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No excuse for it

The plan was Nylander I guess but you're probably right

That's why Girgs is fine for now, maybe, on Jacks line but need a sniper to bury that

Maybe. But Eichel is going in vs the NY Rangers, not St Cloud State

Bingo. Over officious

RJ calling Reinhart, Rodriguez

That's what she said

You're bringing your A game this year

Nice 4th line energy there

Great post! Except Denethor was wrong about Faramir and you are correct about Gorges.

Great idea I just did so too

Reinhart back from the dead!

McCabe and Bogo. (McCabe isn't garbage though)

He's not...he's just a dick.

What's sad is that goals were scored vs two different pairs of defensemen but your comment is still accurate.

NHL officiating worse than NFL?

I'd like to see Reinhart off the first team PP. He's toxic.

Emmrick is an over officious blowhard

This isn't competitive

Holy

1:20 left tie game offensive zone face off and Phil rolls out Nolan, Larsson, and Josefson. I don't get it.

So a counter point to my Holzinger - Reinhart comparison is that age-wise, Reinhart's entire 200+ game sample occurs prior to Holzinger's first game in the NHL. An age equivalent comparison is (approximately) Reinhart's NHL career thus far vs. Holzinger's Sophomore to Senior year at Bowling Green. I agree with We've that Reinhart needs to re-invent himself however part of it may simply be hitting the weight room, the right diet, and continuing to work on his speed. A strong defensive game would also make him useful as a 3rd line guy who can fill-in on the top 2 lines when needed. Sam probably needs to be on a pretty good team to succeed and unless he's traded that's not what we're looking at for awhile.

Totally agree, and along the lines of finding an example, one did come to mind and in checking out the basic stats, it's somewhat interesting, and I hope not predictive: Sam Reinhart: First 203 NHL GP = 0.22 Goals/Game, 0.28 Assists/Game, 0.48 Points/Game Former Sabre: First 212 NHL GP = 0.22 Goals/Game, 0.30 Assists/Game, 0.51 Points/Game Remainder of Career 335 NHL GP = 0.14 Goals/Game, 0.24 Assists/Game, 0.39 Points/Game I.e. he dropped from a 42 point/season guy to a 32 point/season guy after the first 2-3 years. It's Brian Holzinger

It's totally not a thing. Sorry, needed to vent. I hated every freaking second that useless guy was on the ice for the Sabres and now he has 4 goals in 16 games in Montreal. Like Shaller and Grant and so many others it just galls me how bad dudes play in Buffalo and then perform 1000% better somewhere else. This season sucks.

What about Nolan over 4 goal scorer Nic Deslauriers? I don't think so.