Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[Chef Boi RD]

Bakersfield is a rough Califormia town filled with meth labs and crack houses. It will be a good test for ole Zach "12 Steps" Kassian

To soon Pacific Blue to soon lol in all seriousness the Late Great Johnny Carson used to speak highly of the great city of Bakersfield... Ummm maybe not so much...

Lol, ole Paddy my wife's family (fathers side) is from Bakersfield CA, that place makes Haney/Maple Ridge look like Disneyland. My father in law RIP wasn't a very nice human, putting it lightly.

[SKYO]

Should canucks claim Rundblad on waivers?

[Strangelove]

Should canucks claim Rundblad on waivers?

Hell no.

[Topper]

Bakersfield is a rough Califormia town filled with meth labs and crack houses. It will be a good test for ole Zach "12 Steps" Kassian

To soon Pacific Blue to soon lol in all seriousness the Late Great Johnny Carson used to speak highly of the great city of Bakersfield... Ummm maybe not so much...

Buck tooth Kassian will be whistling the Buckeroo's Bakersfield sound.

[SKYO]

Should canucks claim Rundblad on waivers?

Hell no.

I bet the oilers grab him.

[Jovocop]

Should canucks claim Rundblad on waivers?

Hell no.

Could Rundblad be any worse than Weber?

[Hockey Widow]

Something I didn't know, or have any reason to, Kassian played with Taylor Hall on the 2010 Mem Cup Windsor Spitfires. Hall vouches for him. Another reason Charelli took the risk.

[Arachnid]

Wow Son of Dave has fallen a long way....http://www.tsn.ca/ice-chips-gagner-gome ... s-1.415374

We could have used him at c.

[Hockey Widow]

Wow Son of Dave has fallen a long way....http://www.tsn.ca/ice-chips-gagner-gome ... s-1.415374

We could have used him at c.

We don't have 3.2 in cap space but if Flyers were to retain 50% I'd trade for him, if we didn't have to give up much of anything. I'd trade them Vey, they retain 50%. He can't be any worse than Vey can he? He is on an expiring contract.

[SKYO]

Wow Son of Dave has fallen a long way....http://www.tsn.ca/ice-chips-gagner-gome ... s-1.415374

We could have used him at c.

crazy days!

via patrick williams: Gagner has cleared waivers and been assigned to Lehigh Valley. Big boost for the Phantoms. #AHL

[Rumsfeld]

Gagner sucks.

[Tciso]

Gagner sucks.

Does he suck more or less than Jake "the sky is falling" Virtanen?

[Rumsfeld]

Gagner sucks.

Does he suck more or less than Jake "the sky is falling" Virtanen?

He sucks a lot less than your contributions to this discussion.

Virtanen is our most important draft pick since the Sedins and he hasn't looked good at any level since his draft year. Of course he's only 19 you dunce, but that's not he point. We can only judge him on his last season and a half, and from what I've seen his offensive skills look like shit. Maybe you will be happy if our blue chip pick turns out to be a bottom six grinder, but I won't.

When a prospect is performing well you get all excited, when they look like shit it's "he's only 19"? Forget chicken little, that's chicken SHIT.

Are you happy with the pick then, Crisco? Would you make it again knowing what we know now about him and many of the kids picked after him? Are we forbidden to criticize his game lest it offend your homeristic sensibilities? Fuck off.

Or maybe you'd like to play the "lets wait and see for five years" game with every prospect. How ballsy of you.

Hopefully he turns it around, but I think it's realistic to have lowered expectations for this player. He doesn't look like a future first-liner. He's terrible with the puck and looks lost away from it. Bad at giving and receiving passes. His fabled shot looks weak. He didn't even look good in junior or the AHL last year.

[ESQ]

Are you happy with the pick then, Crisco? Would you make it again knowing what we know now about him and many of the kids picked after him?

I don't know who you're referring to, isn't their only one other 2014 first rounder (Dylan Larkin) playing in the NHL right now? Fabbri is back up, but isn't exactly setting the world on fire.

Based on *half a season*, I don't think that:
- the 17 1RPs that haven't played in the NHL are a bust;
- the 1RPs that have already been sent down (Nick Ritchie, Ehlers, Pastrnak, Goldobin) can be written off as busts;
- Virtanen, to me, still looks like roughly the 6th best player in the 1st round, maybe 8th or 9th best player.

Virtanen made the birthday cutoff by a month for the 2014 draft, so he's one of the youngest, plus he missed 4 months recovering from shoulder surgery.

[Rumsfeld]

Are you happy with the pick then, Crisco? Would you make it again knowing what we know now about him and many of the kids picked after him?

I don't know who you're referring to, isn't their only one other 2014 first rounder (Dylan Larkin) playing in the NHL right now? Fabbri is back up, but isn't exactly setting the world on fire.

Based on *half a season*, I don't think that:
- the 17 1RPs that haven't played in the NHL are a bust;
- the 1RPs that have already been sent down (Nick Ritchie, Ehlers, Pastrnak, Goldobin) can be written off as busts;
- Virtanen, to me, still looks like roughly the 6th best player in the 1st round, maybe 8th or 9th best player.

Virtanen made the birthday cutoff by a month for the 2014 draft, so he's one of the youngest, plus he missed 4 months recovering from shoulder surgery.

Virtanen shouldn't be anywhere near the NHL right now, and wouldn't be a top 20 pick if the draft happened tomorrow. He was struggling in Junior last season.

The kid needs a year or two of pro seasoning in the AHL. Right now he looks terrible.