Tampa's blue line is ridiculous.
Yzerman is a master.
The Ken Holland contract specials at their finest.We signed Nielsen to what now?
We signed Helm to what now?
Abdelkader?
taylor hall 22 game point streak
lol @ Edmonton
There’s no doubt that Tampa drafts well. Cirelli is a hell of a player. Wish we could draft like themEvery time I turn around another Tampa player steps up ...
Anthony Cirelli, 72nd overall in 2015, joins the Lightning for his first game.
1G 1A 2 points.
His prospects don't often make Pronman's lists, but who cares?
Howden and Hajek helped them get McDonough.
And from that draft they still have
Taylor Raddysh and Boris Katchouk - two guys as good as any wings prospect.
And other decent prospects like Connor Ingram and Otto Somppi.
They still have all of last year's prospects, including Foote, Volkov and Lipanov.
They've got a bunch of young guys in Syracuse and Yzerman seems able to find pint-sized UFA forwards to step up and score, whenever the hell he wants.
A lot easier when you have Hedman, Stamkos and Kucherov. No one is playing over their head there. Same happened on the Wings when Hudler, Filppula, Samuelsson, Lebda, Cleary, Franzen etc etc looked awesome.Every time I turn around another Tampa player steps up ...
Anthony Cirelli, 72nd overall in 2015, joins the Lightning for his first game.
1G 1A 2 points.
His prospects don't often make Pronman's lists, but who cares?
Howden and Hajek helped them get McDonough.
And from that draft they still have
Taylor Raddysh and Boris Katchouk - two guys as good as any wings prospect.
And other decent prospects like Connor Ingram and Otto Somppi.
They still have all of last year's prospects, including Foote, Volkov and Lipanov.
They've got a bunch of young guys in Syracuse and Yzerman seems able to find pint-sized UFA forwards to step up and score, whenever the hell he wants.
A lot easier when you have Hedman, Stamkos and Kucherov. No one is playing over their head there. Same happened on the Wings when Hudler, Filppula, Samuelsson, Lebda, Cleary, Franzen etc etc looked awesome.
Eric ****ing Staal.
This is the guy I wanted last year instead of Nielsen.
He's working on 3 goals and 2 assists so far tonight.
He's now at 33-31-64 with like 20 games to go. On pace for 40-40-80.
Last year he went 28-37-65.
What a remarkable turnaround.
He hasn't had numbers like this since 2010-11.
I had no idea he could turn it around this much, though.
I figured he could be a big 2 or 3C and score 20G and 40Pts and do it cheap after a few disastrous years.
He's playing for a 3 year, $3.5M deal. Can you imagine?
We signed Nielsen to what now?
We signed Helm to what now?
Abdelkader?
I think many teams would fully admit that they didn't think Staal would be this good again. I have to admit I didn't think he would be this year or last.
montreal just lost Pacioretty and Mete... they're already down Weber and Price
I keep forgetting that Nathan MacKinnon is only 22. It feels like he's been in the league a long time. He's going beast mode this season for sure.
I liked him as a buy-low candidate.
He was too young to be done.