tom webster

The Sabre’s would have as well.

A quick google search found two sites that had him ranked in the top 60 so it’s not like he wasn’t a prospect. Again, you can’t judge these things in a vacuum. I’m sure LGRM can tell us how many guys drafted after him are still legitimate prospects.

He should print this thread. It might be the last time anyone talks about him as a hockey player.

Tua is going to have to be a lot better then he was yesterday for them to win 10 but they are a team on the rise and with Houston’s first and second picks they should be really good next year, again depending on Tua.

Exactly. So many people assume that he must have a positive opinion, the same way people think that if players played together they must be friends or if a guy grew up in a certain place he must want to go back there. As for Mitts specifically, anything they get from him, either by him winning a spot on the roster or enabling them to better their roster through trade would be a huge plus because right now I’m pretty sure they aren’t expecting anything while still hoping to be proven wrong.

His father was an assistant at Navy and Belichek has always been considered a savant when it comes to the history of the NFL and football in general. He loved having Flutue drop kick an extra point and I’m sure the triple option intrigues him.

Well there is always that caveat, especially with so much uncertainty going forward. You don’t really think that they would give out all these one year deals and not fix the goaltending?

Ottawa is not spending that money and nobody is leaving Tampa for them.

This is all heading toward the perfect scenario for TPEGS. They are going to be near the cap but the actual cash paid out before escrow is still going to be $5/6 million below plus escrow plus 10% deferral if he wants it. And I know I’ve been a broken record but they will upgrade in net unless a confluence of events occurs that I’d bet are less then one percent of happening. Taylor Hall is a well connected as anyone in hockey. He doesn’t come here unless Raku explains how they are going to make this all work.

My believe that teams will be allowed to carry expanded squads so guys can practice with the bug clubs if there is nowhere for them to play.

Knox didn’t play. Think you mean Kroft. Teams are defending Buffalo exactly how they are defending KC, daring them to run. They’ll figure it out. I’d like to see the penalty on Davis TD. Allen also made bad read on third and short. Moss would have taken that to the house. I wasn’t crazy about the Allen draw either, or, for that matter the McKenzie sweep to the right that lost 12 yards but they left points out there on other drives as well. It really wasn’t that close a game after halftime.

Either Risto or Montour will be gone creating plenty of space.

Ugly win but 5-2 and 3-0 in the division. Can really put a stamp in division next week and it will only be the half way point.

Autocorrect and I was driving, sorry.

Not sure why it’s not on here

No question that they are more impacted by gate revenue then the three major sports.

This is how ownership wants fans to think. Every owners benefit from owning a team. Franchises continue to increase in value when sold. Even in these troubling times, TV revenue is expected to increase substantially in next deal. Do you really think they would have gotten what they did from Vegas and Seattle if the business model didn’t work? The Pandemic may have been a financial setback. Or it may have been a way for billionaires to cut some costs, cry poverty and come out laughing at the end. The preceding was strictly my opinion.

I think this is rather common and anecdotally has always been referred to as a “sophomore slump.” Your first year, you play on guts, instinct and talent. Then, as teams start to scout you, game plan around you, the ones that stick, the ones that excel, the ones that learn to dominate separate themselves from the ones who can’t. It’s easy to see with quarterbacks in football. With hockey it tends to be more subtle. Only people like yourself, with that scouting sense, tend to notice the difference.

Again, you know history shows little correlation to how well a team drafts. At least not outside a statistically relevant number.

We all want them to be better. The fact is that have have hovered around average for years. To read some of the posts around here you would think they’ve been historically bad. Fact of the matter is that there is a lot of luck involved. Bad timing and some terrible decisions. Some things out of there control, some things in their control. There is a reason that most front office guys who were successful in one place don’t find the same success in another place.

You don’t think ROR and elite goaltending gets them 7 or 8 more wins last year?

Other then Tampa and Boston, no team has shown a consistent a as ability to draft NHL regulars in rounds 2-7. Make any list of your top 100 NHL players, maybe even top 200, I’ll bet 90% of them are first or second round. This is not the NFL, draft choices do not routinely work out.

I had tickets not once but twice. Both times I asked my wife if she wanted to use them. Both times she declined. Then we are sitting at home New Year’s Day watching it and she says, you know, we should have gone. I divorced her.

If you are right and they missed a couple top six wingers and Johnson doesn’t pan, it’s unfortunate but it’s still to be determined. As far as already having Dahlin, I never consider that. If he’s good he’s an asset and if they don’t need him he will be a chip at trade deadline. One final point, you know better then most where Buffalo drafted is irrelevant. There is almost no statistically relevant difference between picks throughout each round after the top three or four.

I don’t deny that they made mistakes, especially the Nylander pick but the rest is still incomplete. Until Robertson and guys like him become top six, they just guys who haven’t done it. The value you place is pure conjecture. I am more a TM, high risk, high reward guy which looks like it might net VO. Like he said, anyone can fill out the bottom six. You continually laugh at Johnson but I still read top four potential, power play specialist and got the 31st pick that’s high return.