Drag0nDan

With Those Dmen out - you kind of have to? Hino's been playing well and i don't know how greenway fits there. Might have just put him on the vet line because its a fairly simple game on that line. Pucks go forward, they go behind the net, and you finish your checks.

I wanted to go to this one but i think my buddy sold his seasons already for it.

Hinostroza plays with some pace though, so he can fit on a line with cozens or krebs. Olofsson has some use on the power play, though i have noticed teams are just smothering him on the wall if he doesn't have a lot of space.

I heard a lot of good things about their cabinets recently fwiw. Affordable and not as cheaply made as some of the other brands you might see at a depot/lowes.

Fios. Hulu for the rest. Is tonight a hulu game? i hate scrambling to find it on there.

I kind of hate both of them. The terrible home ice camera work, the terrible sound quality, terrible arena, terrible announcing. It needs an overhaul.

yeah i think bjork was a dollars piece or something.

It changes nothing for people who already have cable, or out of market people with ESPN+. Its just giving people who don't have or want cable in the buffalo market an option to watch the games. I think its overpriced, but maybe they'll see low subscriber counts and adjust - but it literally already exists as a platform. They don't need to do much of anything other than lift blackout restrictions for subscribers. So all this really does is address a portion of fans who had no access, so i don't see how it could be anything other than growth. I'm more wondering when they're going to address the absolute terrible quality of it. Sound is off, especially on away games. Camera feeds are terrible. Feels like its dark - that could be our terrible arena though. It's a consistently poor product.

The challenge at the deadline is only bad teams are looking to sell. So you limit yourself to about 10 teams that you can buy from. Prices are usually higher too. I do think a deal will need to be made next offseason - but you have free agency, and teams looking to dump salary etc in the offseason.

do you know this or are you just speculating?

Blew what? Didn't he offer him a contract?

Yeah - skinners off the books by the time any questions come up around quinn/JJP and literally anyone else in the pipeline. Tuch will be 30 if he hits UFA before that - 30 year olds don't get paid much and they usually don't get term. Power gets a lower AAV because you buy out RFA years and trade some UFA ones. Dahlin will get paid hopefully soon before the cap jumps.

There are less than 30 games left and Anderson is the best we have. I still carry 3 because i'd rather UPL start than comrie, but Anderson should get 2/3 starts the rest of the way. He's already retiring after the year, just play your ass off and leave it on the ice. Are we going to really roll 3 different goalies out in a playoff series?

The stick was definitely up, but Stamkos misplayed the puck and then fell over trying to reach for it. Looked like he may have tried to trap the stick and took a dive.

I mean - you have toronto looking at a possible delay of game... but you don't for actual penalties?

I agree with most of this and think they should and probably will draft more defensemen. Johnson is a wildcard, Lindgren is 18, and everything in the near term is bad. That is the issue - drafting someone this year doesn't help the team likely for at least a year or two. Factor in that the pipeline is pretty barren at almost every level, and you're short depth of some 20 somethings. Losing borgen sucked, cost controlled 3rd pair guy and a righty at that. But looking at the roster i'm not sure what else you could've done. If we used hindsight i guess we trade out 10 for 8 skaters and leave out asplund bjork and mittelstadt. But at the time - that last one could've been thompson

I know a lot has fallen in right for Montgomery... but its a very similar roster to last year. And they are absolutely rocking the league right now. Among the league leaders in goals scored, miles ahead on goals allowed. On a ridiculous points pace. And its his first year - if he doesn't win it, when should he?

He's way too close in AAV to Gaudreau and Huberdeau (similar age at contract signing), considering they signed their deals much later. Rantanen and Kucherov signed around the same time as well and are again far too close. In any case - he's found a home on that line with thompson and tuch. He still draws penalties, he still chirps, and he's still finding greasy areas for rebound goals. At the time a lot of people were concerned on term and what kind of player he'd be towards the end of the deal, and I'm seeing a player who doesn't rely too much on speed. I think he'll be fine.

He's still finding his way - he doesn't know where to be sometimes or when to be there. Takes time.

Makes sense to me - the bench shrinks down to like 3 players in the playoffs and you have a condensed game schedule.

I'd agree on Nylander. I hated that pick - everyone kept saying "Eichel got his winger!". We were terrible, why not draft good players? I think the reason grigorenko is a disappointment is that good players were selected afterwards.

I think Orr would be the pick. The other 3 were on the list behind hasek. Howe is discluded as the majority of his statistical impact happened prior to expansion.

Gretzky, Crosby, Lemieux Jagr, ovechkin Whos missing?

He seems to have gotten over his allergy to shooting. If there is nothing open, don't force a pass - just shoot. Sometimes it goes in.

You will get Olofsson and like it!!