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Which is my point and why I believe we would be stronger in trading him. Too much focus on Jack and on the past years. Inescapable and all the talk next year if things don't go great. Better to wipe the slate clean at this point and build fresh with the young group we have plus what we get.

Actually it is solved, it's just that people don't follow the solutions. They simply don't listen, just like the covidiots.

There's truth to that, and you'd think so, but remember these are hockey players. They're not often the brightest lights and they spend their entire lives in team oriented groups and locker rooms and a lot of them are used to being "led". Do not underestimate the power of strong team leadership. Said it before and will always believe it. History would have been different if we'd named ROR captain instead of holding it for Eichel.

I think it happened at a Tim's. 🙂

No, but expecting him to be the answer for everything is part of the cause.

Having Reinhart taking the draw with the goalie pulled doesn't exactly scream genius coaching but whatever, face offs don't matter I'm told. So, two teams trying to play basically the same way. They're just better than us. For those people in the other thread saying the Sabres are a mid level team maybe this will convince you. Rangers are a mid level team. We are down below that. We were never in it. Thompson needs to sit again. All his bad habits are taking over again. Guy just doesn't get it.

I expect this to be pretty fast and wide open. Should be a good test to see if this young D can hold up. Probably comes down to goaltending.

I still have a limp from falling off the bandwagon after the 10 game win streak................ Never again 🙂

Well, there's nothing there to really argue with, but a lot of it is hopeful and wishful. 1. Would Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart be the line you want? We'd like Skinner @40 goals again but he's looking so useless I have no faith he will just rebound on that line and we didn't win with that top line before so why would we now? 2. Mitts has shown vast improvement and the ability to score, but that line is flawed as is and I'm not sure how it holds up for a whole season. My thoughts on what Thompson needs to do are all over numerous threads. 3. I like R2 with Cozens, not so sure about Bjork and I think Seattle will take him. 4. I agree on the D and it brings up questions. Overall it's moving in the right direction but not sure if it's there yet. 5. The bottom is iffy at best. We have no size, no toughness, no good checkers. This is not a balanced team. 6. The goaltending has to be a lot better and more reliable. and durable. So you need to add pieces, as you said, but will we? who? for who? Will Eichel buy in? Will the cultural shift continue or be back to the same again? I'm just not sure, and I'm hesitant to be too optimistic too soon.

Stylistically that may be true. Krupp is perhaps the best comparison. I will have to see more before I equate him with McKee's toughness.

The team is going to have to prove this. I will believe it when I see it.

Consider the opposition. In this division right now, we are only (arguably) better than New Jersey. Rangers with their lottery wins have more youth trending up than we do. Philly is kind of hard to figure so leave that one as a question mark. But way behind the rest. In our old division we're dead last. Maybe we could be ahead of Ottawa but I think they are poised to move up. Tampa? Florida? Toronto? Boston? How exactly do you see us close to the playoffs???

I'm going to go further back and say he could be our new Bill Hajt. often unnoticed, often overlooked, but solid, stable and dependable game in game out. Exactly what a successful team needs.

This is the illusion I'm afraid is happening with management. This team is not that good. Yes, there is a youthful energy that Granato has unleashed but there are so many weaknesses and so many mistakes still and key positions are big question marks (like goaltending). We still have the worst contract in hockey on this team (Skinner) and we are a long way from being a playoff team. What we're seeing now is like the 4th quarter of a football game where your team is down something like 36-7, the opposition goes into prevent, you get a few turnovers and score a bunch of late points but still lose 36-33 and everybody thinks it was close. It's not.

That's my feeling too. Not sure if he's the guy you want to commit to as #1, especially with the frequent injuries. Maybe there's a deal to be made with Florida? They have too many goalies. Adams needs to get creative if the free agents out there don't want to be Sabres.

? I don't think this is true. maybe a rumour, but I don't remember ever reading or hearing this anywhere. Not that he'd come here anyway. He's near the end so not sure he's even worth considering.

Rask doesn't want the money so no chance. He will either sign with the Bruins or a top contender if the Bruins don't want to pay him or he will just retire. Grubauer or Mrazek are my choices if possible. Dubnyk and Ullmark as second choices. Ideally, we sign 2 goalies as UPL is not ready. So a starter to a 4-5 year deal and a back up to a 1-2 year deal. Maybe Bernier or Reimer for that if the money's right.

See, I told you we could win this one. Damn near a callosal fold though, lol. Nice to win, I bet it bugs Hall a lot 🙂 We finished our chances better than they did in a sloppy sloppy game where some of the older Bruins looked beat. UPL is NOT ready. Good for him to get a win in his first game, but lots of bad goals. He needs a lot more AHL. Somebody please teach Thompson that his wrister from outside the slot might have worked in junior but it's cherry picking for NHL goaltenders. Drive the net you dumb ..................... Use the size. He frustrates me. But whatever, at least we beat them once!

I'm not really questioning this, because it does often feel like we are not conditioned well and the soft nature of the team as a whole seems to lead to guys getting hurt a lot but do the stats actually bear this out? Do we, year in and year out, have more injuries than most teams?

This is the one we have a chance to win. Slim, but a chance. Bruins will be over confident. Bruins are old. Young legs and energy can come at them fast and if we can score early we have a chance. UPL has to, of course, surprise for that possibility, but why not?

Zemgus and him probably drink vodka together, but ya, I think he was just talking about the losing streak.

He looked like a high school math nerd being bullied. Actually looked scared. Sad that nobody else got involved. We were never in this game. They are so much stronger on the puck . Tokarski was not good. We might have already burned him out. Thompson is back to being a useless giraffe. I'm going to exaggerate here for the sake of the example, but this guy wants to be or thinks he can be Connor McDavid and has to learn to be Tom Wilson. Until he gets that mindset into his head he's not going to be anything. Borgen was okay. Caggiula slightly more noticeable but still a non factor. Overall this is what it was, a bunch of kids in over their heads, hesitating, disorganized, and afraid or uncertain. Either way, tentative and timid. Our only hope tomorrow is they take us lightly and UPL dazzles in a surprise. Hall didn't score, but he's using his body more and he does seem to fit in as a Bruin, with their style, far better than he did here. Can't stand that whole thing.

Much ado about very little. A hernia for a young athlete is a minor thing and he should be fully recovered and 100%. Whether or not he's any good is another discussion. Too soon to to tell.

Probably. I've wanted to see the Bryson Borgen combo . I think I'd probably have mixed the 2 more D guys with the 2 more O guys (so Dahlin with Risto) but I do like the idea of trying to develop pairings rather than mixing and matching all the time. It's been a sore spot with me for a few years now. As for UPL, you never know. Swayman surprised the Bruins so UPL might surprise us. Is he actually ready though? Very unlikely.

Ya, that's pretty much my view. I don't think he's ready but with the situation Adams left the team in Tokharski can't play 3 games in 4 nights so they give him a look. It shouldn't ruin him. Hopefully he gains more perspective and works harder.