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I'm just so confused by the outrage over converting a likert scale to meaningless grades when it still shows we finished 32nd almost universally.

Remove kicker. Change flex to superflex.

Are you kidding me? Surely a 10 goal scorer in the top 6 will propel this team to the playoffs!

Tuch has an uphill battle to make the team while Thompson has a reasonable chance. 4 forwards have already been selected - Eichel, Matthews and the Tkachuk brothers. I think there are another 4 locks for the roster in Jack Hughes, Conner, Robertson and Boldy. That leaves 5 slots. Guys like Keller, Guentzel, Thompson, Caufield, Debrincat, Cooley, Larkin, Tuch and Knies competing for those slots. I think Guentzel and Thomspon lead for slots 9 & 10.

Red Savage signed for Rochester. I remember his draft year I thought what a great hockey name. Sounds like a guy who would have played with Gordie Howe or someone back then. He hasn't lived up to that name, but fun to have him around all the same. https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/detroit-red-wings/latest-news/yzerman-red-wings-parts-ways-with-in-state-standout-signs-with-sabres-affiliate

He admitted he didn't know a hockey puck from a meatball. He never coached toddlers in O-leen.

Dudes good. but this a non Sabres complaint thread. mine would be.. tires. 15k and they are done. I’m not (most times) crazy

To me it sounds like Ducks want the same for McTavish as we got back for JJ.

I'm not sure Olofsson is going to fit in the Avalanche's or McKinnon's worldview any better than Mittelstadt did. But I do see lots of opportunities for him to play, and with top 6 time with just a single injury. Makar alone could pick up at least five 5-on-5 primary assists to VO while VO just camps on the right dot. VO should get 18+ goals barring a top-6 acquisition early in the season to push him further down the lineup.

Would you pull it together, please? People are demanding Fs, not Cs.

It isn’t so much the who as it is the what, but Putin and the Russian army and their entire propaganda campaign for starters. That’s our flag for our military to fly and it has no business being flown by another military; especially by a dictator-led, corrupt, adversarial country like Russia.

Not takin' the bait. 😉 Will suffice it to say, am getting tired of cramming 10 gallons of stuff in a 5 gallon bucket and then coming back again to do it all over again. Lather - rinse - repeat.

I propose that I get the first 5 draft picks because I am consistently terrible 😘

Ok I’ll tie this into the Benson thread. I don’t understand how anyone who complains about the last 14 years wants a 5’9” twenty year old in the top six.

Let’s Complain early.

No.

So we agree, they didn't have their grade inflated.

No, the survey was apparently 1-5. 1 - 5 goes F, D, C, B, A. At least when non-English majors are setting up the scale. This one was clearly set up by English majors or some other mathphobes. In some categories a C- was a 3.0 and in others a C was a 2.8. In one, a B- is a 3.2 and a C+ is a 3.5. If the rules to Calvinball could be converted to math, we're witnessing it. 😉 And they didn't "receive the lowest grade possible on this scale." That apparently would've been a 1.0. They received a 2.0. Which was the lowest grade of the 32 rated team front offices, but it was not the lowest grade possible on the scale.

Proposed rule changes should be suggested ASAP.

Nope, not gonna hang my hat on any single player to improve the overall team. If we had landed a bonafide star in the off-season, that person would probably have gotten my vote.

Still the least experienced group in the league, regardless of age.

The survey was basically 1-4, that's how they get a D. This nonsense about passing isn't tethered to anything. It's not a school grade. Y'all have lost your minds. They literally received the lowest grade possible on this scale... how tf is that "inflation"?

I have two drafts to run. This one and Two Bills Drive. I’m on travel September 2 through the fourth, but I think I should be able to do the third from my hotel room. 90 seconds per pick is fine, but people who don’t show and don’t set their picks to auto draft will face punishment.

And again, had they simply replaced the coaching staff (or significant parts of it) would be very bullish on the team's chances to have turned the corner. But they've played such a fundamentally flawed game the past 2 years when they theoretically were going to play NHL defense, just have a hard time believing the improved maturity will overcome the rest of what they're dealing with.