Comets on Friday look like this:
Pyatt-Kero-Boucher
Bancks-Woods-MacEwen
Gaunce-Darcy-Lind
Gadjovich-Hamilton-Jasek

LeBlanc-Sifers
Thow-Blujus
Anselmini-Graham

Anybody wonder why the Comets sucked so bad at the end of the season. That defence is I hope they sign a few free agent D either it be college/CHL/ europe.

The centres are just as bad if not worse. Kero is fine but Woods, Darcy, Hamilton.
- manvanfan

Next year they will have Briesbois Teves Biega and OJ Elliot

It really depends on who they go after. Teams in Cap trouble may be looking for a Virtanen type contract.
- VANTEL

And that could work, I wouldn't be apposed to a deal like that and you'd think you would get a good player coming back if Jake was one of the pieces.

Next year they will have Briesbois Teves Biega and OJ
- VANTEL

https://twitter.com/Utica...tatus/1116902567739580416

Nice moves by JB, he's not always dumb.
- VanHockeyGuy

His first two years were bad

https://twitter.com/UticaComets/status/1116902567739580416
- manvanfan

There is good and bad in Utica .

https://twitter.com/UticaComets/status/1116902567739580416
- manvanfan

Think Jim might need to get a stair master put in his office in Vancouver.

The young D won't come cheap. Do you wait and develop one?
- VanHockeyGuy

There isn't much option. That or trade one of Horvat, Boeser or Pettersson for a young top 4 d-man. You would then create one hole by filling another. It's called 'a Benning'.

And that could work, I wouldn't be apposed to a deal like that and you'd think you would get a good player coming back if Jake was one of the pieces.
- VanHockeyGuy

I like Biega's effort but if you can upgrade Hutton Pouliot and Biega then that is a big step in the right direction

And that could work, I wouldn't be apposed to a deal like that and you'd think you would get a good player coming back if Jake was one of the pieces.
- VanHockeyGuy

Virtanen is not getting you a young, top 4 d-man.

Virtanen is not getting you a young, top 4 d-man.
- Marwood

And Bo is not getting traded.

AVs would be nuts to trade their top 4 for the two Botch mentioned. Botch is get dumber by the day .
- VANTEL

To be fair, the Avs traded a 1st and a 2nd for Varlamov

Virtanen is not getting you a young, top 4 d-man.
- Marwood

he may be a piece though

To be fair, the Avs traded a 1st and a 2nd for Varlamov
- Shuswap Wap

Was it a top 5?

Virtanen is not getting you a young, top 4 d-man.
- Marwood

When team hires Chiarelli it will.

Was it a top 5?
- VANTEL

11 and 54

Martin Jones after 34 games ended up getting 30oa and a 5th round pick 3 years into development

When team hires Chiarelli it will.
- LordHumungous

Canucks could solve one big problem by drafting Seider. Woo Seider Rafferty and Stecher RH

11 and 54
- manvanfan

Varlamov was highly regarded back then too. But the answer is still the same no one trades their top 5 pick except the Dumb asses from Ottawa

Varlamov was highly regarded back then too. But the answer is still the same no one trades their top 5 pick except the Dumb asses from Ottawa
- VANTEL

He was with 59 games of experience. Filip Forsberg looks pretty (frank)en good

He was with 59 games of experience. Filip Forsberg looks pretty (frank)en good
- manvanfan

So Benning is not the only dumb GM ?

So Benning is not the only dumb GM ?
- VANTEL

The more I look at trades on a team by team bases, I have a lot more faith in Benning. Moves over the years by GM's that won cups or created and found amazing draft picks out of nowhere. Every GM has more than a few WTF trades or signings on their resume's

Edit: that trade was done by George McPhee who his core won a cup in WSH without him against the team he created

Canucks could solve one big problem by drafting Seider. Woo Seider Rafferty and Stecher RH
- VANTEL

Byram?

Byram?
- LordHumungous

The sooner you fix the RHD th sooner you can move Tanev and Biega .

There is good and bad in Utica .
- VANTEL

A closer look at those 47 rookie forwards with more goals than Lind and Gadjovich reveals some unsettling observations:

Of that group, 12 are undrafted, including the aforementioned Barre-Boulet.
Of the ones that were drafted, 20 were taken in the third round or later.
In their 2017-18 seasons in junior, 28 had fewer than Lind’s 39 goals with the Rockets, and ten had fewer than Gadjovich’s 25 goals with the Attack.

There's this but what JD fails to mention is that Lind and Gadjovich pretty sure are the youngest two players out of the 47.

I believe 11 out of the 47 were drafted higher than Lind and Gads

Canucks could solve one big problem by drafting Seider. Woo Seider Rafferty and Stecher RH
- VANTEL

Trade down scenario?

Trade down scenario?
- VanHockeyGuy

Playing with fire