Kristian

No doubt he could've been handled better, but you also have to factor in why, to the surprise of a lot of people, he was available for us to draft. Chances are others saw exactly what he's currently becoming - A highly touted bust. But yes, Darcy handled him like an amateur.

I must admit, as much as the tank sucked, I think the truly lowest point came *before* the tank. Can't point to a specific moment, but watching the team deliver the same cramped-up, lackluster performances night after night, management and coaching making the same mistakes year after year while nobody seemed accountable for anything, was the absolute low point for me. At least the tank said "We need to change".

Classic. Never got to play the coin-up though, only ever saw it once.

Yup, lineup's looking good, except for perhaps on D where we're a little thin. Also, the goaltending is a little suspect. I got a Be a Pro career going, and one thing I'm absolutely loving, is that Chad Johnson has seemingly outplayed Robin Lehner for the starting job, even if Lehner has a better overall. In recent years, the game would just pick a starter, and give the backup every 5th game, regardless of performance :-)

Quick NHL 16 Be a Pro look :

Same same, I'm on X1, I'm happy with it - As opposed to the X360, it's 100% silent, and it does what it's supposed to. Aso has Blu-Ray like the PS4.

10 years, damn..... I need a life badly. Or a cup! Just ONE DAMN CUP! :P

That's my bet. Saw him play with Team Canada at the worlds this year - Tyler Two can play.

No thanks, I'm done living in the past.

Don't really mind Grigo's gone. Not fair to him, but I saw way too much of Thomas Vanek these past years, to be able to appreciate another sub par skater on this team, unless maybe that skater is the second coming of Dave Andreychuck.

Is Nathan Paetsch available?

D needs help, the forwards look good. On paper, yet.

Let me have a look once I start it up again, will post them here. Something very important to remember, is that EA's sliders have a mind of their own sometimes, and make absolutely no sense. For instance, this year, you have the pass reception ease slider. Well, pass reception ease... If I want the puck to be difficult to handle, and don't want players to be able to execute a perfect one-timer on every pass. I turn this down, right? The lower the slider, the lower the reception ease, right? Wrong. If you read the explanation on the slider it says "How difficult it is for players to receive and control a pass", or something to that effect. Meaning, if you turn this thing down, you end up with players who'll never have a hard pass bounce off the blade of their stick. In short, the exact opposite of what you really want. There's at least one or two more of these contradictory sliders, but I forget which they are. Need to see the menu again. Once you find those sliders however, it opens up a completely new game. I had my game going like the closest thing to real hockey I ever saw in an EA game, but like I said - The lack of features, kind of took something away in terms of longevity.

I hear Leino's available? Quite the center, there.

Still, for those of you who didn't play the XB1 or PS4 version of NHL15 - While that game misses some features from the current gen series, the gameplay itself was still a massive improvement, and was most enjoyable and even pretty "realistic", once you got the sliders right. I will however conceede, that those missing features hurt the longevity of the game. Normally I'd still be playing now, but I haven't touched it for several months now. Heavily into Project Cars atm, lol.

Aside from bringing in a top 3 forward, this trade is as much a statement to any FA defensmen out there, this year. Buffalo are now past just talking about getting better.

Vanek, Roy, Pominville, Stafford, Campbell, Miller, Afinogenov. Yup.... Things were ugly, back then.

The Russian economy is in ruins these days, KHL is far from the guaranteed money it was a year and a half ago. I'd say it all depends if we have any free agents or trades coming in over the summer. Having him play with the current roster makes no sense, but I'd like to see us add a few guys, then see how he does.

DeLuca mourned the firing of Status Quo. *Edit - Damn things move fast here now, missed that post by two :-)

Thanes16 is actually Larry Quinn and secretly plotting to take over Batista's job, and drive the Sabres into the ground once more.

I actually once posted Mika Noronen was a good goaltender....

I realise I'm late for the meeting.... But I'm still grumpy and disinterested, dammit!! I BELONG!!

Oh gawd, not another Larry Quinn...... :wallbash:

Hehe, well played.

Looked up the 96 finals series on Youtube a while back, man oh man, are we talking some high quality hockey there. Oh, and John LeClair was a monster in 1996. Some people claim Eichel disappeared over the last 2 or 3 games here, but I think people forget he probably lacks conditioning compared to the NHL'ers, and that he's basically played 9 games in two weeks. Can't blame the kid if the tank was empty in the end.