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Ya. I doubt he will make a change when they're winning.

He never chooses the safe play, it feels like. Sometimes if there's nothing, there really is nothing. Live to fight another day. His defense frustrates me.

He will not be that, fortunately. He would have to be making 11 or 12 million to match Gomez levels.

Strange. They didn't produce much in the way of scoring chances, but they played in the o zone a lot, and we're cycling the puck well. They looked better than i expected.

For sure. I didn't word my response correctly. That's what I was thinking. If he knew he was trading Harris, he may not have been so quick to trade kovacevic.

Love this.

I'm pretty sure Hughes would like to take that one back at this point. Keep kovacevic and trade Harris

This was my thought as well. Or doghouse line.

Or find a suitable back up who's proven in the NHL and leave Dobes to develope in Laval.

100% they're looking at Hutsons next contract. It expires in a year and half. There will probably be a general plan over the long term, but very general. Locking up players you want is part of team building. But worrying about re signing players you locked up last year and expire in 6 years? Not a chance. Anyway as you say. Disagree.

Yes. There's an eye to the future. Of course. But something as dynamic as sports is, there's no chance they're thinking about re signing players contracts 5 years from now. That decision is based on evaluations as the contracts play out.

29 30 is a long ways away. Dealing with what's right in front of you with an eye to the future is sensible, but 5 years from now? Who the heck knows what that looks like? The idea right now is to start learning how to win. The idea this deadline is to assess current assets and expiring contracts that you don't want to keep and see about trading them. But what the team does in 5 years is going to be thought about in 4 years. Not now.

Wasn't his best game defensively.

Clean hit. Emelin did that all the time. Shouldn't have to fight after a clean hit.

Looks like you got to see an exciting game with some hope sprinkled in anyway.

Ok, let's set our starting lineup. Cayden Primeau, Arbor Xhekaj, Mike Matheson, aaand it's gone!

That's an awesome seat.

Holy crap, that was fast.

Aaand it's gone.

Primeau out swimming.

Is he even an NHLer at this point? Struble and Engstrom are gonna pass him on the depth chart soon if he doesn't refind his game. Keeping a player in because he likes punching people in the face confuses me.

The missed call on the armia trip was brutal. Armia blatantly tripped in a puck battle along the wall. Puck goes to point. Two quick passes to kakko and in the net. Armia was still trying to get back in the play after being tripped. That trip won them the game.

Wow. Gotta love the states.

Reminds me of dagostini when he first entered the league.