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I don't remember how they ran lines in Winnipeg. That team also had Geekie.

Idk maybe. I don't know chinakov at all.

No idea if he could play nhl C.

Has he? Yes, he played limited centre minutes in Jr's. Fairly certain in his draft year he got some time at centre but, Benson is a winger. This lineup doesn't make sense.

No idea what this means

Giving up 20yr old Benson, a guy with elite defensive metrics for a 24yr old with worse defense, who can't stay healthy is a terrible idea. I long for the day when I don't have to defend Benson. That day is rapidly approaching.

I wonder what he costs. Would be nice to be on the good side of a "guy wants out" trade.

Trading Zach Benson is stupid.

Reminds me of the Cozens trade where ppl were talking about him being a physical 2way forward

The new cba kicks in for 2026. He's gonna play 1 more CHL season and then he can go to the AHL.

How did this get 2 pages? He's an AHL plug.

Momma taught me never to click on strange links.

Isn't that a Dean Martin song?

I think the cap went up, free agency dried up, and teams are still in that area of "cap isn't going up" They psyched themselves out

This didn't even start with you. I listed what we added, that's it. Has nothing to do with you. You then went on a rant about how 2022 Cozens was being replaced by 2025 Norris and I'm guessing that doesn't move the needle for you. There's a bunch of Adams hate in there as though I'm defending in and now it's "oh you're only posting to contradict me" lol

Again, I'm not predicting playoffs. I'm not defending Adams. I'm just saying there's been a few moves.

Cozens hasn't played well in 2 full years. Norris isn't the key addition. He's just one of the additions and arguing he's not is bizarre.

Norris doesn't count. He played 3 games.

I don't agree. Kesselring, Norris, Lyon, and potentially Doan fit the category. Lyon is going to play 35+games.

Out from Buffalo: Cozens, Peterka, Clifton, Lafferty, JBD, Reimer In for Buffalo: Norris, Kesselring, Doan, Timmins, Danforth, Lyon And Kulich and Benson are a year older. I'm not saying we'll make the playoffs, but I don't agree that we only marginally tweaked the roster. We brought in 2 new defenders, 1 top 4. We added a top 6 forward. We added a 3rd line forward. We added a 4th line forward. We added a new gt. I do agree it looks even on paper and I put us at only 85pts but we've done quite a bit to this roster since March. I think our piss poor coaching is the Achilles heel.

The Rangers stink.

The only eastern team we care about who is above on this list is Montreal. Carolina is also a smidgen above but the rest is western teams. Speaking of the West, Utah ended up at 28th with a -8.