Curt

I’m not offended. I just thought it was a really strange direction to take the conversation. Someone says that the 3 players seemed to work well together, and you ask if anyone thinks that they have had sex with the same people?

You are assuming that serious interpersonal conflicts are something that just exist in the background and don’t affect the things that happen around them. I’m saying that these conflicts did/would have held them back and prevented them from achieving success.

Against my better judgment, I googled that. Where the did that come from? Something you think about often? Just weird man.

Well, GM and coach were fired amid a swirl of rumors of rifts between the GM/Owners, Coach/players, and player factions. Need the right people in addition to talent.

If you get the right guys in place. Buffalo tried this 6 years ago. Wrong guys and it didn’t work. In that situation, personalities matter almost as much as talent.

He still kind of looks 12. YouTube says it was posted 3 years ago.

If they absolutely can not get Byfield or Zegras, what do you do?

Owen Power’s favorite team is the Toronto Maple Leafs. So there.

I like your take. Could very well be the case.

Power is more of a puck mover than a stay at home guy. He is more physical than Dahlin, but doesn’t have a nasty ness to his game. I hate that term anyway. All your D should be puck movers.

You you see the fundamental contradiction of your two sentences here? Dahlin is pretty big himself. I’m not sure that Power will “grow into it” any more than Dahlin has. If Power isn’t playing extra physical at 6’5” 215 against other kids I’m not sure he will against NHL players. He just isn’t a super physical player.

I don’t know John Hoven, apparent Mayor of the LA Kings, of some LA Kings podcast and of the Website Mayor’s Manor. Is this guy actually connected?

Same tier of prospects to me.

I take a different viewpoint. What does a young rebuilding team need? Do they need a guy who will have the best X and O work on the whiteboard? With a potentially complicated, nuanced system? Or do they need a guy who is going to demand that they behave, prepare, and work like professional hockey players? While maybe the Xs and Os are a little simpler? I think they need that 2nd guy to give them structure and instill good habits for a couple years. Then maybe they need need a great X and O guy to get them over the hump while the team leaders are still self enforcing that everyone work like that previous coach demanded of them.

No. $2.2M

The Isles don’t get to decide whether Lambert takes another job or not. Unless Lambert has a very unusual contract for an NHL assistant coach.

It only makes sense if you think that Jones is great, a borderline Norris candidate, (I don’t) and he agrees to an extension.

I’m not saying his model is trash, and it’s good conversation either way, but I’m not valuing above any other evaluation unless I have some evidence that it is actually effective.

All of it is. I’m just here for the lolz. Edit: Except the part about being 6’5” and having an awesome name. That’s genuinely true. Also, don’t worry about what he is or isn’t great at, kids obviously gonna be a bEasT.

That’s cool, but my question is about the actual performance of his model. How accurately does it actually predict who will become NHL contributors and stars?

Is that supposed to be supporting evidence that his model is good? Or just a random thing you added to your post?

Best highlight package a #1 pick has ever had. If you can’t see that, you don’t know a thing. This is in a MENS tournament with a couple actual good NHL players. Did I mention that Power is 6’5” 215 and his name is awesome?

For all the people complaining about this: he is ranking prospects (and team prospect pools) based on the results of a mathematical model (which I’m assuming he came up with?). It’s not based on scouting or evaluation of player skills, just on their numbers. For that reason, any accusations of a pro/anti team bias don’t really have any support. However, it can certainly be argued that maybe Bader’s model just is not good. Do we have any proof that it is? With Sandin and Robertson, and a few other good ones, it’s not bad. Wouldn’t say 4th though.

Is one year of upgrade from Risto to Jones worth trading down from 1 to 5? Also Jones can submit a list of 10 teams he can’t be traded to, and Buffalo probably makes that list.