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Exactly, well said. This is all about head space. The ability to show his strength and continue to push is what he needed with this tournament. Not necessarily that he needed to be there, but the realization that he has the talent to be above that. He's one step away, but that step is a big one to jump into the NHL.

Thanks Modo!

Larsson, Jones, Mahura, Steel to name a few guys that are appealing.

This one possibly.

I don't want a defender in the middle of a bloated contract who could go down for the count like a broken piece of reinforced glass. Keep Letang and his glass jaw. This is a stupid idea. Grasping for straws.

This would be the obvious dream scenario. However, Okposo's value is so limited at the moment. Unless someone wants him on the cheap.

See I'm going more Hughes, Boqvist and then praying for upside on that pick. :P However, Dahlin will be someone to watch as he blitzkriegs this tournament.

Awesome thread, ty Flaggy. I agree with Reinhart for sure. I've thrown in the towel on him at this point.

Making five million living in Southern Cali, avoiding the frigid winter of Buffalo's hell. All at the same time not being booed off the ice on the PP. MattyMo, sip a Moulson and enjoy the good life.

Trading Ocho might be smart. He needs a clean break.

Cannot fault you for that one. Though their defense is pretty amazing. Blah!

Also, why are two slow skaters on the PP. Pommer and Reinhart....No one to skate it properly into the zone. Ugh.

Watching Nolan play reminds me of how much I'd rather see John Scott.

I leave to get my wings and we're already down 1-0. Merry F'N Christmas :P

I truly believe if you do right by him now so he doesn't sour on a bottom place finish and let him see that we care about his ability to win. I think it benefits. Now, you try to gauge his interest in coming back before doing so. IMO, trading him is what you need to do for the betterment of the team long term.

Yes, and yes he should be traded. If they want to go all out and try to re-sign him in the offseason, maximizing his value and explaining that it's for the betterment of the team is what happened with Moulson. If Kane was going to sign an extension what makes you think he wouldn't if he spent some time in a winning environment. The team/management does right by him by trading him for a chance to make the playoffs and retain him after we get some cap off this summer.

Good, the tournament got some more match up intrigue.

I never believed he would make it to open market. If he did, it would be a similar situation with Stamkos. Maybe not less money per say, but that he ended up staying.

I think it comes to the fact with Marchessault that they didn't really have a place for him in their top six and he's an all offense player. He's a luxury for Vegas for sure. He'll likely get locked up by them to buy up a little bit of cap. As for Smith, he never found his magic after his first good season in Florida. I think it just comes down to crunching numbers after you sign extensions with: Barkov, Trochek, Huberdeau, Matheson, in the last season as well as Bjugstad/Ekblad the season before. I'm sure they'd rather have not paid Yandle in the long thick of it.

I'm sorry, but the first season of the rebuild was the most repugnant season I've ever seen. It was not even close.

.....and just as we look good, we give up a really sloppy goal. Stay in the net Lehner.

Girgensons with a nice feed for a change. That was his best play in 20 games?

There are definitely good options in both farm systems of course. Cernak, Raddysh, Joseph, Howden, to name a few. Bellows, Aho, etc for the Isles. Well we should have just drafted Boeser. Bleh.

I'd "love" this with Valimaki in the deal. The first can be 2019 for that package. Then trade Reinhart for Juolevi and a 2nd.

That's where I fall. It's the problem that you create with having two players at roughly 10AAV per season. You come into issues with still having: Okposo, Moulson, Bogosian, and others on the books as well.