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I don’t wish to be an eyore, but the win hasn’t really excited me. I feel like an abused partner, unable to be excited about the good because I know the real bad is around the corner. hopefully this year I am wrong

So including injuries, is our defence currently: Dahlin, Risto, Miller, Nelson, Gilmour, Scandella, Jokiharju, Pilut, McCabe, Bogosian, Montour? So that's 11 players, with Borgen in the A

Do many believe the team is any better than last year? Maybe 85 points and draft 8th again

So is our aim to acquire every LW in the NHL? I like the signing, but we are very crowded in that position now - what do we have 10 of them now? Skinner Johansson Vesey Sheary Olofsson Girgensons Wilson Rodrigues Smith Elie I don't want any of these guys playing 4C, let alone 2C.

Is Marner worth 4 firsts? 5 years @ 10.5 is pretty horrible for Toronto anyway and it is much more palatable if they walk away

Is he a UFA next season?

That's a great deal

Yeah we could do with a few more LW ?

Did you not get the whipping boy memo? Risto is not an NHL defenceman We have a ton of low end D and LW. Quantity for quality trade coming up?

Plus Elie

This roster has an odd shape. We have no 2C We have Thompson and Mitts who are both centres but not really ready / good enough (atm) to play 3C, let alone 2C. Reinhart is our only legit RW. So no 2RW. We have a ton of LW - Sheary, Erod, Vesey, Olofsson, Skinner, Wilson, Elie etc. I guess Girgensons and Larsson make up 2/3 of our fourth line, which I am happy with, But we need a 4RW to bulk them out

I guess we want a winning environment in Rochester

The Hamburgler? Another Rochester signing

Shame Tyler Bozak isn't an FA this year. He is the type of guy we need

https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/86308/victor-olofsson Everywhere has him listed as a winger in general. But I have no idea if he has actually played those positions in the pros

Unless Olofsson moves to RW

We are signing a lot of random one-way contracts for Rochester apparently. I do wonder the benefit of all this money being spent

TSN are reporting it as a done deal

Rangers will be scary this year. Another team who will definitely be fighting for a playoff spot. We need to properly improve. Kakko, Trouba and Panarin on an already better team

Poorly worded - I meant more the appeal of a big city to go partying in may have been more attractive 3 years ago and he is less bothered by that now. Just speculating as to reasonable things that could mean his reasons for rejecting us the first time around aren't true now

Maybe he will like the city / team more than he expected? Maybe he has grown up / changed in the last few years and what he wanted from New York is no longer what he wants?

By points alone, he would be a top 6 forward in 9/16 playoff teams. Colorado, Boston, Dallas, Carolina, St Louis, Winnepeg, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Islanders

I don't disagree entirely. But a 35 point player on your third line is what 120 point teams have, not 95 point teams

There are 180 top 6 forwards in this league. Vesey was 167th. He is a classic middle 6 forward, not bottom 6