hopefully he takes less AAV for a little stability 

Panarin is a fabulous regular season hockey player. The playoffs are hard- not everyone can be Danny Briere or Claude Giroux (I have no idea why these were the first two players I thought of) and turn your game up in the post season.. 

Bread is sadly just a different player after game 82. Outside of his 2 playoff appearances in Columbus which were in line with his RS performance, he just doesn't seem to be built for the grind. He's more Nash than he is Mike Bossy, that's for sure. 

Grading on the curve is the prefect analogy- Kakko on the 1st line is the equivalent of the curve getting me C in Calculus. 

I don't know what you can do here?

Panarin is damn near unmovable- NMC limits the field, coupled with the fact the guy is a giant turd in the playoffs is a problem. 30 playoff games as a Ranger- 7 goals and 20 points (.66 ppg guy vs the 1.27 ppg regular season guy as a Ranger) . He's a 1.12 ppg player for his career and a .8 playoff ppg- his Ranger drop-off not quite Nash like, but still ugly. Not even getting into that AAV ...   I just don't see a fit to move. 

Kreider- I will never understand the push to move the guy- he has really earned every penny of his extension and then some. Would he have value? Absolutely, but would you get back someone who has PP1 and Penalty killing skills? No harm in kicking the tires, but he's about #15 on the list of problems for the team and he also holds some NMC protection that seemingly everyone including beer vendors working at MSG has. 

Goodrow? Sure, he's movable- is the bang for the buck meaningful?

Trocheck- He was really shit in the playoffs.. Didn't sniff earing his salary.. But in the recurring theme this front office has mastered, bad deal with protection makes him a hard guy to move.  

Trouba- can't be moved. On a dreadful contract. 

KIds:

Kid line was dogshit in the playoffs. I've been a big Laffy defender as I assumed the light would come on at some point? I'm not sure there is a bulb in the socket. I fear the trade return for someone so underwhelming would be equally as underwhelming.. Was there any real chance Ottawa would have moved Brady T and #3? If yes, does anyone have a time machine? 

Kakko is what he is, he will be a solid and unremarkable NHL guy who has a workmanlike 12 year career. Strong, good on the puck- but he's just not the complete package we were promised. 

Chytil- his deal is fine.. I hope who ever kidnapped him prior to the playoffs releases him in good health. 

Miller- he's the real maddening one. The skill set probably makes him the best chip on the roster.. But he's also the one with the most potential to blow up in your face if traded. As mentioned, he's still learning the position. 

Schneider- Keeper.

Lots of holes- little resources to fill them. What was so promising went south faster than I could have imagined.  

Losing is one thing.. this was gutless. 

This is absolutely pathetic 

Is Kane drunk? I hope so 

I mean. Getting beat by a legend like Curtis Lazar. Can’t compete with that. 

It’s like the devils have 9 guys on every shift. 

That 1st shift is this series in a nutshell. Dogshit 

Man- I sure and glad Gorton and Drury gave out NMC's like candy at Halloween- 

They aren't total deal killers, but allowing the player to have 100% of the leverage is bad business.. Even crazier considering there is zero evidence the NMC helped lower the AAV as these dude are at the top of their peer groups in terms of AAV. 

AKIRA SCHMID!!!!

He remembers he's a replacement level American League goalie and gets shelled for 5 at MSG.. Lindy does Lindy things and comes back in game 7 with a less than confident Vanacek. 2 1st period goals by Chytil and Miller, Gallant calls in the turtle D in the 2nd, and Igor stands on his head for the last 40. EN goal with 1:30 left by Trocheck.. On to Carolina. 

Icing on a power play. Perfect 

Gong show. 

This tomato can is absolutely outplaying Igor. 

What a goddammed joke

Embarrassing 

Dog shit PP once again. What a joke 

You couldn’t have drawn up a worse start. 

1 minute ago, Pete said:

The fourth line should not have been playing with less than 10 minutes to go. I don't care how much they played, it's when they played. 

Normally I'd 100% agree- But last night the 4th line was actually offering playoff caliber shifts while and generating some semblance of life while the 1st 2 lines looked like they were at a voluntary skate the morning after a bender.  Still need to roll with the horses, but my god did they make it hard to have any faith in their game. 

3rd and 4th lines at least gave some chance of a greasy goal with it was 2-1 while the1st and 2nd Ice Capades lines were out there hugging the boards looking for the Picasso goal. 

59 minutes ago, Pete said:

Stop....Zib, Tank, Kreider, Kane all played 18 mins.

If you'd have told me they played 0 minutes I might have believed it. 

Carolina stepped on the isles throat. This bunch of pussies just spent 2 games going through the motions 

Absolutely gutless. 

Has Panarin ever taken a draw before in his life. Based on that one, I’d say no