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I definitely thought those trade rumors came out of nowhere over the offseason, felt weird. Another strike against the Flyers' brass in my eyes... the way they went on the offensive trashing Gauthier after the trade was truly something. "He just doesn't want to be a Flyer and won't talk to us!" How about you delaying his signing/going pro, sending him back to college after he clearly wanted to sign, over a measly overage bonus going into this season?! And it also comes out that Gauthier told them privately after that he didn't want to play in Philly. What else does the kid owe you?? It was so weird all the interviews they did right after, I don't blame Gauthier for wanting to get out of there.

Whoa I didn't see their press release I had no idea. That's grimy if he is involved...

Kasper also missed off season training and some training camp with A BROKEN KNEE CAP. I'm not sure why people expected him to be tearing up the AHL right away.

Well 5 team canada players have been told to present themselves to the police in London, Ontario. Formenton just took a leave of absence from his Swiss team (the fact he's stuck playing in Europe is not a good coincidence for him), and Foote and McLeod just took leaves from the Devils. So we may have our five...

So within the last 24 hours both Dillon Dube and Carter Hart have taken indefinite leaves of absence from their respective teams. Normally it would just be a weird coincidence, but it gets weirder when you realize they're both from the Team Canada juniors team investigated for gang rape. A few other players from the team seem to have gone dark on social media as well recently. Could be nothing but something could be dropping here...

Seems like we dodged a bullet with Lambert

No one will care how they went in after a few days! Nice pass for the assist here Nice forecheck to set up the goal

Wings are only down 1 but with 7.5 minutes left they have like ten shots in the game. I know Carolina's whole schtick is super boring defensive hockey but yikes.

Took a while for Nate to get in the lineup after the trade, but wew what a nice goal. The touch through the legs was beautiful.

I am shocked Lyon has been able to have this sustained success, but goalies are voodoo and they might as well ride him until the wheels fall off!

This TNT broadcast is awful, they have their studio guys just rambling to each other during the game. No PBP. Am I being trolled?

....are the refs dressed like ghostbusters?!

Very annoyed that I'll be laid up with Covid and can't even watch this because I'm local to the Kings

...was that a weird protest against scoring? 😆

I am in shambles

It'll be interesting to see what the Leafs can put around all these guys making a ton of money

Maybe it is just me, but if I were Williams I would have refused and I would be embarrassed if my only rushing touchdown on the season came from when my team faked a victory formation. Like....how do you feel good about that?

He may think he has a better shot elsewhere or he may not enjoy it in the Wings' system or want to play in Detroit for whatever reason. He might see all the other lefty D in the Wings' pipeline and see it as an uphill climb. The Wings have lost a couple prospects recently this way.

I have a feeling Buium isn't going to sign with the Wings for some reason. Nothing to back it up just my gut. I thought his little brother looked good in the little I saw of him at the WJC, draft him and maybe he stays lol. Trey Augustine looked fantastic from the game I saw. A really, really poised goaltender that looked like he was playing against kids younger than him. His rebound control looked great. I'm really excited to see how he develops. I did think ASP's passes in his own zone seemed a little sloppy. He moved the puck well on the PP of course.

Wings' draft pick Johansson gets in a gloved fight at the end of the game and gives a short USA player a bloody nose, USA wins and Augustine looks great.

Dang the Swedes get a PP goal, ASP with the primary assist Looks like it hit a USA player on the way in too

I found a random stream on youtube, Augustine looks reallllly good from what I've seen. The goal he gave up was a really nice tip, not much of a chance on it.

Oops I copied the wrong tweet from the previous game but Augustine is starting in the Gold Medal game too lol versus ASP, wish I could watch

FWIW I didn't take that as a whinefest, some people just don't see any value in taking a goalie in the first round which I can sort of understand as it is more risky than any other position. I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle of the pack on goalies in the first round, wary but open to it. I was shocked at the Cossa pick (I have to come clean and say I wanted Wallstedt) but Wallstedt did go five picks after Cossa so if you wanted either of those guys you had to use a first rounder. But I also definitely get why Yzerman did what he did with Cossa, you can't teach his athletic gifts. Plus the Vasilevsky pick really helped push the Lightning franchise forward previously.