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I think Jack needed a couple of players with the game and attitude to command his respect. Gionta wasnt enough. Jack is/was a very headstrong guy IMO. We didn’t have the right vets in here to get through Jacks head. Cozen, Mitts, etc do not appear to be cut from the same cloth as Jack. I’d bet Gio would have made a good mentor for this group. The one thing missing from the group Doohickie lists is success. We still need to bring in 2-3 vets that are playoff veterans and know what sacrifices are needed so they can show the kids how to get to that next level.

Just continued aftermath from the first.

Except it looks like Dam may sign with FLA, which means we got a rental price for a longer term player. This sucks.

I was thinking the same earlier. Very high risk high reward. TM style draft philosophy.

It seems like we got a rental price for him. Should have kept him until the deadline to at least take some of the heat off the kids for 60 games.

Dizzam. All kinds of testy in these parts.

This runs counter to what little I’ve read about Powers skating. I think just last night someone posted a report that said something along the lines of “doesn’t just skate well for a big guy. Skates very well”.

Sounds like a guy with a career trajectory like Pu.

This is all a conspiracy by SDS to keep traffic artificially high. There is no Sam trade. SDS has kidnapped Sam and is prepared to do what he needs to do to keep traffic up. Once site traffic goes back down, well, we hardly new ye, Sam.

Coincidence that it happens alongside Fox News hosts getting vaccinated?

I used to enjoy reading up on prospects and I got excited with the potential, but between Buffalo’s lack of 1sr rd success under Regier and then the team being managed to harvest picks I lost all my joy around it.

Welcome to my last 7 seasons.

He probably was.

Protecting Risto over Borgen was worth 14OA and a future 2nd. Re-reading the exchange I see now the confusion in my reply.

Milbury was purposefully abrasive. I have no use for people that willfully choose to offend.

Without question.

Yeah, the stats are pretty clear. Bottom half of the lineup and lower is about the expectation.

Who’s mad, bro?

We’re going to bitch and moan about Hagg and the pick is a coin toss to actually replace Risto. Meh. But about what I expected. Hoped for a legit 3-4 D man that was actually tough instead of wanna be tough and offensively talented. Not to be I guess.

Another good point. And that was exactly what we lost when the decision was made to destroy the roster.

I agree with you. I’d rather have the stink of losing than the stink of this horrific background.

Because fans and number sniffers aren’t running NHL teams.

How many were certain they’d rather have Buffalos prospect pool than Boston, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, etc? Shiny new toys that were made irrelevant and those other teams all stayed well managed and jumped ahead of us (or more accurately stayed ahead of us).

Yup. There is no need, no certainty, and no benefit IMO to get worse if we change up the roster.