slothfacekilla

Man the Griffins look like crap, Postava is saving them and keeping it 0-0

I promise @Jason_R and I are different people

Man he just looks.... unreal these playoffs. The Wolves have tried to get him off his game too but he keeps standing tall.

Angine de Poitrine are fantastic. As someone who has been drumming for a little less than a year I'm always in awe of the drummer's time keeping especially with all the signature changes. And of course the other brother playing both guitar and bass is insanely impressive. I could watch live videos of them all day.

Well ya if they were using that to make the pick themselves, but they don't have that ammo for a trade to acquire anybody either! If you don't have prospects to deal you're probably hoping people want your picks. Their center options in free agency are....Malkin and Boone Jenner? They wouldn't be able to afford either them if they want to fill out their roster too. Malkin is going back to Pitt anyways if he doesn't retire. So Jenner and....Jack Roslivic? Roslivic is projected to eat up almost half of their available cap space!

Seravalli is usually a hack so I feel like this means he'll be in Detroit next season

Please don't even speak a Nurse to Detroit possibility into the ether we don't want that

Couldn't help myself 😂 It'll be interesting to see what they can do moving forward without a first round pick this draft and their 2-4 missing the following draft. Their prospect pool is already bottom half of the league, they have to hope Stramel is a guy especially since they have no center depth (or a number one center) on their nhl roster. They have like $12 million in cap space next season but they have a lot of roster spaces to fill so it isn't like they can acquire a premier player. Their non-Hughes/Faber defenders were pretty damn bad. I guess it is nice to win a playoff series but that is a flawed roster with a tenuous future moving forward.

That was very kind of you to just react to my madness 😂

I'm not sure what you mean, that Gibson might not be good next season? Obviously that's always a risk with goalies, he's probably still easier to predict than two rookies. My point in mentioning he was good this year is that some might want to hope for that again but I immediately said I want to trade him. My point in mentioning the Habs goalies was that it can work in your favor, not saying it is guaranteed though. I'm struggling to parse out your point I guess lol Edit: Oh god I think I'm being big dumb and you mean what the rookies would show next season wouldn't predict the future maybe? I'm overtired! If so then I'm not sure anyone would argue that goalies are stable season to season, still gives you more informed info than not playing them in the NHL I would imagine? Maybe I need to eat some lunch to jog my brain haha

I know he was good last year, but if it were me I'd try to trade Gibson with some salary retention and run with Cossa and Postava. It is risky but it can pay off. Habs are running Dobes and Fowler in the playoffs, might as well see what we got. I do think Cossa still has decent trade value if that's the route they go.

I would hope he'd confirm that so I guess that's settled! It will be interesting to see what happens. Crazy that a difference of a month and half made him not get the extra season.

Good point that could definitely be bugging him still. It would be a big coup if he came to camp skating better next season.

Sadly I think we can stick a fork in Buium. His skating hasn’t improved and he’s been a healthy scratch for a bit in the ahl here. Last game I watched him play he spent the entire game chasing the opposition in his own zone because his foot speed isn’t there. We should see Wallinder due to waiver eligibility next season, and he honestly has looked pretty solid lately. He and Anton have the biggest chances on defense to make the club I think. Maybe if ASP can put on a ton of offseason muscle he is in the mix.