Andrew Amerk

It’s a Canadian sport, and I assume their country has done better with the virus than the country that has done the absolute worst with it, despite a heads up.

Of all the time I’ve wasted on this site, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comment I’ve agreed with more than this one.

No.

Maybe a silly question, but how is he able to vacate his position when the season “isn’t over” yet? Also, I worked with Chad momentarily at one of the sites...he actually gets credible inside info, unlike almost every blogger (and some on the books reporters).

Maybe it’s referring to paying 3 GMs all at the same time, which is quite an incredible feat. If I understand correctly, Laaks is an offensive D that was asked to focus more on doing D this season. Maybe his numbers dipped because of it?

There’s also Borgen and Bryson who seem to be coming along decently, as well as 6K, and Portillo just won an award of some sort. Laaksonen is still cooking in the oven. He did draft Dahlin, which everyone views as a gimme, but I don’t think that’s always the case. Sometimes that player ends up a Daigle.

So then why do your proposed lines have Larry and TT on them?

Where does Zemgus go? And TT is playing D now?

Sorry but giving up one of our D plus a player like Mitts who isn’t gonna make it anyways, and an unknown pick isn’t going to “gut” our team. Our team already doesn’t have enough “guts,” which is why we need a player like Cirelli.

That’s what I’d figure. So give them a cheaper D man, a pick, and a prospect. Miller, Mitts, a pick.

TBL can’t keep everyone. Offer them Risto/Montour/Miller/McCabe + a pick + Mitts/ Asplund/ Pekar. Whatever gets it done. Time to stop overthinking it and get talent in here. As much as I appreciate the Hail Marys on Moulson, Leino, Johansson, Sheary, Frolik, Berglund, Sobotka, Vesey, Kahun and whoever else, it’s time to acquire actual talent.

Just do what needs to be done to get Cirelli. That’s all.

If Kyvin gets fired then who replaces him? The guy best at heating up frozen La Nova pizzas at KBC?

How do you hold rights to a UFA?

If he loses his love for the game, let him go...

Stumbled across this earlier (not a rumor, just someone’s proposal):

Well thank God they didn’t go outside the box for these hires. Clearly hiring outside of the organization for 9 seasons hasn’t worked, so let’s promote people on the inside who have been part of the losing for these last 9 years. Next they could promote the tenured janitor to fly their private jet, and wonder why it didn’t work out when they crash.

Screw them. I’m not about to feel bad for a team that’s won 71 Cups and was in the playoffs 36 straight seasons, when our miserable team has been around 50 years and hasn’t even been in a playoff game for the last 20% of its existence. And now the NHL wants to drum up some random improbable anomaly in a lottery to try and drum up interest in their sham Covid playoffs scenario? Every year we are always 3 years away. How is this even possible?

The 8 teams that lose the first round of the PLAYOFFS all get a 12.5% chance. (I don’t care what moniker the NHL wants to give it - it’s playoffs).

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This is also where I got confused, because I thought I heard Kathryn Tappin say “the team that ends up 12th will now get the top pick.”

I’m still hoping they have a spot for Tre White after all the fine work he’s done with the goaltending academy.

Ah so I just misunderstood. I thought it was only for the 8 teams that were granted the privilege of a shot at the play in rounds. So you meant any of those 16 teams, not 8 as you wrote.

Can someone with a better brain than mine explain what’s going on? I thought only the 8 teams that didn’t qualify for the playoffs but qualify for the play-in are the ones with the shot at the top pick?

If this is true, it’s a knock on Ralphie. For some players, you have to let them play their game, and not try to fit them into a box.