Randall Flagg

I wouldn't do the Chicago deal and LA would have little cap relief (okie's contract is big), no speed-gain, and would be downgrading every single position they're moving out.

Lucic - 2 goals in his last 60 games

I'm not saying I think the Sabres should fire Phil and hire Joel. I don't think Phil deserves to be fired right now. It would be so Sabres, though, to wind up needing to fire Phil in the next 2 years, and continually missing out on big names being available because of unfortunate timing, between Babs (well not that), Trotz, Quenneville.

That 3v3 combo will still allow OT goals but it's probably our only one with a chance of scoring them.

Fine - I'd like them to have a 3-1-1 stretch so that they are "in" the playoff picture rather than "close to being in the playoff picture if they can go so and so and so then they'll be there," because the former is much more fun than the latter. I'd especially like it because we play a bunch of teams that kick our a$$es on the regular coming up shortly.

Just from watching our OT play this year you could convince me that this is our first time practicing 3v3

FWIW, his metrics say that Tage is the only thing keeping him from being our worst forward by a fair margin. My eye test agrees, though he's certainly not as BAD as the guys he replaced from last year. I would never use the word "decent" to describe him though. I think Sam is a decent player.

Wow. New coach is going to have a tough time with that roster, though DeBrincat, Toews, and Kane are fun to play with. And their young defenseman that starts with a J whose name I can't pronounce, he's good. If Keith is the Keith of last year, though, that D is bad too

Yeah, they need to have a good 3-1-1 stretch or something like it - they're 20th in points percentage in the league, 10th in the east, so the playoff spot is purely because they've played more games than most. And, as far as Vancouver goes: 2015/16: Through November 2nd had a 109 point pace, finished with 75 2016/17: Started 4-0, finished with 69 points 2017/18: 6-3-2, 7-4-2, 8-5-2 before falling apart and finishing with 73 points Vancouver just plays well to start the year every year, I still believe they have a bad team. Their defensive top six is dreadful and their forward depth is bad. Once Pettersson stops shooting at 40% and creating a goal every 10 corsi events while he's on the ice, which is the definition of unsustainable, and the usual Canuck-ness kicks in, they'll settle into their proper standings place

The time on that camera has to be wrong, Duchene is in the car, and so is Formenton (spelling?) and Tierney. All new guys. But I do agree that this happens on all 31 teams every season

I'm 90% sure a thread about it was made that included the Columbus game, and 100% sure it included a home game against a tired Flames squad while we were rested - that's the stretch I'm referring to, even though I agree @Columbus isn't "easy"

The only thing I'll say about that is, there can absolutely be real evidence that guys are locker room cancers. Matt Duchene with the terrible look, after all of the other stuff about him refusing to talk to anyone in Colorado for weeks before being traded.

At the same time, "coming down" from 8 mil compared to Draisaitl and Eichel seems fair for Nylander, who, IMO, would be better next to McDavid than Draisaitl is.

I think his speed won't be an issue if he can develop enough strength to protect the puck well. He's too lanky right now to be good at that

They don't play again until Thursday. Sad.

The only thing I can take solace in tonight is the fact that Henrik will never win a cup. The high in between was very high, but we've lost 4 of 5 now in the "easy" stretch that we "needed" lots of wins in.

Great kill. Pretty sure that went right through a Ranger's tripod, why icing?

Putting Risto with Dahlin and Jack's line is a guarantee that the line spends the whole time pinned in. 100% because of two failed transition attempts by 55.

We really need to keep track of how many times a blind risto clear leads directly to a one-timer from the slot. It happens so f*cking many times

That was so goofy looking

Nice. Pls tie!!

I'm worried about our legs - Rangers are fast and rested.

I don't have the words to adequately describe what Lundqvist always does to try and control the tempo of a game, but it's infuriating that he does it and that people just let him do it. Didn't he literally throw the net off during a breakaway in a playoff game a couple years back?

It was both. The game isn't over, but it doesn't feel like we've got it tonight. We really need the two points, otherwise we're looking at 1-4 in that important stretch WC made a thread about

Dahlin to Risto's side as our adjustment makes me continue to think that Phil doesn't understand how his team works.