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Addison in 40 years:

We’ve also endured Suffering™

I especially like that part about respecting your teammates, your coaching staff, and the whole organization. I think Jack put on a clinic on how to be disrespectful towards your organization about a month back. Him airing his personal health information and his disagreement showed a complete lack of respect towards his organization (and maybe himself). Regardless on who is “right”, once that happens, it’s time to move on. I think many of us have been in a work situation where we lose complete respect for those working above us. It doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t stem from a big argument. But, once it happens, you can’t even look these people in the eye anymore and you know it can’t be fixed. Maybe it’s like heading into a divorce. You know it’s over and time to leave. I didn’t get this sense from rhino’s exit interview though.

My guess is that fans would’ve been rioting in the streets. Now? Not so much. He’s gone and most of us have accepted why this needs to happen.

I’m all for adding this guy:

This may be true, even if we pretended this was a strong draft year, but there’s a big difference amongst these assets. Zegras, Dach, and Byfield are significantly further along in their development than this year’s 3OA. In addition, they have shown promise (ie less likely to be a bust) after being drafted, 3OA has not.

Maybe he did and maybe it has…

They sold low because Terry had 5 million reasons to do so.

This is just asking to be placed into another Hall situation. What will likely happen is that Jack will give the team a small list of acceptable teams. We’ll have no clue which teams may be included and it’s likely Jack doesn’t know right now either. They will likely be teams that don’t really need Jack (they’ll be perennial playoff teams) and won’t be desperate. They’ll be smart about it (as the Boston’s and Tampa Bay’s are) and will lowball us knowing we are handcuffed. Supposedly, there were multiple teams Hall would’ve accepted. We still got peanuts.

Based on what KA has been repeatedly saying, I’m unsure he’s going to simply going to select the guy who’s going to have the most points over the next 5 years. He wants offensive prowess, but also wants them playing the whole rink and punishing players while at it. True pain in the ***** to play. I know nothing about Eklund, but does he fit this mold?

Granato has already had this trial by fire and I’m sure he can do it a few more times. Unless this means the coaching hire isn’t him…

Just my opinion here, but I think players were different back then. Hockey wasn’t just a job to support their lifestyle. Today, there’s more entitlement. And this is happening more than just in professional sports. At sometime in the not to distant past, people would suck it up if they didn’t like work. Now, they just quit until they can find something more in line with the life they want to live. My point is forcing a player today is a recipe for disaster, much worse than 10-15 years ago.

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Me neither. He’s injury prone.

It’s not a horrible idea. I do like the idea of having a guy that will make our GT worries go away for at least a few years and keep UPL in Rochester for a couple years. Then he can take on a more backup mentoring role. That said, it’s BS the Ducks get out of that trade dumping a salary (Gibson) and not giving up one of their top 2 prospects. They’ll have to throw in 33OA or another blue chip prospect.

Geez, we may actually have prospects playing in Rochester. Keep em coming.

Everyone laughed at Darcy and Larry Quinn back in 2001. They were actually trailblazers, pioneers, and men before their time. Jokes aside, I would love someone to interview Darcy today and ask him how that went in hindsight.

I would usually agree with this. It depends though. I don’t think rushing a player ruins a players skill trajectory, but it could mess with their mindset and subsequent motivation and ultimate success. If the proper mentorship isn’t in place, I can see this causing major developmental problems. These are kids who have excelled at every level of hockey they have entered. To suddenly get to the NHL and be completely schooled has to be demoralizing. I think we can all agree that Mitts was inappropriately rushed to the NHL. I can’t say this “ruined” him though.

What Lance writes is clearly inaccurate and calls his journalistic integrity into question. We have seen videos of either Terry or Kim in the draft war rooms of both the Bills and Sabres. We also saw them in those behind the scene team released videos of them being directly involved with operations. Off the top of my head, we saw them at the table to the call with Hall. Sure, he may have specially wrote “Terry” and didn’t mention Kim (who is the President of the Sabres!), but they are just extensions of each other. Did he also forget the trip to Florida Adams and Karmanos took to discuss the coaching search? If this was to just keep the boss informed, it could’ve been done over Zoom.

I problem with this is that none of them, at least in public, have directly indicated they want to be traded or want to be off the team. These are guys in their early 20s. Remember back then. It’s an emotional time and things tend to be idealized, rather based in reality. All of them have stated they are sick of losing, especially Risto and Rhino. I would be more worried if they just shrugged their shoulders and said “whatever, go team”. That said, Jack isn’t just saying he’s sick of leaving. He has serious grievances and it has become ugly. He’ll be gone for sure. But, I’m optimist Rhino will stay.

Agreed. But a good spot to grab Wallstedt.

I really hope they don’t pick a captain next season. The HC, likely to be Granato, should be the captain and have the final say in all matters. If someone presents himself as the leader, then great news.

Oh, I definitely have person opinions on his actions. I didn’t see the homophobic stuff though. He’s a nice slice of Americana to say the least. And the frightening thing is he’s hardly alone. I wouldn’t even be surprised if there’s other players agreeing with him on the team. The thing is, the guy is definitely clutch, probably won 1-2 games for us last season. But, he’s not elite and not above the team. Cut him, if needed.

Wanna open this can of worms… Anyone following the Cole Beasley drama? Not only will he not receive the vaccine (a personal choice only he can decide), but he announced via Twitter that he will not follow Covid social guidelines either.

Look, I never wanted to think this would be a financial decision (and I’m actually for trading Jack) until I heard they wanted to move Jack as soon as Adams started. Did Kevyn really already have his hands that deep into the cookie jar to have already formed an opinion on Jack? This is what Terry said on the day they fired Botterill: "When we were in detailed discussions with Jason and how we felt we needed to move forward effectively, efficiently and economically running this franchise, we felt that there were too many differences of opinion going into the future that we just thought -- since we had more time -- it would be best for us to make this change," Terry Pegula said. Enter Kevyn and the cost cutting begins and efforts are immediately made to gauge Jack’s market. Coincidence? Whether they have spent to the salary cap in the past is irrelevant. Things have now changed as detailed above. We have 1 year in which to judge these new economics. Much of the hockey department has been gutted and not rehired. Players? You cannot just fire them. But, you can’t trade them to save cash. And Terry has done this before. We’ll see what happens going forward, but we certainly are not spending to the cap next season. Doubt the year after either.