Want nothing to do with Ellers. Like the Fiala idea, don't know if I would do that package. Would still like to see if we could sign Johnson. Are LD could be set for the next 6 to 10yrs

That top pair was dominant last night vs the leafs.

I can see Trouba on the Sabres

Your value is far off for fiala. Johnson is a prospect the wild won’t have any interest in, the cupboards are full of LD coming up just as good or better than him. Also a likely 29-32nd overal pick is basically a 2nd. Gonna have to drastically up the quality of both the pick and prospect to something the wild need since this gives nothing to them.

He’s got a NMC and that contract scares me. If anything I could see him wanting to go back to Michigan and get a trade to Detroit as a 2RD behind Seider

Well they are going to really struggle to sign Fiala. This trade is more than Reinhart and Buchnevich deals from last year.

People have said that Dahlin was just as good or even better on the right side but that's the first time I took note of it in a game it was pretty impressive - the Sabres have gone past the place where it was easy to say so-and-so has to go, now most of our players are pretty good the only easy area is we need good and healthy goaltending.

I get the comparison, but again, there really isn’t anything in there for Minnesota to be interested in. A “they have a cap crunch so I’ll give them scraps” is a bad argument. Yea I get the struggle to sign fiala, but realistically they would be getting something like vilardi and a 1st from the kings for fiala or something similar from Ottawa, a top 6 C prospect and a mid round (10-15) overall 1st is likey the starting point for him. Fiala’s market value is something like 9m a year according to the people at the athletic, which is higher than buchnevich or reinhart. Not saying he’ll get that, just that the egg heads say he provides more value.

Joki was good last night but i hope we dont staple Power to him for a while. hes generally pretty terrible

not only that, Granato's comments on letting the kids play makes me think differently about their D group

Thats not true, he had a rough start to the season, but 2nd half has been completely different

what measure are you using? by eye test and analytics hes been bad. he weighed down Dahlin big time.

Full season analytics include the first half of the season. The eye test shows a stark difference between October - November Joker vs Feb - April

yeah and his analytics have stayed bad

Which