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How is it not? Especially on the right side there's Kakko (still not showed that he can be a productive scoring winger) than Blais, Goodrow, Gauthier, Reaves. That's really not a high scoring winger depth. On the left there's Panarin, streaky Kreider and (still struggling) Lafreniere. If the few first games have shown anything, it is that this team lack some scoring and winger depth. Dryden freakin' Hunt is playing top 9 and PP, Blais is all of a sudden a top 6 forward and PP'er.

Blues fans said he's really incosistent, not really lived up to the potential and injury troubles. Kind of a Kreider lite I guess. Besides they needed more top line talent, so it was a good trade for them. With that in mind, and already getting a "how good is this guy??" thread after 5 games, he'll probably cool off for a period now lol. That said - I am also a big Blais fan already. Hits everything in front of him, doesn't take shit from anyone and has speed and skill. Can't really ask for more. Just need him to be consistent and try his hardest to stay out of the box and we have a really good bottom 6 winger in Blais.

Not pretty, not deserved, but fuck that they didnt win these games last season, thats for sure.

Thank you for your sacrifice ?

Hahahaha wtf

LETS GO FOXYYY

Now or never

Dont really care if Strome and Kakko is injured. If McKegg and Rooney is top 9 players because of two injures this team is fucked. There’s no team that goes an entire season without a lot of injuries. I just dont get it, how fucking bad must they think Gauthier is since he’s a healthy scratch with this team? And why the fuck do they think he’s too «valuable» to be waived when they think he sucks? Makes no sense.

Lol kreider one of those games I guess

So Georgiev managed one good period. Fuck off

Hahahaha

Everytime there’s an early game so I dont have to stay up to 2am to watch they fucking stink and lose. So annoying. Atleast give me a goal ffs

Georgiev actually been solid, giving them a chance to win this now. Doesnt look like they want to tho

Holy shit this is bad where the fuck are our 11 and 8.5m forwards?

It doesnt say in what league. I still believe Krav can win this

Nice, 1-0 down before I turned the TV on. I dont understand how a 25 year old goalie cant play when its two days since last game and two games to the next. Dont care what they pay Georgiev, he should only play games he HAS to play (back-to-backs or Igor injured).

I don't really get the argument to bridge the superstar Norris Trophy winner so we can possibly give the struggling Laf and Kakko big contracts? Bridge Fox so we can give big contracts to Laf and Kakko IF (and thats a big IF) they get close to Fox' level of play. Doesn't make sense. You lock in the known and bridge the unknown. There's nothing unknown with Fox but both Kakko and Laf are still big question marks. Even if (again, big if) Kakko comes back from the injury and puts up 70 points in 75 games this season you can still bridge him untill Kreider's contract is up. Same with Laf in 2023.

McDavid with his 3rd consecutive 3 point game and he only played 15 minutes. When was the last time someone finished the season with 150+ points and a 2 p/pg pace? I seriously think McDavid has a shot at it, he's insane.

This thread got out of hand and hilarious real quick. Most of you agree with each other but are still arguing against each other lol

So Gauthier out with Barron and McKegg in the lineup? Yikes

have to be a better option than McKegg, no? If he gets that far, I would guess a couple teams are interested. Why did Seattle do this tho?

You talking about the 3 games he played in the VHL in 2019 before going back to Traktor and playing the entire next season and was one of their best players? I guess he was tired of having to "prove himself" a million times while watching Kakko, Lafreniere, Howden, Gauthier etc play like shit. Strange that Lafreniere has never been sent down to work on his "conditioning" when he has looked like a fat minor leaguer strugling to breath since he got here. Same with Kakko his first season.

Lol wut, did he mean rich because he got a new contract or is that just a horrible translation? Either way, Panarin is hilarous ?

There's a difference playing top 6 minutes in the NHL to "up his value" than go back to Hartford that he obviously don't like. He has it better in Russia than in Hartford, even if that means not playing hockey. He's made that clear now. Would you go to Siberia and work for a shitty salary just so your employer could get some extra value from you? Because that's the comparison here.

Yeah and that's another problem. Rangers atm will have 19.2m in cap space for next season. Fox gonna get around 9 (minimum 7 on a bridge deal), Strome gonna get 5-6m atleast, they also need to sign Kakko, Blais, Gauthier/Hajek/Rooney and a backup goalie. How do they fit in Tarasenko's 7.5m next season?