smithers joe

Love your motto Joe. Life is too damned short to do crap. Put crap off long enough and it becomes someone else’s crap.

I have successfully used that at work.  Some projects you can tell are destined to go nowhere, so if I delay doing my part, sometimes it goes away completely.

that is figured in to the available cap space. imo, they need to move garland and not re-sign myers and cole.

we will pay to move Garly by the TDL. No choice really. 

Estimates I've seen is 32.5 mil cap space (including cap increase)

That's more than enough to resign Petey, Hronek and Zadorov and keep most of our depth guys with slight raises including DeSmith. Can we add others? No but we are fine. We will need improvement from within but that's like every team.

I used capfriendly's armchair gm to figure it out, we're fine.

This BRZ?

if it plays right defense, yah voll.

https://youtu.be/C-LcbKvaX-s?si=MBftR2emmeeu98JU

wow, it's kuzmenko out and lafferty playing with petey and mikheyev;

beauvillier with miller and boeser;  aman is centering the 4th line of hoglander and pdg.  mcward is up for hirose.

I actually love this experiment. 

I hate to be a "Debbie downer" but I still think our current record is inflated.  We aren't at our 2010-2012 levels just yet.  Those 2010-2012 teams held huge territorial advantages when our top lines were on the ice.  Thomas Drance the other day pointed out that we actually hold a territorial *dis*advantage when our top lines have been on the ice, 5 on 5.  That, combined with an unusually high shooting percentage, complemented by our over-reliance on the power play, as well as our over-dependance on our top players (Pettersson, Hughes, Miller, Hronek, Boeser, and Demko), and I'm not sure we are quite there yet.  

At best, this is our 2008/09 team......and realistically, we might be a more exceptional version of our 2006-2007 team and/or are 2014-2015 team.  2013 might also be a valid comparison.  

My ultimate point being that I don't expect us to be with Vegas and Boston all season long.  Will gladly eat my uncle's shit with corn in it if I am proven wrong.  

The only line I care about is the playoff line. As long as we are above that. We're good.

my 2 cents is Aman is the only one that makes it full time. I'd love to be wrong on Bains. 

You never know with these young guys.....and that's a part of the allure of having as many good prospects as possible in your system.  

I think both Karlsson and Aman make the bottom 6 one day.

Yep, he's around, just much more so in the background than before. As Deb says, a well-deserved rest.

yes

Yes, and that red light gif

i first thought this would happen after the montreal game. has this ever happened in the nhl before? by the way the lottery numbers are 3-8-13-18-24-38.

I don't know about a tie but in 1971 the top FOUR in the NHL at the end of the season were all Bruins.  Orr, Esposito, Bucyk and Hodge Sr.

Almost certainly out for next game at least, given Studnicka's waiving, which is likely to make roster room for a D call up.

Yeah, the fact they've been really quiet about it, worries me.

Broken ankle?

Will be Boeser or Kuzmenko.    

Before this season started, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that it would be Boeser.....but now?  I'm not so sure.  One of Boeser or Kuzmenko, or maybe Lekkerimaki is moved as part of a package deal for a 'win now' player?

Boeser or Kuzmenko, yeah. I feel like he's probably a 2nd line (maybe 1st line if we're lucky), goal scoring winger, but with little-to-no physicality.

on the second line he would have miller and diguseppe, both physical guys with him.

petey wasn't hard on the puck when he came over either.

a decade out ?

As far as any current contract goes!?!?

I think they always have it in mind and on going, depending on window of opportunity if they are responsible

I heard he was expected to join the team on the road trip. 

Blueger is still listed as week to week.

Elias Petterrsson is not a fan of these things....

cap friendly has us with 31 mil in cap space with 12 players signed  add about 19 mil for petey, hronek and desmith's new contracts. that leaves about 11 mil to sign

7 or 8 players. we'll need a 4th line, a 13th forward, a #4,5, 6 and 7th d-men.

i see lafferty, bluegar, podkolzin and maybe joshua signed for forwards.

i see bear with soucy and hirose for 7th d i don't know who makes 5 and 6th d-men.

We will see how much Petey wants to be here based on the numbers of his contract.

If we can get EP40 for $11-12 Million we're laughing.

My concern is DeSmith and Cole. DeSmith will be 33 next August. Cole will be 35 in February.

Both are playing very well. I'm worried will they want money and term? Or just term?

Blueger, and Lafferty I hope will be affordable options and stick around.

Hronek hopefully won't ask for crazy money and term.

Brock is living up to his expectations and contract. And I'm really happy for him.

The team needs to still get more depth, and better players. And more speed.

if we have to retain on garland, thats 1.5 mil less available for next year.

Watching the start of the season so far, it feels like we just may not have enough players that can win those battles, and it really stands out given how much Tocchet has emphasized that part of the game. Maybe we need to keep the pucks away from the boards more often and stop ringing it around in the D-zone or dumping it in the offensive zone and failing to retrieve it.

IMO we miss a healthy Pearson in this regard. I think we hope Joshua Guiseppe Podkolzin could be that guy maybe we try Bains. The reality is we don't have a guy in our top 9 who can win a board battle outside of Miller and that would detract from Millers value and be the difference between him scoring 80 VS 60 where if we had a Burr to step up right now that would be a "Difference maker" Miller would put up 80-100 and our board battler would put up 40-50 instead of 20-30 playing bottom 6. the sad reality is we have a bunch of guys tailor made for this role but none of them are willing yet to seize it. 

That was Nicklas Jensen...

his name was robert paulson ........... A.K.A  samuel pahlsson

Nicklas Jensen

Basically what @Jim Tim said. He doesn't do any particular thing well--just okay at everything. I don't think he really has what it takes to hold down a top 6 role without tons of support and probably doesn't play hard enough in the corners for a bottom six role.

honestly haven't noticed him. 

His game is skate around and try to make it look like he’s doing something, even though he isn’t.

he would Hef, but he's there to help protect Bedard. I'd be very happy with CHI's 3rd back and no retention. They have an extra 3rd from Ottawa. 

how about garland for zaitsev if we are not on his no trade list and our own 2nd round back. zaitsev is only owed 2.5 mil for this year.

we save 2.5 mil and get our 2nd round pick back.

that would be a great trade for us, Joe