kickazz 5,459 Report post Posted July 12, 2018 5 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said: I read this as you're going to impregnate your son I am not portugese or spanish Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 12, 2018 15 minutes ago, kickazz said: I am not portugese or spanish Only thing worse than a Spaniard is a Portugesiard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083 Report post Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, The 91 of Ryans said: Sakvic Sack itch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kickazz 5,459 Report post Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) On 7/12/2018 at 3:41 PM, Neomaxizoomdweebie said: Sack itch Sack Edited May 10, 2019 by kickazz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 21 hours ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said: Anyway, not my lines, but here are Custance's lines from his athletic article (behind a paywall): Bertuzzi - Zetterberg - Zadina Athanasiou - Larkin - Mantha Vanek - Nielsen - Nyquist Abdelkader - Glendening - Helm Dekeyser - Green Ericsson - Daley Kronwall - Jensen Hronek I just got around to reading the article and noticed that Rasmussen (and Svechnikov) are the odd men out, which is kind of odd considering Custance has been saying for weeks that Ras is all but guaranteed a spot in the lineup. He then goes on to say... "There are a lot of interchangeable parts here at forward. Michael Rasmussen is likely to make the team and break in at left wing, similar to the way the team eased Larkin into the league. Trading Athanasiou, which is very much a possibility, would open more time on the wing for Rasmussen. The odd-man out, among the kids, appears to be Evgeny Svechnikov, who had a down season last year in the AHL but showed glimpses of being able to use his big body effectively at the NHL level. A few things could help Svechnikov get regular playing time: 1) Zadina isn’t NHL ready. 2) Zetterberg retires. 3) Athanasiou is traded. There’s a good chance at least one of those scenarios emerges by the start of the season." So essentially he expects either Zetterberg to end up on LTIR, Zadina to start in Grand Rapids or a trade to be made to make room for Rasmussen. I know it will never happen, but imagine if we could somehow trade Glendening and Helm (or waive Frk or Witkowski), and role those top three lines with Svechnikov - Rasmussen - Abdelkader as our "4th line'... Our defense would still be a train wreck, but at least we'd have a pretty potent offense... 1 Dabura reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The 91 of Ryans 3,019 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 36 minutes ago, Jonas Mahonas said: Mantha-Zetterberg-Kessel Athanasiou-Larkin-Vanek Bertuzzi-Helm-Frk Zadina-Veleno-Glendening Rasmussen, Svechnikov Karlsson-Ericsson Green-Dekeyser Jensen-Daley Witkowski Bernier Larsson Oh. Fantasy fanboy lineups. Got it 1 AtlantaHotWings reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joesuffP 1,746 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) Bertuzzi-Larkin-Mantha Rasmussen-Zetterberg-Nyquist AA-Nielsen-Vanek Abby-Glendening-Helm DD-Green Daley-Ericsson Kronwall-Hronek Jensen Totally fine with Zadina and Svechnikov starting in GR and being injury call ups. Zadina can step in with a full pro year of development and challenge for the Calder next year. Rasmussen and Hronek make the team out of training camp. After the deadline we’ll see a much younger lineup Edited July 13, 2018 by joesuffP 1 krsmith17 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jesusberg 1,256 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 On 7/12/2018 at 11:45 AM, krsmith17 said: Rasmussen - Zetterberg - Nyquist Bertuzzi - Larkin - Mantha Athanasiou - Nielsen - Vanek Abdelkader - Helm - Glendening Frk / Witkowski DeKeyser - Green Ericsson - Daley Kronwall - Jensen Hicketts Howard Bernier Svechnikov, Zadina, Hronek, Cholowski all in GR until the inevitable injury bug hits... 19 minutes ago, joesuffP said: Bertuzzi-Larkin-Mantha Rasmussen-Zetterberg-Nyquist AA-Nielsen-Vanek Abby-Glendening-Helm DD-Green Daley-Ericsson Kronwall-Hronek Jensen Totally fine with Zadina and Svechnikov starting in GR and being injury call ups. Zadina can step in with a full pro year of development and challenge for the Calder next year. Rasmussen and Hronek make the team out of training camp. After the deadline we’ll see a much younger lineup These lines are basically what I'm expecting/hoping to see, assuming everyone is healthy at the start of the season. Seems to be some recent stuff out there suggesting Z's back is worse than people thought (he didn't practice the second half of the season - Blash says he doesn't think Z plays if it's that bad again). Not to mention, the cap situation is pretty tricky, even with Franzen heading to LTIR (Custance article on The Athletic). Seems like an "easy" out of the cap mess/roster crunch is Z starting on LTIR. If that happens, I can see Nielsen jumping up to 2C and Helm shifting to 3C between Vanek and AA. 1 krsmith17 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 17 minutes ago, Jesusberg said: These lines are basically what I'm expecting/hoping to see, assuming everyone is healthy at the start of the season. Seems to be some recent stuff out there suggesting Z's back is worse than people thought (he didn't practice the second half of the season - Blash says he doesn't think Z plays if it's that bad again). Not to mention, the cap situation is pretty tricky, even with Franzen heading to LTIR (Custance article on The Athletic). Seems like an "easy" out of the cap mess/roster crunch is Z starting on LTIR. If that happens, I can see Nielsen jumping up to 2C and Helm shifting to 3C between Vanek and AA. Lazy. Suck. 1 Dabura reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Learn2LuvIt 245 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 3 hours ago, The 91 of Ryans said: Oh. Fantasy fanboy lineups. Got it Was Stevie sent down to GR at this point? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 How does Z go from playing a full season to not being able to play at all? You would think there would be some level of decline between those 2 extremes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 13, 2018 22 minutes ago, Neomaxizoomdweebie said: How does Z go from playing a full season to not being able to play at all? You would think there would be some level of decline between those 2 extremes. Zetterberg will play this season. It may not be a full season, but I'd be shocked if he doesn't at least play a partial season. 1 Neomaxizoomdweebie reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083 Report post Posted July 14, 2018 Nyquist - Larkin - Mantha Bertuzzi - Z - Zadina Rass - Nielsen - Vanek AA - Helm - Abby Glen/Wit Svech is 1st call up. Full time after TDL. Frk waived and sent down to GR. E/Green DK/Daley Kronwall/Jensen Hicketts Hronek and Cholowski with some call ups. Howard/Bernier Sateri Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) Edited July 20, 2018 by ChristopherReevesLegs 3 krsmith17, amato and 13dangledangle reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LeftWinger 5,065 Report post Posted July 23, 2018 I don't think he's playing. https://www.tsn.ca/blashill-noncommittal-on-zetterberg-s-status-1.1145599 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 23, 2018 15 minutes ago, LeftWinger said: I don't think he's playing. https://www.tsn.ca/blashill-noncommittal-on-zetterberg-s-status-1.1145599 There's really no news here. Article just confirms what we already know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amato 3,210 Report post Posted July 23, 2018 1 hour ago, LeftWinger said: I don't think he's playing. https://www.tsn.ca/blashill-noncommittal-on-zetterberg-s-status-1.1145599 I think he is. 2 krsmith17 and ChristopherReevesLegs reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LeftWinger 5,065 Report post Posted July 23, 2018 Well, if he is, then we'll have no cap issues and Zadina will be here. I just get that bad vibe though from all these interviews. They all have a negative aura about them... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigWillieStyle 662 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 "I've been hearing". "People are saying". Sounds like the same sources. And by that, I mean, people pulling words out of their asses. I'll believe Zetterberg is done when he plays zero games this year. Until then, writers gonna write. 2 ChristopherReevesLegs and krsmith17 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 So much stuff coming out of people's asses around here. It's like the ER on Valentine's Night. 1 BigWillieStyle reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kickazz 5,459 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) 18 minutes ago, BigWillieStyle said: "I've been hearing". "People are saying". Sounds like the same sources. And by that, I mean, people pulling words out of their asses. I'll believe Zetterberg is done when he plays zero games this year. Until then, writers gonna write. Zetterberg is done playing because he's had enough of Blashill and is unwilling to be coached. Guy has a bad back, clearly in decline and still plays 19 minutes a night. Like who does that? Is that even medically healthy? He's also the last one off his line every shift. Clearly his minutes need to decrease but he seems to just keep playing 19 minutes every time. I have a feeling this is him refusing direct orders from his coach. Completely reasonable to assume this based off the information available. Don't get me started on the Swedish Mafia stuff either. Edited July 24, 2018 by kickazz 1 amato reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 5 hours ago, kickazz said: Zetterberg is done playing because he's had enough of Blashill and is unwilling to be coached. Guy has a bad back, clearly in decline and still plays 19 minutes a night. Like who does that? Is that even medically healthy? He's also the last one off his line every shift. Clearly his minutes need to decrease but he seems to just keep playing 19 minutes every time. I have a feeling this is him refusing direct orders from his coach. Completely reasonable to assume this based off the information available. Don't get me started on the Swedish Mafia stuff either. I just want you to compare Yzerman and Zetterberg's 15th seasons. I know you have the ability to. Don't dodge it. I get that it would make Yzerman look better than Zetterberg and you're trying to avoid it. But since we're playing "tag you're it". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigWillieStyle 662 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 9 hours ago, kickazz said: Zetterberg is done playing because he's had enough of Blashill and is unwilling to be coached. Guy has a bad back, clearly in decline and still plays 19 minutes a night. Like who does that? Is that even medically healthy? He's also the last one off his line every shift. Clearly his minutes need to decrease but he seems to just keep playing 19 minutes every time. I have a feeling this is him refusing direct orders from his coach. Completely reasonable to assume this based off the information available. Don't get me started on the Swedish Mafia stuff either. I've been in the sea for far too long to even take a sniff at this kind of bait. But keep on fishing, you never know when you might accidentally hook one by the tale. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amato 3,210 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, LeftWinger said: Well, if he is, then we'll have no cap issues and Zadina will be here. I just get that bad vibe though from all these interviews. They all have a negative aura about them... It’s just everyone saying they don’t know for sure yet.. which is understandable. It’s been the same process the past 3 or 4 off seasons, I’m sure. Until camp starts and he’s not there/talking at all and/or Z tells us that he can’t play, there’s no need to worry. There are just articles pointing it out because there’s nothing going on at this stage in the off season.. gotta get them sweet sweet clicks. (I don’t know what happened to the font size there, that wasn’t intentional) Edited July 24, 2018 by amato 1 krsmith17 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083 Report post Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, amato said: It’s just everyone saying they don’t know for sure yet.. which is understandable. It’s been the same process the past 3 or 4 off seasons, I’m sure. Until camp starts and he’s not there/talking at all and/or Z tells us that he can’t play, there’s no need to worry. There are just articles pointing it out because there’s nothing going on at this stage in the off season.. gotta get them sweet sweet clicks. (I don’t know what happened to the font size there, that wasn’t intentional) Thanks. Now every time I see the word process, I read it as PROH-SESS. I am literally annoying myself. 1 amato reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
