Karma for publicly ripping Bruce, Petey and Brock? They ultimately may've been right, particularly on the two players, but they did this before their downfalls. Had a bad feeling about them when they first opened their mouths. Callous speech followed by callous actions, of which there were plenty ...

The vets... for me it's as simple as keeping only the ones who will get you nothing in return. The rest, take whatever you can get. And stagger them if necessary, no need to extract them all at once since this is going to be a long process anyway. Garland I can see for sure due to his no protection ...

The good thing with a rebuild is cap space doesn't matter as much as dead money won't be as crippling if at all, especially with cap gradually going up. On the books for the next 5 years, which hopefully takes us to the end of it... if all goes well.

Everything should be on the table. Something is seriously wrong if they're not taking calls on everybody. Come to think of it, are there any untouchables? Even though it probably wouldn't make much sense to move a couple of the young D, but if a Suzuki or C.Gauthier type situation shakes loose you ...

Liking the optimism 'about our failures' in the last several posts. If anything the doom & gloom is what will ultimately derail our rebuild. The reason it won't fly here is our fan base is way too emotional. The amount of pissing and moaning on sm and post game shows the past couple games alone. I ...

The guy replacing him is also still trying to figure things out for himself and is a couple years older. Growth's not linear. Kid's got time on his side, some more A time is never a bad thing.

While we're on the topic, are any of you folks beginning to worry about Zeev's development being up in the shitshow? Don't get me wrong, he clearly belongs despite some of the cracks showing in his game. But I fear the cracks can crater into something bigger for the kid (he was a teen just a month ...

Ronning's Ghost wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 1:06 am I think that does a lot of damage to the drafting genius thesis.

Virtanen, Joulevi, Pods. Pure genius.

At the very least we got a couple good years out of 40 before the pumpkin years. Same for Brock I suppose.

I think we're looking at the MP trade all wrong. He was the throw in. DoC is the guy they had to have. The 12th overall is one thing. The absolute topper would be if Fernstrom becomes something of a thing for Pitt down the road. Kind of ironic how one of the early big moves by this management group ...

donlever wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 8:40 pm Demanding a bigger ticket than Nylander when he is not the better player.

See, that's all you had to do. No argument here.

It’s great for their teams and fanbases that 3 guys are vastly underpaid and 1 one is providing incredible surplus value on an ELC (but he will get his bag big time). All 4 of these guys are easily worth anywhere north of 18 mill in today’s market, if Kaprizov’s new deal is the standard. Their Decem ...

Nucker - much of that is the standard MO Rutherford.He operates a revolving door of players. Difference is, in Pitt, that door revolved around a much stronger axis that covered his blunders. It's pretty obvious not to fuck around with a core of Crosby, Malkin, Letang. Yeah, pretty hard to get it ...

Tanev. That's the one that seismically altered the course of our history. If we kept him as a career player (what he wanted), possibly ... No OEL trade, no crippling buyout, a Guenther or other 1st round player in the lineup now. No Horvat and subsequent Hronek trade, Bo would still be our captain ...

There's talk of Kiefer Sherwood for Fraser Minten. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=230395 Bring him home. Sweeten if need be, which would likely be the case. Will gladly forgo my 4 picks in top 35 for this one. As long as player coming back is under 22 and actually promising ...

...by ownership cheapness and incompetent management. ...and there it is again. The scourge of our very existence. In a way those two anomalous playoff seasons were the worst thing that could happen. Because in typical bad-Canuck-timing fashion they happened to fall on years when we had a lot of ...