PASabreFan

I was going to say that's a decent compromise, but then I learned it's been 20 years since he was named the top coach in the AHL. All around the organ-eye-zation, you see promise and possibility: Adams, Karmanos, Granato, Dahlin, Cozens, Mittelstadt, Ullmark (and UPL), Borgenbryson and so on. Hell, I'll throw a bone at the Pegulas and say they show promise, too. They could be excellent owners. What's missing in all this? Mentors. Get the right guy to mentor the front office (Rutherford?); this time, get the right vets to show the kids the way — these have to be the right personalities but they also have to be good hockey players who can ensure the young core doesn't continue to play on crummy teams; not sure who can straighten out the Pegs. Parts is parts, and we got parts. Someone has to find the recipe for the breading to make them a tasty nugget. I guess I'm back to Rutherford.

I'm being told that people are saying that all Canadian media talking heads should go to hell (passing go first was said to be an option). Well?

It's been many a moon since I took French (for six years lol), but the attached article from a Montreal newspaper in 1984 seems to confirm that a deal was on the table in 1982. Bowman seems to confirm it.

huh

My hazy memory says Perreault once said, probably after retiring, that it would have been better for him if he'd been traded to Montreal in the late 70s for Lafleur. It's been mentioned over the years that the trade was on the table, but the Nixes knoxed it.

Did you like Ronnie Tulip Bulb?

Is anyone really up for the ***** Leafs celebrating playoff wins on OUR ice? Think Boston would host the Yankees?

No wiggle room for it just being sports? Performance art? Was Bryan Cox on your Xmas card list?

Do you know how many crummy Sabre teams made heroic runs in March/April only to suck again in October? We're so desperate for success, we want to believe this is different. Maybe it is. I should let it go. Donny Meatballs (kinda diggin' that; slide into his DMs) is the next coach. The almost dying, the redemption angle, the fine young man, the first-timer who owes them: he's Pegula People to a tee. Well said. I just hope the decision is made dispassionately well after the glow of whatever this is wears off. And I hope it's made by hockey people and not The Fracker and Mary Anne.

There are areas where the owner/s have the right to be Deciders. Decide this, Pegulas. It shouldn't ever happen. But... they do love them some Leafs fans. Gibby said so.

Aboat that name change. @Brawndo

WHILE infected with Covid, he slipped past an elderly lady in the produce department at Wegman's and licked a bunch of grapes. He KNEW she was going to sample one (or seven) of them. If that's not pure evil, I don't know what is.

How many three-game winning streaks did Ron Rolston's Sabres have to end the 12-13 season?

Brawndo issues names a la Rip.

That's unknown. Granato said Eichel was playing through it. The Islanders game was apparently the coup de grace. I've looked high and low for video of the play with no luck.

You know what's sick? Granato said the information about the injury was something they really didn't want "out there" for "player safety" reasons. I shouldn't have to ask this after 46 years of watching hockey, but — what kind of sick people play this sport?

If that happened, or if Jack was cross-checked in the neck, I'll send Terry another card.

Also, Jack's been doing the rapid eye movement thing for a while now.

That was the immediate aftermath of the play behind the Islanders' net on 3/7, Jack's last game. I hope "treatment" didn't make things worse. I don't recall a crosscheck to the neck. I'll try to find the video. It wasn't a big deal of a play. Certainly not a penalty TTBOMR.

Are you talking about the hit on Eichel by Cizikas in NY on March 7?

A hockey team=NHL team?

Does an assistant GM warrant this much excitement? I think it's going to take Rutherford to make me schwing.

Really? People in and around Sabres hockey are talking about it. They leak more than the last White House did.