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At least we beat the awful teams that we should. Huge upgrade from last year.

His assignment on that team did him no favors. The guy is a PK specialist who is good on the 2-way game. Exactly the type of player we need, given that Vesey, Sheary, etc. all suck at that role. Not even Jason said acquiring forwards is complete. We always needed AT LEAST two new pieces. A top-6 and a bottom-6. Frolik is that bottom-6 piece.

That wasn’t a terrible turnover lol. It was a crazy bouncing puck

If Johansson really is playing stellar then Buffalo sure could use him. Hutton laid a total egg this year

TRADE ME RIGHT NOW

Bogo scratched thank god Does Rodrigues play?

Just because he wants inside scoops doesn’t mean he’s making any impact on decisions.

Larsson is good. Watch his Sweden games. Letting him go I think is a mistake. Otherwise I agree with the sentiment, but trading Okposo isn't going to happen I wouldn't make it any priority. Just eat the cap hit and Moulson him if necessary. Honestly, he has been far from any problem this year.

Terry started hands-on, but has learned to keep the hell out. I think Murray broke him.

They gutted for draft picks to pick a ton. Then canned Darcy and let a teenager spend his first paycheck on all the wrong things and have to beg for gas money to make it through the next week.

They all promoted guys from within. We had nobody within to even promote, hence all the terrible filler players on cap dump contracts. Murray gutting all of our talent has led to this. It's year 3 for Botterill- 'his guys' are only starting to bud.

Steve Smith is vastly overrated

Sheary has been awful and he was stuck with him for half the game so far. I’d wait to say much more

Thank god Sheary and Vesey got banished to 4th line. They’ve been awful

Eichel playing great

UFA rental Toffoli is not someone we should be aiming for, especially at high rental pick prospect prices

If Thompson and Mittelstadt don't improve a whole lot, I think they go 8/1, and they still end up losing a defenseman: Dahlin, Joker, Montour and Risto Leaves Pilut, Miller, and McCabe if re-signed exposed Or they protect Pilut and expose a rental Risto if contract negotiations aren't going anywhere. Or even if they re-sign Risto, they expose him anyway If Thompson and/or Mittelstadt breaks out, then they expose Risto and Pilut and will lose one. And that is what all our draft pick defenseman are for to replace them. I think the only mistake that can be made is pretending any of these players is worth forfeiting a 1st round pick to protect. 6th rounder-- okay who cares, but Vegas was getting 1st rounders to protect good players and in every case that was a huge mistake.

Smith is worth so much more than Bogo lol. So much more Whatever we do I hope it’s soon though.

Lazar should stay!

Who is calling the 2018 draft a bust?

Unintentional tanking and Murray style tanking.. Top-3 draft picks after years of picking high before that is still the same result. And yes, Pittsburgh tanked before their drafts.

I meant in the prior decade under Darcy. I agree about the 2017 draft-- Botterill didn't really miss, there wasn't much there.

Darcy and Murray both were severely below-average performing GMs when it came to hitting on draft picks. And Murray traded away half his draft picks for bust trade targets to boot. I don't think it is fair to say tanking is pointless. Chicago and Pittsburgh tanked just fine, with their top-picks capping off their runs. Ours failed because we didn't hit on a single damn prospect until Eichel.

You can go back even further than that and see why the tank was a necessity in the first place. We spent 5 straight seasons under Darcy missing badly on their 1st round selection, and trading away their 2nd rounders for utterly failed rentals. Murray was quite bad, especially for a supposed scouting savant, but the tank was made necessary by a decade of awful drafting before Murray.

The look on Botterill’s face when he made the pick made it seem like he wasn’t so sure at the time either but I believe that Minnesota kid in Minnesota held all his cards and forced the ELC and instant NHL