PerreaultForever

Strange it was before the expansion draft. I guess Nashville wants to protect another player and LA doesn't care about exposing one, or there's another deal to come. I can't decide if this means they are more likely to trade with us for Jack or Sam or less likely.

This is definitely possible. I hope not, but it is possible. However, if the only thing we are complaining about 2-3 years from now is Granato's poor line matching and in game decisions I think we will have progressed quite far. This season is a new DAY 1. Like it or not. One step at a time. Complain when we start taking them backwards (again).

Wondering which assistant we can nickname "Spaghetti"? or do we give that to Adams?

What I want is whoever Granato wants. If it's those 2 fine if not whoever he wants. They've given the team over to Granato for 2-3 years so let him have a staff he works well with and not some guy he might see as a competitor over his shoulder. I thought Girardi was making progress with the D. He seems fine. Definitely better than Smith was. Ellis idk as idk what he actually does. ideally, I want several people around. 1. We need to have a good goaltending coach in the system as we will be dealing with 2 young goalies over the next few years, maybe more. 2. Somebody who can work on specialty teams. A good PP is essential in this league and a good PK isn't far behind. We need focus and development and practice on that as a priority. 3. Somebody to work on creating stability and confidence in a very young D core. 4. A Roger Nielson type teacher and post game analyst. That's the minimum.

Disagree entirely. I heard exactly what I was hoping to hear. Now I do recognize it's just words and until it's on the ice it means nothing, but this was not the same as those. Both of those guys presented themselves as if they had all the answers and they knew the magic formula. They were very opposite, but clearly neither did. This one spoke about work, development, progress. there was no magic formula, but there was going to be a lot of practice . I personally was very encouraged when he drew attention to the late season moments when Cozens and Thompson stood up for the team (and dropped the gloves). This doesn't mean rock 'em sock 'em hockey is coming but it does speak to team as a concept and cultural dynamic. They clearly get it, and they get what's missing. Don't know if they can deliver. We shall see. Clearly, Jack and Sam are gone. If either is still here it means they failed in their trading attempts and regardless of how they spin it, it will be a fail on KA. He clearly is designing the future without them. Risto not sure. Not sure it matters either.

I don't. Wherever he goes I hope he's a frustrated player who fails to live up to his billing for the rest of his career and more importantly I hope he never gets to play for his beloved Bruins.

It's hard to evaluate the Mantha trade imo. Very different types of players. Washinton likes size and strength so he might be a better fit there. His work ethic has been questioned but if he could flourish there. At the moment I think both teams got what they wanted. Time will tell. You're not wrong about the bygone era. There was stability and continuity all over in those days. As an old hockey fan I kind of miss that. So much free agency and movement these days you don't develop the same levels of hate and rivalry usually. Only for guys who stay on their teams long term like a Marchand. The players all become "friends" too. Short attention spans for owners and GMs (and fans) so coaches turned over quicker too. What I want for this team more than anything (regardless of the coach) is an actual team identity that isn't just as losers or the word Buffalo just gets s shrug and eye roll (or even laugh) from outside announcers and analysts. Make us into something, stick with it, and build on it. At this point idk what we are any more. Nothing really.

Exactly. I think talking to them and learning all about them is very important and I suspect the lack of attention to this by the Sabres (basically no scouting department just stats and computers) leads to failure. You want to know all about them. Is he smart or dumb, is he a good hard working family guy or a party animal frat boy, his goals, his family, his background. Everything. It all matters and it all helps you get an idea of what kind of man he will become and thus how he will lead your team or become a potential problem. Will he need a babysitter or not? Many things. In a draft like this if you interview (for example) Power and Beniers and you see that Power is a dumb frat boy and Beniers is a hard working dedicated athlete (I'm over simplifying for the sake of making the point, it would obviously be complicated and nuanced) you draft Beniers and not Power. It's important to know EVERYTHING and if as the article says 10-15 teams have talked to him you'd think the team with the #1 overall pick would have been one of them . If I was the Sabres I'd be talking to him multiple times, and his coaches, and his teachers, and his parents and his relatives, high school and college friends, everybody you could get a hold of. I'd do that for all the potential top picks.

So they're NOT interested in Power? or they're just a dumb lazy organization? https://www.nhl.com/news/projected-no-1-nhl-draft-pick-owen-power-buffalo-sabres/c-325532378

For me it's just going to be about one thing. How the team plays, and that includes their attitude, effort levels and how they do or do not stand up for each other. If they have that (and it's been missing for years) then he's done something right. After that it's just about progression and how fast they develop. If they keep moving upwards I'm okay with him. If they plateau or drop then he gets the next Kreuger award (although some of you might want to dub the award for worst coach the Rolston).

Indeed, they've evacuated the whole town and there are several wildfires all around that area. Even bigger one at Sparks Lake near Kamloops. It looks like it will be a very bad summer for the interior.

Murray definitely thought he had a quick rebuild plan but I still think on paper it wasn't necessarily terrible and many people might have made the same mistakes. I'm mostly pissed with Murray for throwing away so many top picks cavalierly. Lehner's price was too high. Armia should never have been given away. Given how it turned out in the end, we never should have traded for ROR and kept Compher and Zadorov etc. If you bottom out and commit to rebuilding with a new young core you should stick to that and not suddenly trade everything away to win as soon as the "generational " guy shows up. maybe this time, if that's what we are in fact doing, maybe this time we stick with that and actually develop something special.

Would be good for us, but I doubt this happens. I'm actually starting to think of the 3, Risto will still be on our roster, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I'm a retired engineer so I totally get this, but you do realize it's the exact opposite perspective up here. Imported American products usually have converted specs, but when they don't, mistakes can definitely be made.

Well you want to go back in time to the ridiculous stuff remember a "foot" was not 12 inches but rather the length of the King's actual foot.

Does it really matter in this case though? Power is a hell of a good hockey player, it's fine if he wants him. I'd only be worried about this if he was saying he liked Taro Tsujimoto's grandson.

Nothing here unexpected. All makes sense. All goes with what we've thought or heard or was rumoured. Be fair to Terry. Nothing wrong with liking Owen Power. Many people think he's the best player in the draft, myself included. In the earlier statement it also says he likes the Michigan guys. Probably just means they showed him some game recordings to see Power play and he probably went who's that guy pointing at one of the others or that guy, that guy looks good. It don't mean a lot, just that he likes the Michigan guys. They probably really want another high pick to get Beniers, as many others here do too, but I doubt they'd take Johnson as a top 3. If they did it's stupid. More likely thinking about him with a pick from Vancouver or LA maybe . At 8 or 9 Johnson would be an okay choice I think. So consider this possibility. 1. Owen Power Seattle takes Guenther or maybe Hughes 3. we take Beniers (trade with Anaheim involving Jack) 9. we take Johnson (trade with Vancouver involving Reinhart) Now Johnson is ranked higher in some places but I wouldn't take him earlier than 8 or 9 myself. (and second round we get L'Heureux who I still insist is the absolute steal of this draft) All of that happens and I'm pretty excited.

Just curious, why do you think that was an absolutely terrible trade? I think it was kind of equal. Different type of player and Mantha fit their style better. I think they felt they needed to add a power forward with the Isles adding Palmeri and Bruins getting Hall of course. It was a tough physical division at the top. Scotty Bowman is giving you side eye right now.

Just to cap this off, I heard today that in Lytton, way up north here, it was hotter than it's EVER been in Las Vegas. That's just wrong.

So you're looking at a comparable guy who signs long term for 5 and you think Sam deserves 2 more per year? Are you Skinner's agent by any chance? 🙂 I think all of our trades will be after the expansion draft. We are supposedly only looking for prospects and picks, futures, so no team is going to want to lose another roster spot and expose a player before the draft by making the deal. I expect a flurry of activity right after the expansion draft is over.

Ryan Nugent Hopkins 8 years 41 million cause he wanted to stay in Edmonton long term. Would Sam want to stay in Vancouver long term? Probably. Don't think he'd ever sign here for a number like that but maybe there.

Not really. You're just used to it. Honestly I'm old enough to be familiar with both systems . I still say I weigh 175 pounds and have no idea off the top of my head how many kilos that is. I convert to pounds. I'm 6'1". Not whatever in meters or centimeters. But, although I know both temperature systems I think of the weather in celsius automatically and when I am on an American channel and see weather maps with 50s and 60s or whatever I have to think and calculate what that means. Also driving, totally used to klms and klms/hr. and often end up speeding on U.S. highways when I'm across the border. (back in those days we were allowed to cross, way back in the olden days.......or so it feels like lol) So short answer, no, I think it's just what you're used to. and in any event, by any scale, it was too f'n hot. Finally breaking tonight. Should only be about 27/80 tomorrow. Hopefully with a breeze too.

Well, unless we get better goaltending, and have much better team defense, we are going to need to score a LOT of goals. So far I see nothing to indicate we are on that path. My own strategy is pretty obvious and previously stated. I'm a D first guy and that does not seem to be the Sabres idea at all.

idk, don't you think it's weird for the whole world to do one method, based on 0-100, much like the rest of number usage in a decimal system and one country hanging on to an archaic system? Anyway, I was also going to say -40 is -40, that's where the two scales meet on the bottom end. As for the weather, it's easy, anything 30 and up is hot.

The similarity rests in Granato being lauded for relating to a young core late in the season and Housley being lauded for rapid development of a young D core in Nashville. Neither had NHL HEAD coach experience.