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I suspect her level of traumatizing warrants not giving it the moral distance you are giving it.

The Eichel Trade lands us a stud 1C prospect and young stay at home Dman that shine in their new opportunity here. Zemgus locks down the heavy mimutes role and the kids shine without the pressure. Sammuelsson blossoms into a rock in 2nd pairing role and anchors the PK. Boston and Montreal slide back badly and Ottawa isn’t quite ready for primetime. The Sabres start fast out of the gate and maintain a Deluca .500 pace to the trade deadline. KA sees what we have and we are buyers at the deadline. The team falters down the stretch but the new vets and hot start are enough to sneak them i to the last playoff spot. They are crushed in 4 games by FLA but the learnings are valuable.

Wonder what her take on that would be?

@GASabresIUFANIn this scenario bad contracts are not a negative, with 2 caveats, 1. Term is relatively short and 2. They have gas in the tank. With those 2 caveats “bad contracts” represent veteran players to take the pressure and teach the kids to be good pros. Those two things are needed regsrdless of contract size and will be critical to rebuild success anyway.

I think Z is very much capable of handling the pressure of that role. He won’t wilt. But that line will not look good on a lot of nights.

None of whom tanked to collect a franchise player.

Sing it to the heavens!

Name one other than the Mario Lemiuex Penguins that were the result of tanking.

Play hockey and let whatever happens happen. The folly of racing down a rabbit hole for a franchise player should not be lost on anyone right about now. Neither has segments of the fanbase apparently.

I think we will miss Risto and it will show in games this season vs. last 1/3 of last season. No Jack so that variable is eliminated. Although Sam will definitely be missed as well.

Yeah, I know it was a list of what’s currently available. The criticism of that list isn’t a criticism of you. It is what it is. I really hope the team recognizes the deficiencies this time and corrects them before another core is wasted.

That was how I took it back then, and said so in this forum. I’ve refrained from calling him a cancer or bad character guy because there is no real evidence of it, but my gut tells me Jack isn’t the right leader for this team, and never was. Maybe someday in the future he had his epiphany and becomes a leader. He probably needs to be in a locker room where he’s not the default alpha male to experience that epiphany.

Absolutely. They should be good enough to make the roster based on performance and good enough to gain respect. The second part was most def missing post tank.

How long have you been waiting to put that one out here? 😁

I think Jack needed a couple of players with the game and attitude to command his respect. Gionta wasnt enough. Jack is/was a very headstrong guy IMO. We didn’t have the right vets in here to get through Jacks head. Cozen, Mitts, etc do not appear to be cut from the same cloth as Jack. I’d bet Gio would have made a good mentor for this group. The one thing missing from the group Doohickie lists is success. We still need to bring in 2-3 vets that are playoff veterans and know what sacrifices are needed so they can show the kids how to get to that next level.

Just continued aftermath from the first.

Except it looks like Dam may sign with FLA, which means we got a rental price for a longer term player. This sucks.

I was thinking the same earlier. Very high risk high reward. TM style draft philosophy.

It seems like we got a rental price for him. Should have kept him until the deadline to at least take some of the heat off the kids for 60 games.

Dizzam. All kinds of testy in these parts.

This runs counter to what little I’ve read about Powers skating. I think just last night someone posted a report that said something along the lines of “doesn’t just skate well for a big guy. Skates very well”.

Sounds like a guy with a career trajectory like Pu.

This is all a conspiracy by SDS to keep traffic artificially high. There is no Sam trade. SDS has kidnapped Sam and is prepared to do what he needs to do to keep traffic up. Once site traffic goes back down, well, we hardly new ye, Sam.

Coincidence that it happens alongside Fox News hosts getting vaccinated?