Hoss

I love this Jackets team. Jones, Werenski, Duchene, Panarin, Dubois, disfunction... it’s wonderful.

We’ll see if he wins anything first. ?

Sullivan had a head coaching job previously.

To your questions: I don’t know. And you don’t know either.

Can we stop with this anecdotal dance? Plenty of coaches with experience have had success and plenty have failed. Dan Bylsma’s failure means very little to this franchise right now. The roster has also changed quite a bit between now and then. Yes.

So many people here tried to convince me Mike Smith was trash.

I actually find his answer quite interesting.

Serious question: what is any member of the media hurting by asking him about his father?

I do believe it’s a possibility.

No need to risk it with you and your kid in town.

I saw a great point on twitter about McLellan: what if he’s already set on LA like reports suggest but hasn’t committed because he’s in Buffalo. Probably don’t want to be in the city you just told to piss off.

Holy ***** this San Jose vs Vegas matchup is such a good looking sweater matchup. It looks beautiful on the ice.

Why are there 73 prospect threads? Let’s talk about the prospects in here so I don’t have to open 23 pointless tabs.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/31-thoughts-breaking-major-nhl-awards-candidates/ 7. The Fourth Period’s Dennis Bernstein reported Wednesday morning Todd McLellan was closing in with Los Angeles. It certainly was trending that way prior to the Sabres’ leap into the process. He’s a western guy and the Kings, who had said they were going to consider a search, decided not to waste time. At the end of his time in both San Jose and Edmonton, McLellan did not see eye to eye with his GM. He’s got a positive history with Rob Blake, who played for him on the Sharks. There is a limit to where the Kings will go. They had Darryl Sutter in the $3.5-million range, and that was after he won two Stanley Cups. Up the road near wine country, Peter DeBoer was extended for what is believed to be in the $3.25-million range. The Kings are not afraid of term, but if the Sabres throw a bigger bag of cash at him, it would be a stunner if Los Angeles matched. He’d have to make a choice. Which roster would you rather have: Buffalo or Los Angeles? 8. This may be irrelevant quickly, but if McLellan goes elsewhere, the assumption is the Kings’ next targets will include three others with ties to Blake: Tony Granato (played with him in Los Angeles); Bob Hartley (played for him in Colorado); and Patrick Roy (played with him in Colorado). Outside possibility: Doug Weight. In the past, they’ve eyed offensively minded coaches. 9. Buffalo GM Jason Botterill did confirm interest in McLellan: “Certainly, he’s a person of interest. He’s on our list.” The coach will be in Buffalo for the Frozen Four. Son Tyson plays for the University of Denver. 10. Much of this predates Botterill, but this will be the Sabres’ fifth coach since Lindy Ruff was fired in February 2013. What is he looking for? “We’re open to anything,” Botterill replied. “You’re certainly looking for someone who has command of the room… that presence in the room. We have skill. We need to continue to develop that within our organization, bring some more in. We want to play a fast, uptempo style. We want to get our defencemen up in the play…. But it’s, as much as we want to play that offensive game, it’s having a little more structure defensively. That’s a big area where we can have improvement there.” He added the internal debate is not about experience. “We’re looking at someone who has that communicative ability, has that accountability, has that presence. That’s why we’re going to be looking at all different options.” It is believed they have a list of about three they plan on interviewing. It is also believed they want to keep assistant coach Steve Smith.

Of note: AV was just named the head coach of Team Canada. Botterill is one of the GMs of Canada.

It me, hands clean man.

Bernstein does a lot of reporting and nails some things but Fourth Period in general whiffs on a ton of stuff.

I am baffled by the number of people that think the lottery is rigged

Precisely. I don’t care who it is. I just want this team to hire who they want and not have candidates turn away. Looks like that won’t be happening. Decent chance we may not be into our THIRD option. There’s nothing ideal about that. There’s nothing encouraging about that.

2 Ras 2 Rasmius

Recent 7th Overall Draft picks: 2018: Quinn Hughes - played five games in his draft year with Vancouver 2017: Lias Andersson - played in seven games in his draft year with the Rangers, 42 games this season 2016: Clayton Keller - played in three games in his draft year with the Coyotes, 82 in each of the two following seasons 2015: Ivan Provorov - no games in his draft year, 82 in each of the three after that 2014: Haydn Fleury - no games in the three seasons following his draft, 67 in the year after then none this season 2013: Darnell Nurse - no games in the two seasons following his draft, 279 games in the four seasons since 2012: Matt Dumba - no games in draft season, 13 in season after, 329 in the five seasons since 2011: Mark Scheifele - seven games in draft season, 4 in season after that, 437 in the six season since 2010: Jeff Skinner - full-time NHL player from day one in Carolina The last forward drafted at seven to not play at least one game in his draft season: Colin Wilson in 2008 who went to Boston U.

The Sabres have only picked seventh overall once and it did not go well. Erik Rasmussen.

Hopefully Cozens, Zegras or Turcotte are still there at 7.

There's a grand total of zero personality in this group.

We're the winners tonight. ?