thewookie1

Being a conservative this hasn't been a fun time for me either. I had to vote for Trump, granted its worthless being in NY, primarily to put an end to all the BS political correctness and the war on Western Civilization being waged by the many idiots in the country who believe in moral relativism and that the European/American world view is evil. No culture is perfect, but being demonized for thing that were done in mass by the very same alternative views they support is complete idiocy. That being said, Trump has bumbled and stumbled everything with foreign affairs and it irritates me to no end. Targeting Mexico in an attempt to stop drugs and illegal immigration makes sense. Alternatively targeting Canada is plain idiotic. I don't get his strange obsession with aggressively trying to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal although I do understand the underlying reason. (As the north pole shrinks the shipping lanes will become far more viable for global travel and we own Alaska. Greenland and or Canada secures us both the in and out portion of the route while the Canal is obviously another shipping lane of both military and economic value.) His sheer botching of the Ukrainian War is a travesty; again the intended result of the war ending is a good thing but he's done everything wrong top to bottom. DOGE is a great idea on paper and I had high hopes for it; sadly it seems far more akin to a guy in Vietnam hacking through the woods with a machete versus a strategic elimination of the idiotic things the US Govt funds abroad. Why couldn't the Democrats just ran a competent moderate who desired sanity, less absurd social reconstruction and wasn't a wannabe Socialist? That's all I have to say, just needed to vent a bit.

Frankly, no matter how bad ownership and management are I have zero sympathy for a guy requesting a trade 2 years into an 8 year deal in which he signed. If he suspected trouble he shouldn't of signed for 8 years. This too

Makar is effectively the McDavid of defenseman Dahlin would be in the more traditional star/superstar level as would Q Hughes.

Hatred might be a strong word for Berglund; more akin to offended or disrespected would be more accurate. I did however hate how he came in to be a good influence for the players and the many young Swedes we had supposedly followed him around like ducklings. For him to just say FU and walk off and then apparently try to make a comeback the following two years certainly gained my ire but hatred wouldn’t be accurate. Taylor Hall and Eric Staal will always feel swarmy to me as both came here talking about good game only to mail it in until they were dealt. One of the only players I ever hated as a Sabre was Slava Koslov due to his rather visual disdain for the team and city as well as him being the return from the Hasek trade.

I highly doubt Cozens wasn’t friends with most of the team. I could imagine however Cozens having in game quirks that wore out its welcome over time. Essentially a number of players likely started to feel that either Cozens was dogging it or was holding them back as whole. But due to their friendships it likely took far longer than what a competent GM would do.

On Dahlin’s comment, he certainly seemed happier, as was Ruff, by their immediate reaction to Kulich’s hit.

I’m really happy after that win; really needed that

Both are surprisingly bad to OT

It was after the whistle, he gave Hertl an earful

He can join him for sure

Dahlin!

***** Eichel, he could die in a ditch and I still wouldn’t care for him

Kolesar tripped Byram there

Well they actually have in this game

Stupid refs, let ‘em fight

It was a questionable hit, not intentional head contact but it was there. Reverse the players and we get a BS major. At very least they should have evened it up or not called the instigator. It wasn’t just a big hit, it injured a player too.

He put his hip into Kulich’s face. The fact VGK gets a PP is absolute BS

We were the better team in the 1st; yet we are down 1..... ugh

But that also leaves us with little else to help fix the team. I don’t feel Ekblad will magically flip the team entirely alone. Also I’d fight to get McLeod at 4x4mil which is very fair for a 3C

Very true, if Ottawa and Norris theoretically hid his injury that would a major ordeal.

I don’t know if he’d take a bridge deal, and if so he’s at minimum want his present deal + whatever his RFA tender is.

If you want Ekblad to would have to move Byram who's going to want 7+ mil like Ekblad

It just feels like no matter what we do, we lose. Yes I know Norris has a history but plenty of other players have had bad injury histories and have been fine Hell Eichel had a 1st time surgery as well as a history of a couple ankle injuries but hasn't missed much time with Vegas outside a freak thumb injury.

The good ole days

That could also lend to his anger at the news claiming he wanted out