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You are. This is the best game he has ever played.

What a save

That would mean Cozens would be on the bench.

We really need that 4th goal.

Yes they are not good. Sadly we don’t have much choice but to play them.

Don’t let people hear you say that.

It’s going to be a long period. Smart TO call.

Where is Cozens?

Do we have 3 goals on 3 shots this period? They just said we are 3 for 6.

The kiddie line to struggling on this road trip. It seems coaches are adjusting to their play on the road.

Best play of Fitzgerald’s career so far setting up TNT on that goal.

Unicorns.

Thompson’s improvement as a stickhandler is amazing. His ability to control the puck in tight spaces is truly elite.

I'm getting cynical in my old age. It's a "because Buffalo" thing.

Play for a better team

That is the only point. Had Jbot over-ruled them to take Shane Bowers you may have an argument. However he didn't. He probably took Mitts because of his knowledge of USA and Canadian kids playing in the NCAA. Considering how he dominated his age group at the U18 prior to the draft, this looked like a very reasonable pick and still does. You need to spend some time and look how most 8th overall picks do in the NHL historically. Most that make it are 2nd and 3rd line players which is what Mitts is. DG recently admitted that part of that lines struggles stem from them getting paired with our 3rd pairing D and worse. Does Mitts need to be better? Absolutely! Call me back at the end of the season and let's see where he is. It's like he drafted Nylander. Also he does get credit for drafting Dahlin, because he drafted him. Does KA get credit for taking Power? Of course he does. I think if you go back to Jbot's first year, he made a ton of changes to get rid of TM's mess and try to create cap space. There was much discussion back then about a mini-tank.

I wrote then that we need a teacher and X & O guy and not a motivational speaker. I said its was like hiring Ted Nolan over again. This is what I wrote then

I guess I'm rooting for Sweden after Team USA this World Jr. I'm pissed at Canada for leaving Savoie off the roster.

LOL, maybe it's time to actually look at what he did well and what he didn't. The only difference between me and most others on Jbot is I'm willing to admit what he did well and that I thought he deserved a 4th year. That makes me a rare voice on a board where group think is encouraged. However, I have been and continue to be highly critical of JBot's time here. I'm the one who started the multiple Jbot do something already thread. I'm was the first person on this board who thought the RK hire was terrible the day it happened. I also was very vocal about the lousy return for Kane, the stupid trade of Scandella out and Frolik in. That said, I thought he did a much better job of drafting then his predecessor and when you look at our roster you see that he did acquire a great deal of talent that is central to our team including Skinner, Thompson, Jokiharju, Dahlin, Cozens, and Samuelsson and there are still others in the system that could make an impact like Johnson, Rousek, Weissbach, Portillo, etc.... He also made Rochester competitive year in and year out and hired DG. Now as to these two stupid tweets. Jbot drafted Mittelstadt at 7 who most pre-draft rankings had around 6 and Necas was rated around 11. Sorry, in hindsight, it may not work out, but not exactly a reach. Lets not forget that Casey is on pace to put up 45-50 pts this season. So lets look back 6 years and ask the scouts, why didn't they know that Oettinger and Robertson were actually the top players in the draft. Oh Yeah, lets ask the next 4 teams why they didn't take Necas, because he fell to 12. No lets just write a stupid tweet 6 years later. Funny we aren't hearing anything about the Cozens pick. How do we know that Jbot didn't over rule the scouts on that pick. What about Samuelsson, he wasn't exactly the favorite choice then. One well known poster here repeated said that Mule wasn't anything and we'd be lucky if he ended up being a 3rd pairing guy. Oops. As to Thompson, so let me see if I understand this correctly. A team, which can't remember if it was 2 or 3 years ago claims they had been offered Thompson for a 5th and turned it down. Considering he has 18 goals in his first 145 NHL games, it is really a shock that his market value was less than a 5th rd pick then? So Jbot is terrible because he acquired Thompson or because Thompson was slow to develop and he discussed trading him at one point but didn't? However, thank you for attacking me for having the guts to have a differing opinion.

Wholly hindsight Batman.

probably not.

Why do we need a reminder? It's not like he was going to make a move anyway.

So your praising KA for getting Jost on waivers (and his $2 mill salary) when our organizational depth is at forward, and you are also ok with him not trading for D help. What about grabbing D help on waivers? Myers and Reilly are but two players who have been on waivers in recent weeks and both are better than all of our D 7-10. I’m sorry it’s past time for help to have been acquired.

Just got a chance to watch the game. Nice workman like win. Saw that DG thought Krebs was good tonight and the comment matched the eye test. Cozens line was clearly not engaged tonight. With all the D injuries, it looked like DG got the forwards to work harder on defense.

So we have 12 pages of a discussion on whether KA is doing anything to help this team when the we all know the answer. No, he isn’t doing anything and won’t be. Sorry. The good news is that we are down to two regulars on D. Thankfully the two are Dahlin and Samuelsson.