Common W

The Sharks and Sens had both been to the conference finals the year before, so it wasn’t unreasonable to expect them to still be decent at least. The Hawks haven’t made the playoffs properly in 4 years lol (they wouldn’t have made it in 19-20 had the season continued, but technically did because the Oilers suck, and then got slapped in the 1st round).

Yeah, I was killing it with Hughes healthy.

Shar-Jack-Mercer line was fun and having Nico on the 2nd line getting the weaker matchup was awesome.

ottawa hit the self destruct button and sj was clearly on the decline. they barely got past a rebuilding avs to make it to round 3. neither team should have traded an unprotected 1st.

I agree. The taste is honestly pretty bad.

I very rarely drink.

But I'm really fond of soft drinks.

My teeth don't like it though.

Bah. Peasantsson scoring against us.

What a failure.

Chicago shouldn’t have gone for Jones. Should’ve tore it up and rebuilt

100%

The Sharks had traded that pick at the beginning of that season to get EK65 and push for that run (so the Stutzle pick was traded nearly 2 years prior, I believe because the other 1st was Buffalo’s for E. Kane). The Sens made the ECF, 1 goal from the cup final (where let’s be real, the East was probably beating Nashville regardless), and then upgraded a top 6 centre (Turris to Duchene) to basically the same team. I feel like in both cases trading the pick appeared justified at the time, just like it was justified for the Panthers to trade their 1sts even if they suck in 2023-24. The Hawks have an older core, brought in a deteriorating asset (Seth Jones, who was not good the last couple years), and hadn’t made the playoffs properly for 4 seasons. Very different scenarios.

Should’ve traded everyone except Debrincat last season.

And Nico got to play with Bratt which was great for both of them

If Ruff is smart, the lines could look real solid and balanced next year

Sharangovich (sniper) - Hughes (playmaker) - Mercer (two-way)
Holtz (sniper) - Nico (two-way) - Bratt (playmaker)

Yeah, cuz they should trade DeBrincat this offseason, to Ottawa

Imagine Nick Ritchie being your best player

Debrincat-Stutzle

Vegas is the lakers of the nhl. So disappointing, they deserve to miss the playoffs

When was the last time VGK scored a goal?

Carolina summer plan:
Offersheet Kakko 2 years at 4.1 per (lose a 2nd round pick)
Trade for Poolparty
Trade for Lindell

This is the same team that looked like world beaters against Calgary last week. They're getting shut out by the Devils (w/ several AHL regulars in the lineup for NJD).

Trade for @JustABoss

I have many questions, but first of all who is pool party?

Puljujarvi

Also Carolina building Team Finland

I think we had interest in him before he started (at least somewhat) living up to his draft status

Update: Matty Beniers is good

I feel had for Vejmelka I feel he could easily have much better numbers on just about any other team

Surprisingly, now it looks like WSH is about to pass Pittsburgh.

We'll be looking at a FLA-PIT in the playoffs. And they're forced to rock with DeSmith.

Ooooooooof.