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This is my take. And it’s also my take as to why there was a disconnect with Brian Gionta as well. And I said as much 2 offseasons ago.

I think PA well stated my thoughts. When he is simply amazing I’ll say he is amazing. As for not fully appreciating his roolie year, almost none of us in these conversations can honeslty say they remember in a critical way the rookie season of the last generational defenseman, so we don’t really know what that is supposed to look like. the kid had a helluva season. Period. Amazing is most likely in his future. But I’m not going to rave about it until amazing is actually here. This season would be nice though.

If the problem was he couldn’t lead a bunch of kids, why wouldn’t the correct response be to obtain the people who can lead the kids and keep the best 2C in the game on your roster?

This might be the most pretentious thing ever posted on this site. ?

I'm in. Let's schedule something so we don't just talk about it.

It seems I missed something?

Beat me to it.

Where are all of the pics of all of these beautiful women?

It's 2 or 3 years old now, and AHL news. Links are tough to come by. I suspect alot of it was archived.

Try searching using Rochester D&C as keywords as well. I seem to recall there was some newspaper coverage of the shenanigans. Whether it was TBN or D&C, I don't remember. But the situation did get media coverage. The coverage was light on details, and heavy on presumption if I remember correctly. Gist of it was, COR was not a good host or good mentor to Nylander and appears to have went out of his way to make things quite miserable.

Always BPA for me. In 2 years our needs may look quite different than they do today.

FYI, I will be plagiarizing this line in the future. Me too. Frazier and Lilith are textbook Chet and Muffy to me. And well played it was.

A 25 yr old that hasn’t really had a good sniff in the NHL yet? I don’t think equivalencies work when you’re at an age where you’ve pretty much maxxed out your development. I would def not assume this guy would be a bottom 6 improvement.

I'm not on board with that. The guys with 1st line talent and Lucic/Neely size are rare birds. I'm sure the next one we see will find time with his teams #1 center.

Will do.

So, what is Sam's next contract worth now?

I hit Irish Mafia for the first time a few weeks ago on our way to Keuka Lake. Nice beers and decent food. Won't be the last time I'm there, for sure.

In his prime he still could be. At 30, he doesn't have the wheels. or the hands. The problem wasn't his skill set. The problemwas his skill set had the same trajectory as Moulson's.

I took that statement as, they are getting every opportunity in training camp to make the roster at the start of the season. Completely agree with you on Smith. He's classic AAAA in my opinion.

This guy. I like this guy.

I've said it before. These contracts are the price every team needs to pay to compete in June. Every title winning team has bad contracts. It comes with having to retain high end talent. The only teams that don't ahve these contracts are teams that don't have veteran high end players. Buffalo now needs to finish the job and collect the rest of the talent. Otherwise this is wasted.

I like the cut of your jib.

I'm still cooking up the ROR crow.

That is my only benchmark. I don't care how he gets there.

Those terms were inevitable. Personally, I don't care about the money or years. It's up to the GM to figure out a way to work with it. I just want to see the on ice performance.