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What's really telling is how ridiculously weak that AHL group is. and of course.............no goalie.

there really was nothing.

Looking at that roster they picked I don't think JBot had anything to do with player selection. perhaps his Kraken role is more on the business side of GM duties. francis has him do the boring paperwork and other stuff he doesn't want to do. Unless he's changed drastically, that was NOT a JBot team. Kraken went young. Kraken went character. I am one foot closer to the door................

Not directed at you specifically but why do people keep saying this? We are NOT deep at ANY position. What? Is Bryson an allstar in people's minds now? It just seems ridiculous to me that people don't want Power because they think we have too many good left hand D men.

Hmmm. Well, just one more thing. Not a huge thing, but one more thing. Still waiting for a positive thing to start tipping the scales back.

Not exactly true. Yes, Syd was the acid freak and the rest of them were not into psychedelics (although they did try them a few times like most rock stars of the era). Nick Mason and Roger Waters were not big drug uses, although Waters liked hashish mixed with his massive nicotine intake. Gilmour was pretty straight in early Floyd but had a big coke habit later on. Rick Wright however was a rock star cliche with all the sex and drugs that goes along with that. So you're right as a whole, not "stoners" but not straight abstainers either.

ikr. Crazy but when you look at their roster it's actually not very good and there wasn't really much else to protect (that needed protecting).

My guess is 5 X 5.

"connections"? You mean like what JBot must think of him after being forced to sign a huge contract and then him crapping out? Or how Francis traded him away for a pile of Pu after he'd been moved up and down the line up and fallen in disfavor with his coach.........wait a minute........ and we were surprised? Yup, they're "connected" alright.

The only thing I know for sure, is that I know nothing............which when I stop to think about it really confuses me.

Which Genesis? Peter Gabriel was cool. Weird, but cool. Phil Collins was a human thumb print.

Colin Blackwell from the Rangers. Nice low cap number too. 725,000.

idk about Price, that's a lot of money. Might be tempted to grab one or two of those big offensive contracts still out there from Nashville and others. I think maybe too many D men so far as looking at NJ I'd probably take Butcher.

Looks like good market-ing regardless.

idk what you do with Detroit either. I took a look and Yzerman might be planning a huge roster turnover. Almost everybody's a free agent in '21.

I'm going to go again cause Boston is too easy. It's Lauzon at a whopping 850,000 and that's a heck of a pick up for Seattle long term. Guy is just coming into his own as a solid defenseman. Which takes us up to Buffalo so fight over that one 🙂

Anaheim, well since they protected Deslauriers it has to be Henrique. Mostly cause there's slim pickings on that roster. C 5.825

I think at this point somebody has mentioned just about every possibility so in that sense somebody'\s going to be right. If ALL of this isn't resolved by the end of the draft, it's going to be a long long off season.

I don't disagree, and I also think we are opening too quickly, but I think it has more to do with politics and economics now. Too many businesses are just hanging in there by a thread and another year of this and the economy just might collapse, free printed money or not. anti vaxers are going to be our undoing.

No, it won't end, but for the fully vaccinated it'll be a non issue, like a flu. (unless of course the mutations go in a bad direction) What I don't get at this point is how disorganized or unprepared all the world governments are regarding travel and vaccine passports. They knew opening borders was going to come at some point, but there's zero consensus or organization on how to regulate things and have actual proper proof of vax. It's a mess.

Why would they sell? maybe they're tired of reading on the internet how it's all their fault. maybe they've given up on the team. maybe they analyzed everything and decided they'd dug the hole too deep and can't see a way to fix it any time soon. maybe they want the money for a new football stadium. maybe they're planning to retire to Florida. maybe they've just decided to do something else. Rich people and their toys, anything is possible, but there's no reason at this time to think it's in the works.

Which is about right and makes 1. Power, 2. Beniers, 3. Eklund. Except Eklund isn't really an Anaheim type high pick (unless they plan on a direction change) and if JBot has pull in Seattle he does like the Euros so maybe Eklund goes to the Kraken, which imo would be a mistake for them and I try real hard to swing a deal with Anaheim and grab Beniers (after already getting Power) You'll have it for us by Monday? 🙂

Actually it does. The border is opening for fully vaccinated so hockey won't be affected in the fall assuming all players are vaccinated. Dumbass fans who refuse to vaccinate might not get to cross the border to see them though. It's true, thanks to the old PC Mulroney government of long ago (Reagan era for Americans reference) we stopped making our own vaccines and were importing them from primarily the U.S. as part of "free trade" and it was a huge mistake, so we were not overly happy with the "America first" attitude to vaccine production BUT now we've moved ahead of the U.S. in fully vaxxed as we, as whole, are less hesitant and are generally more believers in science and medicine. Bottom line, hockey should be fine.

Couple games I thought he was showing signs of being what we hope, but then pretty much the same after that, like you said.

Tage will only succeed if he keeps adding muscle and uses that big frame. Starts throwing the weight around a little. Those outside wrist shots of his are never going to amount to anything at the NHL level. Just keeping the goalies warmed up, nothing more. Unfortunately, Tage does not seem to have the personality to go with a power forward game style. But, it's not too late - yet.