Peter

After listening to Taylor Hall during the press conference and reading his letter and watching his video, I could not be more impressed with the guy or excited for this upcoming season.

Last night on NBCSN, they showed metrics (e.g., shooting percentage etc.) that included a comparison between Quinn and Rossi and others. Does anyone have that? As I recall, Quinn's metrics were very good.

Maybe I am not remembering correctly (it is late), but I thought that I read that Quinn and Rossi primarily played on different lines

So what he is saying is that he did not think that the Sabres did well because they did not follow his draft board. Got it.

As I posted earlier, what is there not to like about getting someone at 8 who was described as the "best goal scorer in the draft" on the NBCSN broadcast of the draft?!? If the kid (and they are all kids) did not have a chip on his shoulder before, he certainly would now if he were to read this thread. The more I think about it, Quinn reminds me of the City of Buffalo. He is an underdog who was cut by his AAA team. He had to work hard to get where he is and ultimately, through hard work and perseverance, became the "best goal scorer in the draft," improved his skating, and is a good two way player. It is so hard to predict just how good guys that young ultimately will be, but I think that a guy with a back story like that will be easy to root for and has a good chance of being a very productive NHL player. Quinn is a guy who got rejected, was not appreciated, was a late bloomer, and worked hard to get where he is today. Sound familiar??? Ryhmes with Bosh Fallon (as others have mentioned).

I have never seen the kid play until watching the highlights today . . . but what is there not to like about "the best goal scorer in the draft" comment on NBCSN. We should give the kid a break and see what he can do.

You have captured Sully in one sentence. I could not have said it better.

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Great article. Thanks for sharing. I love Mat's attitude. It also sound like he is great at what he does.

If we are going to be judged as adults by the stupid things that we may have said or did as kids, we are all in trouble.

This was my thought as well. I initially thought it was "Dickon" but when I watched the scene again I noticed that Bronn also was looking at the white horse. When I slooooooooooowed down the recording while watching the critical moment, you could see that the other person was on a white horse and was not wearing armor. My money is on Bronn.

You convinced me.

Hey now . . . .

How bad can the pick be given Central Scouting had him rated number 3? You never know with these kids, but picking a young kid with his skill where we did seems like pretty good value. He has the skill and will only get stronger.

I don't post over here a lot, but my issue with GMTM is that, when we had a lot of "assets," he overpaid (in my judgment). For example, I still do not understand giving Ottawa a first for what was their back up goalie when they were in a complete bind under the salary cap. If we were going to trade that first round pick, I would have preferred trading it (rather than Zadorov) in the ROR deal. I am pretty confident that we could have had Lehner for a second - especially given that we took on salary. We ended up doing Uncle Brian a huge favor. Now that we have given up a lot of the extra assets that we had, GMTM will be forced not to be the drunken sailor. It will be interesting to see how he does without being flush with picks etc.

Both posts above are about where I am on this. We even had bad luck when we were (intentionally) bad.

I like Tim, but still think that he has overpaid in certain trades (whether you like the players we got in return or not). Of course, with fewer assets (picks) than before, we will see what he can do after presumably earning a reputation around the league for his willingness to overpay for guys he is fixated on. Just my two cents.

Let's not compare what Darren Sharper did to his victims to EK. If there were a comparison, EK would have and should have been indicted for the December incident.

I agree. How could there be if the people who own or manage the bar say he was not trespassing?!? This will have a similar result to the ROR incident. Just my two cents.

Very well said.

That does not appear the MO at WGR. I remember how Howard used to be buddy-buddy with Chan Gailey during interviews (by way of example), and be just the opposite when they were not interviewing him/he was off the air.

No, the Buffalo News and some here are doing that.

With all due respect to the police, this was STUPID and has/will backfire. I suppose he was handcuffed to protect the public while he walked the few extra steps into the station and had nothing to do with a tipped off photographer being present.

I wonder. I have a feeling that this is an example of someone being overcharged to make a point. I had mentioned in an earlier post a few days ago that a friend of mine had heard from someone at the bar that night that this is much ado about absolutely nothing. I have no idea whether this is true. I do suspect that this is all a show though.

Absolutely. Totally gratuitous and obvious that they called the media ahead of time. They really must have absolutely nothing on him given the BS charge as well. If his name were Joe Smith, there is no way he would have been treated like this (either the investigation, charges, or calling the media obviously).