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Just read his recent hot streak has seen him lining up in the middle.

Agents involved in this pointing things in desired directions. (Just like I suspect they are with Portillo)

it was a 3rd. And thanks for the thread @LGR4GM. Definitely seems like deadline day has arrived.

There's one for the "Portillo has no value" folks. Thrun is in the same position and a similar-level prospect. If you could get a player as good as Sandin with the 30th pick in the draft, you did well. Pretty big difference between Boston's pick and even, say, the Islanders.

Contract situation and player dictating where he would go. It’s Taylor Hall all over again. I expect the apology to Kevyn Adams thread to be posted within minutes.

So Greg Wyshynski is reporting that the Bruins nearly had a deal done for Chychrun, but couldn’t close it due to salary retention. The Bruins have no 1st this year and no 2nd rounders for 3 years. Their best prospect might be as good as Rosen. Their next best are at best a full tier below that, and there aren’t many of them. Im going to conclude that either Wyshynski is wrong, or the price for Chychrun is a helluvalot less than this nonsense about Savoie, Mule and a 1st. So much ***** floating around out there this time of year. (Yes, I am aware the Bruins gave up a 1st and 2nd for Orlov that they could have used, but my point remains. They had no single asset as high as any of the 3 parts in the alleged Sabres ask)

Which is the way it should be based on performance.

Wow, listening to Canuck radio and analyst Thomas Drance is saying don't be surprised if Riley Stillman turns into an asset for the Sabres, despite his struggles in Vancouver. Basically he says Stillman was put in the worst possible position with the Canucks where the system and his partner (Tyler Myers) exacerbated his flaws. Drance says that won't be the case in Buffalo, which is loaded (his words) with defencemen who can move the puck. Drance thinks he's a viable 6/7 who can grind out neutral minutes on the bottom pair. Different take from most of the other Canuck-watchers. Also said Stillman was targeted by the Canucks when they acquired him along with cap space for Jason Dickinson and a 2nd. They thought he was going to be a regular, not filler, but he proved a bad fit.

I think that seems to have been more true in the summer than it is now. John Gibson and Thatcher Demko are depreciated but talented options worth looking at. Cam Talbot has certainly outplayed Comrie. And Juuse Saros would flat out transform our team.

He is second-guessing himself so much and is way too focused on the fact he's not creating offence.

I mostly agree with you, but context matters. Canuck fans hate and want to get rid of more than half their roster. Add being an actual fringe player to that situation and the message board response is predictable. Casey Fitzgerald didn't play enough to get universally hated here and it sounds like Stillman is basically the same player. I suspect he'll play a similar role and be regarded similarly by the fan base.

I look at the trade deadline like this: This is a lineup as I see Adams more or less committed to for next year Skinner Thompson Tuch XXX Cozens Quinn Peterka Krebs XXX Girgensons YYY YYY Samuelsson Dahlin Power ZZZ/Jokiharju Jokiharju/ZZZ Lybushkin ??? ??? Right now, the candidates for: XXX are Okposo, Mittelstadt and Olofsson, YYY Jost, Okposo and Asplund, ZZZ Johnson, Stillman, Bryson, Clague ??? Luukkonen Comrie I'm interested in any trade that maintains that 1st depth chart while upgrading any of the candidates for open spots. I don't want Brock Boeser because he's not playing on the 4th line and he's not better than Olofsson or Mitts. But I'd love any defenceman as good or better than Jokiharju and any goalie as good or better than UPL.

Adams sticks pretty firmly to his path and believes in his people. If I'm not 100 % in agreement with you yet, I doubt he is. I suspect he won't make up his mind by Friday and if he doesn't,he wont until after the season is over. So what happens between now and then matters.

https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=160632&encode=TRUE

If i could trade for Thatcher Demko right now I would. Adams won't, so our guys get 24 games to prove you wrong. He's no Thatcher Demko

This is exactly what I'm saying.

I've been fully accepting of Comrie/UPL as the plan - mostly because I knew that's what Adams was committed to, but also partly because a month ago I had just watched UPL play well enough for 2 months to be a bridge, I still had some faith Comrie had it in him to do the same, and I have unreasonable faith in Levi lurking in the weeds. That's becoming harder and harder to hang on to.

Except he's not very good at it. The more I think about it, the more I see this as Fitzgerald's replacement: role, personality and effectiveness. No more, no less. Nothing else to see here.

Yes, that’s pretty much my point. Objectively, Josh Bloom has a less than 10 percent chance of being as good as Jacob Bryson. Stillman (roughly) seems to be about as good as Bryson. Therefore, good chance the Sabres got value in this trade. Notwithstanding the real work of actually scouting the players, which we haven’t done. To be clear, based on my superficial knowledge about the players, I don’t like this trade, although I think there’s a pretty good chance most of us will forget about it fairly soon

I think it’s inevitable that when you put as much priority on character as Adams does, you’re bound to miss on the talent portion sometimes. This will be one to watch. I have a feeling this is one of those trades where one team would have just been happy to cut ties with a player, only to be pleasantly surprised to get a call where someone actually wants him and will pay for him. To be clear, Josh Bloom was hardly a big price to pay.

Didn’t he though? Arent you pretty content if your 3rd rounder plays 140 NHL games by the time he’s 24? I mean Stillman is 37th in his draft year in NHL games played. Adam Fox is the only 3rd rounder from his draft year (2016) to play more. And it’s more than 20 of the guys taken in round 2.

And he’s quite an accomplished punch catcher too!

Just her

My phone just lit up with my Canuck fan friends laughing at me, so there’s that 🤷

OK, that perspective helps a bit