Mr.TaterSalad

Nashville adds three huge contracts in one day with Stamkos, Marchessault, and Skjei. How are they under the cap now?

Matt Roy getting 7 years is 🤢. I like Matt Roy, but that is a deal they are going to regret in years 5-6-7 of the deal. Washington frankly should have hit the reset button and started their rebuild. Instead, they're doing what Kenny did here circa 2014-2017 and trying to fend off the inevitable decline of an aging team with aging stars.

Jake Guentzel signs with Tampa Bay. So he's off our radar now and probably was once we resigned Kaner.

Maybe Kane just really wants to be .500 lol. In all seriousness, considering he could have probably gotten more money from someone else or gone to a Cup contender, I am shocked he chose to return. This is very welcome news though.

Who do we think they use a buyout on at this point, if anyone? I know the Wallman trade sorta acted as a buyout already, but who is the most likely candidate? I know we always talk about Holl and Petry, for good reason too. However, could Andrew Copp be a dark horse candidate to be bought out and replaced with Kasper, Danielson, or a free agent signing?

Sounds like we may have gotten a steal here. I haven't watched a minute of tape on the kid, but based on the scouting report you shared I'm excited.

What does Trouba coming in mean for Ghost coming back now, if anything?

The Rangers retaining some of Trouba's salary will make this a much better deal in my eyes, assuming we didn't give up something insane. Trouba will be an asset to this team all in all. Will he be the guy that got 50 points in Winnipeg a few seasons back, no likely not, but he can't be any worse than running the dead body of Petry or Holl out there every night. I'd probably have gone for Matt Roy myself, but I'm not going to hate this deal unless the trade valuation is way out of sorts. After this deal is done it'd be nice to go out get Trevor Zegras, but I think I'm living in fantasyland with that one. Maybe Jonathan Marchessault as a consolation prize to replace Kane.

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It's a message board where we express our opinions. I don't need to be lectured by you and neither does anyone else here. You're welcome to sign up and volunteer with the MDP to knock doors as I have professor. https://michigandems.com/volunteer/ But since your now in charge of filtering and regulating opinions around here please let me know what to type next.

Have you looked at my avatar. I'd say that answers it. Would I prefer someone else, yes. I've wanted a competitive primary process all along.

Baby Bert then in terms of the physicality?

Whose a good NHL comparison for MBN? David Perron with better skating ability?

Eiserman still on the board.

MBN it is, I was hoping for Yeiserman

We'll draft someone completely unexpected here lol

Eiser Time???

I'd love to move up and get Tij Iginla or Beckett Sennecke if we're not trading the pick entirely.

I think we take Michael Brandsegg-Nygard or the BPA wing tonight. I'm not in love with MBN and would rather Iginla or Yzerman's nephew Eiserman.

Just as much as Brian Kemp replacing Warnock with a Republican hurts Democrats, so too does a top of the ticket that sinks down ballot races. Biden himself was not a net positive for down ballot candidates in 2020 as evidenced by the beating Democrats took down ballot. In 2016 Clinton actually, potentially, cost Democrats the Senate with her underperformance in two battleground states that had Senate races that yea, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Katie McGinty and Russ Finegold in 2016 were likely hurt by an underperforming top of the ticket.

Raphael Warnock is neither white nor a Governor.

I listened to the Pod Save America debate recap last night. Now, these are individuals who worked for the Obama White House. Who worked for and with Joe Biden. These are as loyal a group of people to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party as you can get. These are not Twitter hacks or online trolls or passive political followers. Even they were saying the idea of having a brokered convention and do we continue on with Joe Biden or not needs to be discussed. You have to feel like if people like these four hosts and former staffers are talking about it this publicly than people within the party including strategists, talking heads, fundraisers, and electeds are talking about it. The conversation about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket, after last night, needs to be had. You can bury your head in the sand and pretend it doesn't need to be had, but it does. Personally, I think we should have had a competitive primary process from the get go, with Joe Biden having clearly stated he would not run again. Voters have been telling us in data point after data point that they want someone else besides Biden this time around. He's been trailing in just about every battleground state poll for months now, only occasionally up in Michigan or Wisconsin. The biggest concern expressed by people across the board has been Biden's age and fitness to hold up to the rigors of the Presidency and do the job. Last night only exacerbated the concerns people have. Joe Biden did about as bad a job as you could in trying to assuage people's fears that he is too old or not up for the task. No amount of spin can discount that. To act as if Joe Biden is the only one that can beat Trump is really a silly argument too. There are many candidates, within the ranks of the Democratic Party, who if given the opportunity and fundraising to compete on a national stage against Donald Trump could do so. There are many formidable candidates that are younger and more energetic who could have taken on trump and ushered in a new generation of Democratic Party politics. And no, Bernie and Warren aren't who I am talking about. I think any one of Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, and Raphael Warnock, to name a few, are all options who I think could replace Biden, beat Trump, and bring in a new era of Democratic politics. Frankly, I do think the party needs to look at replacing Joe Biden at the convention after last night's disastrously bad performance and Joe Biden himself needs to be thanked and then convinced to step aside.

No doubt about it tonight. The energetic Joe Biden we saw at the State of the Union is not the one who showed up tonight. Not at all. He's playing into every sad stereotype about himself being too old and study tonight.

Yeah, no spin, no way around it. It sounds old and congested. He's also stumbling all over on his answers. This is not good at all.

Biden is doing terrible thus far.