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GM PSE Crony just called a guy who he publicly stated pretty much emasculated him in the worst way possible "professional".

If so he should feel like the biggest sucker and mark on Planet Earth right now.

Why doesn't anyone seem to notice the thing that makes this trade so awful is essentially tossing a million or so in cap space the next few seasons straight into Lake Erie for a guy in Bjork who is in no way a million bucks better than Lazar?

And that actually understates how good he has been because save percentage doesn't factor in difficulty/quality of shots faced.

TAGE WON THIS ONE FOR OUR BELOVED APRIL!!!!!!! I AM IN TEARS!!!!!

GIRAFFE SCOOOOOOOOORES!!!! If we had won this game I'd be running down Main Street here in Brewster clad only in my Tage gameworn wildly screaming in celebration.

He is also The Giraffe Whisperer as well!

Did you know there are only 3 NFL stadiums that don't have corporate naming deals? Lambeau Field (Green Bay) Soldier Field (Chicago) Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati)

Tl:dr.

Great job by Granato to switch everything up in the 3rd. It was working way too well and we were in danger of winning a game.

OK how does this sound: They are by far the worst team of the post lockout era in which the entire freaking league was de facto rigged through the cap, Gary Bettman Loser Points and other mechanisms so that just about every team would be competitive.

In a normal draft yes, but in dis draft the strategy should be simply to have as many picks anywhere in the draft as possible because there is a high probability dat it ends up as the biggest crapshoot ever.

I mean, at least two of the teams you mentioned were specifically designed to try and lose as many games as possible and dis team is on pace to be significantly worse.

I may go up to one of the last games mainly so I can lay a wreath in front of the building like you see done at the site of a horrific tragedy.

Right off the top of my head: Chris Pronger and Victor Heddman.

And given that Adams has tossed up more bricks in his tenure than John Starks in game 7 vs the Rockets I trust his judgement about as much as I do the clueless moron who hired him.

I can understand concerns but you know I was a Whalers fan and we drafted Chris Pronger. In his first two seasons he played on Whalers teams that were spectacularly awful, and on those teams Pronger stood out as especially awful (as in every bit as bad as Dahlin looks now and possibly even slightly worse). He was traded to the Blues for Brendan Shanadouche and the rest is history.

What is true about Dahlin is also true of every single player in this organization in terms of having their games fall straight off a cliff. Fix the source of the problems (having comically incompetent coaching because the team is too stupid to hire qualified professionals) and things will do a 180. The stories about how the team would constantly screw things up in practice and Kreuger would never stop things to point out what was done wrong and make them repeat the drill until they got it right are just mindblowing, how could any player possibly develop under such ludicrous circumstances?

I think it's a case that's best exemplified by what Ole Anderson once told Jim Cornette: " Jim, I used to think you were a dumb***** but so many other dumb*****s have come along since that you've moved up the ladder without even trying!"

Here's where I disagree with blow everything up: the last Sabres coach who you could even claim is an actual NHL coach was Dan Bylsma (who is pretty bad, as evidenced by him not getting a HC gig since). Since then we had two seasons of a bad high school coach and a season and a half of a slick talking con man who was in way over his head. You could take as much good young talent as you wish, throw them into that viper's nest of incompetence and the result would always be spectacular failure. So rather than blow it all up and hire another entry level trashbag coach in way over his head how about hiring an honest to God proven quality head coach with a track record of success a mile long. If that doesn't happen in a few years time we will be having this same exact conversation only the names will be Cozens, Quinn, Samuelson and whatever poor godforsaken bastard who has the horrible misfortune to be selected by us 3rd overall in the 2021 draft.

The 3 day testing requirement is only a slightly less useless theater exercise than temperature scans.

There's a Tim Graham article from last year on The Athletic that might be of interest on this topic.