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Is the consensus that we should trade the pick?

Think it’s the opposite of giving the kids a chance to compete. The reason given why we gave Krebs half a season of AHL level play despite it hurting the team until he figured things out, which guess what, was enough to be the difference between playoffs or not. Whatever, 1 year and a culture fit.

Peace is good but I’m not so eager to pay a premium just to pay him a large contract

Bettman is a gaslighting piece of *****. His interview about board ads at the start of the season was “maybe the fans should stop staring at the boards and watch the game instead of complain”. Tells you everything about him. He deserves every boo

The FA pool is fine.

UPL and their second is a deal I’d be happy with. And I’m 100% sold on Levi

We are riding Levi do or die. Why do we waste text over another goalie?

Guy who spent four years in college wanted to spend another month to graduate. Total non story. Sabres all the way.

Eichel and Reinhart are both on stacked teams. Here they had to be THE guys. They don’t have that pressure now. Depth is everything.

Nice. Need the depth in the position. Still, signing a vet UFA top4 D is a need this off season. No more waiting

Was excited to see the new blood and he simply gets in the way. I don’t dislike him as a player but he doesn’t excite me either. The letter makes scratching or cutting him even more awkward. Thought we were over this by now

Carolina has done nothing wrong but play some good hockey.

No. Unless we win cups

KA went out of his way to praise Bales at year end presser. Think this is a mistake. Our Special Teams and Defense needs new coaching. Granato needs to hand off goalie pull decisions to someone else, he himself doesn’t get it at all. So many games lost because a goalie who was clearly out of it wasn’t pulled early enough. Top 4 UFA D is the only thing that really matters this off season. Now is the time to pick up a vet, there is nobody in the system he is blocking. I hope we don’t re sign Okposo or Girgensons. Trade Oloffson if you aren’t going to use him.

McDermott calling the shots and has the most weapons he’s ever had. I disliked Frasier Offense only got better. Josh got rid of a distraction We’re a contender. If the media sleeps on it even better

Analytics say nothing about systems and coaching. Stillman was misused by bad coaching. He is perfectly serviceable and a big part of their late season turnaround. Nobody said he was top4 and it’s quite clear that’s the top of KAs list this off season. There is no ‘just be patient and wait’ on defense like there was in goal that justified his inaction.

Josh was lost without Beasley. We got a big Beasley. Guy will be slot more often than not, the TE name is just a label

I think the guy who traded Eichel and turned the franchise around is going to be okay.

He is poised to take on a third line role. Would be weird to see him ditch that opportunity.

It’s fair to discuss the rookies but we have an entire year before any decisions have to be made at all with them. What is clear is that we don’t have room to sign a long term UFA to high dollar without kicking out one of the rookies we have.

Then you call the Greenway-Cozens-Thompson line the top line and the Skinner-Mittelstadt-Tuch line the second line.

There are players you want for 1-2 years you wouldn’t want for 3+. ROR, Hanifin, etc are those types of guys. It’s a personality thing

False equivalency. Comrie is an NHL caliber backup. Bryson is not an NHL quality defenseman.

I look on capfriendly and there’s a dozen UFA defenseman who we could sign as a 2nd pair at worst. If he doesn’t sign one of those guys it’s a failed off season.

UPL is trade bait for a younger bottom pairing defenseman who isn’t awful. Or a younger 4th liner who isn’t awful. Both needs we have. Comrie will be fine as a back up. Problem then is what happens when there’s an injury to Comrie that is inevitable? We’re gonna draft more goalies it seems. Dude made like two bad defensive plays his time here. Bryson makes that many per shift. Go get the top UFA on the market KA- he only needs to end up being a solid 4D cause the top 3D are locked in for a decade. Don’t hold back. Stillman I think beats out Jokiharju as the 6D, who is the one we need to push out to 7D.