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I think they'll get it done for around 4.5 for maybe 4 years. I can't see it being less than 4 years, but I can't see the money being more than 5 per.

The thing I keep coming back to with Granato is that the kids are thriving under him because that's what he knows. He knows how to deal with young players. But what about beyond that? I think, in all seriousness, that Ted Nolan could have accomplished the same thing here. We all know this team needs a coach that can take things to the next level. Granato as that guy? I don't know. I would bet not.

Mittelstadt's honesty about his maturity is really endearing. Kid seems to have turned a corner.

I give this mess of a roster credit, even if they're losing they're at least doing the things you have to do to win.

That was excellent

Skinner around the net causing trouble definitely helped there

I expect the Sabres will win this game, but it will be in comical fashion.

It's anecdotal for the most part. They tell you before the shot to drink a lot of water but "a lot" is open to some interpretation. I drink a lot of water every day anyway, so all I did was drink even more. Which is probably leaps and bounds beyond what most people consume. Zero side effects after 48 hours so...

Sorry, that's what I meant. I took it after, but I didn't wait until I felt crappy.

My advice is to drink an insane amount of water. Everyone I know who has had reduced/no side effects hydrated like crazy. I also took a few tylenol preemptively. But yeah, water. Lots of it.

Got the J&J one-shot vaccine at lunch yesterday. 30 hours later and I have had zero side effects.

This is why I think the fancy stats stuff is still lagging behind in providing context. They might be able to look at things like shot quality and say "this player is just unlucky" but they really still aren't getting into the meat of what makes hockey so interesting from an analytics standpoint: the flow of the play. I still believe that until we are modeling player movement on the ice and analyzing how the way one player moving around the ice and taking certain actions influences the play of the other players on the ice, we can't really look at stuff like Expected Goals and come to strong conclusions. So when the stats crowd was hemming and hawing about players just being unlucky it made me go "hmmm" because all that said to me is that the stats they were using to make that argument were inadequate.

I like that. I never for a second bought into the argument that the Sabres were good but just unlucky. The stat models don't tell the whole story. You watch that team on the ice and you see that they aren't doing the things they need to do to win and there's no way you can just call it bad luck.

It would be an honest to goodness accomplishment if they somehow managed not to finish dead last in the league.

I don't know if Granato deserves any credit beyond being a replacement level coach, but whatever he's not doing is working.

Guess I'm gonna watch something on Netflix instead

I really like that the GDT isn't pinned yet. It's a nice tribute to Taylor Hall.

Expecting to find out that he tripped on the stairs and broke his hip on the way up to the team box.

I would also note that I think goalies on bad teams are more likely to get injured because they are forced to make more high injury risk saves.

Lol what in the world

No one thinks Granato is that good. They think he's so much less bad.

Blues just lost to the Avs and ROR is the post game. He's still the same guy who just blames himself for everything. I don't care if this guy won a Cup, he's weird as hell.

He's good enough to backstop a championship team. I'd like to lock him in for under 5mil per, but I would understand if he walked for more on less term.

Boy I hope Linus stays for the right price. He's really improved his control for such a big goalie.

Also, Dahlin's job in that situation is always to take away the pass. If the shooter beats the goalie, fine, but you gotta commit to taking away the pass so the goalie can commit to the shooter. Especially when the shooter is a right handed shot coming down the right wing. The angle is already bad for him, the goalie has the advantage. Make him take that shot.