North Buffalo

Grew up with that type, my Dad was an English Professor and Trombonist... you sound like a lot of his fellow professors.

Because he and Dracy traded so many guys away for picks and to tank

rakish sounds like a ratty haired long sideburned professor type with plastic glasses and liger a short stocky gym rat who spends too much time at Sabres bars...

Yeh, but for all yee'all highbrows... Cozens throws off his yooocon leash, unhilts a gleaming seord from its scabbard, and sequentially vanquishes you of the poofy wig lot this year...

Given that leadership is young, Jack and Sam with Mitts and Dhalin and Montour being added I think the time lag is a maturity issue as much as anything and remember these guys aren't college grads. Jack and Sam just coming into their own. I expect big steps forward from Casey and Dahls and am hopeful that some of the younger or newer guys a la Borgen, Oloffson and Nylander take a step forward. Next year ad in Cozens, Pekar and Asplund and could have a very good team. Gonna depend on coach and player development but I could see this as another slow year of ups and downs.

will be interesting to see if this strategy works out and if any late bloomers work out

lol going back there again... sigh

I hope he finds a 2nd line center regardless and you may be right... still can dream...

Depends on college I suppose

Maybe depends on how much weight Cozens and Mitts ad before September. We shall see but should be fun to watch.

Keep Skinner and Olloffson with Jack, put Mitts, Sam and Cozens together and work on figuring out third line with ERod, Nylander and OK together as an energy line. Actually think that works. Checking line of Larrson, Girgenson and Sobotka. CJ and or Wilson as extras... who am I forgetting.

You know how we all wished we could have drafted Tkachuk as a finisher for Mitts because of their chemistry in the worlds... Mitts just got his finisher... and he appears to be a better shooter.

Botts said on more year over in Czech then to NA, said he was a late bloomer and he can score

I thought it got TM fired

An overager, late bloomer, but really fast skater

Nope Lukas Rousek just taken in 6th

So one more pick left in 6th round

Schoeney didnt care reference fight thru zamboni doors with Cashman was throughing hay makers laying on the ground

Ok finally another scorer doog

Really, Schoeney would have one punched Chara, those guys knew how to fight... even many of the skilled ones. Perrault did well in his one fight... Scott Stevens would have killed Chara and the list goes on. The old Isles had a few too that could and would lay the lumber.

Chara would have had his legs broken let alone his jaw

Maybe, but that old Oil team had its protectors including McSorely

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