PerreaultForever

I made that joke about 3 years ago - Pegula got bullied by a hockey player way back when he went to high school and this entire owndership plan has been revenge on hockey fans and players. Sometimes it feels like that's the only possible explanation.

They need time to go out and eat the poutine.

and look, here you are with me...................

Let's be fair, it's not a "losing streak" it's a winless streak 🙂

Oooh, fan fight, let's go. Discern my planetary residence.

Maybe Pegula will hire Chick Fletcher and his first big move will be to trade Cozens to Philly for Ristolainen 😆

Wow, one good week for Ullmark and suddenly Ottawa's 6 points ahead of us.

Next GM is Forton. Next coach is Appert. Bet on it.

This is your worry now? Where you been for the last 10+ years? Of course it's going to happen. Dahlin or Cozens or somebody wanting out will feel like here we go again but imagine how you're going to feel when even Tuch wants out and doesn't re-sign.

Really no need to practice not doing what the coach wants you to do, it comes naturally to most of them.

Ya, I don't get how anybody still pays money to go see them. Whether I watch them or not has no financial impact since I just have sportsnet plus anyway regardless but I have shifted back to watching them on replay now not live. This has happened every year for the last few years. Usually not until the new year, but the hope this year faded fast. There is a part of me now that kind of wants them to go really bad this year so that Pegula has no choice but to fire Adams but then on the other hand I have faith he'd screw up the next hire too so ultimately it doesn't matter. Wish the on ice product was more entertaining though.

Well Dylan can relax now, Pegula said no big trades coming. All is well.

shocking.

There is a bit of a trap there isn't there? What can a coach do when his potential call ups and replacements are a bunch of green rookies not NHL ready? You want accountability it has to be based on effort, not necessarily results. If a guy tries to make the right play but fails because he's not able to that's acceptable, but if a guy floats and doesn't do anything then he should sit. Based on the Leaf game, Peterka should sit. Will he? Unlikely. Ruff is being accountable, but what can he really do?

Carrot or a stick? Who knows. Who cares. Maybe he will threaten them with low flow shower heads in the dressing room. Maybe he will promise them French hookers. He's not going up there to fire anybody. He probably just had a hankering for a smoked meat bagel sandwich. The Petterson rumors might be real. Him and Miller apparently have serious beef so maybe that town ain't big enough for the both of them.

That sounds nice but how? Seriously, how? If the GM rewards mediocrity with big contracts and doesn't make any big moves what control of the country club locker room does any coach have? None. The GM has to give the coach power to sit people and subtract people. He needs options and Ruff has very few. Who will he play if he sits Cozens? How will that be better? Seriously, you're the coach, what do you do?

The bar is higher there. They're still not happy and are talking trades. They start winning and maybe Swayman gets his mojo back it'll probably fizzle out but they have a winning expectation there and they spend right to the cap (if not over at times).

It's natural to think that. We've already passed the point where most teams would do something.

Yes, of course he is, but if he tells them what to do and what he expects and they just don't do it, he basically has no power or options in this environment. It's not his assistants, it's not his personnel, he's pretty much neutered.

Because we don't develop them the right way. We don't make them earn it. Right from the get go we never do it right and they become soft and weak. Cozens wasn't called the workhorse because he slacked off in junior. Here he's found the standard doesn't demand it and so that's the end of that.

Culture change has been my battle cry for quite a long time. We get close but we never seem to get there and then it all falls apart every time.

Watched this in replay. Wasn't surprised to see the Sabres give them trouble early. They get sucked into an open game with us every year and we've won several of them but not this one. I do wonder who's decision it was to play Levi? My guess would be Adams. Ruff's not big on giving rookies a shot but you never know. I suspect Adams rolling the dice with his guy. Loss not Levi's fault, but he still doesn't look NHL ready to me. The passenger of the night award goes to JJ Peterka. Just watch the 4th Leaf's goal. WTF is Peterka doing, because he's not playing hockey. Admiring how white the ice is? Singing jungle bells to himself? Just floating around in between Leafs doing absolutely nothing basically giving them a PP when it's 5 on 5. If this was a Tortorella team he wouldn't have seen another second of ice time after that and he'd probably be in the press box for the next 2 or 3. That was pathetic. Just pathetic. Garbage team. Fire everybody.

But yes they are. They have created this culture. We've changed the players after blaming them many times already. There's a deeper underlying problem. otherwise the players leaving wouldn't get good and win cups after leaving would they. This will be hard to believe, but right now, as he is currently, Risto would be the second best D man on this team. When he left here, he was barely an NHL D man at all.

No. Just NO. To hell with the draft.

I'm not going to click on anybody and you know that the "problem" here today is the "solution" on his next team, you just know that. I'm not doing it again. It's the franchise and the ownership NOT the players.