PerreaultForever

Pity RJ will be retired before this guy plays for us. I could see him having a heyday with the name. Can I be the first to dub his quick release shot as the "Kisakov of death" and if he scores an empty netter that of course means the other team can Kisakov............... (that's right, I'm bored)

Players who have perhaps already won a cup in their career and just want to pad their retirement funds. Or the unwanted. Nobody else.

Yes, exactly. But I'm starting to wonder if there is word from the top not to take on dead salaries. Perhaps Pegula has decreed if it's a tank we spend the least possible while tanking. Certainly seems that way. I'm not sure the plan is to actually have a winner in the next year or two. But I'm also not convinced Minnesota is keen to move Dumba. I personally think the way forward is making some of the ask conditional. So, hypothetically if we want 4 assets and they only want to offer 3 we make the 4th one a pick conditional on what happens and they should be happy with that . How many points Eichel gets etc might determine the value of that future pick. What used to be called the old "future considerations". (I think there should have been a conditional added to the Reinhart deal based on his signing longer term, but I'm still okay with that one as is. Maybe not full value, but necessary and maybe best we could get). In any event the recent KA comment about being fine with Eichel on the roster in the fall screams failure at getting this done and/or a transparent negotiating ploy. Letting the NMC kick in on a guy who has already stated he wants no part of another rebuild would be disastrous and he's not fooling anyone with that comment.

We need a goalie (goalies) plus some character veteran leadership. At the moment (assuming no Eichel) who's the captain? Kyle? Come on. There's nobody. Kids aren't ready.

Finally goes to Boston after this contract expires? 🙂 But I agree.

Do you honestly think a couple inches in height is make it or break it for goalies? I don't.

We'll see. Most of those guys will never see the NHL.

Also, might I point out that although we took the top pick D man this was a draft filled with promising D and we didn't take any others. We lost 2 added 1. Supposed to be restocking the cupboard, the D prospect pool is pretty thin.

I'm still going to hold out hope that an Eichel trade will be with Minnesota and it'll be futures/prospects plus Marcus Foligno, and then we will sign his brother as an FA and boom a C and an A, not central roles but important to teach leadership and team attitude, not going to "box out" anyone (at least not anyone on this team) but necessary for the team to grow. If we don't, and we do trade Eichel, who's even going to wear the C? There's no one.

Is that rhetorical? You mean Hasek right?

Doesn't matter where he was drafted. Matters how good he is.

Along with Arizona and Columbus I don't think there's any question, we are in the fight for Wright. Unlike the last tank the young stockpile to move forward with should be deeper and we just might get it wright this time but those 2 teams and maybe a few others will give us a run for the bottom. Odds of being any good are pretty slim, playoffs not a chance.

Well we've certainly gone heavy Euro. I have no idea on this guy.

Oh this name is great. If he ends up making it one day kudos to the first restaurant that names a food item after him.

I think Levi is being highly underestimated here. I think this is a good trade.

I just wouldn't want to stick him behind a bad D. Depends how fast things come together. Risto and Borgen gone not sure what the D will be.

I see that. It's like suddenly a 180 shift. I am happier with that. We need all types.

I was wondering this too. Could he become a tough guy? Definitely sounds like a potential grinder, which is good, as all that small skill needs some to go with it.

I guess this trade is why they didn't take Wallestadt. I was hoping for a while we'd do some variation of Sam for Merzlikins, this will be even better but long term, not tomorrow. Florida went from the deepest goaltender cupboard in the league to average real fast. I've always felt goaltenders were good currency. I think we have a good one here. Hopefully we don't rush these guys.

sure. why not.

Well, finally a little size up front. No idea who he is though.

After we fired all the scouts did we keep one in Russia nobody talked about? Did KA get extra video from Russia or something? Zemgus might want out soon 🙂

We're going to be the mighty midgets. Guess they had to bring the average size back down after Power. idk. Hope they're smarter than me.

I think there was a bidding war and there may have been many teams involved. The D men trades seemed to follow one after another. Contrary to popular opinion I think Philly got what they wanted and was willing to pay extra to get it. They had the scoring forwards but their D sucked really really bad and that exposed Hart too. Now adding Ellis and Risto, with Provorov their D is pretty respectable. They just might compete next year. But it was a good trade for us all the same.

Lots going on. I miss posts often. Nothing personal.