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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

it feels wrong rooting for a tkachuk

NHL...centralize your games onto two platforms and im sure that the numbers will go up. One for streaming and one for cable. There are too many different channels/streaming services playing games. Espn/espn+/nhl network/tbs/trutv/msg/msg+/abc is way too much. And thats not even with me listing out Canadian broadcasts. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills just listing this all out. And side note: I agree with the sentiment that the article is picking and choosing games. If you are going to make a sweeping conclusion like "nhl games struggling on platform x", you should be coming to that conclusion based on more than a handful of individual games.

Anyone have the breakdown of how many players are in this from every nhl team? It looks like there are a ton of lightning players. And that's not even counting their 2 best players.. kucherov and vasilevskiy. It would be unreal if they miss the playoffs this year with that much talent

Eagles winning doesn't move the needle for me

on a back to back and on a 6 game losing streak, the third worst team in the nhl just scored 6 on the sabres (who were icing their starting goalie). during a year that we are supposedly going to compete for playoffs. can't make this stuff up!

two things: 1. metsa would have to be signed to an nhl contract, he's currently on a one way contract in the ahl. they ought to do this IMO and give him a shot eventually when one of the more offensive dmen goes down 2. with that being said, i'm not sure metsa is the ideal candidate to replace samuelsson. he doesn't play the sort of game that I think they would need from someone replacing samuelsson. to be fair, i'm not sure samuelsson has that game either

This confirms what we already thought: KA is full of it. It has nothing to do with palm trees. One out of three guys mentions taxes, but it's only as a secondary thing. The primary reason no one wants to come here is that we suck. And have continued to suck for so long that free agents see Buffalo as a place that will negatively impact their career if they come here. KA had one really good opportunity, IMO, to attract free agents. After we were 1 point off of the playoffs in 22-23, that should have been the time to attract free agent talent or make a trade for a player that has us on their ntc. We were a young team on the rise with a bunch of talented/skilled players. It was the easiest sell. "Come here, be a part of breaking the drought and winning the cup once this group matures." What did he do instead? He sat on his hands and changed literally zero of the forwards (and made only small changes on the defense). That offseason will forever be the reason that I will not change my mind about KA. IMO, it played a large part in what's going on today with no end to the misery in sight. Unforgiveable

it's the dahlin effect. you pair the two together and suddenly muel looks decent. you remove dahlin from the equation and you have a mediocre borderline ahl/nhl player. i would be concerned about paying byram the big bucks for the exact same reason.

Is our lineup aging backwards?

Brettt Murray goal is filthy.