Actually... What does getting waived now even mean? Are they trying to buy him out, or just being nice to let him go to another team free of charge?

Fuuuck. I'm a Zadina truther. He's gonna get claimed, right? I hope wherever he goes, he pops off. While he never hit his potential here, he always looked good, and got yanked around the lineup so much, I'm sure that didn't exactly help him.

Would much rather keep him than sign too many FAs...

Yeah... As a wings fan, there have been some questionable moves just about every year since he came back.

While his trades are usually great, he loves to over crowd our roster with mediocrity in free agency, and at the draft, they spend too many picks on high character or big size guys, that lack the offensive upside. Though the drafting issues I think is more of Draper's doing, still, that's Yzerman's hire.

My confidence is shook and it leaves me wondering... Is Tampa's scouting director the real architect of their success?

Primed to allow which youth to get more ice time? We now have more players than spots, and that's only accounting for guys that played significant time in the NHL already like Bergren.

Soderblom, Kasper, Johansson, Wallinder, and maybe even Edvinsson are going to have a hard time making the team. Obviously all three d shouldn't make it, but we have a lot of established NHL players that to me seems like it will make it tough for any one new to get significant minutes.

This could mean the opposite. This gives them more money to spend now, and one less unreliable D.

They are probably going to do the Canucks thing where they sign or trade for some other low impact player.

Big oof.

And I will never understand why the cap hit varies wildly like that one the years.

Awful. Sounds eerily similar to the Humboldt crash a few years ago. Semi blew a stop sign in a rural area and destroyed a bus carrying a junior hockey team. Many kids and a few adults died there.

This article mentions it was near a crossing... I wouldn't be surprised if someone missed a stop here too.

Unless timo wants out soon and just signs his QO of 10m

Wow, isn't that more than expected? Any chance the devils can keep meier now?

Let me guess... He was unnervingly confident and he bombed all his interviews

/S