darksabre

Options? What options are there to discuss? Either he reports or he retires. Or is this one of those "retire and take a front office job" kinda things?

I think that's fair. I just think if we're going to talk about the NFL being gross then we need to talk about the reasons why people play the game in spite of it.

The problem is that it's hard to have this discussion without having that discussion. The two are intrinsically linked.

And can I be an ice girl if I'm a man? It's 2017 after all. Where are my short-shorts?

As suspected, Wilson is here to mess with the LW competition. Girgensons is the first odd-man out.

At least until the Gen X'ers start trying to f*ck us too. :P

Like all those millennials who voted for Trump because they wanted their coal jobs back instead of adapting/retraining for a new industry? Oh wait, that was the boomers. The biggest babies in US history.

It's all talk. They need to show me. They've had ample opportunity this year to try to string two or three good games together and they can't do it. They aren't trying to do it. Why should I believe that this will have any effect? Maybe they come out and play balls to the wall tonight. So? They'll be back to their bullsh*t in two games like Matty Mo never existed.

I'm kinda coming around to this argument lately mainly because of the huge amount of money and effort being dumped into all of this military recruitment advertising in pro sports. If we want to draw parallels between soldiers and athletes, then let's do that. Let's fix the pro athlete system to something that serves these guys better later in life (like we supposedly do with our vets) when they're brain damaged and useless just because they wanted to play a game for our amusement (or fight a war for no reason). I'm tired of feeling bad about these guys. I'd rather just do right by them when they hang em up.

:lol:

You hate the troops or something?

I agree, PA. I don't think the Moulson thing sends a message at all. These guys might be talking the talk, but they're going to have to sell me on it. I don't think any of them are worried about their roster spots.

Shot differential should equate to winning if your shooters are any good. The problem is our shooters are total garbage. Nobody finishes.

Thanks!

Sneak Preview:

Hmmmmm.... Nah. I'm out.

Jumbo Joe got beat by Tom Wilson in a fight tonight

Hindsight on my end certainly agrees. The goal should have simply been to rebuild and the team probably would have just sucked all on its own. Not that I didn't enjoy turning over the old failed core, but it would have been nice if this team had had anyone on it who was worth keeping to fill the roles of illegitimate transplants like Gionta and Moulson. The tank murdered the whole concept of being a Buffalo Sabre.

Probably not. New guy is listed as a C/LW so I'm wondering if he's basically there to compete with Pouliot, Nolan and then fill a spot if Kane goes and a LW doesn't come back.

Reinhart is a guy that fits that bill in my opinion. Pretty low risk/high reward since he's still on his ELC and is an RFA. But he's clearly not developed into a full fledged NHLer like we need him to be.

I mean, I guess I could be convinced to care about Jack's feelings with respect to Moulson, but I doubt it.

Fasching immediately to O'Reilly's wing is interesting. No idea what order those lines really are though. I see a first line but everything after that is kinda...whatever?

I don't give a crap?

Why on Earth would they waive Nolan?