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Brayden Point, Ryan O'Reilly off the top of my head. You don't absolutely need a top 5 pick to acquire a top line center. Sebastian Aho anyone? Need some savvy luck, sure. Nature of the beast. So many C's drafted end up fwds, so you need some good fortune regardless. It takes a long time to develop players to their potential, get used to it. Tidy draft last year, great draft this year. By November, we'll have forgotten half of their names. lol

I'm not a software guy, but there came a point in my life where I really had to learn to understand it. I was sold that I should develop software specific to my business. That's where discussing with a couple of friends and a couple of extended family members saved my Hash Rate. The maintenance would have killed me. Software dev is pretty easy. Maintenance/upgrades notsomuch. Full-time jobs. Back to topic. Puckpedia will bring in a lot more traffic without capfriendly. Hence, advertising dollars. More money to push at it. Alternatively, someone new will build the software architecture and have a team of IT guys develop it. It's a fun business plan, if your business is software. There is money there. I think, maybe, @jjgallow or @Heartbreaker or Kulak may be able to explain it better or audit my take. Anyone else is also welcomed to. No one should be worried that it just goes away. If there is a market, the market will be sated.

Neither of these 2 are ready for the NHL right now. Realistically, both are a couple of years away.

That was a really fun watch!!

Sam Morton is a fun player to watch. I know he should be, here, due to age. Still, I love how he just cruises lanes. Misa scores again. 150th oa. I'm beside myself. I thought mid-2nd.

Parekh and Misa with the goals, imagine that!! Stromgren on the board now too! From Misa. Superfun.

Fair enough. I left it at that. He was doing very little puck tracking, but perhaps because of the repetitiveness of the drill. I thought maybe it was the travel. It wasn't a long clip, so not a lot of context. Wasn't putting him down, just an observation.

Awesome!! Who doesn't love youtube on a giant tv screen!!

I agree. Coming back to assist in development is fine, but to play? I don't think that's a great idea. Not due to his capacity as a leader or any of that stuff. Just that we've been turning a page for a year now. We don't need to turn backwards. We've chosen to re-whatever they wanna call it. Just stick to the program.

Well, if you aren't going to take my solid advice and use uBlock Origin...lol. It's free. *Advertisers hate this one trick... Open source internet services are your friend. uBlock, Mozilla, etc. Source: I have computer engineer friends and fam telling me what to do. Some of it is too other-world for me. But the simple fixes have been fantastic.

From that article: This part is shocking. If you saw the interview with Yzerman I posted before, he was, basically, "every team has all of this information through the NHL. Great site we'd use just to access information quickly, but it doesn't affect us at all. The NHL provides all of that for us, they just had a great layout, but we have all of that info at our disposal regardless. Someone else will start another one, but it doesn't really matter to us". It makes that "70%" number suspicious.

We do: https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2024/06/19/capitals-bought-capfriendly-due-to-fears-of-it-going-away-the-discussion-lasted-probably-for-over-a-year/

Datsyuk crossed the pond for the Wings dev camp. It's been some years. By all accounts, he was overjoyed to come back and steal pucks from the kids. I found out about this place today.... I totally want to invest in one and am going to check it out in a fortnight. Zetts has a gig in Sterling Heights, ridiculously close, just a bridge and a drive to Olds from Calgary away. I'm intrigued, for sure. https://www.zmashpadel.com/

Dude. What are we doing here, US politics? I wasn't huge on the Wings re-signing Kane. Am I going off about it somewhere? If Conroy had made a trade in that regard, I'd happily discuss/assess it. Because I didn't agree that you wanted to throw every remaining asset at it isn't the same as being unsupportive. The people fans tend to get out of their minds as drafts approach. Every pick is for sale. Within the bounds of a realistic, fair deal is Yeti sightings. lol Unlikely to be real. We just had a great draft, by all accounts. Let sleeping dogs lie. We can still trade assets.

Not worried at all. Capfriendly was borne from capgeek. There will be another.

You're absolutely correct. This is 100% the result of my opinions becoming decisions.

Stromgren didn't get much for reps in Sweden, so imo it was important to get him here for development. As a Detroit fan, trust me on this. lol There is a very real minimum 2 years for them to adjust to the game here when they come over. Even Edvinsson had 2 years up and down. Albert Johansson 4. Stevie's latest interview, he said AlJo will be on the big club this year. I was literally trading him to Calgary out of frustration. He didn't say, "if he earns it" like he always does. All of us are excited to hear that. Big Ed and AlJo on the blueline is big news. You keep going, "we have all of these great D prospects, will you ever jump them up"? Some days, it feels like forever. Flames fans are really going to have to get used to that. You almost forget that you have that prospect. lol Then a Zary or Pospisil pops right into your roster.

Flames need to do this at Dev camp!! https://www.nhl.com/redwings/video/detroit-red-wings-live-stream-6336964314112

I hope the Flames televise tomorrow's scrimmage on the main site. The Wings' main site televised a 3-on-3 tourney live, still posted on their site. Almost 2 hours long. Full commentary. It's awesome.

Great to hear Stromgren and Grusnikov(sp?) have had solid starts to camp as players further along in development. Stromgren was written off by so many, it's great to see lots of positives being spoken about him now.

Non-hockey months = hyperbole about offer sheets with every franchise. The penalties are steep. It's just not worth it, why it's so rare. The franchises are a tight-knit group. The picks you have to give proves it's heavily dissuaded. We're not throwing offer sheets around. Not even maybe. We're not all French. lol

I absolutely love Bemidji. What a fun little town.

Yegorov looks completely exhausted.

Misa really intrigues me. I've got a friend on the staff in Mississauga that raves about him. A bit undersized, but can control a really great pace and create chaos from it. 150th really shocked me. I thought 3rd rd max.

Looking beyond his mental health, I'm fairly meh about Kylington also. He's pretty much a bottom pairing guy.