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I meant more so because it’s not really a zero sum game when there’s only one winner: and there’s only so much you can maximize 20 roster spots. put it this way: we were already headed into the flop with pocket Kings. A few teams are going to get to limp in with Ace Eight and potentially bite us in the ass with those extra cards to play Not really what I’m getting at. Perhaps I’m explaining poorly

I like the Power contract for the same consistent reasons why I disliked the Dahlin bridge. It’s not really important to me to stride the fence. my opinion on the Dahlin contract he got now is simply: He’s Rasmus Dahlin

It’s funny, I think it’s probably the opposite. These contracts looks to me to be Kevyn Adams handling the cap situation excellently - under the prism of how it’s already set up anything that makes the cap system EASIER to navigate for other teams moving forward probably weakens our advantage we were going to be one of the teams winning that game Tighter cap = advantage KA

Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Arizona, winnipeg

Probably rights the wrong of bridging Dahlin. A haircut would serve him far better in this pursuit

Then I disagree with the premise

I’ve found that to be perhaps a function of how much he’s speaking to the refs - and it sort of ties into a discussion I saw in another thread about how Crosby was disliked coming into league - there’s often an intangible bias against younger players. But if Dahlin actually *had* the C that comes with veteranship, I bet the refs mind all the yakking less

Hey, Mark Scheifele got 8.5 x 8 based on this principle

It’s a definite déjà vu feeling looking, year over year. Obvious Benson exception. I understand the aim for continuity - should be fascinating to see how it all unfolds

Did the 05-06 team have a hall of famer?

Chad has been pretty balanced

Who knows. If I had a guess: not likely, because the fact of the matter is, that move would require a GM who’s reasonably patient and deliberate at the most frantic of times to make a move at a time when the market is calm

Fittingly, I can disagree with your post. I missed every flower, and the garden itself. this place deserves a better class of thorn, and I’m gonna give it to em

ftfy cheers dude I missed you

Yep. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again f*ck the Chicago blackhawks thats it

Thanks, chief I missed you

Hellebuyck isn’t weak in those areas compared to others, weird misnomer I’ve noticed around here. He’s well above average. Those are merely the areas he isn’t elite in. Ie he’s elite in most areas but only quite good in a couple. it would be pretty odd to not add Hellebuyck for this specific reason because the only goalies that wouldn’t struggle mightily in those areas are the count-on-one-hand other elite goalies. It would be sort of weird to gameplan to have these terrible defensive deficiencies for the course of an 8 year term. It doesn’t matter who we have in net if we don’t fix the issues.

He can be right, less wrong is fine by me if we make the playoffs

I’ve seen Eichel with a 200 ft game (so, current Jack Eichel) mentioned, as well as Wayne Gretzky mentioned a couple times.. maybe we get lucky for once and he ends up somewhere, while I won’t say in the “middle”, somewhere in between the two To me I kind of see Brayden Point

By all means continue linking players with better defence and better offence

His d doesn’t fit in with the Usual Suspects though it’s more x-men origins: Wolverine out there in the defensive zone. in all honesty I wager to say the Days of him being the Future are Past

I certainly think the Hellebuyck contract makes a ton of sense in that context. Especially because the Jets, given their market, aren’t a team that I believe thinks they can risk LT rebuilds, definitely not lightly, but maybe not...at all? Maybe one per GM? But they’ve only had one GM. These extensions represent doubling down again on their OG core from 12 years ago. It’s somewhat frightening and somewhat.. exceptionally respectable. make no mistake, this is their “we want guys who want to be here”, see, look at these long term guys doubling down to stay. For Chevy a triumphant “SEE, Wheeler was wolf in the hen house, and he’s gone now.” Sticking point for me is is my anti-Scheifele bias. Whereas I believe Hellebuyck to be probably elite, I’m not convinced Scheifele is good

Hellebuyck contract is ok, that Scheifele contract to a 30+ skater is kinda yikes. Might end up balancing out the steal they had with his first several years under contact. His defence isn’t bad, so much as it’s atrocious. My eye test where Scheifele is concerned is of course bountiful but there’s also this