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Whelp, at least Ras came to play. I’ve been loving his game lately. Otherwise everyone was underwhelming.

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.

Aside from Cozens I’d also really like to land Alex Tuch from the Sabres. And Jiri Kulich.

First game of a home and home with the Habs. I’m hoping for some rough stuff tonight so it’ll be a bloodbath tomorrow night.

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.

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?

Puljujarvi 2.0 Hard pass.

Kane is a liability at 5 on 5. Give his easy minutes (and Tarasenko’s too) to Dcat and Berggren, trade the old guys, and bring in Cozens and Crouse. Cozens for Kane, lottery protected 2025 1st, and Berggren. Crouse for Shai Buium and a 2nd

Yep, I’m happy with that period. Gotta figure Philly gets a powerplay or two here in the third.

Edvinsson gone for the game. Ugh

“Kane bails on a play and turns the puck over to avoid a hit in the neutral zone” is the story of the season. I can’t believe I just saw that.

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.

I sure hope he'd still have taken Edvinsson considering he's a much better player than Hughes. He's a FAR better defender - against top competition - and his offense is roughly as good as Hughes' despite Edvinsson not getting any powerplay time. Anybody who would rather have Hughes is smoking crack.