With Kravtsov here in two weeks. JD and Gorton who have sucked beyond belief this year will finally be forced to get off their ass and do something. Sutter a real coach gets hired by the Flames. Bennett has 2 A, they win 2-1. Something tells me Bennett will stay now. He got 13 minutes under Sutter who rolled his lines evenly. So, I'm throwing him out of the picture. Barron needs to be up. That is is of course after Quinn is fired and he absolutely should be before he starts fucking up Kravtsov as well. I would have to revist Hertl. He's a plus faceoff guy. Chytil is not a center. Nobody on this team can win draws. They all suck. The Sharks suck like we do but they have no future. They need prospects. I'd send them back Buchnevich and Lemieux to even the money then throw in a Zac Jones, Pajuniemi and Howden. That should be enough. This Buchnevich love is absurd. Plus, there are way too many more talented wingers here. He also vanishes in physical games. Just like he did in the playoffs. Lemieux is dumb. That's the nice way of putting it. Other than the occasional fight, he brings nothing to the team. I suspect the Sharks will try to trade the bad contracts of Burns and Vlasic which they can probably do if they retain half their salaries. I would then see if I could move DeAngelo with a Rooney and DiGuiseppi to a team looking for some depth for a 4th liner who can protect the team for a few years. I know this sound nuts but if the Flames took that deal for Lucic with half retained on his salary plus a second rounder I would jump at it. I think the next 3 years are very important to protect Lafreniere, Kakko, Chytil and some of our young defenseman along with Shesterkin. While the game has changed, our players and goalies still get run a lot. Way too much for me. I'd go with this. Panarin-Hertl-Kakko Lafreniere- Zibanejad- Kreider Chytil- Strome- Kravtsov Lucic-Barron-Gauthier Seems far fetched. It's not. It's what we can do if our president and GM would get the fuck off their ass and get creative. I don't care what anybody says. Your team plays a lot braver when you have a legit heavyweight on the roster. Especially kids. Even in todays game.
And i think I'd rather stand pat on trading Kravtsov/Lundkvist in any Eichel deal and see if you can work around a Chytil/2 1sts/ Robertson+other pick/prospect. Not big on trading either of those two though you have to give to get. I'd rather take my chances on Barkov in FA, risky as that may be to wait on.
Chytil is improving finally on draws. He's up to 43% and he's not too far from Zibanejad and Strome which is both bogus and lame. I think that plays into a deal for Eichel. I don't believe the Rangers have any interest in dealing Chytil. They are on record feeling he will be a star.
Agree. I'm still on Howden, Reunanen and Blackwell for Bennett and a pick. I would love Bennett here and have been for it for 2 years. Hajek was a guy the majority of our dumb fuck fan base wrote off. He's been studly for a while now. Imagine if he didn't have to play with a schmuck like Smith. Smith, good guy. Crappy defenseman. He actually might get a late round pick now in a deal as this is the last year of his contract.
If Chytil can win 45% of his faceoffs the rest season I think we might be good at center. First thing that needs to happen is Quinn must be fired. Painfully obvious the team has quit on him and he is terrible at developing young forwards and it can’t be disputed. That being said I think they should sell high on Strome. Larkin is my target. Detroit is too stupid to understand how to build a team. If Buffalo offered Eichel for Lundkvist, Jones, Chytil, Pajuniemi and 2 first rounders it would be hard to pass that up. I have to wonder if Eichel came here and played with Panerin how many points would he get. Plus If you could keep your top two young wings and put one of them with him it’s tempting. Personally I think Lundkvist is Fox part two. He’s that good.
Stevie Y, who built the SC champ Lightning, is too stupid to understand how to build a team in Detroit - WOW. Your stupid nonfactual comments never stop do they. And once again, your baseless comments that it is painfully obvious the team has quit on Quinn and he is terrible at developing young forwards and it can’t be disputed, is utterly ridiculous and pure nonsense. The only thing I'll agree on is if we can get Eichel without dealing Kakko or Lafreniere, and I think we can and will as I have been writing, we have to go get him. And I expect we will this summer.
Well Yzerman has done shit with his new organization. Absolutely nothing. Essentially he was saved by his Kucherov and Point picks. If not for them Tampa would suck moose dick. Gorton has rebuilt this team in record time. JD got Panarin here. Their draft this year looks to be incredible. However, after the draft has not been good. They need to fire Quinn and fire him now. Make some fucking deals already. The fact DeAngelo is not gone yet when almost everywhere had 5 teams interested is absurd.
For those following along at home - Yzerman is an idiot and was saved by two picks (which he deserves credit for - but let's not let that get in the way of a good story). Forget all the other picks and trades he made to create that team. He sucks, and Detroit has no shot because he's an idiot. Again - WOW. Why anyone would listen to or value anything this guy says is crazy. As for DeAngelo, what the grand leader doesn't understand is Gorton will only deal him in a hockey trade that adds value to our team/organization. Keeping him, and buying him out post the expansion draft is no harm for us. We save 4.4 mill on the cap next season, and for that only incur a 900 K penalty against the cap the following season. So Gorton will only make a smart trade that does not hurt our cap. Not eating a large % of his contract and/or taking back a bad contract from another team. Good for Gorton.
TB had a great team all around the last few years. They have a great goalie too and good young players . Quinn , although I agree he’s a college coach, probably is not getting fired because they had low expectations for this year. More likely Next season if the young players don’t start putting up good numbers
That is a great post strud, and I fully agree. The grand leaders point about TB/Yzerman/Detroit is ridiculous and laughable, as most of his points are. As for Quinn, it will all be about next season. Wins/points/playoffs or Quinn is gone. That simple to me.
Agree...its not about this season. He needs to keep developing the young players and compete. Next season is when he is under the microscope of w's and l's.
I really think they should sign a couple proven vets this offseason. I mean a couple guys helping out the young players can really help their game. The days of the Drury/Gomez/Redden offseasons are over but that doesn’t mean we can’t add a good top 6 forward that will help Kakko and Laf. Lol I just can’t let go the old teams. I’ve been watching highlights from 2003-2015. It’s just not the same game anymore. I can’t stand this 21 year old college kid mentality these teams have. They’re all such pussies. They would never survive against the old school guys and I don’t mean just goons
The top 6 vets to help the young guys are Kreider, Panarin and Zib. Not really much roster room next year unless it's for a big time C.
I read one article which said the Rangers probably won't do anything at the deadline and they have to watch trading too many vets because of the expansion draft. I would that the Rangers have the expansion draft strategy figured out.
I see senile Lou is once again throwing the Islanders first rounders in the toilet as he's old and doesn't care about their future.
If we get by the pens tonihht and isles twice we could make things interesting as we have 4 straight games with the now ahl like devils.
If the Islanders don’t win anything the next two years They will be set up to suck for a long time. He ruined the devils his last eight years and he’ll be ruining the Islanders as well
