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Donnie Meatballs has my complete trust. He’s the best man for this team at this time. Butcher? Um, not so much. He did absolutely nothing to impress me in preseason and it was easy to see why Lindy didn’t wanna play him even on a poor team in Joisey.

I don’t understand how anyone could have negative comments for Ullmark. I liked him when he was here and totally understand why he’d leave. He’s part of that old core that had to leave as well, imo.

Thanks for the update. Always appreciated @MODO Hockey, especially the videos from his house in Sweden. I’ll have to make a panny in his honor.

Ok, but those who already have you on ignore won’t know the difference, anyway.

I littlely don’t have the time for their podcast. Littlely.

I don’t think they’d bring JJ up just to sit in the press box.

I think R2 goes into the lineup and Hayden remains the extra forward.

Great story. Wish the kid well. Also, an injured Risto is out of tonight’s Flyer lineup.

Has @MODO Hockey officially left us for the Bruins? I hadn’t decided to rejoin the forum yet when Ullmark signed with the Bruins so I may have missed his reaction. I’m sure he wasn’t happy. It’s a big loss to the forum, imo.

Butcher? God help us.

Tommy Sweeney is the Rodney Dangerfield of tight ends, apparently.

Unlike previous squads who would have used an injury to a key player or two as an excuse to underachieve, I can’t see Granato letting them fall into that trap. Next man up. No sulking and feeling sorry for ourselves allowed.

Sold!

Yep. And no sign of Alamo mode in the third. Granato is different.

It’s the wisdom on display.

We just took a Stanley Cup finalist to the woodshed. Nice.

Okposo hasn’t moved this well in years.

Let’s hope this becomes infectious. Habs looking like last night has caught up a bit.

Fair enough. But I’m sticking with the NOT surprising Buffalo Sabres

I’m not surprised in the least. We saw this group give high effort once Granato took over last March. We are winning due to that continued high effort.

Easy to get behind this kind of effort. Nice.

That’s the challenge. So we shall see.

Thank you for including Hasek.

Yes, every game. There are gonna be games like the second half of a back to back in a 3 game in 4 night stretch where they just won’t have their legs, but I won’t confuse fatigue with lack of effort. In recent seasons, particularly last season when they were out of it early and they just went thru the motions it was plain as day that several players just didn’t give a crap.

Were you really expecting this team to look better with their top players from last year no longer here? Here’s one area I guarantee they will be better at: giving a crap and actually giving maximum effort for 60 minutes ona regular basis.