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He also once called out the HF Flyers board village idiot by name. Legend.

Denis Potvin (the only defenseman who IMO is even in the same conversation as Orr) was not Denis Potvin the first few years of his career and that was with Al Arbor as his coach, who you must concede was a wee bit better than Ralph. Victor Hedman, the undisputed best defenseman in the league didn't light the world on fire his first few years.

We all bag on Risto but at least he called ***** on that and said "We made it easy for him". Make him the coach because at least unlike Ralph he isn't satisfied with moral victories.

Almost all our shots are of the empty calorie variety (AKA: Shots from the perimeter with nobody in front of net that are routine saves for any NHL quality goalie).

When you're a man up for 30% of a period and produce almost no high danger scoring opportunities that's NOT a good period.

And they had never held GM positions, much less had any success as one. And Adams pretty much ensured another season of failure by failing to address the goaltending issue of having the single worst goalie in the league (yes, even worse than the bloated corpse of Corey Schneider).

Edit: "Two things" Um, yeah about that...

Maybe instead of hiring a smooth talking flim flam artist as coach and a PSE crony as GM maybe hire actual credible people who've actually had NHL success so the team stops being an unmitigated disaster and Jack doesn't want to leave? Worth a shot no?

That is correct. Only thing is that it's a minute behind real time so you get push button notifications of goals before you hear them.

If you made either of those trades the Sabres ticket office phone system would crash from so many people calling to drop their season seats. Ed Johnston/Mad Mike level horrible ideas.

The Isles beat the Flyers in what was just about the most lopsided 7 game series ever last year. If Jordan Eberlie didn't have just about the most comically awful series you will ever see an NHL player have it would've been over in 5.

You will see teams in pickup games at a local rec rink with more structure and cohesiveness than the Sabres did last night. There's no way to sugar coat it: that performance was simply embarrassing. Compare and contrast that to say, the Devils who got a point playing the Brooinz. Maybe instead of hiring a slick talking motivational speaker we could try hiring someone who has a proven track record of success as an NHL coach no?

This Australian version of UFC is pretty damned cool!

One of my favorite bands ever! Saw them several years back when they toured with Bayside (another all time fave) and again a few years later at the Gramarcy Theater in NYC. That last gig there may have been only 100 people who showed up which made me lose faith in humanity.

Creepiest song ever??

He's way taller than his brother Tyce:

I expect him to score 40-50 points per game.

If we got Griess I'd be doing summersaults but I'd be stunned if he doesn't end up in Carolina or the Isles keep him and trade Varlamov.

The fact that getting a goalie is clearly not the priority is all the proof anyone should need to know Adams has absolutely no idea what he is doing (same applies to Ralph as well). It is the one thing that can cover up a badly flawed roster like ours and if you throw out the tandem of Ulmark (below average) and Hutton (Doesn't belong in the NHL at this point) the only thing we are winning is another lottery pick.

News of the signing sparked wild celebrations among members of the giraffe community:

The Hurricane Giraffe Line!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your very bad Twitter idea of the week: The thread is exactly what you'd expect.