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Say yes to monahan

Great series. Little lackluster of an ending so far in my opinion.

I liked when he played. Good depth

I never said high level. High school/ club college is plenty. My initial misread was never even actually playing

Team doesn’t need a center and it especially doesn’t need a JAG. A right wing vet maybe. A very skilled vet center sure. But It’s not a need, just a luxury and we can afford it. Has to be mutual tho and I’m not sure the league has quite bought into Granato. Gonna take one more season before the UFAs come.

Oops I misread the article it wedged her hickey career between soccer and grades and then later had a statement about her hockey history. Just poor writing all around. It dragged on about diversity hire and went on and on about it before her CV. I’d be pretty pissed if I was her about that. and uhh yeah it’s pretty important to have played hockey. Suits who can’t crawl in the business they’re in are all failures. Lots of management programs force new people onto the floor for a year before letting them advance. It’s the same deal.

She never played hockey lol.

That’s a viewers wet dream. People don’t want to believe criminals can actually be happy in the long term and leave on their own terms. Kim would be the exception, having dipped her toes in and then getting away. It’s not right if she gets away unless she’s the one to turn Saul in.

Bryson isn’t good. Every minute he plays is a failure on KA

Kulich gonna dominate in his heroic sprint to the NHL

They could have recommended he be barred for life

Sign Ullmark to five years and good luck with Levi and Portillo

Ullmark contract was a mistake to make glad we weren’t the ones to do it.

The fnatics deal just screws up all the allure of this contract. Sacrificing the important stuff for Cheapo junk that’s lower quality that dhgate

100% agree we needed it and needed some time before Wexler reappears. But maybe 15 minutes not a full episode. It’s the fly all over again.

Episode 10 was total filler. Meh

Huberdeau is the good player. Florida is deflating

MCAA players can be paid for their likeness now, right? What’s stopping Buffalo from laying the kid to wear their jersey to entice him?

Felt a little disappointed by the way they chose to get rid of Wexler, but I can’t say how else I’d prefer it went. Maybe that describes high emotional but rational breakups perfectly and is how I’m supposed to feel. Not used to seeing that kind of maturity on television. All the loose ends and continuums were really well handled at least. Upon rewatching BB, Sauls sleeziness was pretty contrasting to the character they had built in BCS and at least they got him aligning now with the handoff. Him not knowing what really happened with Lalo, etc. They got the little things right. The Mexico wrap up was a bit too convenient, but they had a hard stage to set. The show is going to struggle with that though because a lot of the resolution has to be delayed to BB. Really quality television though. Finished, hurried slightly, but not rushed into disappointment like so many things today. The female empowerment showed by Wexler is far beyond what any other virtue signaling junk you see on TV elsewhere today. Well, I say that for the whole series but the gay scene came out of nowhere entirely on that second episode. I guess I hope it has some sort of meaningful follow up because I didn’t see one. Just seemed pointless and forced is all. At least it was kept to a minimum. Too bad the shows premise doesn’t make any sense to people outside the US though. Entertainment is our biggest export and foreigners don’t understand forking out money for cancer 😝

Except we have multiple threads at the start of 2021 predicting he’d well exceed peoples expectations…. Just because you were wrong doesn’t mean everyone else was too. Maybe you should keep your opinions out of threads like this.

Krebs has been a turnover king that needs to relearn his game for the pro level. Just like Tage’s spin moves didn’t work in the NHL until they did, Krebs passing won’t work until he relearns the window. Tage finally clicked last year. If there is hope for Krebs is we’re waiting for that click. but he’s never going to be a finisher.

That’s just due diligence.

Yes you are correct. He got better after all the Covid crap finally gave him the break he needed day 1 of season and became decent again. The comment meant to say I don’t foresee a regression.

Ooooh boy opinions times. I love July Joki didn’t regress, he was filling in for more minutes than he shouldn’t been. This is why the Luby signing is ideal. we are running on okie memory here if we didn’t notice two major inflections in performance for the team last season: 1. Tuch coming off injury 2. Anderson coming off injury until he broke down Whole different team with Tuch in the mix to no surprise here. Culture is everything and his attitude is contagious. No sour grapes in the room to stop the spread. Before Tuch came in the team wasn’t deep enough nor competing hard enough. The goalies. After this first week we were playing sub-replacement basement tier goaltending. Bad. I mean historically bad. Take that # of games and save% and apply it to 80% of the playoff teams and they don’t make the post season. We don’t need outstanding goaltending to make a 20 point standings difference. We only need average. When Anderson returned we got average goaltending for a couple months and it showed. His age showed up really quick at the end and that should be our major warning- do not let him play more than 25 games- but as far as assessing the team goes this is everything. Garbage time or not, we stopped playing playoff teams backups and was still winning games. Even knocked a couple hopefuls out of the playoffs (Vegas has dug their own grave on a burial ground). Not to mention we added Power, plus a bunch of rookies are just aging/growing into their climb above replacement level contribution. Granato is completely right, the team didn’t need to do anything it already did over the last 12 months at the expense of last season. The way they played at the end was all sustainable hockey with sustainable average goaltending and nobody other than a replaced goalie on their downward trend. Okposo and Girgensons being the exception they have pretty much flatlined and that’s fine. Are we better than Ottawa? Oh yeah. They had good goaltending and didn’t fundamentally improve their deficiencies they just added patches slopped with peanut butter to the torn up jeans. Isn’t going to last. Better than Detroit? They had nearly as bad of a goalie mess as we did. And they took an equivalent gamble as we did to improve. We can argue even improvements in this department. However, when they had decent goaltending they didn’t show a winning pace. They were treading water the entire time. That’s one sign of concern I have. Secondly they just had massive turnover. Coaches, players, etc. Probably needed, sure, but it usually takes some time for all of that to gel. Be it half a season or whatnot. They lack a lot of raw talent too outside of his holiness. They no doubt improved but I think they have too much to overcome before getting too far. Penguins are stumbling. Boston is stumbling. I think not getting to the playoffs is a major disappointment for where Buffalo is at. It’s finally time to break the curse.

Sometimes a program is too strong to let one guy ruin it.