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Meant to say this earlier but Isaiah Likely looks like he might be a good player for the Ravens.

People are always looking for those instant grits as Cam used to say.

Twitter seems to think he was really good. His debut was probably closer to somewhere in the middle but he did some nice things. Obviously his escapability translated to the NFL and he showed off his elite arm strength... but definitely needs to work on processing the game quicker, knowing when to live for the next play, and not taking needless hits. Decent debut though: 6/11 / 128 Total Yards / 88.1 Passer Rating / 1 rushing TD I’d take those same stats from Corral and be just as content.

This was just posted but this isn’t the same account, the original was deleted, this might just be a copy cat.

So listening to the DW interview, it seems like they expect Patches back before the playoffs, so there may not be some huge move because they’d need to be cap compliant as soon as he comes back. I think we’ll add a depth piece and then move out someone like Bear at the trade deadline to open up room for Patches. I think Stastny would be a good add, he provides a really good net presence and would probably work well with Staal. DW also stated that Gardiner will be in camp, which at this point was to be expected as we have plenty of cap space. As soon as Patches goes on LTIR we’ll have just over $5M in cap space and that’s with Gardiner’s numbers factored in. I think you try to get Stastny in here at like 1YR/$2M and then at the trade deadline you either send out Gardiner or a combination of Bear and Martinook to make room for Patches. Pre-Deadline Svech - Aho - Turbo Necas - KK - Jarvis Stastny - Staal - Fast Marty - Drury - Kase Noesen/Dzingel Slavin - Burns Skjei - Pesce Gardiner - Bear Chatfield Andersen Raanta Post-Deadline Svech - Aho - Turbo Patches - KK - Jarvis Necas - Staal - Fast Stastny - Drury - Kase Noesen/Dzingel Slavin - Burns Skjei - Pesce Gardiner - Chatfield Coghlan Andersen Raanta

Corujo is out for the year… CB depth is now Walkes, Fuchs, and Sobocinski. Malanda should be available in a week or two.

So apparently DW said that Patches is going on LTIR today and that they are exploring options. There’s also a Reddit rumor that Lenovo has won the naming rights to the RBC Center… I mean PNC Arena… or whatever the hell they want to call it.

Even if we don’t go big game hunting with the money that we’ll have by putting Patches on LTIR, I hope we at least bring in Kessel, Stastny, or Rodrigues. I don’t think you can lose 40 or so goals between Nino and Trocheck and replace them with Kase, Noesen, and Drury. We definitely need a stop gap unless we swing for the fences with someone like Kane or Kadri. Or they could get real ballsy and offer sheet Jason Robertson (though it would 100% be matched).

I know it sucks but I think it might just be a partial tear… the wording and the time frame almost made it sound like the Canes knew and it didn’t just happen. I’m not saying we are playing cap gymnastics… but we might be.

Honestly not the worst thing that could happen if they replace him. Just imagine in the playoffs. Svech - Aho - Turbo Patches - KK - Kane Kase - Necas - Jarvis Drury - Staal - Fast Marty They’d go 16-0

If we can get a big fish like Kane then I’d LTIR him and don’t bring him back til the playoffs when we can get away with all that salary on the roster.

Well this sucks… On the bright side. They can LTIR him and still have $6M or so to play with and that’s even with Gardiner coming to camp (to see if he has anything left). They should be able to get enough retainment on Kane if they want to add him.

We’ll see.

Rumor or not that was the first account to literally leak the Burns trade in regards to the compensation… literally all the way down to the retention. Also called the Patches trade first (including Coghlan), and no, we were not being linked to him. Then stated that Tkachuk was likely on his way to St. Louis unless Carolina stepped up their offer. Obviously Florida came in at the last second but it was later revealed by insiders that St. Louis and Carolina were the other suitors. Then there was the Necas deal and while Czech media was already reporting it, the term and details weren’t confirmed, the account once again got that right. I want it to be wrong just as much as you do but that account is fairly new and has been leaking everything correctly. It almost seems like some new Canes intern got a hold of Twitter and is leaking everything. As I said, it could be a case where the Canes planted a fake rumor and were trying to weed out someone leaking stuff and that’s why the account didn’t want it posted long. The fact that the original tweet said that they wouldn’t leave the tweet up long only improves the credibility. Basically saying that this happened but I can’t leave it up right now because only a few people even know and it could blow my cover.

Guys are skating and working out so it’s possible, there’s already videos of Patches working out on the ice. So it’s not out of the realm that it’s true. It could be a fake leak to try and out whoever is leaking all the info but who knows… guess we’ll find out soon.

That account posted the returns before anyone, literally replied to one of the insiders tweets with the return before it was even out there. Not saying it’s 100% accurate but it even called the interest in Tkachuk and our rumored info wasn’t even leaked until after.

Was just coming to post that. Lord Stanley has called everything so I’m leaning toward believing that it’s true. If he tore his achilles then the best case scenario is that he’s back by the start of the playoffs. Only option is to LTIR Patches and trade for Kane or sign Kadri (if he’s still available, rumor is he’s headed to NYI). Unfortunately, guys like: Kessel, Rodrigues, and Stastny won’t be enough, even if a couple were signed.

That’s also why I question the point of burning a roster spot on a return guy. If Roberts is a better receiver than Higgins, Zylstra, Smith, Saunders, etc… then by all means keep him. It just seems like a questionable decision to burn a spot on a guy who may get 18 or so returns throughout the entire season.

Are they even using Roberts in the KR game? From what I read a while back (can’t remember where I saw it), it was Smith who was getting a lot of those reps and Roberts was being used in PR drills. Mind you, Roberts is known for being a good KR but Erickson was actually a better PR than Roberts last year.

Let’s wait until he plays a few preseason games before drawing comparisons to HOF’ers. The Panthers are Hayes’ fifth team and he’s yet to break into the league, we might need to pump the breaks a bit.

So now Hayes is Sam Mills… good God.

Tweet just came across from Lord Stanley’s Warehouse… the Twitter account that has been leaking everything we do… Canes are buying out Gardiner and signing Necas to a 2x$3M AAV.

Looks like Haynes is just day to day so that’s good, still think we need more depth at edge though.

Hope I’m wrong, I just feel like our schedule is brutal down the stretch.

Malanda can’t get here fast enough because without Corujo, our CB depth is Walkes, Fuchs, and Sobocinski.