Curt

Your comment comes across as pretty negative, but I mostly agree. Samuelsson was fine last season but I was a little disappointed. I think he performed at the level of an average 2nd pair defenseman, which is fine, but I don’t think he brought anything that allowed Dahlin to do anything he couldn’t do with just about any other 2nd pair guy who plays decent defense.

He may, but I don’t know if it’s possibly unless he bumps Dahlin off of PP1 duty, and I don’t know how that happens.

This is good for trade for Pittsburgh. Yeah, they are old. Yeah, their prospect group is bad. Yeah, they PROBABLY won’t be able to win another Cup with this group. The thing is, they have elite talent at the top of their lineup, and that gives them a shot at competing. As long as you have that, I think it makes sense to go for it.

Scoring a goal with high stick or kicking it in would take skill for sure, but I think the issue is player safety. You don’t want guys swinging high sticks to try to score and accidentally clipping eachother in the face, or kicking their feet that have giant razor blades attached to the bottom. As for the points system change, I’m all for it. I could actually take it a step further. 3 points for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win, 0 for an OT loss. Really encourage these guys to go for wins in regulation. Also, 1 and 1 for a tie, because we should eliminate shootouts and bring back the tie too.

I don’t think there is really anyone else. Olofsson will probably be filling Quinn’s spot on a scoring line and PP.

Yeah, it’s ok. I would say the same thing about Lance’s words. I feel like you are overthinking it.

Ok, yeah, I think you are just being nitpicky then. I think it’s totally plausible that they could pick Murray to be the guy who sits in the press box to start the season.

Well, he is reporting to you that those are the guys who compete to fill the roster spot. He is reporting that Olofsson will be kept around to try to fill the scoring void. I’m not sure what else you want from him. He can’t tell you what the lines will be to start the season. He can’t tell you that they are looking to sign a veteran scoring winger if they aren’t.

Olofsson will fill Quinn’s spot. All those other guys will compete for a roster spot. That’s just reporting the facts. I’m not sure what you are taking issue with.

They have a Tkachuk.

Honestly, he might. Debrincat didn’t have a particularly good season for them. 27 goals, 66 points. Tarasenko had injuries last season but put up 34-82 in 2020-21.

Yeah, sure. Sabres should be better too but I’m not sure if it will be to the same degree as Ottawa. Them adding a legit top 6 C and top 4 D is tough to match. Losing Quinn hurts.

Have you watched Black Mirror (on Netflix). Similar format, sci-fi, each episode an independent story under 1 hour. It’s very high quality.

Probably correct, but they have no way of knowing for sure yet.

Waiting for Dahlin to return to Buffalo for the in person signing photo ops and interviews/press conference.

Losing Norris for 74 games was a big blow for them last season. They didn’t have their 1C coming off a 35 goal season for basically the whole season. Also, Chychrun. They added him but he only played 12 games for them. Hard to imagine he will play close to a full season, but I’d imagine they will have him for 50 games this season. So they are also adding a top 6 C and a top-4 D to their lineup, and they should get continued development improvements from some young guys. They should be improved over last season..

If Adams was still trying to move up to 11 when Canucks were on the clock (after 10th pick had already been made) then the only possible targets were Tom Willander, Danil But, or Zach Benson.

Similar to what the Sabres did with Hall.

I would! (I think, it’s very close). Lafreniere isn’t a bust.

Chat GPT will take over and write scripts just as good. 😉

Well, there are sometimes annoying delays in the release of series shows like that. But with Mayor of Kingstown, the delay is completely understandable. In January, Jeremy Renner, the star of the series ran himself over with a 14,000 lb snowcat plow and broke like every bone in his body. He almost died. He wasn’t quite up for filming this year. Covid shutdowns also were a huge issue that affected filming the past couple years and caused an abnormal number of delays. I wouldn’t expect that to be as common going forward.

Thoughts?

That’s what I’m thinking about. I have a hard time projecting them to miss the playoffs, but how far can you get with a C group of Pavel Zacha, Charlie Coyle and Morgan Geekie?

I don’t know what a Mark Twain like recovery is. Bruins have recovered from what the past 5 years? Only big change for them in that time was Chara leaving. The thing that makes the current Boston team different than their past 15 years is that they have always had good players under 25 coming through their team to replenish, and they simply don’t have that right now. There is no help coming up. Do you honestly thing they are just going to keep chugging along, winning 50 games a year? Go look at their actual team.

With Bergeron and Krejci gone, how much are we thinking that the Bruins crater next season?