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and where the hell are TCL and Logical Progression and the rest of the gang I thought would be back by now?

tLC has health issues, LP up and just disappeared a year ago.

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

Oh I'm sorry to hear that

Caaanuuuucks!!!!

I want Kuzmenko to work, but it sounds like he’ll have a hard time getting out of the doghouse if he’s sitting in the press box or getting 4th line minutes. Like Foggy I don’t quite understand how scoring in back to back games gets you scratched. I did hear something about the shot differential when he’s on the ice and it didn’t sound very good.

What’s his contract worth?
And is he’s signed for one more year, right?

ROBIN!!! Great to see you, dude

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Thanks Chuck, E.L. and Harmy!

Robin, very good to see you back, and very surprised to see ya. Hope you're doing well, and you're still being kind to your liver.

Kuz is $5.5 million for 2 years. If they can turn him into a #3 dman I'd be okay with that swap.

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haha, great to see you mate!

The Canucks are tied with LV for the league lead with 34 games each and 47 points. Never, ever would I have thought this could happen this year. They keep on chugging along like they actually belong with the best in the league.



Boston and NYR actually have higher winning percentage but few games played. However percentages are for math nerds, so who cares about them.

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Too much fun seeing the lotto line back together, they totally dominated! Thought Suter with the Russians looked pretty good too. Think the games against Jersey are going to be a lot of fun for a lot of years to come. Too bad Jack was out for this one. Anybody know why Zadorov was out?

Great win over the Rags, now looking for a sweep in NY, can't remember the last time that happened. How good were the goals by Petey and Hogs?

According to NY media, never. I'm obviously hoping that trend continues. Canucks are solidly in a playoff spot. The Isles, aren't.

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Posting your political views on social media is like sticking your head up your ass & whispering: You're just as likely to change someone's mind, and you'll always come out looking like a shithead.

yeah wow! First time ever! pretty sad that it's taken this long but....I think it says something about the quality of the teams there, all 3 have have had pretty impressive runs for long periods of time.

How you liking Bo now Chris? This is a genuine question, have no idea how he's been doing

It's always seemed to me that at least one, if not two of the NY Metro area teams are really good every year. Some years all three are pretty good.

I like Horvat a lot. I think that contract will be an albatross on the back end, but what contract isn't these days? Want to (re-)sign a guy? Have to go long term and/or overpay. He's really good. I'm surprised he wasn't given a A for his jersey, but he seems to be a leader anyway. Considering how Beauvillier ended up for the Canucks and now Blackhawks, I'm especially happy. And I like Beauvillier.

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Posting your political views on social media is like sticking your head up your ass & whispering: You're just as likely to change someone's mind, and you'll always come out looking like a shithead.

On the road and picking up 8 points vs NJ; NYR; NYI and Pitt. If they had gotten 6 points I'd be totally please, 8 is really impressive.

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They are rolling! Some awesome saves by the Pens goalie after they swapped after the first.

Just give Petey the max salary and be done with it. Dude is only getting better and the rest of the cores contracts are looking like gold right now.

Great game by that Syd guy too, and as always Demko

Rumors abounding that Jake Guentzel will be a Canuck come deadline time. Would be fascinating on a couple levels. One, the Canucks are definitely going for it in that case (which they should), and two, the Penguins are quite possibly pulling the plug.

Trading Guentzel would be a pretty huge deal. The Pens have been incredibly stubborn about keeping their core together, even adding to it when they probably should've reset a little (Sid waits for no man, I suppose).

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I'm mixed feelings on this. If they think Pettersson will not resign, then they should go for it. If they believe he will then this team has a 5 year window of opportunity maybe even seven years even managed with those future years in mind. Hughes is 24, Petterson 25, Boeser 26, Demko 28, and JT Miller is 30 and having far and away his best year ever. (I mean who would have thought JT Miller would be a better centre this year than Pettersson?) There are so many surprises on this club but JT Miller playing Selke worthy shutdown defense while having a career best in points is certainly one of the bigger surprises.

To keep that kind of 5 year window open, you have to have young guys playing good hockey on cheap contracts. The Guentzal rumours would be Kuzmenko (for cap purposes); Hoglander or Podzkolzin; and either of their top two prospects. Besides Hoglander, I would be very reluctant to trade either of Podzkolzin or Bains or Silovos off the AHL team and any of their top four prospects who all seem likely to make the NHL. It's those 8 players that will allow them to sign their star players and stay in the hunt for 5 years.

It's really hard to win a cup, I think a team needs to have a long window, and multiple tries and going in on Guentzal does increase their chances this year but reduces their chances for the following 4 years.

Besides I still really think Cole is not good enough for a #3 dman. Hronek maybe gone next year in free agency, finding a player who can play as #2 or #3 dman for a few years at reasonable cost is a higher priority than Guentzal as a one time playoff rental. For that dman I'd be willing to give up serious futures because he helps now, and in the years to come.

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Have to say that Zadorov pummeling of O'Brien last night was funny. Zadorov can't really throw them all that well and thats a good or the rest of the NHL would be in trouble. He just held O'Brien by the sweater at arms length and O'Brien was too far away too land anything and not big enough to get out of the hold. Then Zadorov just started teeing off on him, like he was at the driving range practising his stroke. lol

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