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You can count on the Canes and Panthers to deliver playoff games worth watching. Especially the Panthers these past three seasons.

At least for 20 minutes. Oops!

The first four games of this Leafs/Sens series were pretty good but neither team looks like they want it tonight.

I so appreciate the Bill's ability to pick humble, appreciative kids with quality personalities. They make liking the team easy.

I have to admit, I was hoping Toronto would sweep. Alas. Their skill is fun to watch and their ability to enter the zone is admirable. They're still going to get physically crushed by any other team in the east.

It's the first few games of the first round. The games I have watched have been sufficiently physical and interesting. I have not watched a boring game yet.

Will never happen. Dunleavy has the evidence.

I have been warned and suspended for posts and images far, far, far, far less provocative than that. That's simply tasteless and offensive.

Those helmets. Anyway, that could have challenged for offside if it weren't for the interference.

Just wait until the Senators go on a losing streak and/or wait until Cozens has to fight or contribute meaningfully to a scrum.

If I were Newport Sports and I were tired of the Sabres tainting the league generally, and specifically reducing flexibility for them (Newport Sports) to conduct their business (trades, UFA contracts), and more specifically impacting the careers of their clients (ie. delaying the most lucrative contracts possible by stunting careers), and, finally, also tired of hearing how unhappy individual clients are, I would plant a rumour just like this with the objectives: to get KA to actually do something. to embarrass TP so that he does something. in the long term to get KA fired hoping that TP will hire someone competent. to get the attention of the league so that the league may in some league-way intervene behind the scenes about the tire fire in Buffalo. Using Dahlin for this tactic is easy because Dahlin has his contract.

Please let it be both.

It's more of a Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

By this reckoning, and I think you're spot on, Ottawa got fleeced. Their sports psychologist better be damn good if they're going to not regret this trade.

Not saying the concern isn't valid, however we shipped out Eichel because of questions about his health. A lot of players regain their durability over time. Then there's Muel and Greenway.

He is never going to be an open-ice wizard. That's what Cozens was supposed to be. We have at least three other players for that, maybe four with Norris. Benson will, however, *take* *the* *puck* *to* *the* *net*, which seems to confuse the other players who either pass too much to the perimeter or take a lot of dumb shots. Benson needs feeds.

Nope. I'm with you. Opens up room for someone else. Cozens is a super-soft, too in-his-own-head player. Has the tools, not the brain or constitution. I don't know the player coming back, but, if any of the analytics and anecdotes posted in this thread mean anything, we are at least shaking up the team culture if the remaining change is a net-zero.

This is a pretty good deal. Still has to replace Cozens, Power, and Muel.

Agreed, but JJP is still under the Sabres' control. KA's attitude is going to require case-by-case flexibility in order to not dig the hole even deeper. In a circumstance like this, JJP has to perform if he expects to one day sign a good contract on a good team.

Uhm...KA is really going to trade JJP? There is a small, very small, handful of players he could trade away and, by doing so, make the team even worse. JJP is one of those players.