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He was in that room. They have said "he was the lowest ranking person in the room" but he was in it. he kept his mouth shut like the rest of them. Let's not forget that that 16 year old, whoever he is, doesn't get assaulted if any one of them speaks up. I also think, although don't quote me on it I might have it wrong, but didn't Chevaldayov say much earlier that he didn't know? So in other words, he lied while he could. In any event, it's BS.

Chevaldayov gets a free pass. BS.

Well, the way I see it that streak was primarily driven by one superstar line and this is more of a team effort. So for the numerical analysis you'd have to sperate out the stats for when the Eichel line was on the ice from the rest of that team. I'm sure you'd find a huge disparity, whereas on this team I think you'd find much less difference between lines. This is more sustainable and can last longer with 2 potential issues: 1) depth. Not sure we have any. How Mitts plays when he returns will be important, but if we get a run on injuries at some point, as most teams do, not sure how that'll play out. 2) teams will see through this and there already does seem to be a few weaknesses and thus, much like with the last streak, when they take us seriously and prep properly and we are seen as the tougher team in a back to back and face the #1 goalie and when the league tightens up second half as it always does, well then I still see this all falling apart. So 18th? Possible. With luck. I think somewhere around 25th is more likely.

Quenneville down, I guess one more to go, although the players from that locker room should get some sort of reckoning too but I doubt they will.

Exactly. It was very similar to what Boston did. I'm not sure we have an answer.

I will take any win, but you have to admit we were lucky and didn't really deserve it. They were crap to start and spotted us an easy 3 -0 lead but then they started to play the body more and drive the net and we were on our heels for the rest of the night before the OT. Pretty sure if it's Gibson and not Stolarz we don't win. Didn't result in goals, but saw some of those infamous Hagg giveaways tonight which is worrisome. Not a great game, but in terms of growth and culture change winning was really important and it's still a good sign. This keeps up we will start to see A list goalies instead of back ups and then things might be harder to maintain.

I haven't seen a Ducks game in ages so I don't really know anything about them. Are they still physical? If so this will be a different kind of test.

Oh did he? Florida tax breaks strike again I guess. I wasn't paying attention. Well good for them.

Here's something everyone will enjoy. Announcer in the Edmonton Philly game "Ristolainen continues to struggle"

Well if you don't do well in a big contract year you never will, but yes, he looked good in this game I just saw. Florida as a whole looks very good.

You know all this discussion of how much of a player he was is irrelevant. Could have been a waterboy, doesn't change a thing. Team covered up abuse and they ALL knew. If the league does not kick out Quenneville and Chevaldyov it's still a cover up. And all the players and ex players who say they didn't know are also full of sh##. It was all over the locker room and there were homosexual slurs tossed around and any captain like Toews and such who says they didn't know is outright lying. Glad this is exposed, but justice has not been served yet.

Absolutely. I've said as much in other threads. They have definitely provided some enjoyable moments so far and they are better than expected. A number of players individually are better than expected. There are positive signs for sure, but it's a long climb.

Bobrovsky is playing really well. As much as it pains me to say it, Reinhart looked pretty good in that Bruins Panthers game. Definitely outplayed Hall. Ullmark was Ullmark.

No, I still think it's a tank when you pass on all available decent goalies. I have enjoyed the wins, but this isn't going to continue. We're not nearly as good as some people seem to think we are. We won't be at the bottom. That'll be Arizona or maybe Montreal who might steal Wright similar to how Toronto got Matthews but we wont' be anywhere near the playoffs.

and they lost more than that. Don't forget about Danault . Koktaneimi and even Perry. I know people here don't like him and he's well past his prime, but he did provide leadership and some big contributions on their cup run. Staal they're probably fine without 🙂

Montreal is really really bad.

Oh how weird. Netflix recommended this to me literally like 5 minutes ago. Can't ignore that kind of coincidence. I'm going to add it to my list now.

That's true as it unfolded. I was thinking more of when he was hired and we had player reactions from all those one on one chats and dinners. Everybody seemed enamoured by his words at that point.

Honestly, I think Krueger was a complete and utter fraud. Talked a good talk, and obviously gave a good interview, able to convince people he knew what he was talking about, but not an actual coach at all. Kind of get the feeling he designed a plan on paper, one that wasn't necessarily wrong in theory, but then had zero ability to adapt those ideas, work on players flaws, correct mistakes, run proper drills and practices and all that other coaching stuff. Granato on the other hand is implementing very simple basic schemes and letting his players play them focusing on teamwork and interconnections. But really he's just saying go fast, go hard, get in front of the net and shoot when you have a chance. My hope is it develops as they develop, in time we shall see. imo it's a decent way to start over, which is what was needed.

I will say Dahlin has been better in the regular season so far than he was in the preseason (where he was awful) but he still runs around too much and gets caught out of position. Pairing him with a positionally stronger and more reliable partner helps him a lot and I would question Granato's decision if he pairs him back with Jokharju again when he returns. I also think Dahlin's decision making is slow and flawed. Carries the puck alone when he should pass it and to a lesser extent vice versa. Many of the basic fundamentals of his D game are weak and that's on the Sabres, not him. maybe it's slowly being corrected now, but idk.

he did, but mostly I'm impressed with Hagg. idk why Philly gave up on him but at this point he's playing as good as, probably better than Risto did and we got draft picks along with him in that deal so for the moment, that stands as KA's greatest achievement.

I think with more time, Cozens might even be able to get Skinner scoring again. The way he plays he is creating some openings for him and there are early signs of some possible meshing together there. Bjork, on the other hand is rapidly playing himself off the roster imo.

You're absolutely right, but nothing will happen and there will be no punishment for Stamkos. 5-1 we had a chance to take a few liberties back at them/him but we don't do that (yet). Hopefully one day we will. We're less afraid of the front of the net this year. We push back a little. It's a work in progress, but it is progress.

Well that was the party line. That's how Dubas got the job. They've tried to bring in a host of fill out the roster tough guys and so called grit people but they've mostly gotten duds. Nick Ritchie for example was dumb desperation. If you prefer, call it a failure of the superstar forward model for team building. All your money on 4 hot shot forwards. Nothing left to build a team with. So I don't want another one of those guys. Skinner is already too many. Leafs really miss Hyman. Him I would have signed.

Well I thoroughly enjoyed that.