slothfacekilla

At work sometimes we get stuff related to the season we're currently working on, usually sweatshirts and a mug or something. Late last year a coworker who is in office (I work remote) reached out saying there was something there for me. He was going to bring it to our holiday party, but I couldn't go to the party in the end because I couldn't find a dog sitter. I messaged the guy and said I appreciate him offering to bring it to the party, I didn't want him to have to worry about it anymore so he could just stash it somewhere in the office or even give/throw it away. No response. Early this week I get an email from him saying he'll mail the stuff to me and I can pay him back. Random, I apologize that he's had the stuff for so long especially since I forgot about it. I just say sure mail it. Package showed up yesterday, I let him know I got it so let me know how to pay him. He sends me his venmo and says it was $17. I have the box in front of me and it clearly says the shipping was $11.32 lmao. I didn't say anything to the guy and just sent $17 but I'm highly annoyed at the whole situation over stuff I didn't even want! Why even send it for $11, I clearly wasn't itching to get this just send it as cheap as possible! Hell send an office PA to my house it has been done before! I feel like I just bought him a drink doing a favor I didn't want and it's annoying me on a Friday!

I hope the young goalie talk is just keeping his cards close to his chest. I don't blame him if so, you don't want to appear needy to trade if you want to try to unload one so you get as close to fair value as possible. And theoretically you could motivate all of them to train hard and play hard in training camp to make the team by saying it isn't even guaranteed one will make the NHL team. But deep down I can't imagine a scenario where it doesn't make sense to have Cossa (or hell Postava if you want to go purely results based merit) play as a backup in the NHL next season outside of his head falls off during these playoffs or something disastrous.

Looks to me like Mantha is playing himself out of any sort of big payday his regular season might have got him. I caught him looking bad on defense for another Flyers goal tonight, dude just has no feel for the defensive zone. Left the offensive zone before his team had the puck again, which led to him eventually losing his point assignment who scored. With zero points so far he's been a huge negative for the Pens. Soderblom is a healthy scratch too.

No idea but I hope his nickname is Doctor or something similar for the time it took

You're all going to feel silly when Brady Cleveland makes the team and beats up the entire league

Fun story even if he's a longshot

Honestly that works for me. I'd probably flip Mazur/MBN from your lines but that's splitting hairs. No matter what happens I wouldn't mind carrying someone like Lombardi over a more defensive responsible player just to add some creativity to the team....if they aren't winning a cup I don't mind a glass cannon team for entertainment reasons.

You're probably right about dumping guys. I have no idea who will actually be available and realistic to get via trade so I hesitate to speculate, but this is better than doing my job so I guess if it were me..... Debrincat - Larkin - Raymond Finnie - Danielson - MBN Lombardi - Kasper - Mazur James - Copp - Appleton You find a way to dump Ras/Compher. Ideally there is a trade or trades in place and that many kids aren't in the lineup but I would shoot for something like that if I could. The team would lose a lot of games though I imagine. Ideally Lombardi isn't in the NHL and Danielson/Kasper aren't your two / three centers at least right now. Todd probably runs Copp on line two and pushes the others down though.

Another funny Mantha defensive play last night. For some reason he decided his team had the puck and he should leave the zone?

Now that James signed I think he honestly has a good chance to make the Wings next year. He may not be skilled in the sense of offensive creativity, but from what I've seen and read he can probably help a NHL penalty kill already. He's a good skater with good instincts in his own zone. I'd certainly rather have him on the team than a handful of guys from this past season.

Tough look for both Soderblom and Mantha. Both were -1 on the night and played under 14 minutes each. No points for either, Soderblom failed to record a hit.

This season truly might be my joker moment

That's fair, I shouldn't have put words in your mouth! Whoops I can't even quote right!

Are we going to blame the Wings for Mantha too? He played for three other teams before the Penguins and turned into basically a journeyman. His best seasons before this were actually in Detroit!

Gotta admit I didn't expect all of this in the game day thread 😂