Big Guava

Bandit games are the most fun live sporting events I have ever been to... That includes Bills, Sabres, Bisons and an assortment of other NHL, MLB and NFL teams as well. Honestly not even close IMO.

What a crappy goal to go home for year on... Some weird bounce off the boards although it looked like they planned it. Nice move by Pastarnak, but still...

4th straight Finals appearance for the Bandits...hoping to win 2 straight and even their record at 2-2 over that time

That's true. But you'll never know until you give them your notice and find out.

And why should the employee trust the company is going to allow them to continue working there for 2 weeks and not tell them to pack their stuff and leave? The company wants the employee to think they act in employee's best interest when it's always the case they act in their own best interest.

It's pretty funny. Companies don't give a crap about you when it's time to let you go and give you exactly 0 days notice most of the time yet they expect their employees to bend over backwards and "do the right thing" by giving them 2 weeks. Which some places will decline and promptly tell you to leave, essentially leaving you 2 weeks with no income. So why exactly is this still a rule? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe if people stopped allowing this nonsense to go on and just called them up and told them they aren't coming in and they quit they would think a little more about doing the same thing to employees. As it is they can play by whatever rules they choose but he employees are suppose to play tiddlywinks with them because it's "unprofessional" not to. Well, I think it's unprofessional when a company calls in employees that have worked there 25 years and sh!t cans them on the spot with no notice so they can pay the CEO more and upper management more bonuses. As always, they want their cake while they eat it too. Thank goodness more people are looking out for themselves first nowadays just like it always should have been.

They should call themselves the Utah SaltLickers and have the logo be a miner licking a hockey puck made out of salt

The win-loss column.

Dan Bylsma won a cup how did that work out? So did John Muckler and Scotty Bowman.

That's kinda how they play all year and made the playoffs. Their goal differential was abysmal.

That was an absolutely epic collapse by the Isles...pathetic...

Not a single OT game yet...surprising with how many have been one goal games.

Yeah because going from 17 years of not making the playoffs to one of the elite teams in the NFL is so terrible

Seemed to work out pretty well for the Bills

Well, coaching won't be the reason we don't make the playoffs next year at least.

Damn he was in charge of the team for 106 years?

His net worth has gone up by 3 BILLION to over 7 BILLION now since he bought the Bills so, I think he is doing kinda alright. Basically the guy gets to pay an arm and a leg to sit in a cool box and talk to some people but have no control of anything. Wonder who will pony up about 750 mil for the right to do that?

Especially if he decided he has too much on his plate with Kim not really able to help much.

Someone confirming that it isn't "baseless rumormongering" I assume?

Someone needs to come in with Pineapple

Meh, that team was not mentally weak. Lacking some toughness maybe, mentally weak? Never. Mentally weak teams don't go on the road in ECF game 7 down 4 defenseman and take a lead into the 3rd period. Ended up losing but not due to being mentally weak, Carolina exploited the weakness on D finally.

You can both be good at developing young players and still not be good enough to take them to the next level. There is no way to know if that's the case before hiring them. First, you have to get the players to develop. He did a pretty great job at that. Then you have to see if he can take them to the next level. He failed at that. So be it. I openly said it was time for Granato to go as the season wore on and it was obvious the team was not moving forward as expected. That doesn't mean that AT THE TIME he was hired when Dahlin looked lost and so did multiple other players on this team that he was not the right hire to get them back on the right track to develop properly. And for the most part he has done an exceptional job at developing them. He was a development coach for USA Hockey after all. Unless you have some crystal ball that you are keeping all to yourself, you didn't know either.

I'd love to see Ruff back...this mentally weak team would suddenly be galvanized from the inside out.

Ones that use common sense? Seems that is in short supply these days.

To develop young players? It makes tons of sense. Did you see where these same players were under Kreuger? And they didn't "know" he wouldn't get them to the playoffs...I mean My God, one point/win away last year and we act like they finished in dead last. Get a grip dude.