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Shouldn't someone start a 2017-2018 prospects thread?

So who are our top 10 prospects heading into camp and which prospects have a shot at making the team at some point this season?

Top 10
1. Mittelstud
2. Guhle
3. Nylander
4. Asplund
5. Bailey
6. Fasching
7. Baptiste
8. Pu
9. Borgen
10. Davidsson
Others to watch
Smith, and Malone. Читать дальше...

Well...

Preseason schedule is out.

2017-18 season schedules are coming out 3 o'clock this Thursday.

Did you here that Ott is now an Assistant Coach for the Blues?

I really envy you northerners. Here it is almost mid-December and it's 82° outside at 7:45PM. It has dropped below 70 for a total of two hours in the last 11 days. I don't care where you live, the AC shouldn't be running this close to Christmas at 3AM. In the last seven weeks we've had .3" of rain. 

Mahomes is the guy. Take him 

http://www.fanragsports.com/news/teams-may-believe-texas-tech-qb-patrick-mahomes-best-draft/

OK, Vegas is good. But just how good are they?  We are almost 1/2 way through the season, so its a good time to evaluate:

The Sabres return home after a long road trip to face the surging Jets.

Will Linus and Guhle see their first games of the year in Sabres Uniforms?

UGA vs Oklahoma

Oklahoma O vs GA D - Ga will try to make Oklahoma one dimensional and force Mayfield to throw to move the ball. Roguan Smith will spy on Mayfield and keep him in the pocket. Oklahoma hasn’t faced a D as fast or as complete as Georgia’s. Mayfield will make some big plays and keep the game close.

Georgia O vs Oklahoma D - Ok D isn’t very good. Their secondary is lousy. Expect GA to run early and play action pass for big plays. GA eats clock and scores often to keep the game close. Читать дальше...

Can't sleep.  Might as well start a game day thread for the "home" team.

I mentioned I was in the Queen City yesterday. Did I see a picture of Cellino of Cellino and Barnes on a Cellino Plumbing truck? Twin? Side gig?

The dream, the fantasy really, is that a new core, a championship core, is growing up and growing together in Rochester, not unlike Millsie, Roysie, Pommsie and Vanzie et al.

The prehistory of this thread comes from me and Taro talking about the line matching during the preseason. It's hard to pay attention watching online, so I had to look at how Housley is matching lines using the NHL's html reports. Normally I would sit on this for a while, because it's difficult to tell if the numbers are right, but this is interesting for me, so I'm going to go ahead and post, and if I decide the numbers are wrong, there's worse things in life than being wrong on the internet.

Preliminary Prospect Rankings are now coming out.  

Craig Button released his yesterday:

http://www.tsn.ca/craig-s-list-defenceman-dahlin-leads-draft-class-1.847739

You are seeing more and more Dmen under 6'0 on these lists.

Kids I will be keeping a close eye on this year are:

1) Adam Boqvist - Swedish RHD. Arguably the best player in this years Ivan Hlinka Tournament.  5GP 1G 7A  (lottery pick)

2) Bode Wilde - RHD US National Team Dman who will be attending Harvard this fall. Читать дальше...

I’ve seen enough. Jbot do something already! Find us a D or two.

Shake up this roster. Let them know this effort isn’t acceptabe.

Step 1: Waive Moulson and Gorges.
Step 2: demoted Fedun and Tennyson
Step 3: ????

One thing I've noticed, game after game, and illustrated by a graph someone posted recently: