buddha

an excellent question, but the real inquiry is who is the 13th best prospect we will pick at #5.

sell now before the bottom drops out on sports. someone tell tom gores.

its a good backup goalie to have. now, you still have husso, lyon, and talbot. is someone getting moved? if so, lyon would certainly fetch the most of any of them.

AHL depth guy.

we say this every year and next to none of them work out. i hope they do. they all sound interesting to me too, but the odds are the odds.

that's what i would ask for. they'll say no. in retrospect, i might do it for an unprotected first. i just think lavine is exactly the wrong type of player to be around a young team for rhe next three years. selfish and not a leader. i would pass on him.

lavine's contract is too big for too long.

wait, is troy weaver still running this team? step 1) draft an uber athlete who cant shoot; step 2) sign a Friend of Troy; step 3) pick 5th in next year's draft.

too early to tell.

they can have him for that number and term. no thanks. lucas raymond's agent must be so happy right now.

way too early. the odds of anyone outside of round two making it are low, outside of round 3 or 4 the chances are very very very slim.

5-6 still an ok player past his prime, but brings a physical presence that they lack. makes a lot of mistakes because he goes for the big hit all the time. dirty player.

tells me that no one else would offer him term. he's over 35 and theyre still worried about regression. that's a steal for detroit if he plays the way he played last year.

if he doesnt want to be here dont make the mistake of trading for him.

lol washington. keep it up troy.

to del's point, if youre not going to try to build around cade, then just trade cade and get an absolute haul of picks to help rebuild the team. they got thj for 3 second round picks and then watched the mavs use that move to sign a wing who defends and shoots 3s. ummm....you couldnt beat that contract?

don't do it cade!

come on. really? this has been a pretty underwhelming beginning to the trajan era. lets see how free agency goes.

why would the rangers want petry?

i dont think they will buy anyone out at this point.

trouba would give them another physical defenseman like chairot. but it also gives them a guy that makes a lot of mistakes, like chairot. all of this is because the wings are still small and not a physical team. they get beat up all the time. yzerman has been chasing strength and physical play for a long time now. and still doesnt have enough of it. rasmussen should be that player but he hasnt done it consistently yet. mazur and kasper could also play that role up front. they need it.

with very middling results so far.

here's what he says about mbn: Skating: NHL average Puck skills: NHL average Hockey sense: NHL average Compete: Above NHL average Shot: High-end Player comparable: Tyler Bertuzzi Analysis: Brandsegg-Nygård was very good at the Swedish junior level. He started off slow versus men, but was very good in the Allsvenskan playoffs and made Norway’s senior team. He is a well-rounded forward. He’s a good skater. He has strong puck skills. He has a great shot and is often a threat to score from mid-distance. His frame is average-sized, but he plays hard and has physicality in his game. He thinks the game well and sees plays develop, but I don’t think his playmaking is his main asset. Even if he’s not very dynamic, Brandsegg-Nygård has a game that should lend itself to success versus men, eventually as a good NHL forward and potentially in a top six. *** i watched tyler bertuzzi for a long time. he did not have average nhl skating or a high end nhl shot. he had high compete and great hands, but his hockey sense (at least on the defensive end) was poor and he couldnt skate. nygard doesnt sound anything like bertuzzi to me other than he's a similar size and tough. again, this is just me nitpicking but i do put a few grains of salt on pronman's analysis.

those are from pronman. i like pronman because he has reports on EVERYONE. that's always fun. however, i think his attempt to know something about everyone means he doesnt really know everything about anyone. its really hard to know stuff about everyone.