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Surprised Michkov fell to 7. When he does come over the Flyers are going to have a very talented player on their hands

Glad to have another poster! I know how it feels being a lurker. Been a part of the forums since 2009 technically but have only been posting regularly in the last few years. GFG!

BLOW IT UP FURTHER!

This makes me wonder if there is a case to be had for Kipper as a HOFer. Never won a cup but just like King Henrik (and maybe moreso) I think its indisputable he was one of (if not the) best goalies in the world for a short time. Won a Vezina and again like Henrik has a SCF appearance to his name. Have heard Pekka Rinne's name thrown around lately for a future HOF call and imo Kipper is more deserving.

Assuming Backlund and Toffoli for sure want to be traded i think you could potentially hang onto them until the deadline to try and maximize a return from a contender looking for a missing piece. Risky with Toffoli though as his value probably wont be higher than it is right now.

I think you could for sure get a 1st for Lindy and Hanifin among other assets. Toffoli may fetch one from the right team. I think for Backlund you'd probably have to throw in a later pick to recoup a first in a deal with him.

The Toffoli thing is actually great news. Could cash in big after the year he had. Unlikely to repeat it.

Man where are those pipe-dream Eklund "rumors" when you need them 😪

I agree with this. Figure out where you stand and if there is any uncertainty whatsoever you deal them now for max return. Both Lindholm and Hanifin could fetch a fair bit in a trade.

This is how I remember it as well but I have many a friend that say im misremembering.. 😆

Its the Berenstein/Berenstain fiasco all over again. 😰

Hearing lots of chatter that Huska is all but official at this point. Wasn't my first or second choice, but its a lot better than some of the other names I had heard. Seems like a safe pick but ill reserve judgement for now.

The Severson deal makes me nervous about a Hanifin extension. Severson played sheltered minutes mostly on the 3rd pair for a good Devils team. By all accounts Hanifin is the superior player. The only thing Severson has on him is the RHS

Especially as a deadline deal. We got a great return at the time for Kris Russell. May not look like much today but getting a 2nd, a prospect and an NHLer in return is great value for a guy thats not coming back anyway.

Honestly I would be stoked if we got a new goalie coach. Been a serious weak spot in this organization for some time IMO. Labarbera and Sigalet are/were not the answer.

Yeah I agree. I think arrogance is something that should be avoided when looking at a head coach.

This makes sense. Necas is due a pretty good raise. That said I'd still be really interested.

Agree. I think a lot of the "what-ifs" that could've happened during his tenure were results of the management getting involved. Like the trades that almost happened but didn't. (Stone, Eichel) The Stone one is the worst for me as I believe the rumored ask was Valimaki++ Most of us were pretty high on him at the time but it seems ownership was even more so as this obviously didn't happen. Fast forward to now and we lost him for nothing, still don't have Stone, and Valimaki started showing glimpses of that 2017 1st round pedigree with Arizona.

This is a fair assessment. Ownership mantra of being remarkably mediocre really hurt us at the time.

This is an interesting list. Id love to see some of the other teams. Tampa Bay with Jon Cooper and Colorado with Jared Bednar immediately jump to mind for me as guys who have been around for awhile recently

That I did not know. And kinda wish I still didn't 😅

Then we ended up with Shinkaruk anyway. We've actually had 8 players from the 2013 first round in our system at some point in the last 10 years. 3 have provided meaningful value for us; Monahan, Lindholm, Zadorov.

I have PTSD from the last time we held multiple first round picks.

I've thought about this a lot and I think Mitch Love is my preferred choice. I was really into the idea of Andrew Brunette but Nashville scooped him up.

They can't help but talk about the leafs. I watched a video about the Canadian teams seasons last year and they'd spend 2 minutes talking about a given team and the next 10 minutes comparing said team to the Leafs in various ways. It was pretty embarrassing.