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Maybe but isn't he still president of the Slovak hockey federation or something like that? 🙂

I personally don't believe this. I think the expectation is playoffs (or at the very least competing down to the wire like Detroit did this year) and if they fail Adams will be fired and Ruff will be retained in a senior advisory capacity to help pick a new GM. After which he will either move on to that role fully or transition coach until the new GM hires a new coach. Just a guess but that's what I think would happen. Hopefully they make the playoffs instead.

Belicheck became a hockey coach we better start measuring sticks, checking goalie pad sizes, puck dimensions and consistency, arena lighting, board composition at each end, ice conditions........................and on and on.............you get the idea. He ain't called Belicheat for nothing.

I know. If you are thinking 2 as a couple it's way off. If you mean 4-5 then it is possible. Myself I'm not sure what happens with Byram though. I'm not sure he's what some people think he is and I don't see a Byram-Dahlin pairing working long term but we shall see, Biggest question for me on D this year is do we keep Muel and can he play and stay healthy?

Latvians really like beating Lithuanians. It's a thing.

I think you're getting yourself caught up in some Russian pairing fantasy here. I'm glad we are starting to see defensive prospects in the system that show promise in one way or another but it would be pure folly to move veteran D men out to make room for more rookie D men in. A D like you are proposing here would be a sure sign that we are nothing but a farm team for the league.

That's good captain speak. Their best player was actually MacKinnon. But Mitts has certainly filled the hole they had at center and Walker has Byram's spot so they are better than they were with the deals they made.

One can hope that Komarov keeps developing and maybe he is ready to step in around the time Clifton's contract ends. He has the size potential you want but still has to add strength and muscle to that frame (like most kids). Time will tell. I suspect he will need a good couple years in Rochester at least though.

Oh I know. Their bar is very high compared to the Sabres. If they lose this series there will be a ton of critiques with "fire Sweeney" "fire Monty" "Jacobs sucks" They have very high expectations and one could say they are very spoiled. Passionate group though. They don't accept failure as easily as some around here. Sabres are a joke to them. Very rare for them to even consider Sabres as existing, but when they do they generally use them as an example(s) of what you don't want to do.

You're trying to be a smartass I get that but yes, yes I am. The Canucks were ahead 3-1 but Preds actually outplayed them in Nashville so the possibility of this being tied up and getting a game 7 where anything can happen is very real. This is a closer series than most people expected.

Jets being Jets. Canucks couldn't close out either. That series could still go either way.

Well then I'm sticking with Liam Greentree. If we somehow win the lottery we can take Cellibrini or trade the pick for a boatload or make the pick and then trade Thompson or somebody for what we need. There would be options and all of them good.

See, this is the problem with the internet. People like you get caught up on a word or a sentence and nitpick it without making an effort to try to understand the general idea. If we were talking in a bar or coffee shop we'd smooth it out in seconds. But on the internet, oh no, everybody's got to go balls out crazy critic of every word. So yes, let's move on.

Bruins annual choke vs. Leafs annual collapse. One of them has to give I guess.

luck and Swayman. He was very good. Rest of the team not so much.

If Dickinson's still there when we pick I'd take him. Iginla would be intriguing. I personally like Liam Greentree. This is assuming we are not in the top 5 or 6 and draft around 10 or 11.

Amazing how different people can see totally different things isn't it? Bruins with their classic game 5 choke.

tummy ache. what can you do 🙂

Did not know that existed. Crimson without Fripp just seems wrong but enjoy. Going to see The National with The War On Drugs in October. Saw Chelsea Wolfe just a little while ago.

What I am saying is I don't give a FLYING F#CK about how many great prospects we have or their stats or how our cupboard is full (again) or any of that. All I care about is what's on the NHL roster and about the Sabres making and winning in the playoffs. If salivating over future prospects gives you some solace and relief from having to endure the longest non playoff streak in pro sports well good for you, but to me it's meaningless. Get back to me when he actually does it. I'm not saying he won't, just that he really hasn't done that much yet. Let's see if he can stay healthy first.

So many teams looking for coaches I'm glad we went with Ruff and ended it. If we were in a long detailed search with all these teams I could see us getting used and leveraged for negotiations multiple times and then ending up with the nobody or the leftover. Even Ruff might have been gone.

So you define "better" simply as points per game? I don't. I look at the complete player and everything they bring. Not just goals and points. But I'm not saying Quinn was a bad pick. The issue was who Adams has picked and his draft success and all I was saying on Quinn was he was a high pick and not that hard to make but there's a bunch of guys around that pick that were/are also good picks. Jarvis is one of them.

I can't put non NHL guys into the same category as NHL guys the way you do. Until you show it and prove it at an NHL level they mean nothing to me. The statement you bolded was simple. Benson and Savoie were both in camp and one made the team and one didn't.

I think Savoie and Östlund are both too small and too slight yes. We will see if they get their noses dirty or not but Savoie was no Benson coming out of camp was he. I am still very undecided on Quinn. I like Peterka but I'd like him even more if he developed his mean side.

This wasn't directed at me but yes, I liked Holloway more than Quinn. I wouldn't have drafted McTavish over Power (I did like Power as a pick) but I did think McTavish would be very good. I definitely liked L'Heareux over Rosen. Also wanted Lamoureux. There are others. Especially second rounders. Adams does seem to favour speed and scoring prowess over character and size/grit as a whole.