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I'm not talking about a backwards move. That's why I said I want to see the deal first. Return me a 1C, 1G, some scoring depth with playoff tested veteran grit and I'm gonna look real hard at it.

And we don’t even have to worry about Wilson....

Sober up and try again.

Gretz was traded and Edm won a cup not too long after. Sometimes you take a step down in individual talent but increase team talent overall. The pic is Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead fame. \m/

Show me the return first. I'm not wedded to any of them.

Been saying that for years. And it certainly wasn't an original idea of mine. Prediction, we stay predominately a 2 party system but the Republican party has a major transformation. Guys like Romney and the McCain family will be on the outside looking in and will be forced to make an unpleasant choice. Bush II will look like a liberal when this is over. This still looks to get worse before it gets better to me.

Thorny is a good guy. Especially when he's in agreement with me. Kreuger is trolling us now.

I used to have a Polaroid of Don Luce that my dad took at a wedding reception they both attended. I used to see and talk to Rob Ray every year at the sportman's show that used to be in the Buffalo Convention center. Ray is/was an avid fisherman. Jim Lorentz attended the same church my wife and I used to attend. Saw him every Sunday. Saw Larry Playfair quite frequently at a breakfast place on Niagara Falls Blvd when my wife was pregnant and we used to go out to breakfast after church. My wife's former boss was good friends with Scotty Bowman and used to see him at the office regularly. She says he's an arrogant prick. Had a bit of a start studded flight home from LA one year. Last minute business trip. First class seats. Cindy Crawford was on the flight on the LA-Det leg. Sat behind Grant Fuhr for the Det-Buf leg. Alex Mogliny stopped into a liquor store that I worked to make a few bucks on the side. Cheap vodka. Go figure.

Yes, point 1 was focused on one sentence. The rest was my continuing rant that we still haven't addressed badly needed mentoring over the last 5+ seasons. Just you wait until my razor sharp daggers are pointed at GA and his ridiculous notion that we should be playing more prospects. 😈

How does Dahlin have the best rookie season ever in the history of time for an 18 yr old Dman and not actually win the Calder? He had a helluva rookie season. Anything above that is arguable. He's got a serious flaw in his game for a generational talent. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe its between his ears. Hopefully he can work past it. I still think it is a lack of someone to mentor him. I'm not sure if there is an adequate alternative.

Maybe he is the worst kind of tease, teasing fabricated things. We've all been there. Flashbacks and visceral reactions are excusable.

My wife has a pair of Jerry Korab's crutches.

Same here. I'm making the effort to watch, and I'm actually looking forward to it, but the emotional edge isn't quite what it used to be.

Pretty much ended Ristau's career, didn't it? My fading recollection was that he quit training camp the following season. Is that correct or did I misremember? That was a really awful scene. Almost killing a guy is accurate.

I was surprised that Hall didn't shoot too, but even if he did........ Sam can't peel off. He needed to drive the net for the rebound. It was a soft play.

I don’t need to wait. I trim the damn things weekly.

He’d have to have some pretty epic eyebrows.

Agreed. A Steve Ott or Chris Drury type personality in the room is sorely needed.

This take needs more love. Sam really does need to catch a bunch of ***** for not going to the net. It seems to me that our two tank fruit are again not playing with the intensity this team needs. By my eye Taylor Hall is outperfroming both of them significantly. Cozens play is a breath of fresh air comparatively. He's nowhere near ready to be a featured player, but the effort is there. When/if he starts winning puck battles we are gonna really like this guy. His game is very ROR like. Olofsson had a good game. Staal wasn't very visible again. Disappointing. Dahlin...... I complained ad nauseum about Jack and Sam not having true mentors, and that it was a mistake that draft position was prioritized over having mentors for our two future stars. Dahlin needs a mentor even more than Jack did. He is getting hoodwinked by veteran players on the other teams. There is no cagey vet on this team to show him how to avoid it. To teach him how to anticipate it. To communicate on ice with him to prevent it. It is definitely stunting his development. We never did have the foundation to build upon, and now our stars have hit their prime years and we still don't have a foundation for the next batch of talent that is ripening now. We don't have an on ice foundation, and the continued hiring of inexperienced team management means we don't have a good foundation off ice either. This team has not learned from its mistakes. This is why I've taken a show me approach to these off seasons. You guys get on your emotional roller coasters. You should know better by now.

He doesn't win many puck battles but he sure gets in there and makes the effort.

Hall seems to work the paint more than Jack does. He continues to be more dynamic than Jack so far this season too.

Did that happen during the Buffalo back-to-back? Who laid those hits?

Ba dum, tsh!

Need to see him at C at this level. He looks good at W, and looked phenomenal at W in the tourney.

Friends of ours had COVID back in early April. They both lost sense of taste and smell. We visited them in August. He was just starting to get smell back bust still couldn't taste anything. She still had no sense of taste or smell. They loved the kabobs I made. 🤣