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ANYONE WANNA GUESS WHAT WOLANIN'S SALARY IS? YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT I'MA TELL YA ANYWAYS.

Well gee whiz. I guess Granato was right to dismiss fictitious "reports" regarding an idea that had zero merit. But by all means, someone here wants to die on a hill defending this. Raise your hand if you want to defend this idea.

Must win all 98.

This. Separately, an Eichel trade should maximize long term return. Period.

It's on page n ≥ 2, where it belongs.

lol, the Dahlin-sucks-at-defense-and-should-play-forward thread got deleted.

Baws.

After four years, Lidstrom at 15th and Hedman 59th. For Dahlin to move up to 15th-ish over his first four seasons, he'd likely have to record something like a 58 point season. Team GF/GP and GA/GP over the respective first three seasons: Lidstrom 1st, 10th Hedman 9th, 27th Dahlin 26th, 27th In other words, Dahlin is point tracking just fine to his comparables despite doing so on a dreadfully worse offensive team over these years. He'll be fine.

Oh, I definitely misinterpreted your sigh, then, because I initially thought it flatly mirrored my own fatigue with the inanity of OP's suggestion to move one of the league's best point-getting defensemen to forward. To which I followed with parodic sass. If it makes you feel any better, Dahlin ranks 20th among all defensemen since 2018-19 in points with 107P in 197GP (same as Karlsson), and that's with the absolute derth of team goal scoring during the Krueger drought. Dahlin got back on that track with 11P in 21GP after the streak ended under Granato, compared to the 12P in 35GP previous under Krueger and in the practice-less losing streak. Dahlin's on his way, and not really doing any worse than his comparables. Keep in mind Dahlin also has had shortened seasons. FWIW, Lidstrom was 18th in the league in points among defensemen over approximately the same number of beginning games. Hedman was 70th.

Also: måste vinna and/or täytyy voittaa.

Maybe OP is on to something. UPL has been struggling. The way he lets pucks get by him, he would make an elite powerplay screening forward. Probably better than Vanek.

Two swedes and a finn grow up basically on the same road and body of water and the best we get is "The European Union?" Holy *****. Put your back into it or look at a map once in a while. (cracks knuckles) R2 Swede2 Bothnia Mafia The Bottenvikeners Trans Nordic Express

Defensemen with Dahlin's talents playing as a defenseman are much harder to replace than a forward with Dahlin's talents playing as a forward. This is evidenced by the fact that the 21 year old defensemen can do what he does offensively, while simultaneously (to some) looking like he needs to continue to develop his defensive game at the NHL level. This is not unique to him. F/D specialization has been a core development principle for decades in the NHL with infinitesimally few exceptions that even then didn't produce all-stars on the other side of the puck. It would an historic error to ruin Dahlin's development and squander his potential by playing him at forward. Dahlin will continue to develop and he'll be great.

Peterka looking like a steal and a genius move by KA to move up to get him (38th + 100th to SJ for the 34th overall pick).

*****in stick exploded.

Old and busted: our team getting scored against. New hotness: the other team getting scored against.

Gotta teach him some grit somehow. Or break him. Whichever.

Laine never would have been on the ice if Tortorella was still coach.

The old Ottawa bounce. Senators used to do this deliberately once in a while on the power play back in the day by having Chara blast it wide of the net short side so it would bounce off the back kickplate to the far side of the net to an open Spezza or Alfredsson. Stopping it relied on the goalie reading the incoming shot as missing the traffic in front on the short side and making a sliding save to the far side, which was tough to do.

If this is any sort of correct: Then it's "Ack-sell Yone-sone Fee-yale-bee."