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Why do that?

Um, he’s Matthew Barnaby without the daddy issues?

You can’t pull the defense. Hutton can only stop the straight ahead shots, his confidence is shot.

PULL HIM PHYLLIS

No really Hutton is caput.

Hutton has lost his fastball.

Every time Shears scores this season the announcers remark, “Boy did he need that!” Also the no-look-between-the-legs pass by Dahlin to start that break - SICK

Their 5 on 3s are even worse - all year - they are so afraid to take shots, and when they do they often miss the net which is the worst thing to do on a 2-man...

That was one of the best games I’ve seen this team play in about a decade. Shift after shift of intense focus and smart play. They’re just a couple of players short of where they need to be, it’s painfully obvious. They need one more sniper (Sheary just cannot score) and one more center (Sabotka was the worst, least physical player on the ice). I liked KO’s game and I liked Pommers’ too for that matter. Reino is still getting better which is really exciting. Dahlin had one of this best games as a pro. Girgs and Larsson are key role players. Pilut belongs. They are soooo close...

Back to sleepwalking. Bogo with a no look pass to the front of his own net. C’mon fellas.

Or they get emotional during a tough game and think ok, at least it’s safe to vent about it on a fan message board, and weren’t expecting a sanctimonious beat-down in response...

Dahlin is getting taken to school tonight.

All good ideas. Some of those things have almost happened during the franchise's history, which makes your post particularly well thought-out.

I guess I don't know what happened, that's true. There could be a perfectly good reason for him to no-show on the team to a degree that was so egregious that he didn't even contest his contract being voided. I'm not being sarcastic - I guess there is a world where he had a legitimate non-medical issue that warranted ripping up his entire contract. What that possibly could be, I'm struggling to come up with. Any ideas?

You know who pissed me off during last night's game? Berglund. I'm watching Mitts skate around with no confidence, Tage working his tail off and playing at a higher level than he ever has, and the Gigs-less group of 3rd and 4th liners trying to kill off the extra skater and clear the puck over the last few minutes, and I'm thinking - man, too bad Berglund quit on the team, they could use him out there right now. Quitters piss me off.

Tage “Tigger” Thompson played his best game as a Sabre tonight. He is really becoming a weapon, you can see the confidence growing and I can see this kid becoming a 20-goal scorer easily. Sheary needs to finish. Been an issue all year. Risto is irreplaceable. Seemed like Mitts had almost no ice time tonight - he’s really struggling to find his game. Skinner is a special player and I’d really hate to lose him. Both of his goals were self-generated plays that almost no one else makes. Can’t believe we stole him away in the first place. Don’t let him leave the building.

This team is going to slide right out of the playoff race.

Been saying it - they don’t hate losing, enough. Not enough of them anyway.

This is my view. Sheary needs to start FINISHING. KO too. The opportunities are there - these guys need to convert.

Frustrating game. They played mostly well. Hutton is a bit of a knucklehead but the opportunities were there - Holtby was lights out though.

Hutton HAS to stop doing that stuff.

Housley is not the coach for a streetfight - that wasn’t him as a player either. Really don’t like getting bullied at home by an inferior team.

The lack of emotional response to Skinner getting mugged is the most concerning thing I’ve seen this season.

WAKE UP BOYS

It's increasingly common for an illness to develop into a contractual grievance. Guessing it's one of those new superbugs I keep reading about on the interweb.