PerreaultForever

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.

Did you feel the same way when they hired Housley?

To see how much money was on the table and how much term and control. Everyone has a price.

I think this in the division thing mattered more in the old days with solid rivalries and less roster turnover. These days players move around so much with free agency I don't think it matters at all. Also, presumably, if you make the trade you think you got the better of it so why be afraid? Not trading him into the division would be an admission from the get go that you got the stick end of the deal.

An easy one to remember is 28 is 82 (within small decimal points) so you can usually guestimate from there without even doing much math.

If you have 2 offers that are close you choose the far away one. Otherwise shouldn't matter imo.

Ya, that's not going to happen. The stories say we asked for the #1 pick last summer which was Lafreniere, and that was a big fat no so it ain't happening now either.

The latest rumours have the Rangers seriously kicking the tires again. Apparently they were seriously negotiating last summer so all those rumours might have been true. We wanted that #1 though and they wouldn't part with it. Wonder what the rest of the deal might have been? Eichel-Panarin = lethal.

I'm missing my typical summer too. We usually get like high 20s (low 80s for the Americans) most summer days.

First on Bylsma remember he was only hired because Babcock played us for the Toronto gig. Babcock was Murray's guy. The vision of Murray's team in his mind was Babcock coaching McDavid with Kane as his power goal scoring winger, ROR as his second line shut down center and Lehner as an allstar goalie backstopping everything. In theory not that ridiculous a plan. Anyway, point is HIS plan was an experienced NHL coach on a long term plan. Since then we have gone the opposite way. Yes, they didn't want Dudley, and that is why I say they are stupid and in last place every year. As for Trotz, they didn't offer him a big new deal in Washington. That's why he left. So that's the same as letting him go. Everyone knew at the time Trotz was likely going to be let go if he failed in the playoffs. The (unfair) knock for some time had been great at getting to the playoffs but couldn't win it all in the playoffs. Washington wanted a cup no less. After they got it, they no longer cared and didn't want to pay him.