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there was some speculation on the baker-fairburn podcast that Pegula simply doesn't want to pay KA to not be the GM. they are letting him ride out the remainder of his contract. my memory is that they said there was one year left?

I was counting krueger as well. You can debate whether that is fine or not. But quite honestly, it is beside the point I was trying to make. This group of players has been unsuccessful for years. Lindy inherited an unsuccessful group of players. And wasn't able to pick his own assistant coaches to help get his message through to the players.

I didn't say he was free from blame. However, what I did imply is you shouldn't be putting this squarely on his shoulders when he inherited a team that had minimal turnover and hasn't made the playoffs for a decade plus. Didn't even get to choose his own assistant coaches. It's pretty much last years team with a different fourth line. Sure, are they a little worse? Yep. But would they have made the playoffs with a different coach? No, i don't believe so. Do you think a different coach is going to have this roster (prior to the cozens trade) in the playoffs?

I'm not going to dump on lindy because all of the coaches that have tried with this group have failed. At some point, you have to say that this is on the players because they aren't talented enough, they are mentally fragile, they are injury prone, and the team isn't deep enough to sustain injuries to their best players. Obviously, by saying "it is the players", this also implicates the gm since he assembled the group of players (and coach fwiw). That and he was stuck with the same group of assistant coaches. Undoubtedly, he deserves some of the blame as the skipper of this sinking ship. But I'm not willing to put a large portion of the blame on him

B if Norris stays healthy. I like it.

I think that honor goes to the loss to the Avs.. but this one is definitely up there!

Murray had a longish stint with the sabres a few years ago and he seemed to fit. I was surprised at the time that he was sent down

amerks win in 5 round shoot out vs marlies. helenius with the goal in the shootout and levi with the shutout. nice win!

Silly penalty!

I really like Östlund's game from what I've seen of it. He's a really active player that is both intelligent and skilled. Has some pretty good defensive chops too. Excited to see that he's starting to have AHL success and trending in the right direction because I haven't always been so sure that he would ultimately develop into an NHL player.

6 shots against in almost 60 minutes toi 5v5 for jokiharju. Pretty ridiculous stat considering who the competition was at this tournament

https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/nhl/nhl-trade-deadline-player-rankings-top-targets-for-deadline-bm19/ Betmgm's top 10 targets for the trade deadline (Byram and cozens are both on the list). Any interest in the other guys?

I find the honesty refreshing. I hope that they are this candid with the players behind closed doors too

Canada v usa on Saturday. Excited for that one!

I'd love them if they were on the Sabres, but I've watched too many games where they have terrorized us