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Blackhawks are going on 7 years and are nowhere right now. They have Bedard but there is no guarantee he pulls them out of that...McDavid didn't help much with the Oilers for a few years.

No reason to prolong the rebuild either when you aren't winning sh!t

If they wanted to go it for the best they could they would be getting younger prospects at some point not doubling down on aging vets. Karlsson has a great season again last year but it was his first great season in a while and at his age it's more likely that was a one off than something you can expect again.

They are very unlikely to win a cup at this point with their aging roster.

It isn't short term, but it is long term. They are simply in denial at this point. It happens to a lot of teams with aging vets that have had a lot of success...trying to hold on for too long...look at what the Blackhawks have been going thru. They should have learned from their mistakes not make the same ones

So a guy that is good enough to start 78 games as a 2nd pair Dman on the best regular season team of all time isn't good enough for us? Now I've heard it all.

Pittsburgh desperately needs to rebuild but they keep acquiring aging players instead. Short term sure he will help. But how much? Probably not as much as they think. Hope they enjoy still struggling to make the playoffs next year before the bottom drops out. https://www.pensburgh.com/platform/amp/2023/8/6/23821953/penguins-breaking-news-trade-erik-karlsson-sharks-canadiens

Driving to Mammoth Caves in KY from Louisville this morning and it's raining pretty good...trucks 3 wide are basically blocking all the lanes and going 10 mph under the speed limit. And to boot Mammoth Caves in the Central Time Zone so we are going to have an hour to spare

Ducks agree to terms with Troy Terry on a Tage special...7x7

We need to see them right next to each other to be able to compare

JJ Peterka - "I Don't Speak French - Adieu!"

Any dude who played 78 games on the best regular season team in NHL history is a major upgrade for the Sabres D corp.

Levi should take care of that, IMHO. He was already a far better option than anything we had before him. Sabres would have made the playoffs by at least 10 points last year if he was our full time goalie from the start of the season.

With so many young players the majority of the improvement should be expected to come from them gaining experience and improving...sort of like what happened with Tage and Cozens and Dahlin...can expect that next season with Power and Peterka and I would have said Quinn but unsure how the injury will impact him this year...Peterka was named the best forward at the World's this year..that is no small feat. Filling in around them is what he should be doing not looking to bring big ticket players in unless there is a major need that he doesn't have covered

We just watched Murray try this and fall flat on his face which led to needing another rebuild since all the prospects were gone and he had nothing left in the cupboards... Fair enough and he has the talent coming up where he doesn't feel the need to.

Signing Clifton will be a large upgrade no matter how you slice it. That alone means we improved. When the team is so young, much of the improvement should be expected to come internally. Add to that he STILL has the #1 ranked prospect pool even tho a ridiculous number of young players were removed from it the last few years as they began playing regularly for the Sabres and he has every reason to stand pat.

I don't necessarily agree with this. I think he stands pat because years of empirical data show that most free agent signings are not good value for the money and the teams would probably have been better drafting and developing and signing lower priced FAs to fill roles. When you just promoted 6-7 very highly rated prospects to your NHL roster and you STILL have the #1 rated prospect pool in the NHL why wouldn't you stick to what you are doing?

Thought he would get more than that...Sens seem intent on making splashes with the new ownership group in charge...

He is a 30 goal scorer now...both years with Florida he has over 30

I would contact an attorney since these companies are willfully violating Labor Laws and the Age Discrimination Employment Act(ADEA)

Just be happy you aren't in India where some areas get 15-25 inches of rain a day during this time of year and it's normal and happens every year.

Usually but not always. The North Atlantic Oscillation(NAO), for instance can be a better predictor of this for us many times or at least is a very important factor in determining this, along with some others.

If there is one thing you cannot do as a professional athlete, it's go full psycho. You can get away with being part psycho...ask Antonio Brown, but not full psycho.

The American Southwest is going to be on the very limit of being habitable by humans in the summer within 50 years of things continue as they are. This year it's almost alarming at the type of heat records that have started early in the year and have continued unabated. So many regions/countries have set all time heat records going back to Asia(India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam) in March/April and continuing now with the American Southwest, Florida, China and Europe... Even for the models that have bands that would be considered "normal" due to climate change for temps to be within now, they have gone so far above them even climate change experts are alarmed since this shouldn't be happening. Sadly this is becoming the norm now rather than the exception.

Definitely not a heat cycle...the earth just broke all time temperature records 3 straight days and apparently it was the hottest it's been in at least 100,000 years.