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I need to know the answer to this, so I know where to move. But perhaps Alaska and Hawaii? 🙂

It's non-checking, not non-contact. So you won't get hip checks on the wall but you will most assuredly get lots of angling into the boards.

I'd look up the word misanthrope using a physical dictionary.

1. Restructuring the scouting staff has resulted in better prospects. Yes we'll see if they pan out, but the fact is, they are better prospects. So just comparing it to the prospect pool of the past, it's a win. 2. This is tough. Because of the progression plan I think Granato is expected to have this team product at the rate its capable of doing given where the progression plan is at any point in time. We'll cover more on that in #4. All things considered, the coach has taken the team and they have improved on the ice. There is a notable skill gap in net. No overcoming that. That said, Granato did move Thompson to center which resulted in a notable improvement. Sure it's only one season but our overall judgment period is not much more than that. 3. Eichel trade was a W. He was a problem child on the team. Three years ago I was telling people on here about his locker room reputation. So much of it came out after he was traded too. Eichel may have all-world talent (we shall see) but he's not an all-world person or player. Risto.. easy. Reinhart was questionable unless Levi signs, but yes, he was going to walk. 4. They are not in UFA mode. It's not at that point in the plan. I don't consider it a failure. Not securing a goaltender isn't on the GM alone unless you want the GM to overpay and you want to assume that overpayment is enough to convince the goaltender to sign here. Otherwise, it's a trade that brings in a goalie. At least they got Comrie who might not be great, but he's likely better than what they had. I think the Ullmark topic has been closed, he wasn't worth it. 5. I'd give him credit for the Thompson signing. I'd give him credit for positioning the contracts to the progression plan. If the bottom line is that you feel more confident in the potential of this team than you did in the potential of the team 2-3 years ago then I think that's a positive. But like anything, you can't fully judge the success until after.

It's a bad contract and Treliving was not forced to do it. That thinking was the same thinking that said the Sabres had to retain Vanek. Sometimes you have to accept that the situation got sideways and you have to manage to that. Hubie is a win now and ignore the pain later contract. It's a decision made by a person who says the mess is the next person's problem. As an owner, if your GM is making those decisions then you should have already changed GMs. Better if you accept you need a year or two to move some things around in the organization. Instead they doubled down on what was already not a great situation by losing Gaudreau and having to trade Tkachuk. Perhaps the contract can be moved, etc. But in many cases it can't.. and even then 8 years now assumed he says healthy and does not retire before then thus causing Calgary even more pain when he's 35+. Under current CBA, of course.

I agree with all of this. You prefer a measure of the whole, from the moment he was hired, to today. Using quick metrics over the past 5 seasons, what do we find? Last year's team finished relative to last 5 seasons (using projected numbers since 2019-2021 did not have 82 game seasons): Most GF - 232 Second Most GA - 290 (291) Best Divisional Finish (5th) 75 points (projected points in 2019-20 would have been 81, but they were still 6th in division) If you account for carryover impact from one season to the next given the difficulty in flipping a roster in the NHL (and in Buffalo), the team trended down with Krueger and is trending back up with Adams. We still need more time to know if it will continue or if it was just managing mediocrity. As for not giving credit, you have to. Obvious choices are not always made. And if you are going to put the mess a person inherits on their resume then you have to also account for the decisions they make, no matter how obvious. Same with Granato. Whether or not he was the only candidate (no way he was the ONLY candidate) he was the one who was hired and all indications are the team has improved under him. Your statement above begins with lobbying for a holistic view and then quickly moves into picking specific events all of which you present as negatives or at best neutral. If you want the holistic view, then you use everything. I see nothing that indicates this team is not in a better position now than it was before Adams.

I have no idea what acronym it entails. I will search it so I have a better understanding on why it's viewed the way it is. Thanks!

We are trained to judge on those things, that's the worst part about it. How often do you see a "headline" on a news aggregator that basically is a reinforcement of being judgmental? It's sad. "The one mistake people make with cooking potatoes." or other stupid crap like that. People read that crap and believe there's only one way to do things and anyone who doesn't do it is a simpleton. I'd say simp but I believe somehow the world has found that word to be insulting. Perhaps simpleton is as well, who knows anymore.

I was counting years and not necessarily when his birthday was, thanks for the clarity!

Treliving. Just for clarity. There are more teams, but not necessarily any offering something better than Florida's deal that Treliving agreed to. So, if you tell them to go the drawing board that's fine, but if they never come back... then what? Resort to the next best deal which could be considerably worse? Hold out until someone gets desperate?

Bobrovsky - 4 seasons left at $10M and currently a reason the Panthers are over the cap Price - 4 seasons left at $10.5M and not even playing (perhaps they discounted for injury, potential LTIR?) I'd also consider Tavares, his contract goes until he is 35, Skinner's until he is 36 (Skinner is a year younger). Tavares put up 79 points (4th) and was -8 (33rd worst) last season on a team that scored 308 goals (2nd best) and gave up 252 goals (14th worst) Skinner put up 63 points (2nd) and was -14 (9th worst) on a team that scored 229 goals (22nd best)and gave up 287 (8th worst) Tavares makes $11M. If I am putting Skinner on that list, Tavares has to get consideration. Well, that changes things a bit. But still, Tavares hasn't been a ray of sunshine in Toronto.

Agreed. Terrible communication. They had plenty of data on the medium tires from Leclerc. I don't know the metrics but it seems like Sainz might have been on his mediums for as long as Leclerc had been on his before he lost the car. If you also add the 5 second penalty Sainz picked up for his unsafe release it only compounds the problem. He was lucky to only get 5 for that. The mix up in communication, the 5 second penalty, and then the VSC all contributed to the end result. Also curious about this whole Perez VSC communication blunder where he was supposedly informed that the VSC was ending on Turn 9 and he sped up then which explained why there was suddenly a big gap between him an Russell. Then he was informed Turn 12 but he was in the wrong spot on the track having had to slow down to maintain his 40% delta.

Again? *****, the XFL has more reboots than Batman at this point.

He has to be a bit surly. If you read Gaudreau's Player's Tribune article it seems like it was well known he wasn't going to stay in Calgary. At the same time his team was in the playoffs and had a chance to do something so if he just traded away Gaudreau he's toast. He's forced to hold him and lose him for nothing and then Tkachuk comes along and all that publicity on extensions comes out further handcuffing the man. Now, I won't say he's a fantastic GM because I don't think he is. But I think I'd be a tad put off by having this situation basically forced on him.

Given that no time limit is put on this question... I would say Olofsson goes first.

I think it would be more apropos to look at how hard Reinhart is to play against by a few metrics. Hits is one thing. How many turnovers does he force? How strong is he in puck possession? Does he shutdown the other team when he's on the ice? Foam blocks are not tough, until you fall in a pit of them and try to move.

You'd have to think they wanted to do that, but Tkachuk saying he wasn't going to sign an extension in Calgary probably left them with having to take the best offer they were going to get that would lead to potential future success versus guaranteed. These are the trades where we, as fans, would love to know what other offers Calgary had to choose from. They have to hope they can flip the two players into something that will be useful to them. But they are definitely facing a challenge in the near future. They also got rid of Brunette as coach. They brought in Paul Maurice which I find laughable as he fired himself from Winnipeg only last December. The chemistry was changing, one way or the other. I'm not going to prognosticate a flop for Florida yet, but it will be interesting to see what happens this season with these changes.

And you claimed to not having anything to contribute. Tsk.

Saw this posted elsewhere: I'd agree.

Never underestimate this. The skill has to be there, no doubt. But so many players with talent lack the level of tenaciousness and determination to make the real difference.

The kind that go like this: "Do we want to bring in Patri" "No." DIscussed. 🙂 Although I am sure there is an aspect of if he's free to choose and wants to show up, maybe.

In talking to some people who live in the area and are naturally fans a few noted items: Canada's COVID policy did not sit well with some players, especially US born. The Arena is a dump and apparently the mayor or some governmental official just reneged on a deal to improve it or something to the like Weather, travel, management. Overall, sounds like a lot of issues. Sorry for not being more specific.. the conversation was a few days ago and I just recall the gist. The people were not surprised, not happy about it, but blame the team more than the player. Now, I am sure others will be all over the player. This is shaping up to be a Grade A mess. The good thing is that it's coming to light and you have to hope that it improves how future events are handled, or better yet, dissuades people from creating situations that lead to these events.

We're going to get a good idea soon. He's a UFA. If the Sabres make him C like everyone expects you have to think they'll have some kind of contract extension already lined up. If he wants to move to a Cup contender at the end of this season (and you know someone will take him) then it's gonna look bad to make him the C of this season. If there's no extension, and he's the C and leaves in UFA.. well it will tell us how much he believes what he just said. That said, I expect he's sticking around.

That's unfortunate.. I guess? I love hockey too much to not watch any hockey, of any kind, at some point. I definitely did not watch as many Sabres games as I have in the past, but I attended more Sabres games in the last season than I ever had in any other season, including seeing them in Nashville. And wow.. does Nashville's entire experience only amplify how bad the Sabres arena and in-game experience are... woof.

Better not watch the Sabres vs. Penguins 🙂