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Another call missed as Tuch gets tripped over the line

Byram hooked like a bad comedy act ..... no call Soft slash on a Devil ..... dear God that's a penalty

It wasn't 1 for 1 According to an article about Ullmark; his father's death was a significant factor in leaving Buffalo because he wanted a new start.

He has a starters job. Ullmark left due to his father's death pushing him to want to leave UPL hopefully will have no such issue.

We are due to money and arguably Hamilton Arizona is also Bettman’s pet project he won’t let die

Because they’re the only team that literally doesn’t have a home and is still in place purely due to Bettman wanting them there. The reason I wouldn’t say they are the worst is due to the fact we are inept not terribly ran. Our leadership is lacking but not crooked or actively creating off-ice issues. Arizona couldn’t pay for their players’ meals at the COVID playoff. As well as being tardy to payments at their old arena and have thus been left to play in a college rink. The Oakland A’s have been actively killing their team payroll every year and now are likely to be moved against their fans’ wishes. As for on field/on ice ineffectiveness, we rank highly but in terms of the worst franchises we are at very least ran by legitimate people, in an NHL arena, and players aren’t having their paychecks bounce.

Effectively you said that because they are bad you don’t care if they move. As such it would be assumed they’d win elsewhere and as such you would rather the Sabres win in Utah than lose in Buffalo. I don’t know if you live in Buffalo but losing a team is far far worse than any bad season. Especially in Our case seeing as any team we’d lose we’ll never get them back.

I'd love to make Granato Head of Player Development because he's really good at the micro-development of each player. The issue is he's not a great head coach

So according to you, losing the team is fine as long as they win. Well let me inform you that losing the team is the biggest loss you can possibly have.

Your honestly nuts then; I have zero interest in losing my favorite team from my city regardless of how bad they might be.

There will never be a day that we are safe from potential movement since money is all they want. Apathetic fans aren't what new owners want, they want feverish ones wanting to spend money. Utah and Houston would at very least have an initial burst of money in season tickets and the like; akin to Vegas and Seattle. Owners don't have pressure outside of their bottom line; if they wish to win championships, they are placing that pressure on themselves.

Well, next year even with a 4mil contract for UPL and 2 mil for a backup we'd be at 6M total which is effectively dead center.

I'll never risk it due to the chances of losing the team.

I’ll give Tuch credit for flying around all of the 2nd period; but the team as a whole still have a 3 goal deficit to recoup.

As per usual, DET vs WSH went to OT....

Francois if healthy could likely be convinced of a 1x2mil prove your healthy type deal. Stolarz would be a solid 2mil guy for a year.

I wonder if William Karlsson will be a cap casualty in Vegas because he'd be a solid 3C with a 55% FO as well solid 2 way play.

The St. Louis Blues have a chance to tie Vegas with 9 games remaining potentially. The two play tonight and a Blues regulation win would put them 2 pack with Vegas holding a game in hand. Said game is the next day against Nashville. Following that Vegas plays Winnipeg while the Blues play Calgary. That race could get hot tonight

The Sabres weren't ugly in particular; more so the game itself. Especially in the 2nd period where everyone kept falling or slipping as well as the puck getting stuck in puddles it seemed.

Ovi threatened his team he’d send them to Russia if they didn’t play better

And UPL got an apple

I love the lighting in Calgary’s stadium; the ice on the other hand seemed to give both teams fits

Ugly game but a win is a win. If they don’t lose again they have a chance 😉

No way, I’ve learned my lesson in spades about purposeful tanking. Never again. Hopefully we go on a little run, pick around 10 or 11 and use it to acquire a player in a trade. If we magically win 1 or 2 great, but most likely we’d have a nice trade chip

Bad luck: Injuries are often this, barring some idiotic oversight of stretching causing a groin tear; injuries can definitely be considered bad luck. Jack Quinn, injured trying to better his game and then hurt in a freak skate pick accident. That hit us harder than even I thought it would. We didn’t even try to cover that wound to our roster which still annoys me. Zach Benson’s penalties, I have never seen a player in particular get so many questionable or outright absurd calls made against him. From a team standpoint this is bad luck. Dylan Cozens runs the gambit of bad luck and bad play. Especially to start the year the guy couldn’t buy a goal. He has also had general lapses in judgment for games at a time. He had a rough year but not anything I’m concerned by, yet. Bad Play: Owen Power’s sophomore slump has left him mediocre at best most of the year. He’s looked better since his return from injury but too little too late. Jeff Skinner’s Jekyll and Hyde impression has gotten very old. He shows in some games he can play some degree of defensive hockey and can literally take over offensively for stints yet seems to outright refuse to do so some nights. Instead he’ll twirl and try to backhand pass a puck into a crowd hoping the banged up Thompson or ever moving Tuch stumble onto it. Eric Comrie, if he is every bit a good guy as he is a bad goalie then I can certainly understand his “well liked” status. The oddest part with him is always the good games he’ll play once in a while only for the offense to dry up. Peyton Krebs, he makes me want to scream. When playing with scrubby hard workers with their stone hands he plays smart, makes great passes and generally plays very effective only to be let down by his line mates. For a very brief 2 weeks before Mitts was traded he showed his abilities with good forwards. But now with the good forwards he's gone back to his pre-4th line days again. Passing far too much east-west and looking reckless with the puck. Can anyone please convince him everyone is Girgs and Okposo so he may play straightforward but actually find some success? Here’s just a few things I wanted to unload