eeeeeeeeergh

mcward far exceeded my expectations today he looked very legit

DeSave looking like the real deal

well theyre just burying the confidence of the abbotsford canucks which really is just a bit of a dick move, graphic below to illustrate

dont threaten me with a good time

i didnt watch much of the calgary game but last year, when i watched mcward he looked kinda out of place in our lineup. feels like its setting him up for failure to expect him to be nhl ready AND qh partner this year. let him cook for a year in abby at least. myers is "ok" with hughes, i think you let myers or one of the lefties have the job for now, sign bear in december, and have bear play that role from december onwards.

would feel much more confident in being a playoff team if this is the D we run with

If soucy cant play with Hughes I think its basically a guaranteed necessity that we bring him back We cant roll into next year with mcward/juulsen in our top-6. Imagine what happens when one of our defensemen gets an injury, god forbid. thing is.. with the pearson out, desmith in move.. we still only have about 500k in space. Assuming he replaces Rathbone in our current active lineup (850k) thats 1.35 million. If Bear is signed a month or so into the season, we can afford.. 1.5m max? The hope would be that he'd sign for that with a big raise next year if he succeeds.

Think Joshuas probably out and Podz might start in the AHL. PDG interchangeable part for Mikheyev until Mikheyev is healthy (helps that PDG can kill penalties like mikheyev too) Hoglander-Petey-Kuzmenko Mikheyev-Miller-Boeser Beauvillier-Suter-Garland Aman-Blueger-Studnicka Would be really nice to have Aman there on the fourth line too as an extra center

i cant believe i had the opportunity to rebrand my account during the forum migration to fischtownpinguin and i didnt take it smh what am i even doing with my life

Really a tough one. He was definitely a victim of being part of a terrible system + having an incompatible partner here. I dont think he was ever gonna be a 7m dollar defenseman for us and we sure wouldnt have been able to make all our moves (soucy + cole + hronek) if we kept him. I think even if you take OEL healthy + performing well, our blue line still looks better now. Still, sucks. I liked him, and assume he's going to play to a 4-5m level with Florida.

completely invisible the whole lot of them

realistically we're going to finish at the very bottom of the league, the good news is we'll be drafting celebrini, the bad news is petey is so disgusted that he's decided to leave us, and hockey entirely and become a realtor specializing in swedish farmland

we are officially on-pace for 0 goals for, and 984 goals against over the course of a full season its so over pack it up

a reasonable question! that guy is a distant cousin. Last time i saw him was the family reunion around the loui eriksson shrine

wait they solved our cap issues and got a legit backup goalie? in one trade?!