than Mike Riley who we could have had for roughly the same contract and term for free (and probably still could have for free). So I don't get this at all.

It was definitely on Mitts, but I think it was more about him not realizing the guy had come out of the box than about Power going off. It was a sloppy too casual pass, and as I said elsewhere, those possession oriented drop passes need to go. Krebs made one earlier that almost cost us as well but since there was no goal nobody's talking about it.

lol, oh sure. there's a long history of teams with 4 scoring lines winning the cup.

You got a thing for "shot totals"? Just be glad he's not Jack Edwards.

I'd be willing to part with Savoie from those 3 plus picks. No, you don't trade a solid young locked up D man to acquire another D man. Your D doesn't get better that way. It has to be forward prospects and picks. They can have Bryson to fill the hole temporarily if they want as a toss in and I'd consider Jokiharju but Power Dahlin Muel are untouchable imo.