PerreaultForever

Guy they are familiar with. Their D is garbage.

It's not that I want violence in hockey as you make it sound, but the game is a complete package and if you take elements out of it it changes, and I can see that pathway leading to a very dull end product. Boxing was the first sport I ever saw actually. My father was an amateur boxer in his youth and he watched it. So you prefer to watch cars go in a circle rather than boxing or MMA, well to each their own I guess. Enjoy it and all it's environmental destruction, but don't try to take away what others enjoy.

Correct. I only listed the main guys who are important now imo but all of this is correct. You also have to factor in the subtractions each made to gain what they gained. When you subtract a ROR or a Reinhart or Eichel you should be getting a lot back but in all likelihood you didn't actually add. Right now, the core of this team is pretty much a JBot team.

Tampa has been garbage lately. major slump and they looked it tonight as well imo. Philly beat them 6-2 the game before. They are not playing well at all. That's what I saw, very low energy and a very low event game. In a word it was BORING. I'm glad they won, but I didn't see much of anything to get excited about from either team. Clifton threw one grade A hit but that's all I can think of for big plays. Tage's goal was fine, and sometimes he hits those just right, but it was just another one of those many many low danger shots from the same area and most times they get stopped or go off target. I mean they won, but it was not a good game and I definitely don't see this "heart" that was referenced.

Yup, cause our GM is an idiot. Ducks had a body for 2/3 of the year and upgraded for the draft so well done by them. Leafs were in the Hanifin and Tanev rumours so if this is their plan B good luck with all that Toronto.

Was he? UPL, Dahlin, Samuelson, Thompson, Cozens, Mitts, like it or not, this is the team JBot built.

Really? You're serious?

This makes sense. There is a reality that we will never get a veteran who still wants to chase a cup. We can only woo guys who are young enough that they can be convinced this team can build to that, or old guys who have already won one or more and just want a payday. Or I guess guys who don't care about winning but I'd think we don't want them anyway. Or at least we shouldn't want them.

Yes, and the game will then suck. You need villains and heroes and cheap stuff and dealing with it is part of what makes the game fun to watch.

Good finish to a pretty uninspired hockey game imo. Tampa is in some sort of definite slump/funk so it's good they came alive a little and won in the OT. Otherwise I thought it was a pretty terrible hockey game from almost everyone involved. win's a win. Better than losing.

Ya, I see a way they can win too. All you have to do is sit on your couch and watch Florida, or Vegas, or Boston, or any of the other teams actually doing it. They will have time to see lots of it in May and June.

Well you better have the number one pool when you suck this long and trade your "stars" for even more picks but as the posts above, type of player is still an issue. Drafting BPA is a fine strategy, but when you end up with too many of the same guy you need to make some moves. Forward for D man, fast guy for tough guy, etc. Whatever it takes to fill our holes/needs, even if we technically "lose" the trade on paper.

Understatement imo. It was the worst I've seen this season for any team and totally favoured Florida. I don't fault him at all. I like the emotion and I'm sure the players do too. We need more of that. I was actually thinking in the first period I'd end up writing "why is Granato so passive with those refs, can you imagine what Brind'Amour or Torts would have done?" but then he exploded in the third after bottling it in so long I guess so scrap that draft post 🙂 Donny must have used the F word big time. Those refs need a disciplinary hearing.

Tampa not as good as they used to be. Tampa beatable. But Tampa also a thorn in the Sabres side for a long long time. Their PP is still deadly so the PK is the key to this game imo. Along with all the usual move your feet, compete, forecheck etc etc stuff. Which Sabres team shows up is always a guess. I hope it's an entertaining game. At least Maroon's not there to run over our goalie.

data on what? head injuries, is that what you mean? That's up to the players isn't it? Getting hit in the head can injure your brain, no s&&t . I don't need any "data" to know that. Nobody forces anybody into physical sports. The issue is liberties will be taken if fighting is banned and that will result in MORE head injuries and for "better" players. I doubt there's data to disprove that.

Except we are not small overall, we just play small.

We are in perfect position to do this, or take a veteran for free plus that somebody needs to jettison to create space but we are CHEAP. POnly serious teams spend their money. Saros is unlikely according to Trotts. Unless he's lying to up the bids.

Buffalo would have to make additional moves to make him turn to happy. In order for him to play his game he will want more toughness on the roster and a true heavyweight. He wants to play a Marchand type role so he needs a Lucic. He does not want to have to be the guy fighting an Olivier type. If he's the toughest guy on our roster he will not want to be here and won't give us his true value if he's stuck here. This whole discussion however would mean a culture shift. Is that what Pegula wants? It would certainly be a departure from the directions they've taken so far, which makes me think WE are talking about it and loving the idea, but KA hasn't even picked up the phone.

Not a wimp but a punk. He instigates. He irritates. He rarely finishes. We need guys like that though.

I am old enough to remember when the NHL first went over to play European teams and how they commented on the use of sticks and even kicks and a variety of cheap shots. But no fighting. Wayne Cashman almost had his tongue cut out. I think it'll be problematic. Maybe just expand and refine the instigator rule to limit it but I personally see no need to change a thing.

Mark of a team that's quit on the season and has guys waiting on the trade deadline. They've lost their way with the temporary coaching change as well. No wonder Tkachuk wants out. Nashville rebuild on the other hand, moving along quite nicely.

It is "grit" but it's not true. They really are just punks if you stand up to them. Look at Cousins faking his injury. That's not grit. Greenway showed grit there, not Cousins. They are not that tough, they are just dirty. Bunch of weasels. We just need more Greenways (and tougher) and we will flip the script.

I don't usually bitch about refs as these things are mostly subjective lines and often even out over a season BUT boy were those refs one sided in favor of Florida tonight! Phantom call on Benson was weird. Then the Clifton call was just him holding his ground and the guy's own stick came up in his own face so like wtf look at the video ref. All that led to the ridiculous 5 on 3 and I don't fault Granato at all there. He should have been on them all game though. I would have lost it if it was me. Pure bs all night and Florida really don't need the help do they. That Cousins is a real piece of crap turd of a player. Greenway gave him a shot, fair enough, but he makes like he's been shot, fakes an injury and then jumps up and rather than going after Greenway jumps the smallest guy he can find in the scrum. Garbage hockey and I hope they remember that and somebody takes it to him next time we meet. He needs a target on him. and what's with Tkachuk and that mouth guard chew? How many of those does he go through in a year? Somebody buy that guy a binky. idk, but this game made me really dislike Florida. I suppose since we finally look more like a real hockey team it opens things up to me seeing a team like that as a bunch of punks that need a smack. I hope next season we have a team that can deliver that. Hate on Florida! That is all.

Only if I'd bet on the other team.

I have to wonder if they are thinking of moving him are they the team actually talking to Ottawa about Tkachuk? That trade would make a lot of sense. Tkachuk fits Tochet hockey. Any talks with Buffalo might just be for leverage.