PerreaultForever

Ducks looked gassed in the 3rd so the young fast legs got the comeback win. Still in last place though. Penguins looked like garbage against the Flyers so I suspect we pass them but not sure about anybody else.

Do you think that that stat might also be an indicator that teams do in fact get caught napping when they face the Sabres?

Detroit getting ready for a big move? Do they still want Cozens? Ducks finally preparing to actually trade the always rumored and yet never moved Gibson? Ducks don't quit. This might actually be a good game.

Or make a Power/Tkachuk deal, trade Cozens and sign Raantanen in the off season. I'm just throwing that out there to say there are always things that can be done and there are wild and crazy things and big things and small things and this GM does not seem very active or competitive and just seems prepared to wait for his beloved draft choices to develop. Other GMs make moves and try things. Some work some don't but they try. We have players teams want. We have picks and prospects. We have cap space and an increasing cap. We have an owner who is filthy rich and has money to burn if he would want to. What we don't seem to have is a will and a real desire to try to win.

Not in any way suggesting we "subtract". Rather that the composition of this roster is not ideal and changing one type of player for another will get you sooner rewards than waiting for the next guy. For example, if Power and Brady Tkachuk were the center pieces in a big hockey trade I'm all ears on it. I also want to move prospects and picks for veterans. I want to win now, or I guess next year as this one is too late and I would do whatever it takes at this point. Whatever it takes.

You're a last place team, for the right price ANYBODY is tradeable.

This team does this every year. Don't be fooled.

Does not seem to rise to big occasion games. Not very competitive. A highly skilled guy that maybe doesn't care all that much about winning? That seems to be the case. The Miller thing was pretty weird. Gay slurs and stuff? I don't know how much of that was actually true but it was nasty and it's amazing that team didn't fall apart completely with that going on. Peterson might need a sports psychologist at this point to try to get back on track.

This reminded me of pummeling the Leafs the other year. This team has one of these offensive outburst games every now and again where they seem unstoppable but it's never lasted long before so likely doesn't now either. They are too far down for any of this to matter. Just going to make themselves and some fans think that everything's fine and just wait for next year. So enjoyable, but meaningless. How does that math work?

Only with an extension and long term signing. Otherwise I wouldn't trust him to stay and commit.

Looked good in the first period but playing with Draisaitl didn't hurt him that's for sure. Flyers shut down all the Oilers in the third though. The Russians were well rested .

Kind of true, except Austin Matthews be Austin Matthews on that final goal.

Rags had a bunch of 4Nations guys. It'll be interesting to see all over if these guys are still on the higher level or if they are all gassed and float. Sabres are out of it so I don't want a late season surge. All that'll do is save Adams job and feed us the same bs as every other year.

Interesting that the article calls it "botched" when it was a deliberate change. Agree with it or not is your choice but it wasn't "botched", she changed it to ONLY US command as an obvious message. This is the first place I've seen it viewed negatively. It's gotten positive reactions overall.

and that's what world leaders should do? troll other world leaders? I'll just let you ponder for yourself what the normalization of a lot of this is doing.

Seems bigger where I live. There's a patriotism around here I've never seen before, and I'm pretty old.

In Canada it does. This was symbolically huge.

If I'm Ottawa I'm trading Brady Tkachuk now while his value is sky high. After you watch how USA he was and how emotional it seems pretty obvious that he will leave as a free agent same way his brother did and go play for an American team. They are dreaming if they think they can keep him happy in Ottawa.

They tinkered with that once before but I think if you have a "Europe" team made up of all those countries you pretty much throw Finland into the loser seat and maybe Sweden too. Czechs plus Slovaks with some star Germans etc. would be a very good team. If you want a real equal competition maybe you could have Scandinavia with Sweden and Finland as one team but they are also kind of rivals so probably doesn't work. I think no matter how you work it it'll still end up Canada U.S.

Most of Canada viewed this as a battle of good vs. evil there's no denying that.

That was a great hockey game. Binnington showed he's a money goalie after all. Stuck it to Boston in the Stanley Cup finals and stuck it to their fans again tonight. Marchand piggybacking Konecny really did make me laugh. That might be the biggest international win for Canada since '72. I hope we see this again.

That's part of the problem with tanking isn't it? You are left inserting these young guys into an empty void rather than a strong culture. They come in and are given the leadership role and they've gone through life always being the star and the diva even and only the ones with extremely solid character can navigate that properly. The rest have to grow up first. I still believe it might have gone better if we'd named ROR captain instead of Eichel and had him as the cultural center but you can't change the past. Team did not learn the lesson as there's still a lack of veteran leadership and it's unlikely to change until these guys age into it.

To the second paragraph that's simply what I was wondering. Was it an apology? It was oblique enough I'm not sure and yes, I suppose you'd have to ask Lorne Michaels or maybe Miley Cyrus. To the first, it's the failure to recognize you don't have it any more. Paul singing Beatles stuff there was like Jerry Rice trying to play football well past the end of his career. Just sad to watch. Being there or being involved sure, but as the end musical guest no. Keith Richards was there. He just asked about a scarf for his appearance. Maybe Paul Simon should have just opened the show in a turkey costume. Paul? You know what would have been great? If Paul made up a little ditty honoring Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) that made reference to being stoned like a Koala Bear. Remember that one? You know the show should have probably opened with Chevy Chase falling out of his wheelchair, but some people know when they are too old for something as he'd probably not be able to get back up. Let's just agree to disagree on this.

I think it's really simple to understand. He's gotten injured blocking shots and playing defensive D and so he doesn't want to do that the way he needs to to be successful with his skillset. I'd love to see what happens to him in a trade to Philly the first time he doesn't block a shot he should for Torts. Mind you, we have a habit of breaking promising D men and we'd probably see Torts fix him eventually like he did with Risto.

In terms of team structure long term it's too much money on similar guys. Byram is going to want to be paid like a top pairing D man. That puts a lot of money on 3 offensive D men. You only need 2. I'd rather they spent the money on adding that defensive partner(s) or a top 6 forward. Again I hated the Mitts for Byram trade. It's not that I thought Mitts was all that, but it was a positional mistake imo. Strength down center is an important thing and we don't have it. So I'm not about subtracting but rather about adding the actual team needs.