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Missed that. He went full Joe Horn, huh?

I know he didn't mime pulling out a cell phone and calling his agent, and that's all I need to know.

I'll admit that it seemed a little petulant after his second goal when he skated over to Kevyn Adams, told him he would never play again, and stormed off to the dressing room. After the first goal, when he thumped Asplund on the helmet with his stick, well, that wasn't so bad. And I do wish he hadn't stabbed Artuu, but that's how you gotta handle a rookie, right? Seriously? WTF are people looking for now? There is a photo of him in this thread and in the game thread celebrating after a goal. He is not exactly Ristolainen with his celebrations to begin with, so what are people expecting?

He handled the reporter. The reporter, and some posters, can't handle the answer.

Thompson needs to put weight on, too.

I know you're being sarcastic, but he had a few nice hits yesterday (and received one, too). McCabe coming back will help, too.

And by punished, you mean having to listen to motivational counseling for two hours.

Starting with wanting a shower, from the way he was scratching everything.

He does have a particular disdain for Hamsammich and this is not the first time he's shown it.

I don't even see the issue. Looks like normal post-game Samson to me. Only difference is his eyes are moving around trying to figure out which window has the person asking the question.

I think I want to call them the Coneheads like Brooks called that line on the '80 team.

So hockey, soccer, and then lacrosse?

That could be. It's the first time I've seen it--I have no idea what Lawton said last week.

The quote is from Brian Lawton and it wasn't even elicited by Fox. (I don't know who Fox is, but this is something Lawton said on a podcast.)

This board.

He was perfect. He must have rehearsed it for a week.

It's not like Mongol hordes were sweeping across the Asian plains when the Sabres hired Krueger. It was two years ago.

“If the player says, ‘I’ll go to one team,’ say, ‘Good luck in the summer, dude. It ain’t happening—because I can’t trade you to one team without embarrassing this organization.’ ” https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/quick-shifts-mysterious-value-finishing-no-1-canada/ Should have done just that.

See what I mean? Can someone come up with the sum total that the Pegulas have spent on coaches since 2011, and the sum total of how much they have spent on fired coaches since 2011, so we can finally get rid of this stuff? They're not exactly shy about spending $ on coaches.

@Taro T There's our answer.

I'll take him over Hutton any day.

Sux for Dusty.

Ok. I've seen enough of a body of work to opine: 1. There's nothing wrong with hiring a coach without NHL coaching experience, normally. Plenty of coaches have success with their first NHL jobs, and plenty don't. 2. This team, though, is out of chances. It sort of needs to hire an experienced coach. 3. On the other hand, Granato is doing a lot with this team. It's exciting again, and that's without a starting goalie, Eichel, Hall, or McCabe, along with several solid role-players. 4. So if the team is going to go the "new guy" route with Granato, and keep him on a tight leash, I guess I'm ok with it. 5. I don't want the team experimenting with any other "new guy," though, and that includes Leeman/Leaman/Lehman/however he spells it, which I'm not going to learn, because I don't want him here. 6. So for me, it's either the grizzled vet or Granato. I don't expect that it will come down to cost, either, although I do expect that if the team hires Granato, certain people here will claim that it had come down to cost.

Yeah, I see that they've sucked me in again, along with at least 13 others so far.

Much more under control than a year ago. At least this not-quite-as-big guy acknowledges the threat.