Nicomo

Detroit is way worse. They won a grand total of 17 games this season.

I saw Rossi’s coach in Ottawa compared him to a mixture of Nico and St. Louis. I would love to get this kid. Might be the player I want the 2nd most after AL.

We have no idea what the future holds for these kids. Pettersson was the best pick in his draft, and he went 5th. We already have people on this very board claiming Dach will be better than Jack Hughes. Lafrenière is obviously the big prize, but the top 6-8 guys are all pretty damn good prospects this year.

I can’t even spell Lav’s whole name right without looking it up, you expect me to get that guy’s right?

Depends if we have football or not. If the NFL starts on time it’ll hold me over until hockey comes back. My excitement level will also be directly correlated to who our coach is. Gallant or Lav, and I’m itching to get going. Nas or John Stevens...not so much. I kind of doubt the Swedish dude is a front runner, but just the unknown with him would be kind of intriguing.

That must mean he sucks right? Never mind he the fact that played big minutes for team Canada at the WJC -20 and won gold. I think you’re confusing Merkley with someone else. He’s only played in 5 NHL games (4 for NJ), but he looked pretty good. Scored a goal against Columbus.

I can give you 6 million reasons why this surprises absolutely no one

A top 10 pick is a top 10 pick. Worrying about what they do with it doesn’t diminish its value. Idk where you’re getting these expert projections on Bahl, but this is where all the big guys had him ranked going into his draft class: 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #68 by ISS Hockey 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #34 by Future Considerations 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #42 by Hockeyprospect.com 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #58 by McKeen's Hockey 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #47 by TSN/McKenzie 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Ranked #29 by NHL Central Scouting So NHL Central Scouting even had a 1st round grade on him, and 3 others had him in the top 50. Seems like a higher ceiling than 3rd pairing to me. And “spare part” Nick Merkley is a former 1st round pick who looked very promising in the handful of games we saw him in, and is only 22.

Can’t tell if serious or not... but I’ll bite. We’re about to end up with a top 10 pick in one of the better drafts in recent years, a possible future top 4 defenseman who’s going to bring some much needed size and grit to our blue line, and Nick Merkley who looks like he could be a decent middle 6 forward. All for 35 games of Taylor Hall.

Biz being such a meat head works for the dynamic of the show though. At least, imo. Hell, half the time he’s stoned to boot lol. Whit breaking his balls for the dumb sh!t he says is usually pretty funny. Just recently he called the best player in the world “Conor David” ffs....LOL

Nico. He’s young, one of our best players, is signed to a long term contract, and will make a great face of the franchise (hopefully along with Jack in a few years). It’s a no-brainer. He really stepped up after Hall was traded, too.

Have you watched it since it was converted into HD? No more 4:3 aspect ratio either. It looks great now.