2023-2024 Offseason Thread: RIP Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau

[Cacophony]

I, for one, have always hated big Corn Flake

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Ned gets 2.5 x 2 with the PNES

I wish him the best and them the worst

[Cacophony]

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Pronman listed each team's biggest need in a "Lord, we need draft content every day" piece on The Athletic and goaltending (depth) came up for a lot of them. I wasted some time arguing with Beej and Caps fans about that, like no, Columbus won't take a goalie at 4, he's just looking at their prospect pool and finding the biggest area of need.

[nick]

Maple Leafs pending UFA Giordano intends to play 'a few more years'
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/toronto-maple-le ... -1.2137940


Good luck, I guess?

[pissfarm]

Good ol Coglianotive Dissonance is retiring.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Michkov coming over to Philly this summer?

[sutterfamily]

Fuckin NICE

[sutterfamily]

The news we all needed most tonight.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Just saw that

A way better deal than anticipated for the SNES

That said I’m not 100% sold on Ullmark being The Guy outside of the Boston defensive system

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Ditching Korpisalo, even with retention, is huge

[sutterfamily]

I mean, yeah, he definitely won't be winning a Vezina with Ottawa next year.

But... they just need a competent goalie and dude has a career .918 save pct which includes several seasons on a very bad Buffalo team. To get that goalie in a trade that included getting rid of Korpisalo was, frankly, not really something I had considered possible.

Kastelic will prob be fine on Boston. Even imagine Korpisalo will have a bounce back on a much better defensive team as a backup.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

His stats on Buffalo were better than I remembered

The bigger question is whether they’ll be able to extend him. That would be less of a concern if they were loading up for a Cup run, but they’ll be in the hunt for the wild card spots.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

If Korpisalo has a better year than Ullmark next season people will lose their minds

[Cacophony]

Tar and feather this absolute piece of shif

[Alexei Ca$hin]

4 years of Korpisalo on the books for $1M is at least much better than what the buyout would have been. I can't believe they got rid of that contract.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Bobby Mac's list is up https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/bob-mckenzie-s-f ... -1.2139912

Demidov at 2 over Levshunov, Silayev then Lindstom in the top five. The other D are ranked Dickinson, Buium, Parekh, Yakemchuk. Helenius is at 9, higher than I expected. Trevor Connelly disconcertingly at #15, right after Cole Eiserman. MBN at #17. Solberg #20, Hage down at 24. He has Lukas Fischer (Jiri's son) in the third round as opposed to the second.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Datsyuk, Roenick, and Weber are the new men’s players elected to the hall

[nick]

Datsyuk yes
Weber sure
Roenick no

[practice]

Michkov coming over to Philly this summer?

it feels like USNDT/NCAA guys are less secure picks than Russian Major Question Mark guys at this point?