Mr.TaterSalad

What the **** does that have to do with the national Democrats and their campaign apparatus refusing to talk about this? I get why someone like Bubba wouldn't talk about it because he's likely one of the perverts on the client list. Of course, we still need to have a pervert like Slick Willie out on the campaign trail.

Where was this during the election? I could never understand why Democrats didn't go around and call Trump a pedophile and bring up his connections and friendships to Epstein. It is low hanging fruit that could have and should have been exploited. I

Hamilton is a good offensive defenseman, but a below average actual defender, as is shown by RAPM chart (or whatever it's called). We'd be on the hook for $9 mil per year for the next three years, which is cheaper than Karlsson by around $2.5 mil. He's also 3 years younger than Karlsson is. Hamilton doesn't fit the tough, checking, defensively smart, puck clearing defenseman that we need. He'd just be another boost to the offense and we'd have to likely find room for him on the powerplay. I think I'd pass on Hamilton and may even go for the more productive Karlsson if I had to pick between the two.

Does this mean college hockey is going to become college football now? Will players be negotiating better NIL deals and jumping schools every year? Will coaches have to worry midseason about a guy wanting to leave the team and go play elsewhere? If this does happen, what does this do to fundamentals and player development if a guy ends up at 3 different schools, learning 3 different systems?

I was looking through the list of first round goalies drafted over the past 10-15 years. There aren't many of them as we already know. But I read looking to see when I'm their careers and at what age these goalies got called up and asked to play serious minutes. It looks like Andre Vasilevskiy, Jake Oettinger and Ilya Samsanov have thus far been the most successful. Vasilevskiy came up with Tampa and got serious ice time in the 14-15 season at age 22 it looks like. The next season he got more playing time and stayed up for most the season at age 23. Oettinger was called up at age 22, in the 21-22 season, when Dallas had some injuries. He stayed on the main roster thereafter. For Samsanov he was 22 turning 23 when he got called up with Washington in the 19-20 season. Cossa will be 23 next season and may not get any NHL minutes unless an injury occurs. While all goalies mature and come into their game differently during their careers, for Cossa to potentially be pushing 24 and not get any real NHL ice time just disappoints at some level. If he simply isn't ready and this is what's best for his development, then so be it. I'll trust Yzerman, his scouts, and his coaching staffs, for now. If he isn't a good player then we're opening up a whole other issue regarding our scouting and drafting of goalies as an organization and Yzerman's decision making to use a first on one.

If Yzerman is banking his career on these prospects as Friedman said then it would be nice if Cossa gets a real shot next year. It looks like he certainly won't to start the season. I'm guessing it will take a significant injury to Gibson or Talbot to see him for anything beyond a couple of games next year. Which is disappointing because he'll be 23 and we spent a disk round pick on him.

I've always said it, Donald Trump is the Matt Millen of Presidents.

Like Iowa Senator Joni Earnst said: "We're all gonna die anyways, ****-a-bitch!"

Normally, people are swayed with a big bribe or getting something significant in the form of an appropriation for their Congressional District. A couple of fake watches and a signed hat apparently got them on board. This is hysterical.

The guy is a clod and has no clue about anything. He doesn't even know what is in his own bill that he's been hawking for the past month. ****ing dunce!

Compher, Gustafsson, Holl, Husso, Petry, Reimer, and Tarasenko performed to reasonable expectations? I'd argue that they vastly underperformed and some of them barely even belong on an NHL roster. I'm amazed that the defending Stanley Cup Champs would even want Petry on their roster at this point in his career, but apparently they do.

I spent years criticizing Kenny for making bad, desperation, panic moves in the offseason. Signing guys just to continue a playoff streak, refusing to infuse the roster with younger talent, and refusing to rebuild. Holland wanted to stay relevant for the sake of staying relevant it felt like. Thus, he created a team with no clear plan for the future and a roster incapable of actually winning a Stanley Cup. So if Yzerman doesn't go out this season and make any ridiculous moves out of panic or desperation, I cannot rightly criticize him in that regard. I can't criticize him if he doesn't actually sign guys to bad, cap crippling contracts just to try and make the playoffs next year. If he is going to infuse this roster with younger talent and give young guys like ASP, Cossa, Danielson, Mazur a shot on the main roster, I'm happy with that. So props to Yzerman for not going out and blowing the bank and ruining our cap flexibility by massively overpaying for average to above average players as Holland would do just to attempt to stay relevant. Where I can continue to criticize Yzerman though is the poor pro-side scouting and personnel moves he has made over the years and the contracts he's now having to try and unload. People will be rightly happy if he buys out Holl, in addition to having shipped off Tarasenko. Those moves are nice and all, but wouldn't have had to been made if he didn't bring the guys in to the Wings in the first place. There are also all the other poor, pro-side transactions that he has made that haven't worked out or have underwhelmed at best. Chiarot, Compher, Copp, Gustafsson, Husso, Petry, Reimer. He's also been on the friends and family plan when it comes to who he has employed in his player personnel department in the front office. In particular, when it comes to pro-side scouting with guys like Draper, Horcroff, and others. He hasn't been willing to admit mistakes there are reorganize his front office much from a pro scouting perspective it doesn't seem like. There is criticism to be had there too. But all and all, while I feel disappointed we haven't yet landed a big fish and someone who can be a top contributor to elevate this roster, I can't be mad at what's been done so far. I am hoping there is another piece to the puzzle coming here from Yzerman in getting a solid, NHL-ready talent.

I love how she glosses over the jobs numbers and tries to move onto talking about something else. The economic wunderkind strikes again.

We all have bad sports opinions and takes over the years. I've had many of them. But Kenny continues to vindicate me and a lot of fans who recognized what a fraud and a bad GM this guy is. I know we won the Cup in 2008 and made another one in 2009 that we should have won. I know we had the playoff streak and all that. But in the post-cap NHL, and certainly when tasked with a rebuild, Kenny has proven he isn't up to getting the job done. He just loves signing old, washed, veterans for some reason and does little to make his core roster younger, faster, tougher, and better overall. He then gets married to these guys he signs and offers them too long a term or resigns them long after others would have let them walk. He only had the success he did in Edmonton because he inherited 2 of the top 5 players in the league. Without McDavid and Draisaitl being there from the start, Kenny would have never sniffed the playoffs in Edmonton. Much less had a Stanley Cup Final apperance.

Yean, it really costs us nothing in the end given the term and length of the contract. JVR was surprisingly more productive than I thought he'd be when I looked up his stats just now. 16 goals and 36 points for a 35 year old player last season. Not bad and if he were to give us similar numbers on the 3rd line, I guess I wouldn't complain.