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Just the other day on the Amerks injury report update

Appert said he's about a month away

Dahlin played it right, that’s on the goalie to make the save

Well we did get jobbed on that one play prior to the CBJ PPG. How that wasn’t a penalty is utterly baffling

I’m guessing their reasoning was that Gretzky was so vitally important to his line that you can’t exactly value the line in the same way. It’s really just a matter of how you define the best line. Is it the best individuals put into trio to ever play together or the most potent combination of players that through there line were made even better than they would of been individually.

Girgensons was praised by Gionta many times during their time together for his qualities on and off the ice and Adams chose to keep him around so I doubt he was part of the off ice problematic behavior. Reinhart is the typical Canadian boy who, aside from his spouts with Paul Hamilton, seemed to be a genuinely nice person. Perhaps his mood soured via corruption and made him less friendly? Kane was almost certainly the original culprit in the whole leadership group's problems. We know for a fact he was late to meetings and practices. Ristolainen is an interesting question; he was never very extroverted off the ice and perhaps misery slowly made him a grump around the rink? Eichel is a weird one because he seems almost Jackal and Hyde in his personas. Sometimes he comes across as a genuinely good guy who just loves hockey and the fans. While also displaying signs of being a legitimate "Mass"-hole when out of general sight. At very least I think Kane may have brought the worst out of Eichel by making it "acceptable" to be an ass to people as long as you played well. Where you certainly saw a different Jack was when interacting with children; he seems to have a legitimate soft spot for children and enjoys interacting with them. Its kind of akin to he wants to pay back to children what pros may had done for him in the past yet potentially sees team workers and the media as peons only there to serve him. Just go through his career with the media in Buffalo. In all but one year he gave snarky quick answers or came across as entitled or spoiled. The media must beg for the scraps beneath the table. Then when he became Captain you saw a change, he became respectable and personable with the media. Botts refuses to make any moves to save 2 seasons in a row and Eichel just goes back to being a jerk again.

Could be Ghost’s reasoning or even just because it was a back to back. Perhaps some combination of the higher ice time and thinner air had Granato tell Skinner to conserve energy for offense.

Granted he could also crater and end up being a Zach Kassian like signing

Felt like the refs tried to bury us but our team just clawed away at the dirt. They fought with ever decreasing numbers on the bench and arguably made the Avs goalie win them the game. Liked seeing Granato all fired up, as the tweet earlier said; he’s fighting for his guys! I liked how on the final PP Dahlin decided to just shoot seeing as we were out of shooters besides Okposo’s sweet spot play. Killing off a long 5v3 was awesome to see for us. Tuch certainly adds something to this team’s psyche. Okposo should get the C next year, if only because the guy has worked his ass off for this team. He’s overpaid but it is certainly not for a lack of trying. Hopefully the thin air was the cause for Mitts being pulled off. He never looked up to speed but Granato’s press conference seems to conclude that the trainers pulled him off for more precautionary reasons. Play like this every night please!

Always happy to see a win. They play different in front of Anderson

Give him the Davis Webb position

It would have to be only 2 years. And a hefty asset

If he wants to retire maybe he’d like a player development job. We could always more savvy vet developers

Well that puts tonight in serious jeopardy and tomorrow sound like a war crime.

Colin Miller to me is a must trade if healthy for this deadline. No reason to keep him unless everyone only low balls you. Laundering MAF’s eventual trade would also be a good way to pick up an asset. Perhaps Giroux as well

2nd for Vanecek, I'm guessing Seattle had intended to send him back if they got Grubauer. He may of never been even on "the market" Vladar, I can't see Boston trading him in the division. 3rd + Bernier for Nedjelkovic is the only legitimate question mark. Perhaps it was as simple as Yzerman happened to ask and Carolina just said sure; and no actual shopping occurred. I also feel the COVID situation with Seattle's existence has further strained the goalie market. Players with spotty play history are going to want to cash in/secure their future and we have no reason to tie ourselves to mediocre goalies for multi-year contracts. To be honest I think the term was a bigger deal than the overall money.

Didn't he just play against Ottawa?

Not much to pick from in the UFA market to begin with. Husso and Kuemper are likely the only interesting candidates Campbell has had 1 good year and will be looking for a payday, Fleury is likely to retire and there isn't anyone else worth bothering with.

He had already asked to be traded prior to the injury; so how I see it is that the Pegulas didn't deem his injury treatment preference as worth the risk for a guy who wanted out regardless. Essentially in my mind, had Eichel not requested a trade the year prior; barring concerns by team doctors, the Pegulas would of gave Eichel the surgery he wanted with little trouble. In my opinion when Eichel requested out, he effectively removed himself from the "family" and thus was no longer given benefit of the doubt and/or carte blanche on his recovery. (He had given up his personhood and became merely an asset)

Just a bad game a since Skinner's no goal

Sometimes, long German words are all we have. Like Backpfeifengesicht or Kuddelmuddel .

I’ll be honest, I think the Oilers have it worse than us. We have little expectations and feel generally disappointed most seasons with lingering hope for the future. Oilers fans are convinced they are Cup contenders every year only to end up being inept and scrambling. I guess it more of a continuous gut punch in the dark versus Buffalo’s staring down of the punch.

We know you lurk here John Wawrow, could you please tell the team on behalf of the fans to redo their medical/training staff. Use the Bills medical staff overhaul as an example and figure out how to help lessen this incredibly injury prone team. Please

Plus refs will always give vets more leeway on plays.

Worst part is not only did we have a lead blown twice but the refs seemed keen on calling anything close against us but nothing for us. Prior to the winner PP attempt, a Star slew foot Dell in the crease. Thompson got tripped with 1:45 left and Skinner was hooked to hell and back at least 3 times. Yet none of those were worthy of calls. I call BS