Torpedo Forecheck

Hypothesis: We must protect Borgen at all costs Reasoning: to say something outlandish and gain attention and prove I'm smarter than everyone else including NHL people Evidence: Any stats are ok, no matter how small the sample size and without regard to context Debunking: A couple weeks ago it was get rid of Casey Mittelstadt to keep Borgen at all costs

Sign me up for Matty Beniers.

You really do need your best players to be your leaders, everyone naturally looks to them. Sometimes teams force it, sometimes team name a lesser veteran leader and that can be a different problem.

This in a nutshell is Sam-moxey guy

Da Sabres seem to bounce back after da loss, I got tree two Sabres-Marty Biron

I have an idea to test this theory: Next game don't even try on any of the face-offs and just let the opponent win it.

Rule of thumb: if you get a chance to win a draw -go ahead and get possession, it might help. All that is needed to know

Damn I didn't know it started at 6:30.

If we can handle Washington, and can handle Pittsburgh.....I think we can handle Boston. Go Boys!

I'm very pleased to be going into the future with Eichel, Reinhart, Mitts and Cozens as the center spine. You do whatever you have to do to keep that intact going forward.

Playing better under Granato, and seeing some success with younger players and having some optimism that things can be different going forward. It doesn't change the fact Sam Reinhart has not experienced any team success as measured by playoff appearances. He's probably tired of it , just like fans are.

People in the media often times ask the same tired, stale, lazy questions. And, you know what, maybe they just have too many pressers and run out of decent questions. How many times can you ask someone after a win/or loss , "how do you feel after a win/loss?". Or, any one of the oft repeated questions. The whole thing is boring, and the players freaking hate it. I heard a player in this video saying, too bad it doesn't mean anything because we sucked so bad until recently!

We may be closer to a playoff contender than people realize IMO. Adding another decent goalie just as a starter for next year would be of enormous help. The young guys can take enormous steps before next season.

Tokarski in goal

VO Reinhart and Skinner have been frustrating today. Jeez if VO high cycles and up again I'll scream. Sam get interested. Skinner shoot.

I think its because he had no credibility as much an anything. When things go bad for Scotty Bowman, they don't keep dropping and dropping. He makes changes and they get out of the rut. Krueger had a track record that showed he had no such ability and the players didn't see anything but the same old crap and they didn't believe. Ralph Cougar bad coach or da worse coach?

Very, very poor coach. I question how successful he would be at any level, given his pig-headed stubborness even when wrong. I'm glad I don't have to listen to players spout BS they undoubtedly gleaned from him. Patience (instead of presssure) always being one of the answers...you beat structure with structure (in other words outstructure people)....move the puck until you get the right shot.. don't force it..... These pearls of wisdom led to a team that applied little to no pressure, played for one shot from the perimeter and then retreated back to the NZ like they were under assault from aliens. In addition, the habits players had the entire duration of RK such as not moving feet, not sealing the boards, not driving the net, not turning into the puck carrier and waving at them etc. makes me want to vomit, I could name many more. I don't really care about him as a person, many great coaches were complete *****, but the stubborness part is a poor trait for an unsuccessful coach. Bad coach is my vote and I wouldn't hire him to coach a Pee Wee team

It would be dumb to ignore what he's done and has going on, he must be under consideration. Having said that, let's see what happens the rest of the way. Nothing has to be decided today by anyone running the club. Getting the hire right is nothing short of epic for the franchise right now.

Ralph screwed the pooch , worst NHL coach ever, we were always much better than the way he coached them down. ***** you Ralph!!!

Jack Eichel is good at hockey when Taylor Hall isn't on his team!

We're starting to build up some serious depth when a player the quality of Riley Sheahan can't get in the lineup..........Oh wait....Eakin has pictures I forgot

Tampa, if Kucherov is ready

I think this is a very fair analysis of KA. The part that seems to be pissing people off as I skim this thread is trading Lazar for Bjork. To me, these are just a couple of JAGs, the real deal is a second for Hall. One is 26 the other 24, perhaps the 26 year old is a little more useful and made the Bruins feel better. I also feel like keeping Hall did nothing (he had to be moved once out of the lineup and was leaving). I have no idea if we had better offers, I don't think we were getting a one -no way, no how. Both Lazar and Hall have been out of the lineup over the last several games and the team is playing better. Neither figures into the future plans.

So Hall was good ?