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Must everyone ahead of us go to OT, I mean seriously!

At the rate the league is going we won’t need 90 pts lol. I sure is he’ll wouldn’t bet on it but if we were to string a few 3-1-1 streaks together we’d be right back into the mix barring someone actually deciding to run away with WC2

I'll just shrug and say who knows; this season has seen a Stanley Cup favorite dive bomb, a Capitals team go from accidently making the playoffs last year to leading the East and each of Buffalo, Ottawa, Montreal and Detroit have taken a turn as the 8 seed. Who the hell knows at this point.

Apparently Adams wanted to do some roster overhauling and Eichel demanded a trade. Adams and Krueger decided to try and fix this situation by signing Hall to 7mil and acquiring Eric Staal since his playoff performance had been solid the previous year. Effectively the idea being, look we are willing to try and win. However Eichel gets hurt prior to training camp and then proceeds to herniate a disc within the first month essentially. Eichel who had already requested a trade; no longer had the support of the owner and thus upon asking for a surgery that have had numerous insurance issues balked at the idea entirely when the highly respected spine doctor on staff said no to the idea. At that point any kind of reconciliation was dead, had Eichel played out the year healthy and we had some success he may have rescinded his request but now it turned into a disaster. The team spiraled, medical circumstances were suddenly a nightmare and the season went from can we convince Eichel to stay to well if you won’t play ball then screw you. I firmly believe that had Eichel not requested a trade originally, Pegula would have signed off on the surgery without fuss. Pegula strikes me as the type who will always have your back if you have his; however if you even deviate in the slightest you are dead to him. ROR was the same, his “loss of love of the game” statement in combination with the whole Tim Horton’s saga made Pegula very willing to give Botterill “permission” to trade the most recent highest paid player in franchise history. However this permission also meant Pegula had zero interest in paying a dime to guy not playing here hence the bonus issue. Pegula doesn’t see the bigger picture more he looks entirely at each tree and if that tree struggles he’ll throw money at it. However if that tree drops a branch on his car his money faucet is quite literal welded shut.

Good win, now to Ottawa. Just wish they had any ability to protect a lead.

Remember that his JR team left Winnipeg for Portland?? I believe and hired a new coach. Savoie was traded so maybe we force them to trade Benson but that wasn't a sure thing. As for the World Juniors, Canada hates small players as well as anyone who might steal the spotlight from their newest wonderkind

I liked the Erik Johnson idea as a 7, but when it failed he needed to go out and get a more legit one this year with more tread on the tires. Hell grab Alec Martinez who was a shot block man on Vegas's bottom pair and had 3 rings for the bottom pair. Trade for Marino There were some options beyond sign Gilbert and pray.

To be honest it would mask his inexperience but could also help him learn in-game.

Frankly I still don’t think Benson would have gained much of anything by staying in JRs. He would have been more likely to pick up bad habits by figuring out shortcuts to his game and the like. This is why I beat the drum about how asinine the CHL rule is because Benson belonged in the AHL last year learning Pro-hockey against other professionals. I agree though on needing more vets to help insulate the youngsters.

I'm good with firing him; I've literally given him every olive branch, mulligan, excuse in the book and he continues to just shove them in my face. Zucker with another goal; guy should of been extended for a year or two yesterday. He plays exactly the way we need with his net front presence as well general grit (hits occasionally but generally plays hard) Dahlin gets another assist as he is likely getting back spasms trying to haul the corpse of the team around.

Trading Dahlin is a complete nonstarter. I’m done with trading our best player to other teams. As for the rest of your review post it makes sense. I like many others have begged the team to get a couple defensive first Dmen to play with Dahlin and Power, now Power and Byram since Dahlin is good enough to work with most. Frankly I just don’t understand why we haven’t because it’s not as if all D first players are extremely expensive or trade protected. And they do have some degree of value in the style based on Muel’s contract and yet the only rumored target was Pesce 2 years ago. It’s baffling and begs to question if it’s more anti-vet convincing related or monetary demands/term demands. Like why is there seemingly a 1/2 over 30 limit on the team? We have Reimer and Zucker, everyone else is at most 30 whereas most of the team doesn’t cross the 25yrs old mark. All I can fathom is Adams has no interest in convincing vets to come here in the slightest and is perfectly happy with a plethora of young players trying to learn everything on the fly. Which rarely works. The CHL rule robbed Benson of AHL time to grow since Jrs wouldn’t have served him well in the slightest.

No problem, hope your new job is going well lol

Well they traded 1 Dman for 2 Forwards so bringing Ryan Johnson up wouldn't make much sense.

I firmly agree, I'd love another Zucker; but at this point of the season you don't move your 1st. The past offseason was when you could; now you would just look shortsighted and dumb.

Well with where we are in the Standings few really want to chase down negative results with further negative future impacts

Kevyn's only boldness comes from typing out emails or word documents. Frankly he's more of an italics or underline guy.

Well Dahlin is playing very well Power is more of a shrug The last thing Buffalo needs is another blunder in the eyes of the media at large. And trading a high lottery pick for a player is very rare; I can't even think of an example of it happening.

You don't trade the potential 1st Overall for a player The other part is we have to subtract a player for the roster spot more or less.

Never knew that frankly. Although if the Avs player purposely makes contact from the bench I do think there is a slightly different rule but I'm not sure.

They actually won a draw with about 25 seconds left and shot it out but it hit a Colorado bench glove and the refs rules it as if it were a Sabres glove.

Trying to prevent a cross crease attempt seeing as they love to do that throw to the front and jam play.

Would you blame him; I'm pretty much there myself.

We just can’t win or grow can we?

Of course

The only luck we get is bad luck or no luck. Block the shot and it goes right to another Avs player.