WildCard

Eichel Mittelstadt Dahlin

Stark contrast to last year when it was all thrown at the coach. Wonder if a coaching change, gm change, major roster overhaul, and even worse results have the guys that were here for Byslma actually realizing the only people that can fix this is themselves

Surprised nobody is on Johsnson's side for this. We've spent all season bashing this team, and our garbage defense, then we bash RoR for his comments, but when Chad basically says what we're all thinking...we bash Chad? Sure, he sucked too, but he's right in saying that this team blows and routinely didn't do basic aspects of playing a hockey game

I need playoff hockey already. This is killing me

The Bills did not fire coaches/GM's after one season

Great post. Getting Dahlin goes a long way towards this as well

Pretty much the exact opposite of what O'Reilly did. I guess if you hated what RoR said you should love this

Some pretty big words from ol' Chad there. This should be it's own thread IMO.

http://www.spotrac.com/nhl/free-agents/ufa/ spotrac has him as a UFA And cap friendly has him as an RFA https://www.capfriendly.com/players/mark-stone What the hell is going on here Edit: Well everywhere else I've looked has him as an RFA. Spotrac is just wrong it seems. Well then...trade for Mark Stone

Knew I could count on you

Mark Stone, RW, Ottawa, is a 25 year old UFA coming off a 20-42-62 season and made $3.5M last year in 58gp. SIGN THIS GUY TRADE FOR THIS GUY He consistently puts up 20g and 60 points, he is consistently a good possession winger, is young, and should be decently cheap. This is a no brainer, sign--or-this-guy-right-away, move. https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/s/stonema01.html He missed time this year due to a high ankle sprain

Is it still slow? It can be a ton of things. Anywhere from a virus to there's literal dust in your laptop. I would bet you probably just left it on so long it needed to be restarted. Computers are like playing a really long game of chess. Imagine you're playing chess. You play the black pieces, and you know that one bishop is on a black square, and one is one a white square. They shouldn't be able to move onto the same color square. After playing some time, you notice that both bishops are on white squares. You don't know how or why this happened, but you can still fix it by resetting the entire board. Your computer is the same way. I found this analogy on reddit, always seemed useful to me

Apparently they all checked out right around Christmas http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/23092756/ryan-oreilly-says-buffalo-sabres-adopted-mindset-being-ok-losing Anyone who thinks we can rebound from a slow start next year is insane. For a normal team sure, but we need to come out hot and get some confidence, or we're ######...again

:beer: Personally I'm still in my crackhead neighbor phase. But I'm of the mentality that if you buy a house, might as well go all in and not skimp on anything you want/need.

There's a reason Ted Nolan, Dan Byslma, and Ron Rolston didn't receive coaching offers last summer, and won't this summer either

Anyone know when Botterill's end of the season presser is?

Should eat an avocado and listen to this, I hear it helps

Constant turnover of coaches is a really, really bad thing. Giving him anything less than two full seasons would be a disaster

Good post. I had a big post griping about O'Reilly earlier this season too for the same thing. He complained and wanted out of Colorado because he believed he was worth more than they thought he was; he specifically said he wanted to be a bigger part of a team, a leader, and more ice time. He gets here, gets all that, and...? Come on man This is 100% true too

If it's another player trashing them then 100% yes

Wasn't he really young in Boston? And good point about the SJ 'C', forgot about that Wow, can't believe Thornton used to be a high 30g/season guy. Crazy to think about

Looks like most other rankings out there honestly

O'Reilly is asked by Hamilton if he needs a change of scenery (short answer is 'no') https://twitter.com/Matt_Bove/status/983350131440472064

@pham1717 Housley: "Jason and I will have to talk about that, but I don't expect any changes on the coaching staff." @pham1717 Housley: "I told them to be ready for training camp. It's going to be a hard camp. @pham1717 Housley said he didn't see O'Reilly lose his passion for the game. @pham1717 Housley: "We have to evaluate everything. The coaching staff, the players. What are they going to invest in this summer to change."