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They weren’t head hits, but I thought both those hits were clearly charges. 4+ heavy strides into him. And with pretty obvious intent to injure. Kassian was more or less in a position where he wasn’t going to be able to brace for those hits. Those were live by sword, die by the sword hits.

I only saw 2 periods yesterday, but it seemed to me that Vessey looked decent on the 1st line. Did that go away in the 3rd?

They were still winning until Mitts showed up, no? I only casually follow them. Totally casual observation so I could be off, but it sure seemed like the team was doing well until he arrived.

***** that Kassian is getting a hearing for that. Ray Ferraro said it well last night, that's the same kind of hits that the league cracked down on Raffe Torres for. The second hit especially was a blatant charge.

I suspect THAT will be a deterrent to future shenanigans,.

LOL. Are they really outclassing anyone right now?

You have to start wondering if the Amerks slide is related to Mitts in the lineup.

Only if the pain gives you pleasure.

Few undersized players excel outside of top 6 roles.

I think if he doesn’t develop into a top 6 forward his likelihood of being an NHL player is low.

Accident in that they targeted the wrong plane, so truth but not whole truth. IMO of course. It's an interesting shot across the bow. We won't engage you conventionally, but attack us again and your friends will feel it.

Sounds like the 4th line the actual team has right now.

Seems early in the year for tornadoes, no?

Another childhood hero gone....

And this is 100% correct. Tanking is equivalent to a GMTM draft. High ceiling, low floor. You’ve got just as much chance to end up with Cornel as you do Olofsson. Not tanking raises the floor in all likelihood but doesn’t lower the ceiling. It may lower the odds of reaching the ceiling, but that is more a function of GM than anything. Tanking is so drastic in nature that it increases the likelihood of the floor result. Your GM has to be damned near perfect.

This is wrong from the first sentence. Neither of these tanked.

The gutting was due to the decision to tank. It was a pre-Murray decision.

Seattle Steelhead. Same idea, better sounding fish.

3 pages and its nearly puck drop. The team used to generate interest......

All kinds of real complaints in here. Mine doesn't pass muster anymore. Sorry to hear of the hardships, guys.

Complaint thread?

Evidence of imminence? What evidence? Pretty damning comments from two Republican senators. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/politics/iran-briefing-senators/index.html

You seem to be taking that not as it's intended. Noone was claiming that you must be racist to support a racist. They are suggesting that you are willing to accept racism in order to get other things (which, if memory serves you conceded to), AND accepting racism to get other things results in support of that racism. So, by supporting Trump you end up supporting racism whether it is your intent or not.

I doubt the Sabres played a role in this. CHL teams are run like NHL franchises. Teams going for it load up and teams that don't have a prayer collect picks so they can load up in 2-3 years. This is typical.

Sudbury loading up.....