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Dahlin better ✔️ Thompson better ✔️ Skinner better ✔️ Okposo better ✔️

5-1 after 2.

This is behind a paywall. But judging from the replies the writer lives in an alternate reality.

Sounds like they already "get it."

Big nugget from this pod. (Not a secret but something that was forgotten.) VGK media people were not going to allow Jack to speak until Mike Harrington threw a fit.

That could be some of it. Not everyone is a people person. But Jack does have that arrogance that comes from being the chosen one his entire hockey life.

Rewatching the SportsNet telecast. Sooo much better, even being pro-Leafs.

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Jack might have had an exceptionally bad night when Rivet's group showed up. But Craig's point was as a pro you have to suck it up.

Let's be realistic. It may have been obvious right from the get go. They weren't going to dump Eichel so soon after the tank. Adams had to convince Terry to do it.

That was still early in Jack's tenure with the Sabres. So you can't excuse it as being tired of losing.

I have a vivid memory from a few years ago walking to Key Bank under One Seneca during gale coming off the lake. I got blown down and I'm not small.

Latest ATW pod w/Elliotte Friedman. First couple minutes Craig Rivet dishes another brutal Eichel story. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-65-hockey-hangover-with-elliotte-friedman/id1590573108?i=1000553986588

Terry found them on one of his drillings.

Funny how narratives change. At the start of the year no one would push back if you said "well, the Sabres. What do you expect?" Now you have Granato energizing players written off as duds under Botterill and Jack dropping his drawers to the media and perceptions change.

Yes. He's the owner. He makes the final decision. But it's often with input from his GM.

I thought it was Botterill's connection that brought Ralph to consideration. Of course Terry signs off on hires.

And how are they doing? He was interviewed for the Ducks GM job so who knows what they were thinking?

I just meant it's always easier to "predict" what was than what will happen. Same with any preseason prediction article you read. It always looks like last year's standings.

What was that about recency bias? 😂 It works both ways.

Don't make the same mistake we made with Ullmark with Anderson. Great guy but he's not the future. Get some assets for him now. You could always resign him or hire him as a coach. Miller is gone. Maybe Pysyk. I don't think I'd move Olafsson. Guy is just getting his touch back.

So you'd swap Krebs for Cozens? Both are great but you could only have one that draft. Now we have both.

Well we did get Cozens with that pick. Mmm-kay.