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Pretty sure that dicking him around on his contract was about 97% of the issue in Colorado.

Is that what he said? I thought he had written that is another potential successor to Lou, not that anything was certain. Anywho, I'm a little skeptical Lou is just going to step aside or be forced out when his contract is up. If the Leafs progress again next season, there might be quite a bit of hesitation to make a change up top.

You're doing this wrong--if you want to know how much ROR's faceoff prowess is worth over Larsson's, you have to hold all else equal...and yes, that includes the number of faceoffs taken. ROR was worth about 2 faceoff wins per game over Larsson if we directly substitute Larsson for O'Reilly. Using O'Reilly's faceoff attempts, Beagle would be worth about 1.5 faceoff wins per game over Larsson with the same usage as O'Reilly got. So really less than that, because no 3rd/4th line center is going to get that many draws per game. Even if you double Larsson's draws taken, and replace him with Beagle, you're talking ~.91 faceoff wins per game improvement. How much is that .91 wins per game worth to you? Because let's be real, in any kind of a critical situation, O'Reilly's gonna be taking them anyway.

I'll gladly take 35 goals for $4.5 million.

Yes, yes it is.

Jake "regression to the mean" Allen. Somewhere, Bruce Boudreau is crying.

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Yup, I'm all-in.

I'd imagine that Crisp determines whether he's worth a contract, then Jakubowski does the contract. That makes sense to me, anyway. Ultimately I don't think a couple borderline contracts will mean a hill of beans--you can always dump a meaningless (financially) contract without any trouble.

On the other hand, that he got an interview at all would lend credence to John Shannon's report of new blood. That is encouraging.

As has been said a bazillion and a half times, ROR's best raw offensive season (28 goals and 64 points) was playing on Duchene's wing. That also happened to be Duchene's best raw offensive season (70 points in 71 games). Shame we didn't have some meaningless games with which to experiment :wallbash:

I can't believe I'm agreeing with you on something. Can you change your opinion or something? This is uncomfortable.

At the presser, Pegula said Jeff Crisp was handling the amateur side.

GM, simply because their moves have longer term ramifications. Of course, that also means rookie GM has bigger upside.

I thought Alzner was a UFA? ;)

I was shocked by how respectable those brews are.

Gotcha. Then we are in agreement.

A job? As in any job? I totally disagree there. He'll easily find a spot in a pro personnel department.

I'd freaking love to add Killorn. He's basically my perfect secondary piece. Skill, versatility, quality two-way play.

I still can't believe Kucherov signed a bridge deal.

Good time to not have a GM. #becausebuffalo (I'm joking. We'll be fine)

The only thing Nelson was promised was immediate NHL time to burn a year on his ELC.

3 year bridge makes far and away more sense than any other option.

One would assume they weren't supposed to know :lol: Really though, I doubt it's a big deal in practice. All of the real work is already done, and it's not like they'll be making the picks unsupervised. Plus they're professionals, intentionally sabotaging your employer probably wouldn't be a great item on the ol' resume.

For as little as ESPN cared about hockey, their hockey section is still far more functional than that of NHL dot com. Funny, really.