7+6=13

TP and KA wanted Ruff to fire the assistants but he refused and turned down the job. KA said ok, we'll keep them, so Ruff reconsidered and took the job. Ruff, after the season was over, then wanted to fire the assistants. TP said no but KA wanted to. Jarmo wants to keep one of them but won't say which one. Jarmo told Staal which one but he pinky sweared not to tell anyone. Now TP is giving Staal the silent treatment. 6 top level assistants outside of the organization called Ruff and want to come here. Guelli set up a teams call at a time Ruff could only call in. He had his microphone rigged through IT, so the assistants thought he was ignoring them and all took other jobs.

I know but you also say you don't want to run it back, so there's that. Changes are needed. I don't want to keep getting younger either but I also don't want to hate doing that so much that I stupidly do it. Meaning if you have a conviction for a prospect like Misa, trade a piece to get it. I have a feeling Misa is going to be special. It's a strange phenomenon. Most fans are so pissed they hate mostly everything about the team, then we talk about trading players and we don't want to let go of anyone.

Do you think Byram and #9 is enough to move to #3 with a Chicago trade? Would you? Do you think Peterka and #9 is enough to move to #2 with SJ? Would you? IMO, Misa would be my target with these trades.

"Every meeting is usually the same, they ask the exact same questions.". Carter Bear. How dare KA and Pegula talk about Penn State and not just keep it like Bear's experience. Scumbags. Am I doing this right?

I trust your evaluation so much, now I do too. I believe you may have mentioned Bear before we started passing teams in the standings and I think I liked what I read. I'll spend more time on these two for sure now. Took me a minute to get over myself.

I started to get excited about a few of these top guys from reading LGR's posts. I had a love/hate relationship with us winning late.

I don't think 30 games means stuck and that losing skid was without Dahlin, so there's a case, IMO, to reasonably believe he's not expected to lose more than win.

We agree on that for sure.

Mmmk. But he's over .500 for his career so expecting to lose more than win if he's in net for 30 games, is at least not supported by the numbers.

I don't consider a single one of those players, if involved in a trade, blockbuster.

McDavid is an absolute pleasure to watch play.

McDavid is one of the best I've ever seen.

Why?

I agree that a net minder should be priority 1. I gotcha, so it's more specifically Quinn and a couple others. We've agreed before that the blockbuster is not something I'd entertain either.

I'm not sure if you specifically don't want Marchment but I think you made it pretty clear above, you don't have a proclivity for trading young talent. This is where I get in a real quandary. I don't like giving up or giving up on our young players, but at the same time I realize to get better or better "fits", we likely need to use these young players to acquire them. I honestly don't know where I lean on this, especially since we've lived through the pain of the build from within philosophy.

Impressive how all the diehard fans are suppressing their zeal.

Yet that comment got a like. I appreciate the fairness of your posts and that you don't have an irrational zeal to be angry at everything the franchise does.

How is Nolan nostalgic for Pegula?

He's hired one person that could even be considered for nostalgic reasons. Talk about obtuse ....

No

I don't know bro, there's a lot of speculation in there. I heard this crazy stat, I think from an Andrew Santino reel. A million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years. I promise you 10 mil to TP is absolutely nothing. We can't comprehend Billionaire.

I agree except I don't know that it has to come entirely from different players. We often find out players have it, it just needed to be brought out of them. I think it may be the singular most disappointing thing this year, for me, that Ruff didn't change this. I thought he could/would.

Florida is the standard from POHO/GM, Coaching and players. Just love everything they do.

I'm in agreement. I'm not saying he has no value, but I don't think he can be traded. We'd have to give up picks and or prospects to get someone to take on his contract, IMO

It's definitely head scratching what's going on. KA if anything, is too nice and accommodating. I doubt JJ not wanting to be here (if true) has little to do with KA personally. Maybe the losing, which is of course tied to KA but if this young man is pouting because of that, then get. Who does he think he is? I'm tired of these young whiners wanting veteran treatment.