2025 NHL Draft: Lose a ton for Porter Martone

[weastern bias]

Just need to make sure we don't accidentally win too much to end up picking 5 or 6. Its the biggest reason I'm on team Trade Granlund.

We REALLY don't need to be worried about winning too many games, this team is awful

The best team we've beaten this year is Los Angeles, a team that is not a lock for a playoff spot, we needed a miracle comeback to beat Utah and a miracle goaltending performance to beat Columbus, we won "4 of 5" in a literal sense but in actuality it was largely a mirage

We're finishing 32nd again folks, we're picking top-3, do not panic

 

[cheechoo]

We REALLY don't need to be worried about winning too many games, this team is awful

The best team we've beaten this year is Los Angeles, a team that is not a lock for a playoff spot, we needed a miracle comeback to beat Utah and a miracle goaltending performance to beat Columbus, we won "4 of 5" in a literal sense but in actuality it was largely a mirage

We're finishing 32nd again folks, we're picking top-3, do not panic

We are really bad, but it feels like the competition for sucking has really increased this season.

I don't expect Nashville to still be there in a few months, but Montreal/Philadelphia/Chicago are horror-bad and then you still have Anaheim/Pittsburgh/Seattle as wildcard bottom three contenders.

I'm happy to walk away from the draft with a top three pick though, any of Hagens or Schaefer or Martone will do, personally.

 

[weastern bias]

We are really bad, but it feels like the competition for sucking has really increased this season.

I don't expect Nashville to still be there in a few months, but Montreal/Philadelphia/Chicago are horror-bad and then you still have Anaheim/Pittsburgh/Seattle as wildcard bottom three contenders.

I'm happy to walk away from the draft with a top three pick though, any of Hagens or Schaefer or Martone will do, personally.

None of these teams have the barren wasteland on the back end that we do outside of arguably Montreal

Jake Walman is a second pair player at best and look how much trouble we have getting out of our own zone as soon as he he's out of the lineup, we have 3 NHL caliber Dmen in the lineup when healthy if Ferraro continues to play this poorly and none of them are top pairing quality, a single injury turns us into nearly an AHL team on the blue line

There are some really bad teams in the league this year, we are still the cream of the crap

 

[cheechoo]

None of these teams have the barren wasteland on the back end that we do outside of arguably Montreal

Jake Walman is a second pair player at best and look how much trouble we have getting out of our own zone as soon as he he's out of the lineup, we have 3 NHL caliber Dmen in the lineup when healthy if Ferraro continues to play this poorly and none of them are top pairing quality, a single injury turns us into nearly an AHL team on the blue line

There are some really bad teams in the league this year, we are still the cream of the crap

True, it's taken some pretty anomalous situations for us to even escape the basement standings wise.

A couple of weeks ago I was preemptively queing up for McKenna in 2026 and Dupont in 2027.