Sorry, gotta sell. This team is not a contender. Sucks for Jarmo and the Jackets (and especially their ever-patient fans) but betting it all for what'll end up being yet another first-round exit would be something so foolish even Peter Chiarelli would laugh.

Can hardly wait to see who overpays for Bob. My money's on Philly or NJ.

I can't see either Philly with Carter Hart or NJ with Mackenzie Blackwood and 3 more years of Cory Schneider at $6M per targeting Bob in the offseason or the deadline being so far out of it.

Yeah Carter has been surging of late and forgot about Schneider, although he can no longer play. Maybe Florida?

CLB/OTT deal is Dzingel and Calgary7th (OTT owns) in 2019 for 2 2nds and Anthony Duclair

Wow. To steal a quote from Patrick Roy, Jarmo's puttin' his balls on the table.

https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/ ... 5675577345

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/bluejackets

Man...hope it works out and they at the least get a deep playoff run with this bunch because if they don't...

Do Kekäläinen & Torts really think they can take a run at Tampa in the East? Suppose they do.

I think it's more they see themselves getting out of a weakened Metro. Pens and Caps are a bit hungover, and who believes in the Isles? The Jax have never even won a playoff round.

The funny part is that when my two brothers and I were growing up, she didn’t know anything about hockey. But my dad was playing for the Nuggets, so we were in Colorado right when the Avalanche–Red Wings rivalry was so sick.

For me, hockey was everything from Day One. But most stories about me talk about how I loved the Avalanche, which isn’t exactly true. Don’t get me wrong, they had unbelievable players — Sakic, Forsberg, Hejduk, Roy, Bourque. Just sick. Loaded. But the first time I saw the Wings and Nicklas Lidström play in person, that was it for me.

Lindström was my idol.

I loved everything about his game. He was so positionally sound that he didn’t even have to throw big body checks. He’d still control the game completely.

Seth
And then when we got close to the rink, she would kind of be hitting me, pumping me up.

Amy
Seth!!!!!!! They’re going to call the police on me!

Seth
But not actually for real. It was like … she’d do that thing moms do, where she’d poke me in the ribs, like, “You gonna bring it today? You ready?!” And I’m like … nine years old. It was hilarious. I wanted to be Lidström, she wanted me to be Pronger.