IKnowPhysics

Oh hell no. Not with Charles in Charge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km22zWPz4uY

Let's go down this road: let's say that both are willing to listen to deals. Pretend that the team is in control of its own destiny. To Vanek: Do we make an offer? How much do we offer? What is the length of the offering? Until what time is that offer available before we must consider other routes? To Miller: Do we make an offer? How much do we offer? What is the length of the offering? Until what time is that offer available before we must consider other routes? Now flip the roles. Pretend that the players are in control of their own destiny. If you're Vanek: How much do you want? How long do you want it? What are your career goals? Do you sign with the Sabres? If you're Miller: How much do you want? How long do you want it? What are you career goals? Do you sign with the Sabres?

Who does this? Hopefully I dont give that impression. If I do unintentionally give that impression, it's likely because of the amount of hyperbole I have to sometimes inject into counterarguments. Regier's a capable GM, but there are other deficiencies on this team also (like some of the ###### players!), and that's the point I try to drive. In before "GM is ultimately responsible hurrrr." Which he is. Oh, there is. It's reality. But finding enough balance and perception to accurately describe reality escapes many, many posters, probably including myself. It's very difficult to argue for the case of moderation. Often times there's not enough leverage in the argument against the extremely stupid.

How dare you point out how retarded this thread is.

That's here: http://imgur.com/r/hockey/yUziVCL This is over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlY3s2ZyCks

Yawn.

That's the side effect of the youth revolution in Montreal- a lack of playoff experience and composure. It's often why teams that haven't made it into the playoffs in a few years often struggle the first time around (although sometimes good character coaches can get the kids through it). Not that Ottawa's much better, that bunch of ######.

But if you're not a Buffalo fan and you say that, ###### you!

After. Burke was fired and Nonis was hired January 9th. Connoly was waived on the 18th. One of Nonis' first moves.

Hard to say from an outsider perspective how much of Connolly's troubles are mental because of douche-hood/laziness, mental because of injury problems, physical because of injury problems, or physical from lack of conditioning. He's a fragile player with a long and varied injury list that has slowly and painfully gotten beat up, causing him to fall from an up-and-coming first line role on the Island (immediately as an 18 year old with no time to properly development) to a special teams-only guy that's been sent to the AHL, only to fail. What does it do to a guy to compete your whole life, only to be told you can no longer play the game at the midpoint of what should have been your promising career, even after making coming backs from three different serious injuries (head, hips, back)? Edit: I'm with Eleven on this one.

Time for Team Canada to trade everyone and rebuild.

120. We would have invented time travel, gone back and won every Stanley Cup starting with the Challenge Cup in 1893, and prevented all lockouts and no-Cup years because I didn't want to do that math.

I tried so hard to find video of that. Couldn't.

"I am the Zemgus"

This right here is why we drafted him:

That would be Sarah Douglas. Keep in mind we're referencing Superman II (the one where the ) from 1980, so... Sarah Douglas back in the day: Sarah Douglas now:

There are ###### beers and there are the shittiest beers. Hamm's is the former, probably one of the five or ten best ###### beers.

KNEEL BEFORE ZEMGUS

Lulz. "Canucks’ Zack Kassian’s bad dangle nets him new nickname after failing to 'Bure' scoring chance"

Picked up bottles of Balvenie 12 Doublewood (sms), Macallan 12 (sms), and WhistlePig 10 (straight rye). All are smooth and uniquely delicious.

I have no idea which part you think I'm kidding about, because no where did I say that Regier didn't build the team and no where did I absolve Regier of responsibility. My only points were that he is taking responsibility about where the team is and that it's retarded to think that "A real man would ... move on to fresh pastures." Thank you for back-peddling, but it's still a large logical disconnect to assume that because Pegula hasn't fired him, Regier hasn't explained where the failures have occurred. Especially when quotes like this from Pegula have :

Carollina Senators? Or was there another one on your mind? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pyGSyfkO6I

Aye, there's the rub.

I think he thinks of Myers (256 games played, 23 years old), Weber (174, 25), Pardy (200, 29), Sulzer (106, 28) on the younger side of things with about three seasons' worth of games played. I still think of Myers as 'young'-ish, but not Sekera. But when you think about the guys we'll probably want to build around going forward in terms of talent (Ehrhoff, Myers... Sekera? Weber?... Pysyk? Ruhwedel? McNabb? ...McCabe?), only Ehrhoff and Sekera are older than 25. (not trying to ###### on Sulzer, Pardy, but I've yet to be convinced that they stay for a long time)

The comments from Craig Button on GR were pretty interesting. Refreshing to get an outsider's point of view that hasn't suffered or developed bias. Button was Director of Scouting and then Player Personnel for Minnesota/Dallas from 1992-2000, then GM for Calgary, with whom he is credited with building the '04 SCF team. Paraphrasing points from him: Young talent is a good thing, but it doesn't win games. Kids try to keep their head above water in the NHL and to ask them to make big contributions to winning in an almost impossible task. Sabres should focus on building the blue line veterancy. Trying to bring in and develop more than one or two young defensemen at a time is hard- they need veteran leadership back there. If he were to do a rebuild, he would do it around Cody Hodgson and Tyler Myers. With regard to Vanek and Miller: it would be a long, hard road to go without them (to go with a team of all young players). The team needs players to help the young players. Edmonton, who went with an all-young rebuild, hasn't made the playoffs in seven years. Sabres must keep them because it's too hard to replace them. IF they trade Vanek or Miller, they need to do it now/at the draft. Return at the trade deadline is significantly reduced. Both players would garner a lot of attention this year as a "top top guy" because the UFA market is weak. In the case of Vanek, he could fetch a good roster player, a very good young prospect, and one or two draft picks. Compares the trade to the trading of Brent Burns from MIN to SJ for Setoguchi, Coyle, and a 1st rounder, except "Vanek is better than Burns." On Grigorenko: he wasn't ready this year. Still has lots of upside and could fit well with us. On draft target at #8: very deep draft this year, much like 2003 (great players through rounds one and two). Lots of options at a lot of different positions. Mentions C Valeri Nichushkin (who "shouldn't be there at 8 because of his talent, but because of the 'Russian issue' he will be") and a few others. Also mentions Zach Fucale is an elite prospect at G, but #8 is a reach.