Curt

I think they might be better just taking one of those cardboard cutouts from the stands and putting it in goal.

Synergy

Cozens is great. Make him C.

Hutton is bad at stopping pucks. Lucky that wasn’t another one.

I just realized that I want (need?) Dahlin to grow an epic mullet. Embrace the flow.

Have you been paying attention to this team? Why not both?

Basing the severity of penalties based on whether or not blood is visible is stupid. It’s a real cop out from an officiating standpoint.

So far Mittelstadt looks like not a bust. It was painful watching Irwin on that Jesper Bratt goal. Related, I like Jesper Bratt. Eakin looked good on the PK.

It’s a team building thing. He is creating adversity for them to band together and overcome. Pretty brilliant actually.

Is this game a primer for when they trade Eichel. “See, it wouldn’t be that bad without him!” Just kidding...........I think, *gulp*

Missing the net on a medium/long shot in 3-on-3 OT, resulting in an immediate odd man rush the other way.

Krueger hates Jeff Skinner and wants him to GTFO. Of this I’m certain.

Live in the moment. None of the players on the team give a ***** about this.

I was responding to the idea that Seattle would want these players specifically because they need to take on salary. I don’t think that will be the case. Both of these players, with their contracts, have negative value. I suppose it’s possible that Seattle takes them, but if they do, it will be with sweeteners added by Buffalo, because there just isn’t any value there. Okposo actually “only” has 2 years left. I was thinking it was 3. Skinner, even if he rebounds to be a 25-30 goal scorer again, still isn’t worth his contract. He has negative value. Maybe if Buffalo retained some salary on the contract they would want him. My point was that those are two very bad contracts. Seattle should have no problem reaching the cap floor without purposely acquiring bad contracts. Any idea that Seattle would want these contracts because they “need” to just acquire salary should be dismissed. Cap floor is only $60M. Even a payroll structure as bare bones as this gets you comfortably over: 6 players x $1M 7 x $2 5 x $3 3 x $5 1 x $6 1 x $7 23 players = $63M Thats with only 5 players making over $3M, and 13 players making $2M or less. Its just not difficult to reach the cap floor and I doubt Seattle will need to go out of their way to get there.

It’s easy to get the cap floor. They can sign actually good FAs or acquire 1-2 contracts. They don’t need to saddle them selves with long term dead weight.

That wasn’t really a bad pick. Go look at the players drafted between 16-30 that year. Only 3-4 of them are better than Zadorov. Majority of them are not even NHL players.

Hmm, didn’t realize that would look so bad for him.

Yes, but he is also a UFA in waiting, so it makes sense to get something for him if (1) you aren’t winning and (2) there isn’t a lot of interest in negotiating an extension.

Inexcusable that cupcake Ralph hasn’t made a move to address this yet!

Lol. Stop giving them money!

Buffalo should hire him, right? Is it even a question?

Laaksonen had a bad year last season. He has been much better this season both in Liiga and AHL. I’ve also been skeptical of Samuelsson. Supposedly his skating looks good in the AHL. That makes me more optimistic.

Yeah! A slightly better Lazar sounds like a good addition. I’m not giving up a lot for him. In this case he would be a small part of a big trade.

Sit/waive Okposo when he is brutal. Find an upgrade over Hutton.

Hmm, ok. I guess I was wrong. Doesn’t change my point of view though.