Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

BondraTime

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Man, we’ve had our draft day blunders but passing on Michkov for Reinbacher is going to sting for a long time.
It's insane. Everyone aside from Chicago made a gigantic, gigantic blunder letting him drop.

It's at least "somewhat" understandable with being from Russia and what was going on with his dad. But it was as free a pick for a franchise player as you could get.

They seem to have learned going with Demidov this year
 

FunkySeeFunkyDoo

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Honestly he's a similar coach to Green. Firm, straighforward, honest and demanding. Protects his players too. Both want their players to play aggressive forecheck.

There's things I don't like about Green already, for example how he sets-up the PK. ....
I find their PK setup pretty odd. Some sort of diamond formation with the strong side d-man playing really far up from the goal line.
 

NyQuil

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It's insane. Everyone aside from Chicago made a gigantic, gigantic blunder letting him drop.

It's at least "somewhat" understandable with being from Russia and what was going on with his dad. But it was as free a pick for a franchise player as you could get.

They seem to have learned going with Demidov this year

Michkov just seemed like a Montreal fit given their experience with guys like Kovalev who have entertaining upside.

They could also afford to wait until he came over.
 
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Man, we’ve had our draft day blunders but passing on Michkov for Reinbacher is going to sting for a long time.

Fortunatly for them they didn't make the same mistake twice and pass on Demidov, who is probably going to make the teams ahead of him look terrible for passing on him too.

Zero doubt in my mind we would have passed on both had we had the opportunity to draft them.
 

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Cool. I'll see what it's about for the free month at least. Been waiting for someone to offer a solid 4K broadcast even if limited games.
With Prime, you also get free shipping, full access to their videos and music library. I get the annual membership for $99 + tax for year so very reasonable considering I shop at Amazon a lot and they have a lot of series/movies I like (and it's updated monthly).
 

BonHoonLayneCornell

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With Prime, you also get free shipping, full access to their videos and music library. I get the annual membership for $99 + tax for year so very reasonable considering I shop at Amazon a lot and they have a lot of series/movies I like (and it's updated monthly).
Ya there's a fair bit included that the value is definitely there if you take advantage of it. Less so for a shameless media micromanager pirate, but I won't get in to that.

I do find the free shipping a bit of a misleading benefit though. Yes, it is free, but it's also free if you compile over $35 worth of stuff just the same, which is so easy to do that I feel like I already get free shipping on everything. I just add on some food or household items I'd be buying anyways. Granola bars, bounce sheets, laundry strips, baby wipes, hemp hearts, chia seeds, etc. Always stuff I can add on to get there easily.
 

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