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Last night was the first fire of the season... paired with Macallan 12 Sherry Cask and then some Rabbit Hole Cavehill. A very good time.

Word... a word. That's about right for Sutter's media style. I loved his press conferences. He's past his prime as a coach.

To each their own. I have enough bags to carry in my own life without worrying about lugging that kind of crap around. I don't teach history, so I'm not worried about what happened in it. The past is in the past....

Kind of like.. "Anything you can do, I can do way the F better?" 🙂 The dude is flat out the best player in hockey. I used to want to argue it... but I just can't any longer.

I had value? 🤔

There's a few posters around here whose first few years have not lived up to expectations. Given the prevailing forum standards used on hockey players they should be gone. They are busts.

Minus the tweet game I presume... I don't even follow those kinds of things and I seem to always hear something about Hill's tweets.

No.. because it made you post it here and share with us.. so now we have to deal with your moron co-worker. 🙂 But do they mean he scores the greatest goals or that he scores the most goals? What is greatest? That said, pretty sure the answer to both is no. The greatest scorer in the NHL is Connor McDavid. I'm not sure how anyone debates this point.

I suppose. There are 22 homes on my street of 1.5 miles. Certainly not rural although there are multiple lots that are 40+ acres on my street. It's definitely not densely populated. I also like having an actual gas line, although when the house was originally built in 1987 there were no gas lines on the street. All septic in this area as well. I'm not in the Pittsford area of Mendon. 🙂

Yeah.. i'm not saying that's a given. I'm all too familiar with the opposite direction. I was just saying that I live in a sparsely populated area there there is a lot of pride in the property. Yeah.. very common. Hell, in HFL there's a house right on main street that would be really nice.. except for the front yard parking lot dominated by a truck with what seems like a 4 foot lift kit. 4 cars on the lawn, 0 in the driveway.. all the time.

An HOA is an absolute no on any property I will ever own. I'm not sure I've ever heard a positive story about one. I suppose if its making others keep up their homes that COULD be a positive. Of course, I prefer to live in areas that are sparsely populated and those who do live in the area are likely to have a high pride value in their property such that it will not be in decline. I don't even want someone cutting my lawn... damn.

The real question is how long before a bidet is installed.

Well.. some people can't eat bleu cheese, like me. That said, I don't use ranch on my wings. I will however use ranch on my Buffalo chicken finger salad. I use oil and mayo on my chicken finger sub.. because those need something. But ranch on wings.. it's okay to just have the hot sauce. Order mild if you can't take the heat.

He's only going to look worse to people who put believe press conferences are 100% truthful and not meant to manipulate public opinion at worst or at best convey absolutely no meaning. Events happen all the time that run contrary to what was said before. You're digging for something that isn't there and putting way too much stock into a press conference.

It's probably more than a bit of pain. Saying he was probable was probably just mind games.

You should also add that he scores as well. Wilson brings offense and size, that's something you take a chance on. The worry about Wilson being suspended cannot be dismissed but players do clean up their game. The Bruins seem to be doing okay with Marchand.

Dahlin played well most of the time. He had some dumbass turnovers and he led the team in penalty minutes. Being one of the best PK'ers on a team with a bad PK and putting yourself in the box is not a good thing. I wouldn't give him an A. A-.. I think that's fair. He needs to stay out of the penalty box though and if his turnovers were related to his insane long distance passing that would be one thing, but they weren't. I am sure that will get attacked.. but damn, an A- is a good grade.

Sure, that's an option. Unless you are asked about them. Even if not, if you were considering trading them you would talk them up. I don't think your response really dismisses my point, if that was the intention.

Stats are available for all to see. The stats will determine some other team's X of the player's trade value. Now, which action adds to X and which subtracts from X? The coach and GM speaking positively about a player The coach and GM speaking negatively about a player Do you really want them maligning those two in the end of season press conference that anyone can watch?

Even with Greenway on the roster I would absolutely welcome they going after Tom Wilson (or someone like him). In my eyes Wilson is a faster, harder player to play against and scores more. Greenway is big but he does not use his body enough and he certainly hasn't shown an edge to his game yet.

Why? The franchise had to play to his ego. Kyle Okposo doesn't seem to need that same treatment. It's not like they put a C on Okposo and he became a different person and a better leader.

Those would be 3 very good additions to the team. Wilson brings some controversy but I think he's cut down on the actions that lead to suspensions. He still takes a good amount of penalties.. but in looking at the numbers Rasmus Dahlin took nearly as many this year as Wilson has in the past few seasons. And Wilson puts up points.. that cannot be overlooked.

Which players is he standing in the way of? He's a 4th liner who can fill in spots up the lineup. But a 4th liner. And the 4th line is not where you want your young offensive minded prospects. Such as this one.. 19 year old Kulich will be just fine on the I-90 thruway squad next year. I think people have become accustomed to Buffalo needing to bring up every player with talent in the hopes that they'll help the team win more. I think it's time people get used to the fact that there's lots of talent already on the roster and more talent that won't make the transition as quickly because of it. This is what good drafting does for an organization. This is exactly what I think happens unless Okposo wants to go somewhere else to play. The organization does right by the player both rewarding the time spent in futility as well as getting him to 1,000 games. They can do so without impeding the progress of the franchise next year. And Olofsson will be gone. I have no doubt about that. I am convinced that Olofsson and UPL are packaged into a trade.

He said point blank in the post-game interview he's done. I'm not sure the door was open at all.

I don't mind Burke as some level of hockey involved person... but has he done anything for a hockey team's management group lately? The shake-up in Pittsburgh will be significant. I'm just waiting for someone here to suggest the Sabres sign Mike Sullivan when he become available... you know it's coming.