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Best period in a while. I know its Detroit, but still. The C experiment is officially over as far as I'm concerned. Granato really pushed the right button or pulled the right lever or whatever on that move.

Cozens needs man strength. And Hagg can't pass worth crap.

Toker!

Perhaps, but the true takeaway is that Skinner actually remembered he has teammates and looked to make a pass in the first place.

I think we are past that point already.

Skinner with actual hockey sense? Nice.

Cousins with the F bomb going back to the bench. Very Kyle O like.

Pass was nice, shot was better. Better angle with two guys crashing. Easy for me to say though.

Oh, it was a movement alright.

Asplund needs to let that go.

How much is salt worth nowadays?

Rob thinks the Sabres represented themselves "good" in the first period. Well alrighty then.

I think its Candy Striper night.

Right, I'm reaching. If you've never seen a report where the reporter stated that he attempted to reach another principle in the story, but was unsuccessful or the invitation to comment was declined, what can I say? Friedman simply didn't do his job as is SOP in the business. I think we are done here.

That 's all well and good, but how can we explain his unforced errors that require no help from his lesser teammates?

Keep this up and he just might. 😂 Their computer dating cards are a perfect match.

They're only placeholders, they're only placeholders, they're only placeholders. That didn't make feel any better in the least.

Well that sucked.

Not unreasonable in the least. Not only is it reasonable to expect that here, it’s SOP for reporters to do it. It is blatantly obvious that Friedman did not seek the opinion of Dr. Cappuccino to balance the story, otherwise, like every good reporter everywhere, he would have informed his audience that the attempt was made and Cappuccino declined. Standard. A glaring and damning omission and strong evidence the story was purposely slanted. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect reporters to adhere to common, time honored journalistic principles.

I’m willing to bet that’s the vast majority of this forum. 😂

No, I’m not assuming a character flaw. I’m stating emphatically that he has shown himself to be a lousy reporter in the way he reported on the Eichel story. I assume he didn’t try to contact Dr. Cappuccino because he made no mention that attempts were made to do so. A good reporter obligates himself to both sides of a story to better present facts to his consumers. My assumption of the “worst case” as you put it is well founded here. I’m grateful that Friedman isn’t tasked with reporting on things that actually matter to our daily lives in this world.

I was a little miffed that the churning didn’t stop with Bylsma because that team flat out quit on him when he asked for more. I was more than glad that it churned for Housley and Krueger, however. Now those teams quit on the coach as well, but they both needed to go, regardless. As for GMs, I need not say more for TM as he both brought in the wrong vets and mortgaged the future in the process. I’ll just say JBotts lacked GM savvy and leave it at that. It sucks that there was frequent churning, but once it’s apparent you got it wrong, you have to move on. And the quicker, the better.

Players have always known this is a business, perhaps better than anyone. Maybe players shouldn’t sign eight year extensions before realizing they’re just wasting their time.

Any reporter worth his salt would have would have mentioned the attempt to contact Cappuccino and Cappuccino’s declining to comment if he had done so. That’s a compelling reason to think Friedman did not do that. Now I have not listened to the podcast from July and if Friedman did say he make the attempt, then I’m out of line and owe him an apology. But in any printed synopsis of his conversation with Dr. Prusmack, I haven’t seen any mention of attempting to get Dr. Cappuccino’s opinion. And there’s only one way for me to take that.

I think that speaks to the skill he wanted to be recognized for in the first place. Grit players are a dime a dozen and readily replaced by cheaper grit players if they don’t exhibit skill as well.