DarthEbriate

Ray's right -- Trotz said shoot, and the Isles are shooting everything.

Cute. And production!

So, we're all in agreement now, we just go with Houser and Tokarski as our goalies next season?

Nice shift! And yes, some cute passes, too.

Stop setting your passes for stun and start making your passes full power. Get out of the zone before you get cute.

Maybe Seattle will offer this year's 1st for us we expose him. Also, Execute Order 38 and May the Fourth be with us.

Throw him to the floor, sir? Oh, yes! Thwow him to the floow.

It's a fair objection. And perhaps an easier way to state it when they lose a step and their speed isn't what it was after age 31... But Skinner had earned his way down to the 3rd line in Carolina, and RaKru dropped him down to the 2nd (and then obscenely to the 4th here), and even Granato dropped him off Reinhart's line to ignite last night's rally --- it wasn't Olofsson who got booted. Hall was our best forward in the first two games of the year. But as injuries and COVID came about, he disappeared. And when the team started gel under Granato, Hall was nowhere near our best forward. He lost his beloved coach and checked out on this team. He'll do it to the next one, too.

That's just it. Skinner - never to the playoffs. Hall - most famous for being on teams that win the lottery. They've each had a great season, and they're both good complementary offensive players. But to get them here they wanted big money (which they got) and stability so they can switch it off in their 30s. If Reinhart wants that, fine. Sign him up for what Hall wanted, $8Mx8. But if I'm Reinhart I've seen this clown show for long enough. I want what Adams gave Hall. 1 year, $8M, NMC so I have a choice in which playoff team I go to next year. I'll be motivated so that playoff teams want me and I can get a big paycheck with term the following offseason (or have to do 1 more 1-year deal until the cap goes up) and then I'll play in Seattle or Vancouver (or even Calgary/Edmonton) if being close to home is important to me like it was to Hall and Skinner.

Can you imagine Hall $8M/8, Skinner &9M/8, and coach RaKru here through 2026? With defensive defenseman Dahlin and extending Eakin to be a PKer with veteran leadership?

Absolutely. It's simple, based on the last 10 years of Sabres hockey. The owners, GMs, the coaches, the poor fan and alumni experience, the constant directionless spin adrift in the seas of garbage -- if you have any competitive fire and want to win hockey games -- would you sign here for any longer than one season? (Unless you can get the Skinner deal, in which case, yeah, go for it.)

We must repeat what we have learned in the third period of last night's game.

And there was much rejoicing. 😇 For as aggressive as they've been 5 on 5, the Isles were super passive on that PK.

Engage the TagerLasers!

Cozens gotta work on that. Our entire team does -- that's was Boston's offense, too.

Huh. I'd have thought we'd have skated with some more purpose considering our ECHL backup is starting and an emergency signing to the AHL team is now an emergency signing to the big squad. The Islanders can skate with the puck and without it at full speed. We get the puck and start coasting 3/4 speed. C'mon! Accelerate to attack speed, team.

Arttu, we're posting here in panic, and you're having delusions of goal-scoring! You did it!

Lots of waving sticks today, rather than doing what Boston does, which is aggressively skating to the player, engaging physically, and taking the puck.

Can our goalies please stop self-injuring? Linus' knee, Hutton's eye, now UPL's something. I don't want the other team injuring them either! But can someone please stay healthy in our goalie gear?

Started watching only a few minutes ago, but one team is pressuring, pursuing, and attacking, and it's not the team that's trailing.

First and foremost, hopefully everything is OK with Eakin and his family. But strictly hockey speaking, it is good this last week that GM Sheevyn has learned from the now-obvious mistake of signing Eakin for 1.2M too high and 1 year too many. He did help on the PK and he did win faceoffs. But Lazar won the 3C and... dang it, I still wish we had Lazar even as a JAG.

Borgen has another week to win us over. Given the D available and some of the costs, Seattle should definitely look at some pricey top-pairing all-around guys and make up the difference with a cheap Borgen type. The reasons for exposing Risto: cap hit; good but not great player; Seattle will have oodles of defensemen to choose from who play various roles better than Ristolainen and in some cases for less money; Seattle is reportedly very big on analytics and Risto does not match those criteria; we've had rumors on Risto's trade value being pretty poor league-wide the last few years now, so Seattle isn't going to pick him and suddenly spin him for a 1st + anything. Scenarios: If you expose Risto and Miller, Seattle takes Miller to use the extra $2M elsewhere. Seattle can look at Risto and Miller as playing the same role, so while Ristolainen is better, there are other D options that are going make Ristolainen unncessary. If you expose Borgen and Miller, I think you have to offer a 3rd or 4th to get Seattle to take Miller over Borgen. Miller does have the upside as a PP2 guy and has that shot... but when you look at some of the other D options for Seattle, they don't need to pay that much money for a 3rd pairing guy. Now --- after exposing the veteran of the D-corp to expansion --- does that affect Ristolainen next season? Are we then forced to deal him at the trade deadline? Or can he use it as motivation to go have a great season with a new coach, a revitalized Eichel, and such?

Agreed on the bolding. Definitely no to Virtanen. And Holtby is done as well... it'd be like acquiring Hutton at twice the cost. Let Vancouver continue to make these poor deals (Myers, Roussel, Beagle). We have enough troubling contracts of our own without taking on more.

I wouldn't worry about placement. Even with the worst record in the league, the odds of successfully winning #1 in the draft lottery are approximate five-point-four to one. Whomever we pick should be able to contribute in 2022-23. This is where I'm at as well. The team is playing alright given the circumstances. Yes, Boston has exposed them a couple times... but they haven't folded in the 1st or 2nd periods. And if Ullmark were starting these games instead of UPL/Tokarski, we probably are looking at another win or even two along the way. But don't let that fool you... Granato should be fourth or fifth on the interview list depending on what happens with free-agent coaches around the league.

One thing about this Bruins team... they get in front of the net and then they locate the rebounds and put them back toward (not necessarily on net) but they get rebound shots well.