Formerly Allan in MD

Nailed it!

It was the right call.

And what happened to the last 5'7" phenom we had?

Watching the Caps/Canes games in Raleigh is like being caught in an ongoing electrical storm. The excitement and sounds are, yes, electric. Then there's the Sabres.

Woods may have won the Masters but he's still a loser.

Caps/Carolina game tonight is textbook example of how to totally dominate a team. Caps had total of 3 shots on goal in second and third periods combined. Rod B. can coach.

Good new coach, good new players, discipline, and pleasant surprises. Too much to ask?

Buffalo proved to not be Rich enough.

That's perhaps a separate thread. The Bisons truly deserve a banner, if there isn't one already, as they provided year upon year of productive, entertaining hockey and players. Many of the latter became NHL stars, such as Jacques Plante, Moose Vasko, Pierre Pilote, and Dickie Moore. Bobby Hull (if memory serves me right) even played for them briefly.

He likely won't be available at 7.

Wouldn't go that far. We'll see.

Hockey News rates Dach #4 prospect in draft.

168 pounds. Not ideal in NHL, no matter what the talent level.

Too many teams in the lottery?

McDavid and Hughes on the same team?

The perpetual Housley grin.

If this was in the works early on, it may explain why Housley was allowed to embarrassingly hang around until the end of the season.

Not sure it would make a lot of difference with Housley.

What took so long?

Growing up in Buffalo, where people know how to drive in bad weather and aren't afraid of their own shadows, taught me that drivers in the Washington DC area are, to a tremendous degree, clueless.

The season was a failure. It started with the coach and the ill conceived ROR trade.

Jeff's. I understand Rick doesn't stick handle very well.

Get Nylander and a few others back there as well for the playoffs.

Eichel shouldn't be doing that on the power play. The key there is rapid puck movement. Someone will always be open and you need to get the puck to him so he can fire away. Going one on four, as Jack was doing, is generally a recipe for turning the puck over and killing the momentum.

This raises the question of whether Housley actually has a system. Rex Ryan, when he "coached" the Bills, supposedly had a system. But no one could figure it out. Whatever Housley has, clearly no one can figure it out as well or it's simply unworkable. The thought of even consideration of Phil being around another year is indeed frightening, as it was with Rex after he revealed his ineptitude.