buddha

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.

becher: Skating: NHL average Puck skills: NHL average Hockey sense: Below NHL average Compete: NHL average Shot: Above NHL average Analysis: Becher took significant steps forward from being a mediocre junior player into one of the best WHL forwards this season. He was also very good at the world juniors for Czechia. The third-year draft-eligible center is a strong skater with a good skill level. He can beat defenders one-on-one with pace. He sees the ice OK and has a good one-timer. He showed well running the flank on Prince George’s power play although he doesn’t project into that role as a pro. He’s average-sized, but competes well enough and gets to the middle of the ice. Nothing about his game truly stands out, so a clear NHL role isn’t something I see, but there’s enough to his game to potentially find a way into some sort of job.

plante: Tier: Has a chance to play games Skating: NHL average Puck skills: Above NHL average Hockey sense: NHL average Compete: Above NHL average Shot: Below NHL average Analysis: Plante was one of the better forwards for the U.S. NTDP this season. He’s a highly skilled forward who can make a lot of plays and brings a strong tempo to his game. He is a very creative playmaker with the puck who can create on the move, at the net and from the perimeter. He’s not that big or physical, but Plante gives a good effort and plays with courage. The debate on him will be as a smaller winger if he’s dynamic enough offensively and a natural enough scorer to be an NHL middle-six wing.

ondrej becher. sounds like a slightly bigger max plante. winger, playmaker, sound defensively, scored a lot of points in the whl last year.

they could probably do that. but then no kane or any other good offensive player.

so we take trouba which allows the rangers to free up enough space to sign kane?

smaller wing (5'11...so not THAT small) "cerebral", good to great passer. was rated by most as a 3rd or 4th rounder except for button who had him as an early 2nd.

i think its easier to ascertain a front office's "plan" today because we have more media coverage and more information about what they're doing. when smith was gm you had news and free press columnists. now you have so much more. regardless, both were terrible at executing any type of plan they may have had. im really confused by the admiration people seem to have for al avila. is it because he was a nice guy? he led the organization into its worst suatained period in its 100 year history and people brush it off because he had a "plan"? it didnt work! is it because some of the current guys are still young? forget randy smith for a minute, al avila was bad. full stop.

remember when it was a debate as to whether matt boyd was better than gleyber torres? torres: 14.5 war boyd: 9.2 war

bert was a terrible skater and was the opposite of defensively sound.

not at all. mbn is a 200 foot winger with a great shot, is physical, and is defensively sound.

he cant hit. why would anyone want him as a dh?

i didnt want eiserman. zadina 2.0.

what everyone predicted.

borrego drops out. he either knows he wont get it or he doesnt want any part of rebuild 6.0 or whatever edition were on now.

if they want to cut salary they do. the pistons did it last year when they traded up for sasser, iirc.

lawyers turn the ada into a massive money making operation. like every other law they help to write.