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I never thought I’d write it. It’s just more evidence of how bad a coach RK was.

Hopefully. Who have thought we’d miss Eakin?

On the second goal he was there in plenty of time but failed to get to the post leaving the short side open, and on the 3rd goal he failed to come out to challenge the shooter but instead just moved toward the post leaving the whole far side of then net open. Yes it was bounced in off R2, but he likely would have been beat if the shot had been on net. Basically he was out of position on both our 2nd and 3rd goals.

Sort of. Mitts and Joki being out really hurts. The D pairings aren’t great right now and they are running around and getting muscled off the puck. They need to be more physical again.

That was 2 points we didn’t deserve. Thank G-d that their goaltending tonight was awful. Nice play by VO on OT winner. These last couple games remind me of the streak. We need to get back to playing 60 minutes. We also need to get Mitts and Eakin back.

Bye Q, I don’t see how Chevy can keep his job either. He kept quiet about this for over a decade. Now Fehr has to go as well and the NHL needs to up the punishment to the Blackhawks.

There is also an intern who worked for the Blackhawks

That’s why you nap at 5pm so that you can be awake at 10.

It was nice of the NFL to scapegoat Gruden to protect Snyder. I’m not excusing what Gruden said or did, but it’s interesting that Gruden took the fall while absolutely nothing is said about Snyder, no information was revealed on what they did to those cheerleaders and what they are going to do going forward to make the organization more accountable. It’s far past time to stop protecting the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.

https://www.buffalobills.com/news/bruce-smith-is-getting-in-the-halloween-spirit-with-a-quarterback-graveyard Hilarious!

As we have learned with Mitts sometimes it’s best to demote someone and let them get their confidence back.

This thread needs to be re-titled to something like “Reinhart thriving in role with Panthers”

He already signed for 3 years at a bargain price of 6.5 per season. They also gave our friend Montour 3 years @ 3.5 per season. He has 3 pts in 6 games so far.

If I'm reading the articles correctly there are at least 3 victims; Beach, an intern working for the Blackhawks and a teen in Michigan. In my humble opinion more heads need to role including Q and Chevy. They should already have been fired. Fehr and other Union execs also need to go since Beach reported it to them and they did nothing.

Fehr needs to go also.

I wonder who Florida’s next coach is going to be? Babcock?

I didn’t realize UPL was Swiss

The stupid thing is had they just suspended a friggin video coach when the allegations first came to light (and helped Beach!!!) none of this fallout happens. They still win that Cup, no else would have been abused and all these execs and coaches would have had great careers. The cover up is always worse. People do what is right for a change.

It gets worse as we get more info. Everyone in that meeting should be done in the NHL. Rocky better write a nice 10+ mill check to Beach and the intern. They also need to lose one draft pick a year for a decade include a minimum of 2 first round picks, 2 2nd round picks. They also need to lose 10 contracts from their 50 max for at least 5 years. A $2 mill fine is BS.

The Forbes articles adds nothing, but shows how unlikely Jack is to prevail. The Sabres have consulted a real expert who has performed both surgeries and he is advising the Sabres to request fusion. Legally Jack has a Everest size hurdle to overcome. Right now the only way forward is either for Jack to get the surgery he wants and assume all the risk or the NHL, NHLPA, the Sabres and Jack's representatives reach some kind of trade agreement that allows the Sabres to get good assets, but protects the acquiring team. Not sure what that looks like or how it gets done. Maybe the NHL acts as an insurer for the contract or part of the contract for the acquiring team.

@Taro T I know you don't want to argue about the RK affect on forwards and offensive D, but I think it does get to the core of the difference between the two coaches. In today Buffalo New I think they do a very good job on focusing on the differences between the two coaches (I use the term coach for RK out of convenience) and I think that difference is very telling ultimately on the stats. https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/inside-the-sabres-hot-start-the-product-of-coaching-leadership-smart-additions/article_ae9c78c4-3658-11ec-a334-33220551d45b.html

But it is kind of the point of this thread. RK took the freedom from our forwards to create and DG gave it back.

They should lose one pick for every year they covered it up

How many goals did Hall have here? 1 How about Jack in season 2? VO’s production went down in year two as well. He also wasn’t here to know what he would have done prior, but he has 4 goals in 6 games so far this season. How did Mitts, Thompson, Asplund do under RK? What happened to Sheary, Vesey, Skinner, KO and ERod under RK. Even Samson wasn’t immune. His assists and p/gp all fell in year 1 of RK and further eroded in year 2 until DG became the coach. So yes everyone suffered.

Can you say Joe Paterno. The fine is not enough. Loss of draft picks. Loss of contracts down to 40 from the current 50. I also like the idea of limiting their cap.