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Damn they are turning into an empire of not just sports teams but also arena owners and various other sports related projects like Harbor Center...

That sucks...I can still vividly see him throwing a small tantrum after Pominville scored the OT winner in game 5 in my mind. RIP...

That doesn't say much tho. How many minutes did he get a game? Who was he playing with? What line? Did he get a lot of defensive zone starts? I agree the point total isnt very good but a lot of that depends on the above too.

Who has been playing and dominating against grown men for 2 years already.

Whatever he feels is best

Nobody is listening at that stage so it really doesn't matter. Both sides are dug in like trench warfare in WWI and nothing anyone says will change their opinion, if only so their pride and ego doesn't take a hit publicly. At that point it doesnt become about the topic of discussion it becomes personal and about them keeping their "dignity" and not "losing" by changing course.

Lol you better pick a faster language to code in ????

He repaired the foundation which is our AHL talent pipeline. Nothing he would have done would matter until that was taken care of. Murray built a towering house of cards with no foundation underneath which is why it ended up getting blown over when thr slightest wind gust came along. He thoroughly gutted all our picks and prospects to get "win now" type of guys. That doesnt work. He is building the right way...through the draft and supplementing the roster through trades and FA pickups.

As many times as needed to do it right. If the person before him built a house of cards how is that on him? His job is to fix it. If its his opinion it needs to be torn down then thats what it is.

Reinhart might be one of the best in the NHL at that...Sabres have scored a LOT of goals over the past 2 years from him being in front of the goalie.

Isles fans must be feeling like we felt when Drury and Briere left in the same off-season

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2018/07/01/john-tavares-is-leaving-the-islanders/amp/

Politics and Religion are two topics of discussion where there can really be no productive discussion. If someone disagrees with the person or the politician they support they are automatically wrong and the person becomes a mortal enemy. Its among the most stupid topics of discussion imaginable because it turns otherwise rational people into completely irrational morons. As such I would prefer not to even have any politics discussed here as within 2 or 3 posts it will devolve into "I support this person and the other person is a POS and so are you."

Its the Leafs

Maple Leafs just add the big fish...

Lehners main issue was he would make a whole host of great saves and then let in a shot from the point with nobody in front of the net that a high school goalie could have stopped... And that he couldn't stop a goal in the shootout to sabe his life...dude has the worst save percentage in shootout history in the NHL.

Nice! Starting to make some moves...Dahlin and Eichel are two nice pieces that will get a lot of players wanting to play with them...

Reinhart...I got a feeling he might be the snake in the room

Wow...thats a really reasonable contract consideing Chad Johnson got $4 million last year

Sabres wanted 3rd overall pick from Habs but they weren't going for it... A deal almost came through with Habs trading Pacioretty for Isles 11th or 12th pick and then immediately trading that for O'Reilly but ended up not matwrializing for whatever reason.. Wonder if they still end up moving him now or not before the season... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/report-habs-almost-traded-pacioretty-landed-oreilly-draft-day-blockbuster-173555659.html

And they won multiple Stanley Cups because of the players they got in those drafts...whats the problem?

Oh really? Because he picked Dahlin? What GM in their right mind wouldn't have? That is because Sweden has a legendary training system that begins when the players are 7 and 8 years old and continues until they end up leaving...Craig Rivet and Matt Ellis were talking about how crazy it is on the Instigators about the stuff they do over there...their training systems allow players to become better players than equivalently skilled players from other countries. They basically went over their overall hockey model with a fine toothed comb starting with young players and how they develop them and put together one of the best if not the best development programs of any sport for any country in the world. Some of these ideas are completely different from how the rest of the world does things, but they put a lot of time and energy and got a lot of very knowledgeable people together to build this from scratch basically. It is really starting to pay off now however, as Sweden does very well in most tournaments and their players typically play very well in the NHL... A lot of their training is off the ice...doing hurdles, running up and down steps of the arena, running up and down hills, etc...then even when they get on the ice, a lot of their time is spent doing "skilled" things like stickhandling. Rivet said they got on the ice and all they did for the first 15 minutes was stickhandle the puck every day. https://www.nhl.com/news/swedens-new-look-hockey-model-paying-dividends/c-598251 https://www.hockeycentre.org/Portals/3/IIHF_docs_HDC_2013/Henrik%20Haraldsson%20-%20Sweden.pdf

Oh really? You sure you didn't mean that the other way around?

Why would we want to resign guys that did nothing for us this year and helped us finish dead last?

Because they got an exemption.