Devil Dan 56

Gross that teams will fall over themselves to employ mediocre players with histories like this.

According to EliteProspects, former Devil Okhotyuk has gone to the KHL.

Absolutely gross. These guys had zero consequences outside of a couple of years at home. The same will happen with the world junior players in a few years. I love hockey but the culture of the sport is broken.

According to NHLNewNumbers on Twitter 5 - Dillon 8 - Kovacevic 11 - Noesen 22 - Pesce 47 - Cotter

Would have been nice to add Tarasenko but I don’t see how Fitz could have fit that contract with Mercer needing to be signed

https://www.nhl.com/rangers/news/rangers-agree-to-terms-with-casey-fitzgerald-and-bo-groulx Casey Fitzgerald signed with the Rags. Thanksgiving could be fun times at the Fitzgerald house

I just realized that in a few years, the world juniors guys (Hart, McLeod, Foote, the other one who I can’t think of) will probably be welcomed back into the league and everyone will talk about how much they overcame to return to the sport as if they were the victims of that situation.

My wife was asking why hockey fans can’t stand the leafs at one point during the playoffs this year. They are right up there with Rag fans in believing they are the center of the universe

Won’t Landeskog be going back on LTIR? maybe they’ll have to unload another contract. Lou loves his favorites. I remember when he kept Tommy hanging around for months without a contract towards his last run here

Toronto signing Tanev and Ekman-Larsson and going with a goalie tandem of Woll and Stolarz. Hmm. Not sure how that might go

I would have liked Stamkos or Marchessault but Pesce and Dillon fill a huge need at the moment. And that Stamkos deal is way too much

I hope he finds it out in San Jose or Seattle or something

I believe Brennan will be in the mix as well. We may have guys fighting to play in Utica

Cotter looks like a lower line snarl guy. He was in the top 20 in hits last year. You need those guys in the playoffs (and this team needs them anytime) but damn Schmid and Holtz seems steep.

I guess Holtz was never going to pan out here. I really hope he figures it out, I liked him a lot. If Vegas can convince Schmid that every game is a playoff game against the Rags, he’ll win 8 Vezina trophies