Compete Level

The Sheet (Aug 11): Michael Russo says Quinn Hughes and Dylan Larkin skate together everyday. Hughes knows Larkin’s preference is Minnesota and that Vegas and Florida don’t have interest in him right now

Guerin’s probably offering couch change now

That’s the standard length now I guess

Such a crazy amount for a guy who plays zero defense

Kane back to Chicago for two years, 8 per.

Robertson signs 1 year 12 mill

Feel like the dream of a three-way deal with the Wings is over

Bedard signed 15m x 5

He was in Tenet and Oppenheimer?

Sean Avery is in The Odyssey?

Speaking of the Habs, they signed Kirby Dach to a one-year deal for 3.6, and every comment on The Athletic is "He just needs to stay healthy"

I feel like that's a fundamental misunderstanding of Dach's true nature

If memory serves, the first half of the Wings’ schedule had way more back to backs and the second half featured more opponents on back to backs, but it turns out that only matters if you’re not playing like total dogshit.

“Well, can I sit on your lap?”

I've resigned myself to the fact that a shitty Larkin deal will be made, and am just holding onto the hope that the Minnesota Wild will not be the beneficiaries.

There are like four pieces on Yzerman's departure today including one about how it adds a "new wrinkle" to the Wild's pursuit of Larkin. It's not just that Yurov / Stramel / 1st does nothing, but I want the fans who insist "they'll take that deal and like it" to suffer.

He did well on the initial phase of the rebuild (tearing everything down, moving guys like Mantha and Bertuzzi and Hronek for picks, drafting cornerstones in Seider and Raymond) but I don’t know if it was The Plan to turn the corner with vets like Chiarot, Compher, and Copp or ownership didn’t want ...

I do think the SNES could use another scoring winger, but going from Brady to Mantha would've infuriated the fan base. Nobody ever says "We need to get easier to play against."

Mantha's a tough player to evaluate because he's totally capable of playing top six minutes and getting sixty points, but they're the most frustrating sixty points a player can get you because he floats so much and seems so disengaged 80% of the time.

Mantha signs with the Devils, 2 years 9.5 total

That dude should permanently be on one-year deals

The right call

Hopefully the new GM isn’t Draper or some other former Wing

Tom Dundun got his wife and kids on the Stanley Cup but not the team’s longtime (since Hartford!) equipment manager

Apparently Yzerman's initial ask was Wyatt Johnston