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Kane's on pace for 35 goals on a 82 game season. He's the leading scorer on the team. That's offense we obviously and definitely shouldn't turn away, unless it's for a serious upgrade at D plus picks. If you take away his 23 goals so far this year, that would move us from 21st in goals for to 29th, only above Colorado's pitiful total.

Tippett points at production of the whole team, OEL cites minor injuries causing off games: http://www.fanragsports.com/nhl/coyotes/coyotes-must-not-waste-prime-of-oliver-ekman-larssons-career/

I just proposed the ol' #23-SWAP to make us a better team and I'd do it again. EVEN KNOWING it took a a full season of tanking to get Reinahorn.

You prioritize fixing the coaching flaws over the roster flaws because the you contend the coaching flaws are eclipsing the roster flaws. I contend that the roster flaws eclipse the coaching flaws, and that the coaching flaws aren't fully known until we have a capable roster with more than 3 serviceable Dmen. It's a bit chicken and egg. But it's easier to make roster changes than coaching changes. And OEL is defenseman Jesus.

Hey, I get it. Sam is and will be a damn good player. But my biggest fear right now is that we're headed towards being Edmonton- a team with a high-talent offense with no ability to possess the puck, stop an opposing offense, or hold a lead. And from the perspective of the fans in ArizonaPhoenix, OEL has been a god. The god. The whole universe. He's it. It's only him. So it's gonna take something special to crowbar OEL out of the desert... something like a 2nd overall selection who is developing quite nicely and is an RFA... And I love how Risto plays. I like how McCabe's been coming along. But OEL is defenseman Jesus. He would completely change the way our rear end operates. edit: I mean PHX fans would say that OEL is untouchable until the end of time. But the PHX front office, more than anything else and maybe more than anyone else, HATES spending money they don't have. They could be convinced to part with OEL for literally the right difference in salary and comparable projected skill.

Trade Sam Reinhart and some pocket change for OEL. Boom. Top pair with Risto that can play 35 minutes a game. Gorges, Bogosian, McCabe, and (I don't care) can split the rest of the time. OEL makes 5.5 through 2018-19. Salary works out with Franson and Kulikov gone. Even lefty-righty works out on this deal. edit: After the expansion draft.

He's 6th in points since Feb 1. If his shooting percentage were 15% (still below average for the top 20 point getters in the league during that time) instead of 4%, he would have lead the league over that period. He's an elite talent. But we're distracted by losses caused by a porous defense that allowed an average of 37 shots per game in those 13 games, the most in the league, by far.

Whoa. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay, my turn. You don't have a crystal ball. You can't look at a kid and predict his future anymore than I can. I've sat at those kitchen tables with you and listened to you tell those parents, "when I know, I know, and when it comes to your son, I know." And you don't. You don't.

There's more. So many more.

BODIE CATENACCI REMATCH!

Montreal's RDS CuisinèreChaude (Hotstove) about who got the better of the Bodie-Catenacci trade:

I'mma just drop this recently deleted tweet right here. https://twitter.com/richpawlew3/status/836283292773138432 Selfie of Tyrod with a local financial advisor known to have ties to the organization.

Me and this thread.

The 16-17 data falls just outside two standard deviations of the data since 11-12, so there's about a 95+% chance that something changed this season. That said, there's only about a 2% increase in scoring this year compared to the past five years.

Clickbait title? High horses? Telling other fans what they can't do? References to the good ol' days of 2006? Tim Connolly? THIS THREAD'S GOT IT ALL!

Dan Bylsma will be fine.

Technical assessment: the Leafs.

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Caught them at Dodger Stadium last fall before Brian was replaced for the tour. 10th row at face value. Kicked more ass than a fully automatic ass kicking machine gone berserk. I'll never forget that show. I was deaf for about three days.

I was reading about the new card-instead-of-paper-tickets thing and was wondering how donating/selling tickets was going to work.

USS Little Rock underway.