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Obviously I've become alot less concerned about a Risto trade now. Go get us a 2C, JBott.

Welp, I was wrong already.

Perfect.

I hate moving him with nothing ready for that role in the farm though.

That is my gu feeling as well. What is the value in getting a known very good 2C vs. a potential good to very good 2C? Is it that potential 2C and 2 late 1sts? Phew. Moving Point would be a very risky move for TB. I don't see it happening realistically.

Tampa fans on twitter are making that very point. Ouch.

We're deep in 3rd pairing/7th defenceman types. Moving Risto opens a BIG hole that we can't fill internally.

I’m almost certain they’ve been posted in here. Hell, it might’ve been me.

Cold front just hit here. A curtain of hail followed by a really impressive wind gust. The next 12 hours should be downright wild.

No. With Johansson out after surgery he's emergency depth for the Sabres.

Cuz they sound like Zeppelin? And they've been getting air time.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I think we've seen that he doesn't. The jump is huge. Redmond couldn't make it and he's setting records. I'm not hopeful for our farm.

I'm only responding to this conversation here. The Sabrespace database is too big for me to want to draw a seasons worth of malaise into the one Inkman started here.

So much potential for conversation here that requires a couple of beverages to really work out....

Oh, I know.

I think she’d be more worried about Eleven’s intentions.

??? PK is one thing the team has done consistently well regardless of their record.

I’d love to join you but I would have a jealous wife on my hands

Too late. He’s a bust.

Why does it have to go to the extreme? Noone expects perfect even out of vets. Part of the issue with this conversation is wording. “Expectations”. It could mean are you satisified with his performance? It could mean what were your preconceived notions of what you’d see his rookie year? For me, I answered the second question. And admitted that I really had no baseline for it.

The big issue I see with this plan is time. Every 5-7yrs the league seems to catch up with the current stule of play and then the preferred style of play changes. At this rate we’ll have developed this awesome squad and they’ll get steamrolled by whatever the next best way to construct a team. Edit. Or worse yet, one of our key pieces for this style of play gets hurt and can’t do it anymore. Thats why I dont agree with planning to win X years down the road. I know. Poor sentence structure at the end. Too lazy to rephrase.

Whoa

There were hints last season that Risto wasn’t really accepting of being coached. Haven’t heard that talk at all this season. I wonder about that.

I’m not sure where this is coming from. I don’t think anyone commented negatively on his offensive game.