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I'm guessing Radar is still interpreting ROR's locker cleanout comments as him quitting on team, regardless of the fact that his production and effort right down to the very end indicates otherwise.

Saw this take on Twitter last night and I pretty much agree with it. Paraphrasing..... Botteril had to know that his best chance of resigning Skinner would be if Skinner meshed with Jack and his production reflected it. So, he had to know he was trading for a guy whose value would go through the roof if it worked out. He had to expect that the current level of negotiation was the result if things went as planned. If he didn't expect this, then the trade was essentially for a rental. In a bombshell of a season. Signing or not signing Skinner will be a huge reflection of Botteril's competence.

“The paper” in the first line of this excerpt is The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reports that the United States Navy, under orders from the White House and with the approval of the acting secretary of defense and the compliance of a chain of naval officers in the Seventh Fleet, did its efficient best to conceal the name John McCain from President Donald Trump’s sight when he recently visited Yokosuka Naval Base. The ship is under repair, so it could not be moved. But sailors hung a tarp over the ship’s name, and other measures (a strategically positioned barge) helped obscure the offending words. Sailors were told to remove all coverings that might indicate that the ship is the USS John S. McCain.

If Inkman and Swamp are in, I’ll commit.

I think they’d word it as “my other RIDE is a longhorn”. And you decide which meaning is intended.

You’re plenty fine...

If the team is worth a ticket purchase I could be motivated...

And I was late to the game at like page 6. 8.5M just makes so much sense.

I think that was called on page 2, or at least it seems that way.

Since Barr has pretty much made it known that the FBI under his leadership will not indict a sitting President, what do the unwashed masses think the likelihood of post Presidency charges will be?

I’ll end with, I know the criticism of Bylsma was heavily centered on his decision to play a system that would suit his poorly skilled roster because biggest support argument for Housley was that he was unbridling the team and that they would learn the system while the team was restructured to meet that system. The rest was piled on top of that most basic criticism.

True, he got crucified because he was bad. A good part of the criticism was that his choice of system was bad. It was both. The long pass and dump and chase were vilified every bit as much as his coaching methods. And they weren't winnoing with any method. Those teams were terribly stocked.

The correct reply would have been, Shut up you, I'm trolling. I would also have accepted "LOL".

Considering it was my point to make, I'm pretty sure I know what the point was. And I think there is a good bit of re-history here. There were plenty of debates about him installing a system geared for the bulk of the team instead of one geared for a couple of high skill guys.

Shut up, you. I'm trolling.

Look at those rosters and tell me he should have employed different tactics. I have no desire to debate his gameplan, but the points given a demonstrably lesser roster shows it. And again, the point isn't the details of his gameplan, it was that we recognized he was gameplanning down to the roster and we criticized him for doing so. We got a taste of gameplanning for what we want. not what we had with Housley. The results were not an improvement. The point had nothing to do with his white boards. He was not a good coach. Not even a mediocre one. He couldn't lead anyone. That doesn't change the point I was making even a small amount.

That may very well be, but the perception was the same as what the new guy is saying. It’s the difference response here that I am commenting on, not the intricacies of Bylsma’s gameplan.

Remembering the Dixie Chicks today and the rightfully earned scorn they received after criticizing an American President while overseas. There was alot of talk about the inappropriateness of airing our national laundry in a public way on foreign soil. Remembering this because our President has committed the same faux paux, calling former VP and current Presidential candidate low IQ while on a diplomatic mission in Japan. And the crowd critical of the Dixie Chicks have gone silent.

And was crucified for it even though the new guy is getting acceptance for the same. I was not one of those that criticized Bylsma for implementing a system based on the players on the roster. I was in the extreme minority though.

It seems to me that Housley (and Botteril at first) was saying that they were implementing a system, and by inference they were forcing that system on the players we had. It’s a process, so to speak.

The compost is still pretty ripe.

Truthiness.

I’m not sure he’d even see the ice on those teams. Jason Dawe comes to mind. Put up points on a severely talent deficient team but did nothing away from the Sabres. Zemgus rookie season ad well. Give a 4th line guy 2nd line minutes and he’ll put up mediocre middle 6 points.

If there is anything that gives me hope this offseason, it is that we have a coach who seems to be inclined to implement a system that fits the roster we have, and not try to shoehorn the players into a system that we might someday have the players to run. That alone should improve the climate in the room, and we should see it on the ice.