Here’s what stood out to me:

– I like our first line, in terms of speed and talent. Chemistry will come. Zherdev is the real deal (though he made some stupid plays last night) and I like Naslund. He works hard and hits…definitely a leader on the ice.
– Redden didn’t look very good. Hopefully that’s just a case of him finding his legs.
– The power play looks 100x better than last year, which is good considering we’re in the first half of the exhibition schedule and a bunch of rookies are getting power play time.
– Del Zotto stood out…I feel REALLY good about our defense with him, Sanguinetti and Staal on the backline for years to come.
– Why the debate about Girardi? He’s real solid and scored a nice goal last night. Another young defenseman to be happy about.
– Jamtin is an AHL player. Not a great skater, and definitely too small. Those rumors about “The Swedish Sean Avery” are way off base. Avery is 1000x better than this guy.
– Colton Orr has improved his skating. I like Dane Byers too, as a guy who could get some call-ups during the year. Blair Betts should keep his job because of his defensive ability, but I think there will be times when he will be scratched in favor of a guy like Korpikoski.

What does everyone else think? Agree/Disagree?

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thats the game live

Unless there is another one out there Dino Ciccarelli was a winger, not a d-man.

Lol, Erica.

KASPAR

Very true, but still. This was the first round, and pretty much the majority of the league got a good player, and we picked the one player that hasn’t even had a decent run in Hartford to get a call up to the big league. Its tough to get over, but your right, all those teams, like the Kings for example, that needed a goalie but don’t have it, could have had Hank, so i guess that is pretty cool.

I found a handy Wikipedia category per your discussion about Girardi on the last post. It didn’t take too long to find a better undrafted guy. While his defensive talent can be debated, the offense is surely there with Dan Boyle. Also, Dino Ciccarelli, Randy Jones, Tom Preissing, Brian Pothier, Brian Rafalski are decent to good defensmen that went undrafted (in alphabetical order).

For those asking about Jamtin, he was move out of the lineup last night to put Dubinsky into a second game. I think that’s a pretty telling move that he will be sent to Hartford. I am not fooled by Nedved’s goal. He will probably be going back to the homeland, unless some other team that is watching sees some value. Seems like some of you still forget about Sjostrom in your line combinations, maybe for good reason, playing on a BS line during that first game.

What golf could be going on today that Sam has an assignment to cover? :)