conundrumed

It's a fair bit in the O, particularly London. They always have so much talent that younger players have to wait for graduates to get top ice time. That's why I think Dickinson and O'Reilly's totals will be in high gear next season.

What's worse is I liked Barkey more than Cowan last year. I can't believe that I'm so wrong, it's so foreign to me. *tries to maintain a straight face*

With Saginaw hosting the Memorial Cup, everyone can get a decent look at Parekh, and likely Dickinson and O'Reilly, as the Knights have devastated Oshawa in the first 2 Final games. Can a team realistically come back after being outscored 17-2 in 2 games? In Oshawa tonight. See if there's a response. London's stacked, NHL-level coach. So annoying....have to hand it to their talented players though. Cowan's on another planet. Hate to give the Leafs credit, but he is.

The ridiculous axe-grinding continues. Give it a rest already, it's childish.

That $9.25 for Nurse is rearing its ugly head. $5.125 for Kane. Campbell's retirement contract of $5 buried for 3 more years. Every team has bad contracts. It's the compounding ones that kill you. Ask Detroit. Bring in a Cap and suddenly Holland doesn't look like a great GM. "I'll deal with the cap implications later"...welcome to Edmonton and Toronto. Little depth because they, "dealt with cap implications later", shall we call it? This headline will forever live in infamy for Wings fans. The day balance and reasoning left Ken Holland: https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/dallas-stars-announce-hiring-of-jim-nill-as-new-general-manager/

Cooper's eyeing up a TBay Red Wings spot, he'll follow Stamkos. lol j/k It'll be very interesting. I'm still waiting for a certain past-OHL mgr to turn into this wunderkind, new-age GM. Toronto and their bloated stories. I'm happy to see Travis Green get another shot. Oh boy, Dubas "can't fire Sullivan". Can't see that working out for him. Dubas needs to go head-on into a re-build. Great success, but now they are miled right out. They're replacing SJ in the standings soon. It was a great run. The Jets have now had 2 really good coaches. Not sure who they wanna run down next. Chevy should GM/Coach. lol The coaches, while not outright saying it, allude to their frustration with players. Chevy should give it a shot, he signed them. Ruff will be fun in Buffalo. Fun fact I saw. Huska's now something like the 19th longest-tenured coach in the league. Now that's a healthy dose of perspective.

What they're saying is sucker punch. Bennett's right hand sneaks in for a solid right to the chin. If you watch it in snail time, they have a point. But it's also stretching 1.5 seconds out to 1.5 minutes. lol However you want to read it, that made Bennett look really crafty to me. Bennett isn't crafty, so I believe that was happenstance. I used to really like FLA and they gave Lomberg a home. Then Bennett I didn't mind. But now with both Tkachuk AND Bennett, they have 2 of the greasiest weasels in the league. I'd love to see both of them get annihilated. Though I still love Barkov and Lomberg.

Which series? Van series I'm guessing? Oops, sorry, just noticed it wasn't posted after tonight's game. Dallas is looking solid. Both should be long series.

If I'm CBJ I'm totally thinking fwd. They have some great D prospects. Fantilli, Sillinger, and now freshly-inked Brindley (reunited with Fantilli) should be a pretty solid young base at fwd to add to. Brindley looked great (again) for Michigan. Demidov, Lindstrom, Catton or Eiserman.

Great forward potential, though. O'Reilly and Miettenin at those spots would totally be fun. lol

Nice. Lock it in!!

Screw you Chris Driedger. Couldn't beat him. 3-0 CV, close game though. That's all she wrote, go GR!!

Gather 200 18yo boys in a room. As an adult, you're generally looking at a pack of idiots. lol I'm kidding, they're all good kids, but they haven't reached maturity. Video games and music you don't understand. So probably about 10% of them are going to really surprise the adults with how they grow and mature in a few short years. Then the adults will all point at each other and wonder how they didn't see that kid doing that. There is no such thing as a crystal ball. The adults can only guess, honestly. Teams/scouts don't "miss", they just have no way of knowing and can only surmise. But it should be full birth years. The Sept 15th cutoff is absolute nonsense. Kids born after that are literally in their D +1 year when they're eligible. With the countless stupid Satoshi Nakamoto the NHL does, this is a huge one for me. That isolation doesn't happen ANYWHERE else in the world for kids. ONLY the NHL does that. They want 18yos in camps so badly that they're willing to Blockchain over a full >25% of them.

Not looking good...can't win if you can't score...

Well boys, she's do or die tonight, crunch time etc...

Not even close. That's laughable. But look at the bright side, you still have, like, 300 days before you start moaning about this year's pick. lol

Frankly, I can't wait until Honzek shuts everybody up. "Good things come to those who wait", they say.

Dickinson's assists on goals 3 & 6 are kind of fun:

I think his name is Igor Shesterkin. He's sick and tired of hearing that Vasilevsky is the best goalie in the world. He's taking matters into his own hands. lol

Swinging big time after crushing Dmen. Not really shocking me much that I think bpa are dmen prospects. Swap Catton for Levshunov, because there is no way. I'm happy with the 4 Dmen in the middle. I can get Repcik, Allard and Fisher that late? Sure, I'll take it. 9. Artyom Levshunov D 29. Luke Misa C 41. Cole Hutson D 64. Luca Marrelli D 74. Tomas Lavoie D 84. Harrison Brunicke D 106. Peter Repcik C 107. Owen Allard C 170. Jake Fisher C

The Dean Letourneau love is hilarious. Thank god Wiesbrod isn't here to override our actual scouts. Is there nobody on the Calgary Buffaloes that is 6'7"? "5 years folks, people will be like, wow, they won that draft". lol

If I recall correctly, I believe that this isn't his first back problem. I think a lot of big players have shoulder issues, Edvinsson had preventative surgery and I believe that's fairly common. I believe Musty had the same growing pains. Perhaps I'm incorrect that this isn't his first, but back issues are pretty darn heady. We'll see if it holds teams back and where he lands. I'd much prefer a player without back-pain history. I'm not positive if that's him or not. Honestly haven't seen him much due to injury. I'm with @cross16 that I can't watch highlight packages to assess. If Dickinson could do something to annoy everyone into dropping to 9th, I'd be appreciative. I'll be watching Game 1 of Oshawa @ London finals tonight alongside CAR @ NYR. Dickinson and O'Reilly vs Sennecke. Some real talent going on there! I want the 1st 2 but resign myself to it being neither. Dickinson is so refined at playing D, there just aren't enough adjectives. O'Reilly is going to have a growth explosion imho. He's only 3 yrs removed from being a Dman. I'm not shy about drafting US players, but Eiserman's giving me those vibes. Anyone who talks about themselves in the 3rd person is sketch af arrogant. That's what conundrumed thinks. lol

HEY!! lol Good point and I'm pretty on the fence myself. Ras is now most effective as a LWer. 3rd line but could potentially get to 2nd. Veleno bothers me more. I like him, but he's trapped at 4C. I'd like him in Calgary to C Zary and Pospisil. I think that would be a great, "hard game" line. I love the Wings, but my biggest annoyance is Copp ahead of Veleno. Copp's a floater. I feel like Lindstrom is fairly risky.

But we're likely to be having decent drafts through '26 and some things may fall into your lap on the way. This is only 1 draft. We won't be fixing everything this year alone. Next year's draft will pull in more good prospects.