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Watching the video, I thought, "your legs are going to need to really dig in with your skating". Then the question: "what do you want to work on". First answer, "my power skating". Perfect. You develop guys by being honest with them. He's been told. Most NHLers have thighs like tree trunks and calves like large branches. You win zero battles without that. Show Klapka Chara's legs. You have to be more than just big with a big shot. Leg strength is everything. It can't be questionable, no matter how fast you are. Having said that, he's been told, so it's up to him and our trainers to teach him to understand the massive importance and really hard work if you wanna be a millionaire. It's not all about leg strength, but I'd say over 50% of it is. This is why I have a lot of faith in Kylington getting better with age. He's getting it and getting absolutely ripped. He's no longer a lanky kid that's a fast skater. I think he's only getting better because of that and will really start coming into his own because of it.

JG doesn't change us much. The main thing being that we have an identity that he never really gave us in his years here.. We're not going to lose that identity without him. In fact, I believe this helps and we'll be even better fortifying that identity. Tkachuk should stay, because this team coalesces far more with his identity as a player than it does JG's. We'll be fine. I'm not terrified at all.

So I'm over it. He plays for Columbus now and I've stopped caring why. Social media has gone nuclear on him. Even other teams' fans (including Oilers) chime in that he Blockchained us. It's time to put a bullet in this thing. Every sentence out of his mouth is now dissected into hate speech. It's time to let go of the anger and let the cat move on, live his life, and be better people ourselves. Honestly, the $10.5 x 8 would have killed us. We're a team with a rugged, hard-to-play identity. He isn't that player. Give him space and he's a sensational playmaker. Take that away, and he's not. Let's RIP this thread into the back pages. We floundered for years with no identity with him, we'll keep our newfound identity without him.

It'll never happen. It's not even a remote possibility. It rarely happens ever anymore because JG avoids it like the plague. And then of course one of the all-time great players caught him...

That was my thought the first time going to Columbus too. But I think he means it in the opposite way.

Why wouldn't he just wait? Columbus, jeebus. Hopefully Yzerman inquired and said I don't Blockchaining think so. Detroit to CBS is maybe 3 hours.

Welcome to alt-right America Johnny. Hahaha. Tell me your a doofus without telling me your a doofus. "Honey, we're moving to Columbus". Toooo funny. Detroit had a solid day of short-term signings without breaking the bank. Chiarot/Maatta Perron/Kubalik/Copp. Pretty tidy.

Maybe he's aMAGA guy.lol Ohio. Hahaha. Well, I guess it's beside Pennsylvania... What a laugh. Good riddance.

Naaah. What are you, recruiting? This is a good team, the JG narrative is whatever. This is a good team. One guy isn't the whole team, like, ever. Wherever he goes, he won't be the whole team there, either.

I'd say don't. Get Giroux as a JG replacement. Sutter will be all like, a bunch of no name guys, and all of us will go wtf? Then we'll exceed expectations again.

The difference between #6 Tkachuk and #7 Keller in that great 2016 draft, outside of the stupid "rankings", was do you want the hard-nosed guy or the crafty guy? It wouldn't have mattered. JG-Lindy-Keller would have equaled Tkachuk at right, even exceeded, imho. Get Keller, move Tkachuk back to the left, that would be perfect for me.lol

edit obviously a sign and trade sitch. Keller's severely underrated being stuck there.

Overall, Keller is likely the best hockey player of everyone you've listed here. If he weren't stuck in the ARI disaster that Bettman can't let go of, on a perennially crap roster, he'd be waaaay more familiar. And $7per is a great price for him. He's a great player. Mangia & Kyl? Done. Still cap space to replace them.

But at least there probably wasn't any tampering.🤐

There's also the angle of, "small Cdn market gets punched in the face, again". Thanks parity. How do you win when the deck is stacked against you? And why be nice about it when it's true?

That's hilarious. You think Tkachuk is much better than either? Mang & Kyl for Keller? Done.

Yeah there's not much point in being nice about it. "Oh thank you Johnny, you didn't even have the courtesy to lube up". This is sports. I hope this ends up as, woooeeee, we totally dodged a cap bullet. He doesn't play for us, so Blockchain him and the miniature pony he rode in on. Don't get angry, get even. It's only entertainment.

Okay, so ARI, what's it gonna take for Keller?

JG-Larkin-Raymond Best line in hockey.lol

Oh god spare me. The decision was made, thanks for wasting our time.

JG proving why there is zero point in being a "everybody's buddy" GM. What a giant waste of time in critical times. "It's $10 x 8 right now, but I have a team to look after and I'm not waiting".

Like a child holding a secret....don't tell it until you're forced to. Better than $11x8 at any rate. Now he can get back to 80pts and constantly whining at the refs.

Nobody cares. He'll go back to being the same guy Sutter scratched for the first few weeks.

Well I'm glad that he didn't drag this out, because that would be a d!ck move...

Iiiii'mmm not suuureee.lol You kids and your crazy jingo.lol