if we get pick 2

canes have pick 9


they offer us 9 and faulk for 2, do you take it?
- homiedclown

Yes... absolutely
Especially if Nico goes #1

And then I pick a defenseman at 9
I'm also most likely taking defense with both 2nd round picks too

A little interesting Factor in signing Viktor Antipin he could tell Tim Murray that he's going to leave in the middle of the year for the Olympics
- GERBE!!!75PTS

I'm ok if he wants to go play in the olympics
If any of our guys do I'm ok with it
The NHL are being a$$holes
I'm hope a bunch of stars leave their teams to go play

I don't think you're giving him enough credit all the Russian fans I'm talking to have him penciled in the top four
- GERBE!!!75PTS

You're starting to sound like Ek. Got a lot of contacts in Russia do you?

Just started watching Narcos
- chilliard77

First season is awesome. I'm stuck spinning my wheels on the second. I'm about halfway through. And every time I open netflix to watch it, I end up watching something else.

Google translate does wonders.
- bluengold12

Now ppl can stop saying Asplund will be our 3rd line center next year
That was ridiculous

New blog boys

I mean the " whole thing " lol it's a ride
- GERBE!!!75PTS

meh

I'm sure when the NHL decided to not participate in the Olympics, it was a policy that covered ALL NHL players. If Antipin could tell Murray, "I'll only sign with Buffalo if I can take a month off to play in the Olympics," then all UFAs this summer would do this as well. Shattenkirk, Thorton, Oshie... anyone without a contract could say I won't sign with you unless you let me play in the Olympics. It would be a huge problem and I'm sure the NHL is going to make it clear to Antipin that if he signs with Buffalo the Olympics are off the board for him.
- sskkoo1

Ovechkin is going to throw a huge wrench into the works. He's reiterated that he's going no matter what, and didn't soften after the NHL decided not to go.

i posted this in the last blog. and then a new one appeared. a reply to imthatguy so...

compare these two ideas:

reinhart +6OA for tanev +2OA.

and

reinhart for hanifin

in the first trade, we get a 27 year old, right handed, steady defenseman and either patrick or hischier at pick 2. this draft is weak, but its reasonable to me that hischier could be better than reinhart at some point. tanev is under contract for 3 more years at roughly 4.5. i think what i like least about this is that tanev is another righty.

reinhart for hanifin is another trade i have seen mentioned. its two pedigreed young players, neither has been bad, but neither has played to their potential, both are blocked by other players at their natural position with their current organization. hanifin is a left handed d. sabres keep pick 6 and draft bpa, which could very well be makar (rhd) or heiskanen (lhd) and wait for them to develop.
- rover16

Reinhart doesn't hold anywhere near that value. Sabres do either of these trades, neither the Canucks nor the Caines do though.

Of all the things Murray has done that p!ss me off the most...
straight up IGNORING defense in his 3 drafts here is without question the worst mistake he's made

That's why Guhle is the only legit defenseman prospect we have coming

It's now at the point where we need to draft defense almost exclusively in the first 2 rounds for the next few years
- jdfitz77

Fitz, you are consistent...you have "ranted" on this for 3 straight blogs now.

But when (if) Murray fixes the D, and then we have several young forwards coming up out of The A, you might have to take your medicine.

So glad the Leafs won't finish higher than us this year