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Sure, cause there was no time left on the clock afterwards was there. None of them were on the ice ever again. How utterly stupid and lame. There might be but I expect more likely is Olivier runs somebody early and laughs in their faces.

The saddest thing about this is New Jersey is generally considered as fast, skilled and too soft to succeed in the playoffs.

He's off and on and his work ethic has been called into question but when he's on his game he is a good 3rd liner. He'd take a few dollars and he might want to go to St. Louis but I'd make an offer if he doesn't re-sign with Boston.

Olivier is a free agent. He would be my first target and I would overpay. Jeannot is a free agent. Trent Frederic is a free agent. Bunch of RFAs you could go after with offer sheets. I imagine it's also fairly easy to trade talent for a tough guy like DesLauriers but it's probably not necessary if you just throw out a few dollars.

Bunch of disappointments there all around.

Absolute BS. You watch any other team and nobody waits to see what happened they go after the closest guy to the play. Sometimes they even get the wrong guy but they react instinctively and immediately. and if your star player is the guy you go after them the rest of the night and you hit their star player and so on. If you watch other teams at all you see this all the time. It's normal hockey. Consider this by way of contrast happening on the same day. https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n270988

Replacing Tage I can see, replacing Kozak I don't get. He's not a 4th line player if you want any sort of identity. The call ups should mirror the type of player you are replacing and his role on the team but whatever.

no.

Yes it probably would. They would move Tage back to center maybe and maybe somebody else rises up and we have another new rookie play well but we won't be any better and maybe worse. I personally think the whole methodology is madness. Rookies should always be forcing their way up the line up and pushing veterans out. The GM decisions should be on when you can trade or waive the pushed out veterans not on which rookie can fill the gaping hole. Kozak is arguably doing that, and that's how it should be for all of them. This is likely unpopular but as much as I like Benson I think he should start next season in Rochester.

Yes, and he might have a drop off like Quinn or even worse. Team should simply not be relying on rookies to carry it. That's what rebuild teams have to do, not teams that want to contend. Look at Michkov in Philly. He was on a roll and suddenly they had a PP and they were rising into contention despite their goaltending and then he hit a wall and now they are barely above us and falling. I'm pretty sure he will still become a superstar, but rookies be rookies and drop off times should be expected.

Really bugging me to read all these players saying they didn't see the hit as if that explains it. Pile of garbage.

I'd have to count the players but I feel that Czechia is actually better than Finland. Czechia plus Slovakia definitely.

Kulich can also easily hit a rookie wall or drop off next year before getting it all together. NHL has a long history of hotshot rookies following up and down pathways before they truly emerge. (and we don't even have to talk Cozens)

Sure but it's well documented that Ovi is a huge Putin fan and friend and has even campaigned for him. When he breaks Gretzky's record he will be paraded around Russia as a national hero. So I still say it's all bs.

Good for him but that's a pretty poor D pool for them. I really wonder about this thing. They have it billed like it's the Olympics but I have this feeling it might just be a bs all star type thing with limited hitting and mediocre efforts. We all know that if this was really the 4 best hockey nations it would be Russia and not Finland but we can't have that can we. They can all play in the NHL and we can follow Ovi's goal quest but oh no, no team Russia allowed cause Putin. So ridiculous.