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I think most of his problems are 1. physical strength and 2. makes rushed/bad decisions when pressured. Given that, I think you def can make a case that he isn't NHL ready. The AHL is tailor made to develop him through those issues. Having said that, playing against 4th liners would do wonders for his performance. Although, 4th liners aren't the scrubs they used to be when teams kept roster spots for tough guys.

Chicago deep dish pizza just went in the oven.....

Still have the 1st wildcard, no?

Tried to respond to two posts. I hate that the multiquote feature is gone. My response loses context without multiquote.

Kudos to Robin Lehner. He seems to have gotten his stuff back together. It couldn't have been easy to come in here and face his demons. I'd rather the good guys won, but kudos nonetheless.

Inky, is you or your brother at the game? Guy in the crowd could be you.

I think his role is going to have to evolve into the type of role Mike Grier had. And I think he still has the tools for it. I don't think he has the teammates tho.

He's reading Sabrespace.

I think I've read excepts from that book. Pretty sure, in fact.

I saw 2 tank years.

The Manning portion specifically.

Unbunch your Garanimals. That's exactly what I mean. He's got alot of growing as a player to do, and before he gets there we need another center.

We're all blocking you.

I'm not sure that would be a good thing if his head is on straight.

In defense of Edmonton, reportedly McDavid signed off on the trade before it was finalized. There shouldn't be hard feelings.

Center needs to be the priority in trade talks. Otherwise we're looking at center depth in 3-5 years. Hopefully Casey has it turned around before then.....

Last time I read an article on this was at least a year ago, so I may not be remembering properly, but my recolection is the exact opposite. Starters everywhere in the 1st round and into the 2nd, so there is terrific value in collecting those extra picks to move down. Quite the opposite of the NHL draft.

Well, that changes everything. And if Eichel doesn't go, my interest in the game goes with him. What a hot mess that would be.

There has been a lot of interesting analysis on this. The consensus is that the NFL draft is almost always rich enough that trading down is nearly always the better play.

Maybe he gets in over Ellie, but I think you're most likely right. he's a warm body in case someone can't go, hence the last minute call up.

Savage.

And I hope he wouldn't. He's still an improvement over the alternative at the moment. Overpaid, but better than our other options. Yeah, yeah, what about X kid in Rochester..... they aren't going to do any better with the centers we have.

He's not a 4th line player. But he hasn't been productive either. He needs a center. I suppose PH is looking to build a line that isn't so dependent on a center. Good luck with that.

No, it can’t be framed a success in that circumstance. I don’t think we’ll end up having that discussion, fortunately.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.