PerreaultForever

Please don't start with insults. You wouldn't talk like that to my face so don't do it here. Words like you are "ignorant" or "obtuse" do not belong here. Disagree with me if you like, but don't go down that road. You can be better than that. There's 20 million in cap space. There's plenty of room to carry a decent goalie, even if he's slightly overpaid. Ullmark's contract is on the high end for his ability but not way out of line if you compare it to other goalies. We have a few RFAs coming up in a year but so far only Thompson looks like he will get a substantial raise. Cozens, Samuelsson, Asplund, have all only earned modest lower end salaries at this point. The D will need some money the year after, but again, nobody there has done anything (yet) that screams huge increase. Cap will go up, and you have about 10 million from salary currently going to players who could be bumped off the roster by rising youngsters (Kyle, Zemgus, Vinnie can all be let go). So once again, there is plenty of money for a goalie overpay.

I hear ya, most irritating to pay fees when you're losing money. I did better when I self directed and did my own thing but 2 years ago I decided to let the professionals handle it and relax. Not a good decision but kind of stuck riding it out now.

It is not the same. Not at all. Losing the lottery is something that happened with no control over it. F'ing up our goaltending was either a huge mistake or a conscious choice. There have been many many many other options. Goaltenders have swapped teams all over. Not all of them had us on a NTC. Like it or not, this is a fact. Ya, so why overpay Ullmark when you can buy up Bishop's contract and dump some of your money on him instead. Sure, makes perfect sense.

It doesn't mean anything though. Most teams use analytics. We were just behind in that department. It's not like, oh, we've got an analytics department now so everything is fixed. At least not for me. If Comrie was signed as a back up, sure, I'd be all in on that, but if he's your expected number one it leaves a big question mark at the position. Let's put it this way, if 2 years ago someone had suggested dumping Ullmark and signing Anderson and Comrie instead would you have been jumping for joy? I don't think so.

Well sure, but you don't have to be friends with everyone you work with or cross paths with. I'm sure Kyle has many friends and could live quite well without Jack being one of them. But it doesn't really matter. these days all the players pretty much are friends. That old fashioned animosity is rare any more. Free agency probably killed it. For the most part.

I'm not judging him really. I've said I hope he surprises and is good, but facts are facts, and he isn't a proven commodity. I'm the same on all the prospects and everybody else. This team has to prove it to me on the ice for me to believe in anything. I'm not buying the spin on anything, and the cold objective facts are that Comrie hasn't been and isn't a number one goalie. We will see what happens. I hope he is good. I hope somebody is good. I just want to win and we won't without a good goalie. Until proven otherwise, KA gets a fail in finding us one. No blind belief from me anymore though. Been a fan a long time, but skeptical now. Don't want to get my hopes crushed yet again.

why?

is he the high hockey IQ 2 way guy or the guy who likes to hit people I can't remember?

See, you have to lower the bar to the bottom to consider Comrie a success. There have been many better options over the last 2 years but for whatever reason(s) KA doesn't want to make any sort of real move for a goalie. I would say it's 3 years to Levi and probably 5-6 years to peak Levi, but when the peak hits it will be a high one. I don't see a Carter Hart scenario unless they are foolish enough to bring him into the NHL next year. UPL however, is definitely in the Carter Hart rushed into service category.

No, but it's worse than having Ullmark. Last year was just about the worst goaltending this team has ever had. This year isn't much better unless UPL breaks through somehow. Comrie might surprise me, but I doubt it. idk, my personal philosophy is great goalie first and foremost and build out from there. Sabres seem to have that in reverse. I do not believe we will be any good until we have better goaltending. Right now my hope is that we have Levi and he will develop quickly. otherwise, I just don't know.

true. Klondike Days are just ending. That's just about the only other event they have. It is the one season the snowbirds are actually in town though.

Apparently ticket sales are way way down and some people with tickets say they won't even go due to the scandal. This was on the CBC news last night. At the moment, it looks like it might just be a total flop.

Ducks basically paid 7 million for somebody's high draft choice (when they deal him at the deadline). Bet they do better than we did with Taylor Hall too.

Boy that sounds like some of that shady back room rich getting richer stuff. Well goof for him. Maybe we can stop being a cap floor team then?

This is true, but there are a lot of issues this year and a lot of question marks. 1. Marchand, McAvoy, and to a lesser extent Gryzlyck. How soon do they come back from injury and will they be fully effective when they come back? 2. Goaltending. Will Swayman keep developing forward or will he take the young goalie backwards step that they often do, cause Ullmark is pretty meh. 3. Bergeron and/or Krejci still not part of the equation. 4. Foligno and some of the other lower end players have not been good. Will they bounce back or are they done, cause they have to bounce back considering all the injuries. 5. Will ANY of their kids like Studnika or Zboril finally step up and become NHL regulars. Montgomery was partly hired over Cassidy because of Cassidy's reluctance to play their kids. Question is are any of their prospects actually any good? They still have a solid D (if healthy) and Pasternak, Hall is a ? but does play well with Pasta if they have a decent center. It could possibly come together, but if a number of these things listed go badly their run is over and they will be bottom of the division soon enough. Sabres certainly have a much better looking prospect cupboard than the baby bears do.

As ever, Dumba would be the likely player they would try to move. Perhaps Zuccarello. It would be a nice pick up to add Dumba to play with Power.

Taylor Hall type scenario. See what they get for him at the deadline. Gryzlek also. And I think they might be out longer, might miss the first half of the season. Boston might be in trouble.

Ya, exactly. It's never a problem to have too many decent players. We've just been crap for so long we've forgotten times when other teams wanted the discards we threw on waivers. Man, it would be nice to have that again wouldn't it? Really, you end up with a prospect cupboard overflowing you simply trade some of them away for future picks. You start doing that old way back Montreal thing where you trade for somebody's first 3, 4, 5 years later and that GM makes the deal cause his job is on the line now and then your prospect cupboard overflows forever. It's never a problem.

Man, some people have WAY TOO MUCH time on their hands, but yes, if you looked up all the game references and they were real references, it would give you the timeline. So there it is.

Unless I have forgotten something they've never given a time frame for when the Gene thing is happening. It's presumably around the same time but could be later too.

I read somewhere they will both make an appearance before the end. I suspect it'll be a flashback type scene. Maybe Gene thinking back to how he got there or some such thing.

I'm not sure I'd agree with that list entirely. It's hard to measure the value of big minute D men against forwards and their production. Seth Jones for example might be overpaid, but he's probably more important to Chicago than Jonathan Toews at this point. Erik Karlsson certainly hasn't given the Sharks his money's worth but I'd disagree on Zach Werenski. I know Shea Weber's on LTIR but doesn't that count as a bad contract still? Carey Price value questionable at this point too. Unless he turns it around this year, that curly haired dude, what's his name............Jack something or other, plays for Vegas, his 10 million is a pretty bad contract too. Jakub Voracek would be another bad one imo and so would Oliver Ekman Larson. There are others. Skinner imo will continue to be an undisciplined streaky scorer who may go through prolonged slumps where he is a liability to the team and may also have hot streaks where he scores more goals than his mistakes cost. Hopefully the scoring outweighs the dry spells. It's still a dreadfully bad contract though, but maybe at this point not the worst in the league any more.

It wasn't "filler" imo because it was fun and entertaining. Yes, it was a stand alone episode, probably not necessary, but it did link to the early shots in the series and it was simply just a fun mini heist movie with comic overtones. I enjoyed it for what it was. My guess is we see the Bryan Cranston cameo soon, if not next.

Absolutely. He's a third or fourth liner for sure. Bit of an agitator edge, some skill, but likely nothing above that role. I'd place him roughly equal to Zemgus (in terms of on ice skill, not character.) But lots of teams want guys like that to fill out the bottom of their roster. I mean come on, if Evander Kane can get adulation and big bucks after all his crap, surely a guy found not guilty of one thing deserves a try out somewhere no?

No, not saying that, but what other absolute standard do we have to go by? Not every accusation is legit. Many are, maybe most are, but sometimes the lines are blurry or vague. We can't just decide without the facts or being in the courtroom ourselves. We just get media reports that can be skewed. there's no way to know. So you don't like a guy, he's not on your team, it's easy to judge him negatively. Let me put it to you this way, if Rasmus Dahlin was accused of rape but was found not guilty in the trial would you want him shipped off to Russia?