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That's what prompted my concern about goaltending.

Why do I have the sinking feeling that this game will come down to goaltending and that LA has a goalie who will make the game saving stop and ours won't?

Who? Petersen?

Depends.

Agree with all of this. Still wondering if it’s a league wide mandate. After all, there are Russian players throughout the league. Some of them super stars like OV.

Is this a league wide policy? I know that political signs have long been barred from sporting events, but this is the first I’ve heard of actual flags being disallowed.

The only way Putin is not in charge is if someone in his inner circle takes him out.

I had you pegged as more of a Sandy Duncan as Peter Pan guy. 😂

Done!

There’s a certain kind elegance to the economy of words. Well done.

Cozens will demand the D assignment and shut Matthew’s down. Matthews will need PP points to get in the scoresheet. Matthews wilts

Houston here we come.

Per the bold, perhaps you haven’t been paying attention to Russia since Putin gained power 22 years ago. The oligarchs have never pressured Putin; in fact it’s quite the opposite. They do his bidding, not the other way around. That said, I agree entirely that the only pain Putin responds to is financial.

You’ve done a complete 180 from where you were a few short years ago when I was screaming for Housley’s and Botterill’s heads on a platter over at the Off the Wall Sabres thread at TBD and you were telling me we had to have patience. 😂 What are the owners’ expectations? What is their limit with KA? Given that the current rebuild strategy is different than what we’ve seen previously, I suspect their expectations are radically different than yours. I think they may have found the patience you have lost.

I don’t see why my post, which was nothing more than citing how long KA has actually been on the job, should warrant this response. Maybe you meant it for someone else. If not, it was wasted on me because, as a long time ST holder, I don’t need a history lesson on why KA was hired or a dissertation on everything wrong with the Sabres. In the meantime, I’ll wish KA and Co. good luck until such time they’ve convinced me they aren’t up to the task. They aren’t there yet.

He was named GM in mid June of 2020, so not even two years ago, let alone three.

^This. As if wanting Vegas to finish poorly is nothing more than a shot at Eichel. Talk about living rent free.

The more hockey I watch, the more I'm convinced that the vast majority of hockey players, regardless of position, really suck at their jobs.

RK and KA were both direct reports to Pegula. Adams held no sway over Krueger.

If the thought is that KA insists they play because they are pieces he brought in and he doesn’t want to look bad if they don’t play, then I’d think he’d want them out of the lineup because they look so bad actually playing.

What’s there to monitor? Russia invaded its neighbor in an act of unprovoked aggression. The IIHF doesn’t need to wait to announce the tournaments will be moved to a new locale.

That would have to be a sizable chunk of the population in order to get the ratio down to optimal numbers. I’ve heard several interviews with pro Russian Ukrainians that see themselves as patriotic Ukrainians first and foremost. As to how many actual Russian separatists are in Ukraine, I couldn’t say. But again, it would have to be a huge number to get that ratio where it should be.