ndirish1978

Haven't been keeping up with the search. Have we interviewed anyone?

is the question just for Granato and coaches and not KA? I know we have a good prospect pipeline but I mean we SHOULD have the best pipeline in the league considering how long we have sucked. What has KA done that warrants any continuity for the org?

Fire everyone. Josh absolutely sucks now, our D sucks, Gabe Davis sucks, screw this team.

I'm not super well schooled in hockey, just been reading about it the past few months. But, I don't see how we can consistently show such poor advanced stats on D and then apparently do nothing at all to solve the problem. I may be wrong, but I'm not seeing much in the way of system change in regards to our defending at all. Kinda bummed about it tbh.

Clifton looks pretty bad. We really didn't do what we needed to on D. I was hoping our team D was going to improve at least a little but doesn't look like it.

Does he need to put on a few lbs still to be able to withstand these hits? I don't want them to bring him back just to have him yo-yo in and out of the lineup with a bunch of injuries.

I think he has the skill and mental makeup to play in the NHL. I don't think his body is in a place where he could play a full season and be effective. I'd like him to put on muscle like many here have stated. If he can do that in the NHL, ok. If he's best served doing that playing in juniors and working on his size and skating speed, then let's do that.

I've been impressed with Benson.

Commented in the game thread that the announcer sounds ill. His speech is slurred and he labors over every word.

Benson looks pretty decent.

Honest question - is the Bruins pbp guy recovering from an illness or something? I'm admittedly a noob, I know he's been there a long time, but his speech is super slurred?

What the hell is this thread?

If you were picking, which songs would you assign to each player? I don't comprehend how Tage hasn't picked TNT by AC/DC as his song, probably has to do with it being the Flames' team song when a goal is scored, but I still like it for him.

It's good, but imo it's overhyped. It's a solid show, not some revelation.

Then thanks for the joke, because I'm a neophyte and I appreciated the explanation =)

Just hopped in to watch on ESPN. Anything unexpected happen so far?

You're welcome to believe whatever you want, but your argument essentially calls everyone who doesn't align with your thoughts a hypocrite for not believing the "right" truth, then you act like a victim when your hypocrisy is pointed out. The fact that you immediately tried to pin my problem with the way you state your point on religion shows you have a predisposition against certain arguments. I don't care what your religion is, I don't care who you sleep with, I don't care about your social background. I am tired of the virtue signaling hypocrisy of people who say "I believe everything should be heard" but what they really mean is "I believe everything I value should be heard."

I'm sorry but you're really picking and choosing causes here to fit your viewpoint. The pride contingent uses their beliefs to criticize people who don't support their cause just as much as any other group, pretending otherwise is patently untrue. You compare a private act, wearing a cross in public/public prayer, with a public act of telling people how to live their lives. That is just as easily changed to wearing a rainbow jersey being allowed and not telling people that their religion is wrong. I don't really care one bit what your cause is, just don't virtue signal in one direction and then immediately turn around and act like a victim. Russian players grow up in a country where being gay is illegal - they have families at home who will likely face backlash if they were the jerseys. They choose not to wear the pride jersey and people are up in arms calling them bigots. Their culture tells them something is wrong, they probably agree with that sentiment and in the event they don't their family could face backlash for their opinions. Players should be allowed to support or not support whichever causes they want. I'm just tired of all these double standard arguments acting like one side is virtuous and the other is all hypocrites. Get rid of all the causes and just play the sport. I don't think any person should have to wear a pregame jersey supporting a cause they don't support. The only reason these causes are actually in sports is because they ultimately make the teams money on jersey sales, if they didn't earn, these special causes wouldn't even be an afterthought.

They have stats views per article, feedback on the quality of the article from the little buttons at the end of every article and can track the number of comments in the comment section and questions posted to "mailbags." I would presume that's why none of the Buffalo guys are gone, they have solid interaction metrics. I see some stories on there with <10 responses but they are always from other markets.

None of the people canned were from the Buffalo beat so this is unlikely. It's also a weird move to try to guilt someone post-event when their post already shows they don't care. Not sure what the purpose of this was.

Good for Eichel. I still dislike him and always will.

Wouldn't this be a pretty standard thing all GMs should do? Not being facetious.

I don't understand why they would make the cost so ridiculously high. That's almost half a YoutubeTV sub on it's own.

People outside of the US - I pay 13/m for Star Plus and I get every single hockey game regardless of the network carrying it. Hope that helps someone!