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I was meaning with his defensive play seems to have just vanished

You can't really blame Dahlin on either GA; the first was a broken play where he was in a no win situation. (Pursue and hope your partner gets the trailer or stand in front of the net and allow the guy to either do a wrap around or pick a good pass) The 2nd was a long point shot Montour, what happened to him?

I'm curious as to what your ideal would be? I can certainly understand banning racial slurs and not disobeying employment laws in the US/Canada but what exactly is the target or idea we are going after? Are we looking for a general population alignment? In that case mathematically the league is pretty close based on the numbers supplied by Taro. Are we looking for "affirmative action" style quotas? Because that would be insanely stupid given the limited pool of candidates. If you are looking for a person to fill a position; you should be looking for the best candidate in general not the best in a given fraction of the population. For example if, let's just imagine, people of Indian decent are rarely hockey fans but teams are told to hire at least one person from that pool; how would that workout? Much of hockey's problem stems from the affordability of playing the sport. The innate racism in hockey is likely to have more to do with historical hurdles to get into hockey perpetuating a common racial profile based on those who can afford the sport in addition to actually wanting to get involved; versus that of all hockey people being racist bigots. They do exist, mind you, but I would take a guess you also have a number of hockey-specific racial biases due to the lack of minority players in hockey in general. The NHL can only go so far with directly mentioned inclusion efforts without looking preachy. What we need is a general normalization of minority players over time, not the few we have being plastered on billboards with "INCUSION" being yelled at us from some soap box. In the end people hate, and will actively fight against, anything someone in power attempts to force on those involved; it is much better to help normalize it while not making a huge deal about it. Subtlety is key!

Miller to Vegas for Fleury(2mil retained) Vegas gets their old cap casualty back and a much needed 3rd RD while ridding themselves of a portion of Fleury's contract. Just a more general idea

Very disappointing, what makes it worse is I can't honestly tell if they are bad or just extremely unlucky. They get chances and haven't been outplayed so far this year but never seem able to get over the hill of L -> W

Not exactly surprising; they'd be looking for a 1to1 swap of young centers and we don't exactly have one close in value. Eichel >> PLD Cozens ? PLD Staal, Sheahan, Girgs, etc < PLD

The chart guy, Sean Tierney says Buffalo has been one of the best teams in our division thus far from an analytics PoV despite our record. We are also arguably the most unlucky team beside Chicago.

I’d guess Dahlin looks to flip him at some point

That was a true joy to watch; I hope they play like this more often! Maybe a punch to the face is what Dahlin needed, certainly worked last year. Patrick Sharp said the Sabres sent a statement to Philly by sending out their 1st PP unit and scoring after that idiotic play with 2min left. I'd agree

I wonder what happened, whatever it is I hope he and his family are ok.

Eichel looks banged up but at least he looked a bit more like his old self. Only too pass happy

How exactly does one do that? It doesn't matter who we bring in from coach to players they always divebomb at a moments notice

Why can't we have nice things; we draft and the players just seem to die once they arrive in the NHL

Go Suzuki or bust CBJ!

I wouldn't do that by any stretch. I could certainly see something around Reinhart for PLD however. They have put up similar numbers and Reinhart is only slightly older. Barkov, on the other hand, I am sure they would want Cozens primarily with multiple other pieces involved. Columbus is being pressured by the player, while Florida is more likely pressured from salary. That being said, Florida is trying to dump Yandle as well so who knows.

Then I guess he plays here because I can't see any advantage in him playing 24 games in the WHL

I wonder if you can use a loophole with a pick transferring only if a player plays a certain number of games on your team.

As a conservative but, more importantly, an American I am disgusted by what happened yesterday at the Capitol Building. I'm more than disappointed in Trump's response as well..... I really don't know what to say at this point; I disagree fervently with most Democrat stances and feel as if the Republican Party has been co-opted by a wannabe fascist who even upon losing the election refuses to concede. 🤢

05-06's goal horn plus the basic Woohoo song. I don't need anything huge just the awesome literal goal horn with all the bells and whistles

RIP John Muckler

I disagree partially, the pass Albert sent him on that powerplay was what caused the penalty. It was a terrible pass well up the boards from him thus putting him in a unwinnable situation. It wasn't a lazy play but rather one of desperation. As for his floating, I noticed a bit of that as well but I am unsure if that is due to effort or exhaustion. He was one of the top ice time loggers for all players this year and his floating seemed to become more noticeable after the first three games. I would also add he does have some good defensive abilities which is certainly a positive for a young player. I think he's an AHLer next season, and a call up by late 2021-22 and either Bot 6 or the top call up 2022-23

I wonder if they could run their own practices with a non-team coach?

A straight up .500 record gives us a good opportunity to make it. With everything being in-division, if we split with everyone the worst we can do is 5th.

Who exactly is Gillies; I can't find him on any Flames' roster? My trade from a while back was To BUF Hanifin, Noah Rittich, David ($1,375,000 retained) Ryan, Derek ($1,300,000 retained) To CGY Ristolainen, Rasmus Hutton, Carter Mittelstadt, Casey 2021 2nd round pick (BUF) With Montour vs Risto it would be To BUF Hanifin, Noah Rittich, David To CGY Hutton, Carter Mittelstadt, Casey Montour, Brandon In the latter case we take on 150k cap and lose maneuverability as we would then have Hanifin and Risto's contracts.

I just pray it doesn't turn into a bloody Nascar uniform in 10 years.