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He’s been playing above replacement with a good physical forecheck. Do you think he will regress to early season when he didn’t know the system or his role? If Sheary didn’t bumble the puck Vesey has three assists yesterday

If we acquire a forward we can still get rid of Rodrigues and Sheary If he sells Larsson or Girgensons, that is the white flag

Need to trade Rodrigues.

He’s become a dependable forechecker over the course of the year. As long as he doesn’t ask for a ransom he’s a great 3LW to have around. It’s not like we have a rookie he’s in the way of

It’s only circumvention if we turn around and pay him millions for a desk job

Lazar is a great center for Skinner. Better than Rodrigues

It’s like none of you watched more than highlights. Not even sure Ottawa had the puck for more than 30 seconds in the first period

Dunno what you were watching, Ottawa outplayed Buffalo for a few minutes. The entire game Buffalo was cycling in the o zone otherwise hitting posts and missing open nets.

Our goalie caved not the team

Bogosian signing with the Leafs would be an epic playoff move. Do it Bogo

According to the CBA, the ONLY way Botterill could have retained Lehner was to pay him >4 million per season. Only one team even dared touch Lehner with a 10ft pole, after Jason by the player's own account did everything to set him in the right path, for a 1.5 million dollar contract. Then he signed for a team desperate for a goalie for a 1-yr 5 million. He could have just as easily gone the other way and went back into his spiral and not be a professional ever again. There is absolutely NO way Jason can be blamed for any of this at all. His hands were completely tied by Murray before him and the CBA itself. Saying Sheary is a fail when he's the only other realistic option other than signing the Pouliot type players that was a fail the year prior. We offered more money to UFAs and they didn't bite, and was cap stricken otherwise. Again, I don't think this is a fair assessment at all. Especially when Sheary may even return more than a 3rd in return if he's dealt this weekend-- his story isn't over.

File the paperwork in person with the private jet Jason! Don't rely on a fax machine!

For about the 100th time, no they wouldn't be if Ullmark is still injured and Hutton plays as horrible as he has been. ROR was on that dead-last team that didn't turn around until coaching change and new goalie.

shed a tear in laughter, why couldn't we have just kept him around?

At the end of the Murray tenure there was no path forward. He had spent all his marbles and every single pet of the org was a failure. The minor league was in shambles. All the prospects he traded for were busting early. And he still had confidence in Dan freaking Bylsma as the coach Currently the team is on pace for its best finish before Murray, even if its a disappointment. Lots of injuries to blame. Amerks are doing well. Prospects are growing up. The core is growing up. Our cap situation is going to be wide open. Team needs a 2C and a better back up goalie—-and he has a deadline and the off season to address this. It’s not like he hasn’t been all over the phones. He’s not going anywhere

We went from no defensive depth to overload. This off season we have cap space. Your pessimism is unfounded.

Smith was his assistant in Edmonton as well

Scared that Steve Smith gets promoted to head coach if Krueger became GM/President

Last I checked he scored at the same rate as middlestadt

I think it’s the nicest way to say Ristolainen is terrible

Was about to jay, Eichel playing goalie really shows his leadership

His line stubborness needs to end with how this season has gone. The Skinner-Eichel line was the only thing that wasn't a problem last season. And now you can plug in Oloffson at RW and let Reinhart help elsewhere.

A lot of players don't believe the bye is necessarily even a benefit. They already get one week off before the start of the playoffs and that's enough. Two weeks? They come out too rusty. But if believing it is a true benefit, then yes, if only one team gets it rather than 33% of the teams get it, the end-of-season games for those top-teams mean more now. Longer season is also going to lead to more benching of starters, and this somewhat counteracts that.

You can blame Darcy, or Golisano cost cutting us to the 'video scouting' debacle. A good GM will always land on the sword when it comes to cost-cutting measures like that.

Cozens uses his body. Reinhart doesn't. Prospects who rely on their body can really struggle against stronger competition, but no scout is saying Cozen depends on his body, just that he knows how to use it and has good skating to boot. White collar vs. blue collar players. Skinner-Cozens-X on paper looks really good.