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This is a winnable game. Good to see the kids rising to the occasion.

I was at Sunday’s Griffins game. Here are my thoughts. Wallinder is blah and Buium was better every time he touched the puck. Buium’s skating looked like an asset to me. Danielson needs to shoot more. That’s it. Once he learns to be “the man” he’s going to be a stud. Lombardi is the best offensive player on the team and is dangerous every time he has the puck. He looks taller too. But he needs to hit the weights or he’ll never make it in the NHL.

I don’t know how that aspect of it works.

Kasper hasn’t really been sent down. It’s just a paper transaction. They happen behind the scenes all season long.

He’d be a nice upgrade for Tarasenko on the 2nd line.

I see that the Kraken have made Jared McCann available. He’s under contract for another year at 5 million. I’d be all over this if I was SY.

Since McClellan took over we have beaten a bunch of the top teams in the league. I doubt we keep ripping off 7 game win streaks but I think staying well above .500 the rest of the way isn’t unrealistic for this team. We are a good squad.

You could see they were ready for vacation after that road trip. We outplayed Tampa but we were lackadaisical with the puck and the turnovers killed us.

I don’t really know. With the cap set to go WAY up and all our good players locked in a low cost deals we could basically spend as much as we wanted so long as it didn’t hamstring us long term. I’d imagine he’ll be looking in the 12-13 million range. Steep price to pay but we could afford it and he’s an elite talent that would still be good for most of the deal. Him, Larkin, Ray, Mo, Simon, and Cossa/Augustine is a really good core group to contend with going forward. tl;dr I think he’ll sign somewhere for 7 years x 12-13 million…

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I’m calling it now. We will more or less stand pat at the deadline (maybe some minor moves) and then sign Rantanen in the offseason.

What do you like about him and his game?

That kid is about to be so pumped to learn about nitrous oxide lol

Yep, that was a gutsy win. I love that this team is figuring out ways to get points. We are rolling right now.

Well hopefully the site will get a little busier now that we are good again. That was a huge win for the boys.