HoosierDaddy

Since we’re doing this….

Smart guy. Never burn bridges and always exit a job with class and grace.

Just to support your point, here's the TBD thread on Poyer right after we signed him. There was a lot of "Who?" https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/192546-jordan-poyer/

And they’re all young enough that they still might develop into something.

So then Tatar, Suzuki and a 2nd for future considerations? Nice roster management VGK!

Didn’t they trade their top prospect in Suzuki for Pacioretty just a few years ago?

The problem is that draft picks take so much longer to develop in hockey.

Here's a write-up from when we was traded to Toronto in February: https://thehockeywriters.com/maple-leafs-address-concerns-lyubushkin-ritchie-trade/ The upshot is that he's a stay at home D-man who blocks shots and has a nasty streak. Sounds to me like what this team was lacking.

Is CHI just trying to get the cap floor so they can trade Kane?

You still have to convince someone to come here. I know that I wouldn't want to play in an empty arena on a losing team if I had other options.

For the most part, the most successful teams in the NHL don't make splashy FA signings. Tampa built through the draft and acquiring prospects. Colorado did the same. The Rangers making the ECF this year is the exception, but they have to do this to remain relevant in that market. This is why I don't get upset at our lack of activity. I just want a goalie. Let's see how much Ottawa pays for 34yo Claude Giroux.

The interesting thing is that neither Murray nor Botterill was a bad hire at the time. Both had earned their promotion by working in the front offices of successful organisations. In fact, both were a lot more qualified than KA in paper. But neither could do the management part of the GM job. People skills matter.

Cs get degrees

The tweet from the MHL indicates that he’s playing there next year. It says “Victor Neuchev is maintaining his shape in full order. How many points will this machine score in the new season?”

His nickname has to be "The Mosquito."

The announcer says "he's unlikely to find a shot here...he shoots it anyways"

What's the thinking behind drafting players at 18? It would seem to me that drafting at 20 would make this whole thing less of a crapshoot.

I remember being at a game when I was a kid where there was a brawl at the end of the pregame skate after the refs left the ice. I can't remember who the other team was, but it was in the Aud and had to be sometime between 1985 and when I left for college in 1992. Does anyone remember this?

It was 2013: https://www.diebytheblade.com/2013/5/3/4267540/buffalo-sabres-season-recap-darcy-regier-suffering

I don't hate the Stars anymore, but I my hate for Derien Hatcher knows no bounds. He played for the Flyers too. And John LeClair shot the puck through the side of the net and it counted. That was the year after No Goal, if I recall it correctly. And Neil's hit on Drury. Yeah, I hate those teams too.

I just wanted to post this, and since some said Caps I thought this was as good a place any any:

Bruins. As a Buffalo sports fan I hate all teams from Boston. They also are the only team that has been in the Sabres division during all the realignments that have occurred. The East, Adams, Northeast and now Atlantic divisions all had Boston. The Leafs were in the Norris and then in the Western Conference for a time in the 90's.

Granato tried, but at some point the guys look around the dressing room and see that they don't have the horses to compete so the effort drops.

The scary thing is that for the first time in my life, I don't care. I'm numb to the losing, just like KA and TP.