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True. I heard some talking heads during the Memorial Cup talking about the CHL, to paraphrase: "The OHL was always the prime league in the CHL with the WHL following closely, but the QMJHL has caught up to those 2 leagues". No they haven't. Guys. it's the start of June and you're trying to sell Christmas cards. We're Canadian, we're not hockey-illiterates, there is a scoreboard that doesn't agree with you in any way, shape or form. https://chl.ca/article/404-chl-graduates-named-nhl-rosters-2022-23-regular-season/ Maybe we can send you London and Kelowna on a 3 year loan to watch them in the Q finals every year. Hell, we could likely get by with Sudbury and Everett. Get real. The Q would struggle with the watered-down USHL. The O and the dub, notsomuch.lol The Q is a waltz. The O and WHL are moshpits. You should be winning every MC, because the OHL and WHL teams are beating the dying f$%# out of each other. The Q has caught up....go to your room and have a timeout.

I liked the end when the interviewer implied a woman in his life. Everyone needs that grounding rod. To quote an old line, "I thought I loved money, but it's women that love money, and I love women". Not fitting, just a fun line that hits home with me.lol Sounds like he's come out of the forest and now he knows that mountain is just an everyday climb that doesn't need to be climbed in a day, to use an analogy. The intimidation fades away and there is no longer reasons to let it overwhelm. Move forward knowing it's just brush on the trail, you can clear it. If a tree has fallen on it occasionally, take your time and use a saw. He mentioned therapy and CBD as his huge helps. I have no idea how the league feels about CBD or cannabis in general, hopefully they're not stuck in 1952. They're only performance enhancers at eateries and gas station chip aisles. So I've heard(=

If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see the interview video with english subtitles: https://hockeynews.se/articles/29948/

Rittich is an enigma. It doesn't surprise me that he keeps getting jobs, his mechanics are top shelf. Any G coach will say that and think there's gotta be more. Then the results just aren't there. I'm going to guess that it's totally mental with him. Every goal reaction seems like, "oh well".lol But yeah, I was eyeing up their G too. Why not just re-sign Korpisalo? Maybe he doesn't like Hollywood. Clarke Brandt is going to be fun to follow. He's more than just a little bit good. Alex Turcotte is turning into precisely why you should give zero Satoshi Nakamotos about tournaments when you're drafting. 5th oa. That's gotta hurt.

I'm beginning to think that Hanifin will be the only one on the move. Even at that, if we look strong this season, is Hanifin going to have a change of heart? It seems like everyone is coming off of a really bad hangover and some have really BTCy hangovers. Maybe I'm just starting to think that because it's August. We're going to be between a rock and a hard place at TDL again aren't we? Conroy can talk change until he's blue in the face...until we're in a playoff hunt and ownership steps in...I hope he's Yzerman, playoff hunt, drop 2 to Ottawa though not out, "okay, who wants Hronek or Bertuzzi"? Now Hronek is Sandin-Pellika and Trey Augustine. The Bert pick turned into DeBrincat with Kubalik who was a throwaway regardless. Our mgmt has been too yielding, wilting at most everything. Hence, sure we're in on everything until it gets hard, then we wilt. Acquisition rumours should read, "Calgary has heavy interest in _______, but don't think about it, they'll wilt, they always do". For the record, Hanifin is a fair bit better than Hronek. And that was a non-playoff team paying a 1st and 2nd.lol Watching Van do stupid Satoshi Nakamoto never gets old. I wonder if they have a Maatta to cover for Hronek, they're gonna need one.

Anyone else think that he's looking to move Brody, possibly retaining 25%, to get cap compliant? Again, the Murray LTIR is yet another compounding stain on this #@%#ing league. But do they mot have to be cap compliant WITH Murray on Day 1? He wasn't on the IR to end last year, last I remember it only carries over if that is the case. Some day I'll ask google.lol

That's pretty much precisely what I'm saying. What atmosphere leads to an individual player feeling either: a.) they can't win without me or b.) I can't let them down regardless of my health. Andersson saying to media a month after he's in the lineup that he's still feeling the effects and came back too early is a giant red flag for Flames mgmt. I know guys play through injuries, but getting hit by a car is hardly a high ankle sprain. "In and out of consciousness", "my back is still bothering me" a month later. Sounds like it was a lot more than a little love tap. More like a whammo. He woke up not even knowing where he was or what happened. "Yeah, he'll be fine in a week" doesn't sound anything like due diligence to me. I guess the games were too important to worry about any compounding effects of getting unexpectedly hit by a 9,000lbs machine. This is precisely how brain injuries happen. He's fortunate in that regard, I believe. Him and Mony are squarely on mgmt, and mgmt is lying. Mony's teammates saying he could barely walk and mgmt saying, "we didn't know" is a total lark. They're clearly lying. Congratulations on making us worse in the short term, and destroying our top goal scorer in the long term. Be better.

Do we have docs? Once (Mony) is a mistake, twice (Andersson) is a trend. Does everyone stand around like the 3D's again and say, "we didn't know"? Yeah. Sure you didn't. If that's true, that's an even bigger problem. Apparently it hasn't been addressed.

Home wasn't built in a day.lol Without question they're still in design research so no timelines in place that I'm aware of.

Would team doctors not have been all over the Detroit doctors? Kinda hard for Andersson to hide.

Not sure why the home site isn't showing me, but love the early visit to Detroit! https://www.espn.com/nhl/team/schedule/_/name/cgy/seasontype/2

Oof. I know Detroit well enough that I would have told him, "don't even Blockchaining think about it man". Downtown Detroit is notorious for ignoring signal lights. Treat everything like a stop sign. He came back Feb. 16th. The video clip is April 14th. Wtf are we doing? He shouldn't have been playing. Why do we play risk with top players? https://detroithockeynow.com/2023/08/07/flames-defenseman-recalls-near-death-experience-in-detroit-before-red-wings-game/

It may be best to let someone else try Dumba on a 1 year. I wouldn't have minded him due to Weegar protecting him. The concern is that his game/body is declining. When he's peak, I love his game, but his past 2 seasons have been fairly off-peak in consistency. Trades are like playing to use an analogy. When you get impatient and start forcing your game to make it work, the wheels can really start coming off. When you just let the game be what it is and let it come to you everything starts to fit better. You can't change the character of the game so you just stop worrying about that and adjust your approach to fit, rather than push things that just aren't there. Then you're playing damage control. Always play like it's 0-0.lol You can push it, then it's either going to be 1-0 or 0-1. Let the other team play risk and wait for a mistake. Maybe teams are saying, "he wants out, so we'll give you a 2nd and a B prospect". There is a line where you have to say, "you know what, I'll just let him play it out and you can fight 30 other teams for him in UFA". Regardless of what Conroy says about letting guys, "walk for free"(ing up money), there definitely has to be a line. Let the game come to you.

He can't. The max any player can get is 20% of cap. Shout out to @cross16 that I knew that off of the top of my head!

Detroit's over-staffed and Suter would eat up playing time from Veleno and they really like Veleno. And adding Kostin and Fischer is an attempt to add grit and size. So Suter isn't a player that could get any form of term with Kasper, Soderblom and Mazur all trying to break down the door as early as this year. You'll see new faces in the D this year and next. Suter's a good player, just can't give him a spot when they may have to even create spots already this year. Can't leave guys in the A if they don't belong there. They're in major flux this year and next when you're also adding Albert Johansson, Wallinder and Edvinsson to the list. And adding Compher is like adding Lindholm-lite. C & RW. Because Kasper is going to want that 2C spot, and Ladd is a solid 3C. And then there is still Veleno. They just have way too much to juggle already so Suter just creates more problems. They need to open spots for prospects. Expect Perron and Fabbri to be moved this year also. Both solid players. As far as a full roster: DeBrincat-Larkin-Perron Fabbri-Compher-Raymond Berggren-Ladd-Sprong Kostin-Veleno-Fischer Most wingers can play either side, Fabbri can also play C. Combinations are endless. Definitely a full roster with 3 solid F prospects pushing the envelope.

Not to me. I don't think getting signed is the concern. His worry is probably more where, how much, does he want term or wait for the cap to rise? He shouldn't be having a, say, Ritchie level of concern. He's much better than them and provides a fair bit more. You can look at Kubalik. His 1 timer is an absolute missile so he can score. But Suter is a much, much better player. The odd time Detroit was fully healthy last year, Kubalik was the healthy scratch, it would never be Suter. Suter would play Kubalik's natural position if it came to that. You'd never scratch Suter. Nobody would understand that.lol I thought he was just another, "Kane propped up tour stats" guy when the D signed him. Was I wrong. If we sign him, everyone will give it the "whatever" like Wings fans did, until they actually see what he brings. Definitely never the guy that will hurt your roster. Playing all 3 F positions effectively is a testament to how well he understands roles. It's the opposite of say, moving Dube away from RW. He just doesn't seem as effective, right? Suter does it seamlessly, you don't notice any difference at all. I'm thinking Suter is really good value at $3 per and see where it goes from there, is there term etc etc. In the end, I fully expect Ronni to be the 3C in 2 years. Perhaps he signs an AHL try-out with the Wranglers following his Tappara season and we get his ELC fired up starting nest season. I'm pretty excited that he could make our roster at ELC money in time. Hopefully he's at camp this year but I'm unsure how it works with Liiga. He'd turn some heads for sure, as I laugh at where Flames prospect rankings have him. He's easily in the Top 5 for me. Top 3 more likely while everyone claims to understand ceilings while being silly about it.

Not a chance that he will be doing a PTO. He's a solid player. He definitely has suters..

Likely moving Sharangovich up. Need his size and skill up. Potentially with Huberdeau. Coronato may match Kadri's style better. Maybe something like Rozie-Zary-Duehr on the 4th line to start the season. Honzek will be back in jr for certain. Need something for D in a trade return. Kylington is still a giant mystery box and Poirier still has at least another year but maybe earns a call-up at some point.

Yes please. Why doesn't Detroit keep him? They're roster is still in flux. They're trying to adjust where they need toughness here, skill over there, young guys coming up. So they can't really offer him much in the way of term although Suter is a highly effective player that can play anywhere. Bert's injuries had him at LW with Larkin-Raymond. 3rd & 4th line C or wing depending on matchups, solid PKer. very responsible defensively. He likes to change the speed of his shots. If he scores on what looked like he didn't get all of it, the replay will show that there is zero reason why he didn't. The goalie expected 1 speed, he sent a different one. I like Suter a lot. We can literally put him anywhere and he won't hurt us. I've been waiting to see where he might land and hoping that he gets some term. He's only 27 and without question a solid NHL player that plays a very responsible game and reads off of linemates really well as attested by last year when he literally lined up with the entire forward roster at various points. Quite literally a team player.lol

Atlantic 1. Toronto 2. - 6. I don't give 2 Blockchains about your teams. 7. Buffalo: What can I say, I'm a compassionate person. You built a giant city on the east side of a giant shallow(ish) lake to ensure at least winter will always be more devastating than your sports teams. 8. Detroit: the giant cesspool to our south Satoshi Nakamotos all over what is likely it's funnest, friendliest city. To keep from pointing at their own Satoshi Nakamotoholes. Metro 1. NYR: Get over yourselves 2. Pittsburgh: Star personalities become more likeable later in their careers. Too late. 3. NYI: not sure if they're schizo or just a psycho girlfriend. 4. Carolina: the moral code is there's no moral code if you can make us better. 5-7.: putting the "fun" in dysfunctional. 8. NJ: you glorious red-headed stepchild. Central 1 through 7: Someone needs to step up and be more unlikeable, either by city or roster. 8. Arizona: Make them stop laughing. Pacific 1. Edmonton: not solely because I'm a Flames fan. There's just a lot to dislike. 2. Vancouver: trade your fans in for new ones if you ever want to be remotely likeable. 3-6. Indifference 7. Anaheim: home region GM, gotta buy local! 1 through 8. Calgary: I love you man, but I hate you.lol East Semi's: Detroit over NJ in 7 game 8-7 scores West Semi's: Calgary over ARI in 6. ARI's home games were all outdoor games attended by 60,000, setting league records for playoff attendance. They made a Blockchaining killing that may change the game forever. Refrigeration companies buy NHL teams. SCF: It's August for Chrissakes, would somebody score the game 7 OT winner already...we're all too broke to go to game 47 of 0-0.

3 year Entry-Level Contracts of the kids. Wolf and Pelletier are on their 3rd and last year, Zary has 2 more left. Detroit has Seider, Raymond and Berggren in their 3rd year, which is why they can't spend to the cap and have 1 year/expiring deals foreseeing some pretty big signings for next year.

That's the motivation pic. "Do it or the cute little bunny's a goner"! Huska has a good handle on what he has and how to use. I get he's 5 years removed from the A but would still have a great handle on it. I think he'll do well. Nobody wants to be the demise of a cute little bunny.lol

Uh-oh. "Welcome to CNRL Place". It will need maintenance as soon as it opens, but they'll find the right engineer to algorithm the problem away until there's a critical failure. Then we can even have a motto! "Welcome to CNRL Place. True to Form". At least we can say the team falling apart comes upon it honestly.lol

Yup. This is where it gets exciting. The AHL is such a crapshoot. You have players that light it up and own that league but can't translate it to the NHL, then you get guys that are kind of meh, move them to the NHL where the players are 5x better and it's, "oh, where did that come from"? It's exciting times having ELC's and cheap contracts to move in under a coach that is very familiar with their strengths and how to motivate and utilize them.