Chicago has a million picks. As of right now, they have 12 picks in the first 2 rounds of the next 3 drafts. They've also made 11 picks in each of the last two drafts, including 5 first-round picks and 5 second-round picks. They will run out of room in Rockford for all these players, and have to face tough decisions about not signing players, or players possibly re-entering the draft/going UFA rather than signing with a team that has an overloaded depth chart. I think that while they definitely gave up some value, they made a smart trade for their organization.
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Chicago has a million picks. As of right now, they have 12 picks in the first 2 rounds of the next 3 drafts. They've also made 11 picks in each of the last two drafts, including 5 first-round picks and 5 second-round picks. They will run out of room in Rockford for all these players, and have to face tough decisions about not signing players, or players possibly re-entering the draft/going UFA rather than signing with a team that has an overloaded depth chart. I think that while they definitely gave up some value, they made a smart trade for their organization.
Guadana
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Because Chief Scout can really like 18 players on this draft. Or they will continue to go up through other trades.
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Or make a trade for real player. Or may be Lou wants to make an offer sheet? And Davidsson is okay to move up in first and second rounds.
I believe something is cooking.
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Will probably play more or get paid more I guess. Could waya return to the NHL but good to know a lesser piece in the Meier deal wasn't a huge loss.
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Take a wild guess which rags media fanboy is defending Trouba on X and saying ERod made a meal of it?
Go on, take a wild guess...
Sharks will still be bad next season but they'll be fun to watch. If he's healthy, Logan Couture plus Celebrini/Smith seems decent on paper down the middle.
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its hilarious/sad how much of a good ol boys club the NHL actually is. There are really only ~40 guys who are considered for coaching jobs, and its really annoying.
Yea considering they have leach on the staff and warsofsky is available from San Jose as well.
Seattle isn’t close to really competing and now woulda been a good time to give a younger guy a shot just based on timeline
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It's looking more and more like Francis will be GANKED before that team is consistently competitive. They're a fast team, but they badly lack skill and are just all around boring. Probably the second most boring team in the league last year behind only the Capitals.
They also have 3 more years of the toxic Grubauer contract. I still think there's a chance they buy him out this offseason, but probably next offseason, if not.
Unless he has a random good season and it halts it for yet another year.
They fired their goalie coach after the first two years. New goalie coach had no such luck in reviving him.
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And....While we're on the topic of Warsofsky in San Jose, here comes another LOL from the good ol boys club.
Friedman said on his podcast today that Marco Sturm interviewed for the Sharks head coaching position and that he believes Warsofsky is in the mix, but that he's also heard that.....here's a fun name for everybody......JEFF BLASHILL is getting a second interview.
Jeff Blashill who missed the playoffs like 8 years in a row (okay, it was actually 6 years in a row and 6 of 7 years total) in his one stint.
What the f*** is Grier thinking? Fires Quinn, fires one of the best athletic trainers in sports, and gives TRASHILL multiple interviews? Why wouldn't he just keep David Quinn for a couple more years? Blashill is basically David Quinn, only with even more seasons coached in the NHL and just as shitty of a resume?
WHY IS JEFF BLASHILL A SERIOUS CANDIDATE FOR ANOTHER NHL HEAD COACHING JOB?? WHY?!
At least Disco Dan won a cup many years ago lol.
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Bylsma is only 53 and has done an excellent job with their AHL team in Coachella. It’s weird to announce it now since they’re still in the AHL WCF but maybe they want to move on and pick other staff/replacements now.
Only 53. LOL . Only. He might as well be riding a horse and buggy to the practice facility.
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Kraken name Bylsma 2nd coach in team history
Dan Bylsma, who first broke in to the NHL as a head coach in 2009 when he was hired by Pittsburgh, eventually leading the Penguins to a Stanley Cup title, was named the new coach of the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday.
MartyOwns
thank you shero
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This is one of the most unflattering images of a person used for a press release I've ever seen. It flies in the face of the basics of portrait photography.
njdevils1982
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Waddell was prohibited by the owner from drafting a defenseman in the first round in Carolina. I would be amused if he nabbed one in Columbus.
Miraculously Columbus will be the least meddlesome ownership Waddell has had in the NHL. I'm very interested to see how he looks in this environment and away from the analytics department that made him in Carolina.
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Don Waddell has now become the most random 3 different team GM I can ever remember.
Most guys don't get to be GM or even president/head of of hockey ops for 3 different teams. Lou has been, Rutherford has been (though only 2 times as the actual GM) and Brian Burke has been either a GM or president of hockey ops for I think 6 different teams? With 4 as the GM.
I think Bryan Murray was GM for 4 different teams over a 25-30 year span. There's probably a few more from before my time.
Most guys don't get a third chance. Ray Shero hasn't.
Don Waddell is a much more random name than Lou, Jim Rutherford, Burke or Murray. I think all of those guys other than Murray have won the cup with at least one of those teams. Rutherford has with 2.
Did Waddell ever win the cup as a member of some other team's front office? I'm not sure about that.
Just checked - He has. He was the assistant general manager of the Red Wings when they won the cup in 97-98. I guess he got hired by Atlanta after that. For some reason I thought I remembered him working for Chicago in between Atlanta and Carolina, but all I see is Pittsburgh for like 2 years as a scout.
Most guys don't get to be GM or even president/head of of hockey ops for 3 different teams. Lou has been, Rutherford has been (though only 2 times as the actual GM) and Brian Burke has been either a GM or president of hockey ops for I think 6 different teams? With 4 as the GM.
I think Bryan Murray was GM for 4 different teams over a 25-30 year span. There's probably a few more from before my time.
Most guys don't get a third chance. Ray Shero hasn't.
Don Waddell is a much more random name than Lou, Jim Rutherford, Burke or Murray. I think all of those guys other than Murray have won the cup with at least one of those teams. Rutherford has with 2.
Did Waddell ever win the cup as a member of some other team's front office? I'm not sure about that.
Just checked - He has. He was the assistant general manager of the Red Wings when they won the cup in 97-98. I guess he got hired by Atlanta after that. For some reason I thought I remembered him working for Chicago in between Atlanta and Carolina, but all I see is Pittsburgh for like 2 years as a scout.
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