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Possibly. Of course Marek and Friedman were saying last night that a lot of GMs believe there is a "glut er surplus" of available D-men that will move at the deadline. If so, the price will go down if anything at the deadline as the sellers find they aren't getting their price.

He'll turn 30 in January of that 1st contract year.

Nothing easy is ever appreciated. This run to the playoffs will have been earned and appreciated. ;)

Granato doesn't often match lines. Expecting he does today. Thought he'd stick Power with Clague, but other than that he's done a pretty good job of making chicken salad.

Demko to Buffalo would be a good thing. At the cost of UPL and fluff, please make it happen now. Not a chance in hell Peterson will ever be a Sabre as long as Adams is the GM.

Still expect him to bring in a legit 3rd pairing guy for a 3rd or a 4th. Maybe now that Dahlin might be having limited availability he'll bring in a 2nd one as well. We'll know within the next 5 days.

Hope he's got his head on straight. They're going to need him to be on his A game. Would've gone with Comrie personally.

The core not being good enough? Disagree. They have a Norris finalist and Samuelsson and Power as well. The core is fine. That the overall unit needs to be better, yes, he has known that for some time. But again, he has values that his scouts and analytics group has put on possible trade targets and he's been very up front that he isn't going to overpay to help the ST at the expense of LT success. Am frustrated with it too. But don't want to see him become Tim Murray this week because of 2 ST injuries nor even become Botterill for a week. (They both were very bad GMs.)

Tuch being out has been know for about 40 hours right now. Dahlin, 2? Maybe 4? How does that translate into being afraid to make a move? He's placed values on what might be available and has stuck to those values.

Yup. Is what it is, and the rest need to suck it up and pick up their games so that when those 2 come back the team is once again in a playoff spot.

Hope that's projection and not based off some insider info. Do NOT want the 2 best remaining D-men paired up as it leaves too much weakness on the other pairings.

Like Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus used to say: "you've got to do it till you do it, so you'd better get to it."

Or vice versa Mike.

Fack. Somebody needs to rip Nick Paul's head off.

Wonder where Dadanov plays next year? It won't be Vegas, Moe-ray-all, or Dallas, but there are still several other teams for him to wear out his welcome in.

Especially considering all the other pieces that Adams has stockpiled for the future, having the goaltending solidified for no cost other than his cap hit with no need to get rid of any of those pieces to soidify goaltending, is so frustrating. That negotiation was far and away Adams biggest blunder to date.

He plays for Edmonton. The fact that he can carry that sorry excuse for an organization into the playoffs perennially rather than continue to stockpile 1st overall picks is a major accomplishment in and of itself.

Preceded? Proceeded perhaps? ;)

Get pumped to make up for Tuch being out of the lineup and take it to the Caps. Worry about finding the extra energy to make up for Alex's absence Tuesday on Tuesday. Hopefully Vinnie is the fastest thing on the ice with the extra adrenalin of being back in the NHL.

Adams and Granato are in frequent conversations with Okposo and other players. Which guy do you think the team wanted to see brought up? Vinnie who they know can play at this level and has actually scored big goals on occassion for them (The breakaway goal against the Bolts last year most readily comes to mind.) or a rookie getting his 1st taste ever in the NHL? This was as no brainer a choice as no brainers come.

You get an opportunity to land the best player in the league for nothing but his actual value? Why not go for that? He actually wanted to be a Sabre at one point.

Yes, the odds of the most likely scenario are that Levi's time in Buffalo this year is watching from the pressbox with 1 game on the bench as the backup as UPL gets the bulk of the games. But, Levi has played against NHLers since his midteens and has been getting a mediocre team playing well above its actual skill level for a year and a half. He has exceeded expectations at every level he's played. Expect there's a reasonable chance for Levi to go off script with his opportunity. Yes, Miller was and is extremely thoughtful and cerebral, but he also has had a psychiatrist as one of his key advisors for many years. His overthinking and getting overwhelmed upon his initial foray into the NHL really isn't instructive here IMHO. Would really be interested in knowing how his 1st shot would've gone had it not been against his childhood favorite Red Wings. That was just too overwhelming for him. Maybe not having the storybook setting might have been something he would've been up to the challenge of. (Or at a minimum, maybe he wouldn't have been in tears in the postgame interview.)

Yes, definitely. Dollars to donuts says it's Hinostroza called up. Lines? Hoping Quinn goes to top line and Hinostroza takes his place on Krebs line. But Granato has a lot of options for how to backfill Tuch's slot.

Asplund doesn't replace any offense and with Tuch being out they'll most likely want to replace him with a player that at least isn't lost on the other side of the red line. Hinostroza is way better at forechecking and helping to generate offense than Rasmus is. They couldn't call up any Amerk without making a move. (Somebody to IR or somebody to Ra-cha-cha.) You might be right, he might be out longer than a week. (Hope not, obviously.) But with him missing a game or 2, it makes sense to IR him and have a better chance of gaining 4 points before going to Beantown without Tuch on Thursday with the likely loss than to hope Alex is ready by Thursday and he can play in the likely loss in Beantown but only heading there with 2 points.

Since tomorrow's game is at 1 PM, makes sense they'd call him up today. Considering players can retroactively be put on IR if they're healthy within 7 days of when they actually go on the IR list provided they weren't playing or practicing, that would explain why Tuch got placed on IR this afternoon rather than tomorrow. (They didn't have an open roster spot for Hinostroza until Tuch was IR'd.)