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It’s just that there is a tremendous amount of unjustified hand ringing over the return. No one stops to pontificate why the amazing ROR only yielded what it did. People should not blame the auctioneer when the collectible Willie Nelson plate only fetches $4.95 at auction.

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What possible knowledge do you think you would possess about Tim Murray’s efforts, or lack thereof, in helping Lehner?

Why maybe? Unless given other evidence, shouldn’t that be the default assumption?

Nobody eats their own like Buffalo.

I was a History major in college. It was the Germans that bombed Pearl Harbor.

They will get what the market will bear.

How many decades went by with the NYR trying to buy a Stanley Cup and it failed? These players aren't legos that just plug and play to form a winning team. Changing age, personal situations and environment are always changing their performance relative to the past.

There is a really nice TED talk that make s the case that the world needs fewer leaders and more first followers. Because if everyone is a leader, who exactly is doing the following? note that this is “first” follower, not just a follower. It’s having the recognition of who actually has the chops to be a real leader and throwing your suppprt behind them.

Assuming Housley is the disaster you claim, is he a static entity unable to get better at his job after two years?

If you could guarantee a Stanley Cup in nine years I would sign up for that in a heartbeat.

There probably isn’t much historical data to go back and analyze, but I think I would still take a couple seconds of him getting a stick than having to do what he did there without one. It was the third period so they were the near bench.

Not to take anything away from the Erod’s effort, I just can’t believe it is not better to just take three seconds and skate to the bench to get a stick than it is the stay out there for a minute without one.

To be fair... no one is out there now.

That’s probably not an overreaction. They are 6-6 in OT.