tom webster

And that’s the crap that JBOT and RK keep telling themselves. Last year he didn’t make a move because he believed the team wasn’t good enough. This year he keeps talking about how much he likes this group.

Hysterical. Team is 10-5, had the ball and were driving in four of the losses, three with Allen in the game but let’s focus on the second year quarterback’s limitations. Of course he has limitations, he’s a work in progress.

There are a couple hotels in West a Seneca on Slade that are fairly close but like everyone said, not much in OP. You could crash the RV lot.

So, the two players picked right before Casey, one just left the Rangers, one scoring at about same rate. Again, maybe that year just sucked.

You have to put it into context though. It’s early, but there are few players from Casey’s year lighting it up. Sometimes it’s just luck. Some drafts, like Jack’s are too good and your competition gets better As well. Some drafts you have to be in the top 3 to get anybody. I would love to go back and see how many late season, meaningless wins were the difference between drafting one player over the other.

Some guys just don’t pan out. We have no idea if it’s coaching, scouting or the player. And just to be clear, I’m not writing him off just yet

Sami Vatenen

Mickey was more then a few years ago. That had to be in the early 80’s. Im not sure about Smith but I remember a story posted about his famous exit so that might have been because he passed away.

I still think the plan is to play Reinhart with Skinner and find another winger for Eichel and VO. JBOT was pretty adamant that Sam could drive a line without playing center so either he and coach disagree or that is the long term plan.

Yeah, I don’t think Arizona’s prospects are that good. Only Bahl is considered a second tier prospect. In the end, it’s a top 3 protected pick and Bahl for a rental that you get for more then half of a season. That’s pretty cheap if you ask me. The fact that he plays mostly left wing, there is no money coming back and Shero probable wanted him out west is reason Sabre’s wouldn’t have been on this.

Maybe you are right but I’m skeptical. Over and over again when you hear old timers talk the stuff you learn in the AHL is Don Cherry type nonsense. Also, all you hear about the NHL is that it’s “the speed of the game” that separates it. Again, nothing that can be learned playing in h th he AHL. I watch goal highlights from AHL and it’s like watching old Sabre’s video. Half of those goals don’t go in in the NHL. Again, how does beating those goalies help? Need more one on one coaching, expand the rosters in the NHL to 30, hire more staff. It would be more cost effective.

I said just the opposite, that by the time they get to the NHL, they either have it or don’t. I didn’t say they get better, I said they get stronger, mature and realize what they need to do. I don’t think, on the average, most players become top 4/6 forwards by paying in the AHL. Now Free came up with some examples of guys that took awhile to get it. Maybe Casey will but I contend he won’t learn anything in the AHL that he doesn’t already know. Some guys are ready at 18, some 21, some 24. Lighting up the AHL will only price he’s better then the AHL players.

It’s all anecdote. There’s no proof that they got better because of their time in the AHL. They got better and they got older and bigger. That’s the only definite thing anyone can say.

I didn’t call him Jody Gage. I said lighting up the AHL will prove nothing. Give me examples of guys who struggled in NHL, got sent down and half a season later became a legit top 6 forward. If Casey, becomes a top 6 NHL guy it will be because he needed to get bigger and older and wasn’t ready.

And lighting up the AHIL will only prove he can be Jody Gage.

Actually, yeah. Frolik is the kind of guy that could get hit for ten games. People seem to miss the fact the an extra win or two credited to some hot streak could be difference between making playoffs and not. There are probably going to be six teams battling for two spots and there will probably be two to four points separating them.

Nice work. Still the mystery remains, why those five seats. And what about the model suite they added at the end? That had to effect capacity.

For the record, I remember them adding seats when walls were removed. Don’t know what the five seats were but I vaguely recall them having to add handi cap accessible seats so that may have been it. A friend thinks it had to do with them testing out what they planned to do when walls were removed. Not sure but you do have to remember that those tickets were worth gold back then.

Five seats added after 1974 and when walls between upper golds and reds removed a year later, 570 more seats added.

After hearing about this dinner Paul will probably write that the Bills are concerned about Josh Allen’s spending habits.

And I don’t understand how people need to treat sports teams as the same industry. All four major sports have different corporate structures, different management structures and different roster structures. What does being a first round pick in hockey have anything to do with being a first round pick in football?

Larsson and Girgs are the kind of guys that Boston keeps. Now that they have accepted their roles, they are valuable pieces and still relatively young.

Patient yes, let him grow into an adult who can utilize and already incredible shot.

There are still people high on him throughout the league. What you have to determine as a team is will he develop and increase his value or will he continue to struggle and decrease his value. To be clear, he won’t be traded for an older player. He would only be included if a under 25, big piece was coming back.

Sheldon Keefe has been doing that with his four forwards and he switches the one defenseman (Reilly and Barrie) close to halfway through.