Lou’s best acquisition over the past year is Hudson Fasching.

Dude was invisible all night tonight. Glad we didn't match that contract. We have enough bad contracts

Filip Gustavsson man

That guys gonna be special

24 years old and looks solid for the Wild

Thats the one gray mark on the summer of Dorion as if he was with OTT they would be in a WC spot and have 0 worries

I'm too lazy to check myself, but can someone confirm if SJS wins the lottery will they be the first team to have the Norris winner and the top overall draft pick?

4-0 down to 5-4 up. Ya it was the worst team in the league but I’ll take my happiness.

Doesn't take away from his point, the Caps really haven't had a trade with so much potential for success since Oshie.

Not gonna lie I'm still salty as hell over Washington letting him go

I believe the Habs did it in 79-80 with Larry Robinson winning the Norris and Doug Wickenheiser being the 1st overall pick.

if you had told me 24 hours ago that 4 Islanders would have multi-point games last night, the last 4 names I would've picked would have been Cizikas, Fasching, Romanov, and Bailey. What a weird game this can be sometimes.

Romanov had his best game of the season right after I started talking sh*t. Fasching has been unbelievable, it's wild to me that it took injuries to figure out that the isles have multiple players in the AHL better than the NHL regulars.

so uh

last night sucked

i don't wanna talk about it for too long, but just know

i am NOT happy

I willingly watch Flyers hockey...

Risto a joy to watch and makes up for it

Just saw the Marner PK goal from last night. Is he the best PK forward in the league at this point?

Him or McDavid. I’m pretty sure McDavid gets pk time

He's making a case for it. Like some of the shorties he's scored or set up this or last season have been insane.

Last year vs Florida was the best

Taking this from prospect discussion thread and adding an NHL level to it + some other stuff
Prospect criteria: 21 and under, OR less than 20 GP of NHL experience

Top prospect: Juraj Slafkovsky
Most improved: Riley Kidney
Most skillful: Lane Hutson
Most physically mature: Jayden Struble
Smartest: Lane Hutson
Best skater: Filip Mesar
Best defensively: Kaiden Guhle
Most feisty: Xavier Simoneau
Most underrated: Xavier Simoneau
Most overrated: Riley Kidney
Hardest shot: Logan Mailloux
Best playmaker: Sean Farrell
Best stickhandler: Lane Hutson
Most NHL-ready (outside NHL): Owen Beck
Most projectable: Owen Beck (i guess this means how easy it is to project a player's ceiling)
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Best NHL player this season: Nick Suzuki
Most improved NHL player: Arber Xhekaj
Most skillful NHL player: Cole Caufield
Smartest NHL player: Nick Suzuki
Best NHL skater: Nick Suzuki
Best defensive NHL player: Kaiden Guhle
Most feisty NHL player: Brendan Gallagher
Most underrated NHL player: Jonathan Drouin
Most overrated NHL player: Joel Armia
Hardest NHL shot: Mike Matheson
Best NHL playmaker: Nick Suzuki
Best NHL stickhandler: Nick Suzuki
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Best AHL player: Anthony Richard
Highest ceiling AHL prospect: Cayden Primeau
Best ECHL player: Brett Stapley
Highest ceiling ECHL prospect: Joe Vrbetic
Best CHL prospect: Riley Kidney
Highest ceiling CHL prospect: Joshua Roy
Best USA prospect: Lane Hutson
Highest ceiling USA prospect: Lane Hutson
Best anywhere-else-in-the-world prospect/player: Adam Engstrom
Highest ceiling anywhere-else-in-the-world prospect/player: Emil Heineman

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RHP could be most improved too imo

too small of a sample size, but definitely a very improved player
i went from being skeptical of xhekaj being an NHL player this season, to being comfortable with him playing top 4 minutes when the big guns were out

Question. Who was better. Prime Crosby or McDavid now?

McDavid, I don't know if anyone ever is better than this year of McDavid, other than Gretzky and Lemieux.

I mean prime Crosby won 3 cups and back to back Smyths so.....yea

As man that guy was special

McDavids doing great but if prime Crosby was an Oiler probs would have a cup back in 2017 as that man made Pitt go from meh to cup champs in like 4 years. As I feel he would ensure Oilers management didnt **** up till now and build an actual team

Just a classic coin toss scenario

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/wild-players-ditch-themed-warmup-jerseys-on-pride-night-034455452.html

Makes me question if anyone actually respects these people

Like you don’t have to have those jerseys but at the bare minimum show respect to the LGBTQ+ community

Not tryna poke the hornets nest, but it really feels weird that last year there was zero problems with Pride night jerseys and this year, half a dozen teams have walked them back after announcing it. Really just not a great look - I'm sure the LGBTQ+ community would prefer you just not do anything if the alternative is having to make a bunch of late-breaking press releases about how you're actually not gonna do the thing.

If Atlanta gets a team before Quebec I’m gonna lose it.