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This years 1st MUST be lotto protected, top 10, top 5 etc. Otherwise it's a hard no from me dawg.

OMFG GOD GUYS A CHICK FROM SINGAPORE JUST SHOWED UP AT MY FRONT DOOR AND MY WIFE IS PIZZZED

Yep, getting lit up. Wings looking solid against a hot Montreal team tho.

Rasmussen makes a helluva play to Motte on the goal there. He’s been on fire lately.

Nice short side goal by Kane there.

and the video of the hit on Simon https://x.com/i/status/1869592989141713310

Ristolainen is a big boy, but hardly a guy Edvinsson shouldn’t fight when next we play Philly. He needs to let them know he’s not going to tolerate that sh*t.

This would be a good win for us after the Toronto game. The Flyers are only a decent team, but they play really hard and make it tough to beat them (kinda like the Islanders). If we can beat a high end offensive team in Toronto and then outwork Philly for a win tonight you'd have to think the team would be happy with the progress. You HAVE to be able to beat tough teams to win anything in the NHL.

Either way, Yzerman is not going to make this team any better this season. That has been shown by not acquiring any of the players that have been on the move recently that would've definitely made the team better. He is probably going to ride this team throughout and see if they can squeak in. As mentioned above, Yzerman could've matched the Kakko trade. Real Trade: Kakko for Boren, 25 3rd, 25 6th US: Kakko for Lagesson, 25 3rd (we have 2), 25 6th Fowler trade: Real Trade: Fowler, 4th for a 2nd, J. Biakabatuka (who we once had) US: Fowler, 4th for a 2nd, E. Viro (or K. Aucoin) Trouba trade: Real Trade: Trouba for a Conditional 4th, U. Vaakanainen US: Trouba for a conditional 4th, again Viro or Aucoin Jiricek trade: Reak Trade: Jiricek and a 5th for D. Hunt, a 2025 1st round pick, 2026 3rd round pick, 2026 4th round pick, and 2027 2nd round pick US: Jiricek and a 5th for (again) Viro or Aucoin, a 2025 1st round pick(protected), 2026 3rd round pick, 2026 4th round pick, and 2027 2nd round pick Liljegrin trade: Real Trade: Liljegrin for M. Benning, a 2026 6th round pick and a Conditional 2025 3rd round pick US: Liljegrin for Lagesson, a 2026 6th round pick and a Conditional 2025 3rd round pick Any one of, or combination of these trades would make our team better. For salary cap issues, you just waive players that suck or try to move some salary out to others.

If we make the playoffs because of unsustainably high levels of play from guys who aren't going to be around long (Kane, Tarasenko, Chiarot, Talbot, Gustafsson, etc.) then it's probably a bad thing. But if Larkin, Seider, Raymond, Edvinsson, Kasper, Debrincat can somehow drag us into the playoffs you'd have to think it's a good thing. Don't we WANT those guys to be team leaders who excel at playoff level hockey?

Well that was fun for once

Good cherry pick by Kane

Kip Older guys can't take hits like we used too. Me wonders if that injury he had is a shoulder or similar hence the greater avoidance of contact. Not that he is a banger to begin with. annnd Simon is out now

No, well no intelligent ones.

You're probably right, despite the fact that none of those guys are considerably better than the players we took in those drafts. Personally I think the 1OA pick is worth more as a bargaining chip than the player eventually selected is worth. Waaaaaay back in 2015 I suggested that Edmonton should trade the 1OA for the 2OA and whatever else they wanted to Buffalo. Basically give up the chance to draft McDavid and get Eichel plus (for example) Reinhart instead. Obviously most people think McDavid is the better player, but he's not SO much better that the trade wouldn't have been worth while. You can do this for almost every draft in recent memory. Would you rather have Jack Hughes or Moritz Seider plus whatever else Detroit would have given you to jump up to 1OA. Owen Power or Edvinsson plus something else? Slafkovsky or Logan Cooley plus something else? People tend to think the players taken 1OA are just SO MUCH better than the players selected after them and in most cases (not all cases) they aren't THAT much better. Using the first example, it was clear at the time that Eichel was going to be a franchise 1C, and we knew then (and its been verified) that he's capable of winning a Cup (because he's already done it). So Edmonton COULD have walked away with a franchise 1C AND a top end scorer (Reinhart) without significantly hurting their Stanley Cup aspirations. Silly to me, but I'm a minority of one.

That's what I was going to say as well. I'm okay trading a 1st for younger guys, but it's got to be lotto protected if we're especially bad (and we are definitely that).

Lefty, I'm saying this with a smile on my face so know that I mean it in good humor but...how long is it going to take you to realize that "throwing the checkbook" at 30 year old players is not a good or sustainable way of building a team. Players fall off a cliff at this age in most cases. You're paying them a premium in UFA and all their best years are behind them. Literally watch Nashville play this season and tell me that "throwing the checkbook" at older players in UFA seems like a good idea to you. Edit: If there's an obvious trade to be made for top talent then I'm all for it. For instance, we should have traded for Eichel when he was available. But short of that, I'm not paying a premium for guys who are 28+ years old. Their contracts are almost never worth it and you end up hamstringing your team for years with dead cap space.

Pretty much. It's clearly Yzerman is just treading water until the majority of the team is made up of HIS draft picks. He let the team fall apart last year and did not bolster the team via the trade deadline, then didn't retain much of the talent he was set to lose in FA, and then finally gutted the defense through trades. It really seems like he's planning to "contend" with a team whose oldest player is Larkin. All the rest (Copp, Compher, Chiarot, Petry, Kane, Tarasenko) will be gone and replaced by Yzerman draft picks over the coming years and it seems like that's when he's looking to compete.

Good win vs the Loafs saturday night. Did Kane suddenly turn the light on? He sure looked like he was auditioning on HNIC and pumping up his trade value.

Aren’t we all.