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Ed was great and RayRay is gonna get paid.

Marry the Mormons with the Bee's.
The Swarmin Marmons

Marry the Mormons with the Bee's.
The Swarmin Marmons

Utah Saints, Utah Hive, Utah Bees.
Yeah - a yellow variant and black with the old school horizontal stripes would be nice.

If were doing animals, Utah is the beehive state. So "The Bees", colors black and yellow, and their logo can be a big letter B on their chest.
But in all seriousness it will either be the Salt Lake Sister Wives or The Stormin' Mormons. 

how about the Mormon Motherf v ckers?

I'll be in attendance for tonight's big game...LGRW!

Once again it’s Lyon standing out…The team in front of him is so below average way too often.
 

JUST BREAKING NEWS

Morning Coffee hot take(delayed by stupid work)
We have mid range players with some young talent(mo, raymond not including simon as he needs a whole season for full judgment)
We have a new head coach trying to implement a successful system he has experience in. That system is blessed with an outstanding front(Stamkos, Kuch,Point), outstanding D(Hedman,Sergachev), outstanding goalie(Vasilevskiy)
We were shown in the 0-7 streak none of the young guns or current vets had the nutsack to inspire/demand/focus the group to win. I will say Raymond did show some signs. IMHO that means the coaching staff should have been the driving force. Either by cutting ice time/sitting/bag skating/public humiliation whatever but the buck stops at them. Like him or hate him Torts would have gotten a win or 2 in that streak in my opinion. 
We have a lot of holes to fix and let's be honest we have had dog crap luck in the lottery.  So we need to patchwork a team somehow that mimics Tampa via UFA if we want to continue the current path. Perhaps the system in GR which is showing life for that team and the kids coming up give us the ability to ADJUST the Tampa system to match those players skill level.  Maybe we figure out a way to have 4 lines that it doesn't matter who is on the ice they defend and can score. Plus have a goalie that fixes the ooops that happen during a game.  I think Lyon hasn't been all that bad nor Riemer they are simply backup/journey men goalies not superstars or solid starters. 
Issue is now how do you plug holes make adjustments and get this team back to the playoffs? Problem also is TWO wins more in Dec and TWO more  in Jan we would be sitting at 87 points tied for WC1 and we all would be happy as pig in sh*t.
So is this a team that once they lose they sulk vs getting pissed and the losing begins to snowball? Is this due to a coach not being able to fire up the team?

Our next 4 opponents be like...

ASP over 42 minutes in TOI and scored the triple overtime winner

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Front row view of the scrap.

You called it pretty much bang on.    
 
Good on ya!

The one I was interested in was Cade Webber. He refused to sign with his drafting team (canes) and the leafs traded for his rights at this years TDL. Hes due to become a UFA in August. 6'7" Dman. American born, so hoping he rejects the leafs too...

I like Grand Rapids Correspondent Kip the best, tbh.

A few weeks ago Corey Pronman of the Athletic linked the top guy, Collin Graf, to the Red Wings. He said we got close to signing him last year.

Fedorov was a wing on the Russian 5 line. Plus he also played D. Does any of this have anything to do with The Yzerplan? We have 2 pages of arguing about who played C and now plays W. This could be it's own thread.
Yzerplan. I, as well as most people, tend to give Yzerman lots of leash and lots of passes because he's such an icon here. If Holland were still GM, we'd (still) be calling for him to be fired if he made the same moves or lack of moves that Yzerman has. Especially after this past TDL. While I don't really have too much of a problem with his plan so far, but if you think of a couple of other teams that were also rebuilding the same time we were (Rangers, Canucks, Devils) we are still way behind in our rebuild. Although Rangers and Devils have been gifted 1st overall and in some cases, multiple #1s, and top 4s. But nonetheless, we are still way behind them despite having top 10 picks the last 6 or 8 years. Holland absolutely killed us with Zadina. Vancouver drafted ahead of us the year prior and just behind us the Zadina year. Not going D that year was the most...nevermind that could be yet another thread! Point being, they were rebuilding the same time we were and now look at them compared to us.
I'm not convinced Lalonde is the guy to lead them either. My biggest question with the plan was, why did he keep Blashill around so long? That makes me afraid that he'll just keep Lalonde around far, far too much longer than he should. Obviously we weren't there when he was interviewing coaches, so we don't know who he called or who wasn't interested. It just seems Lalonde was the guy no matter what. IMO there were at least 3 better choices. Larionov, Fedorov and Grönborg. Fedorov being the wildcard. But they didn't call Igor The Professor for no reason. Nobody thinks the game like he does. Again, maybe these guys weren't interested, but to me, it just seemed like Lalonde was his guy from the start, and he wasn't going to consider anyone else. I would've liked to have seen a coach that was new and had ideas that 31 other coaches don't already have. There's nothing special about Lalonde. Nothing that sets him apart. 
And my one gripe about TDL. I think Roslovic could've and would've been an upgrade to our top 9 and think most definitely he would've been worth the 4th(3rd) that Rangerd paid for him.
 

I'm not sure what Berggren and Edvinsson are going to accomplish. We're good on middle six wingers and left handed defensemen. If anything those are strengths of the team. Both those players help in the long term, but neither of them address needs for this team right now. And if you're not trying to improve this team right now then why didn't we just sell?

To be serious. Selling ghost and sprong plus would not have disrupted this teams future progress beyond the next few months, and wouldve stocked the cupboards even more. But now we will get 5or6 games of payoffs and then let them walk for nothing. EXCELLENT MANAGING.

Clearing cap space to sign RFAs in the summer.

Standing pat on 1foot. 
kicking tires with the other
Wonder if Kenny left a pair of his old kicking boots and his ‘trades R hard’ trucker’s hat in the office for Yzerman. 

Hearing Elias Lindholm is headed to the Canucks, again.

On this board? Probably.

Am I the only one who doesnt want to give up assets for a potential rental in Guentzel? Would rather acquire Vatrano. Same age, way cheaper, and at least he has a year left on his contract.