tom webster

For what it's worth, John Wawrow. AP writer, reports that some within organization have expressed concern over Sam's development

Chicago has two Cups and will still be a top contender for years to come. And by the way, they still have a couple of top prospects although losing Kevin Hayes for nothing hurt. Pittsburgh has just butchered their roster and it has had little to do with its top two guys. Poor choices in goal, on defense and on the bottom 6 or more telling and it's not like they won't contend for a few more years either.

Chicago has down a great job of managing their cap so far although the Canadien dollar could do them in this time.Pittsburgh's problems are more about their failure to fill the rest of the roster and some costly injuries. Crosby and Malkin are not the problem.

Can you post the link, please?

He was an asset used to obtain a top 3 forward. How is that a mis calculation? The odds of him even making the NHL as anything more then a third liner are remote anyway.

That's exactly it. He felt he was a first round pick and wanted to be paid like one. I can't believe so much time is being spent on a fringe first round/ second round pick. Its a symptom of the internet age. Ten to fifteen years ago nobody even knew who was drafted after the first round because it is so rare that they amount to anything. On top of that, Murray has a completely different approach to drafting after the first round. Where Darcy and his staff played it safe and ended up with a boatload of third and fourth liners, Murray is swinging for the fences with the hope of getting lucky once or twice knowing that eighty percent will be career AHL'ers at best

Unfortunately, TN won't be able to prove me wrong as his NHL career has ended.

Not that he didn't care he just doesn't know how.

Yeah, they will have to adjust to a coach that cares about their development and actually knows how to best utilize their God given ability. They may even have to adjust to a coach asking for their opinion and who thinks they deserve PPP time over some career minor leaguer.

I will be honest, I have no idea what kind of success he had in juniors but the Olympic thing is being blown out of proportion. He had a goalie okay out of his head, gained some plaudits for it but didn't win a thing. And just check out the average age of the team.

And that is a huge point and a huge misconception. TN is not great with young players, especially young talented pkayers. I definitely felt that he implied the player exit interviews were the final straw.

I am so sure this happens that I have considered giving everyone that says he stays a mulligan

There is no deadline but obviously anything that happens before you post counts against you.

The rules are simple. Just predict what changes will or won't happen this off season. The person I judge to be closest will win two prime tickets(blue line, 20 rolls up on the aisle) to a regular season game. Past winners will tell you I do my best to accommodate the winners request. Please only enter once. . I will listen to any feedback on how we can adjust or change the rules but for now its my rules and while there are many variables to consider, the winner has usually been pretty obvious. Also, we don't want this to be drudgery so try and have some fun with it

Like I said, Boston was the problem.

And if we were playing out millions of simulations I believe you would be correct, the desired outcome would only occur less then 1% of the time. However, we are playing out 1 season with three teams stumbling to the gate and one team playing like a Stanley Cup champ. What happened the past 80 games means nothing at all. If I started arguing about a player based on 10 games you would be screaming about sample size, spouting regression and progression to the mean and the effect of randomness in hockey. I am just saying the same thing when it comes to predicting the outcome of less then 10 games. I still don't think it will happen mostly because I don't think Boston will hold up its end. Finally, what makes sports fun for me is because its not like playing the stock market or buying and selling a business. Its not about running a million simulations and assigning probabilities based on those numbers. And just to be clear, I understand the numbers and I understand people like yourself who are consumed by the numbers. My best friend is an analytics geek and is proud to say so. I wasn't referring to people like you or him. I am talking about people who come up with random equations and made up stats and then tell me that player X never made a pass that directly led to a shot on goal because his formula consisted of (X + Y) (number of assists) and he didn't understand that everyone that had zero assists would automatically have zero passes no matter what the other variables. Same guy tells me that team Y had a 100% chance of winning a game if they went for it on fourth and 5 with two minutes left because his probability was based on years of history.

This is exactly the reason I want the Islanders to miss the playoffs regardless of whether they win the lottery. People (not meaning you specifically) keep quoting this site and others like it without no understanding of how they come up with that number. It's a cliche but a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing and a little knowledge is what a lot of these newly available numbers are. Are you seriously going to tell me that the Islanders losing two, Boston and Ottawa winning two and Detroit winning one really has only a .221% chance of happening? Its not likely but it has got to be better then a less then one percent chance. There others that can explain it better but a lot of these sites act like one outcome effects the probability of another outcome when in fact they are completely independent of one another.

It would apparently burn a year off his deal if he plays one more game with them.

Every good team has at least one player that exceeded expectations. I have no idea if the Sabres will be Larsson or Baptiste or Bailey but I will tell you that the same people that continually tell me how high they are on Pysyk going forward sing Larsson's praises. Some have even compared him to Forsberg, I know, heresy but who knows. I'm sure when Datsyuk came up there were people saying how he would be an awesome third line center but no comparison to Yzerman. You just never know who but I guarantee that there will be some surprises and some dissapointments.

What we are likely to see next year is four lines playing close to equal minutes, especially at the beginning, with no undue pressure being out on any of the kids. While I could still see a veteran centerman being brought in, I think the more likely scenario would be a veteran winger and a veteran upgrade over Gorges. For the record, I am a big fan of Larsson, expect Grigs to be traded although they may want to wait if they think playing him judicously could increase his value.

Every corporation, every business has their version of the "golden rule." Doing anything to harm the integrity of the game and any punishment is on the table. No league would allow anything close to this.

I kept hoping Carolina had a Rasmussen when I was listening without watching. Then I sat down and counted at least 6 times before leaving the room. I was going to call or text someone but didn't want to put anyone on the spot.

Not to mention he kept calling 55 Rasmussen for at least the first period(I stopped watching after that)

Yost's point was that LA would match on Tofoli but would because if that have to pass on Jones.

Exactly although I guess there are still some argument about a possible third. That and the fact he only had 22 fights in his career seems to run counter to the rep. Still a tough sob