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Personally, I do not like hot weather. When its above 80, it is too much for me.

Take every player in the NHL. Every owner. Every GM, every scout. Maybe even throw in every single season ticket holder across the league that has had tickets for more than 10 years. Put ALL of those people in one big room and Terry Pegula might be the single most clueless about hockey of all of them.

The facilities in Buffalo are ok, good enough, but they are falling way behind in the 'wow' factor compared to what other teams have. And again, in a salary cap league where you have limited funding, those Buffalo facilities are 'nice enough' if you are here, but they are not going to win out over a lot of what other teams are doing.

They are notgetting direct compensation from another team, but they are not getting 'nothing', again, they are getting cap space. When you are a 'cap team', as the Leafs usually are, that can at times be even more valuable than a player return in a trade, if that new player is taking up cap space that limits your other options.

I somewhat like the morning show. As I mentioned previously, it is annoying when Jeremy White gets stuck on his opinion. I have always enjoyed talk shows where the hosts facilitated conversation. Where they would take calls on all different points of view and respond to them. Not when they have their opinion and they argue with callers who disagree with them. So why do I not think it is low quality radio? First, most talk shows about sports seem to be more and more like that. But the morning guys I can deal with, I find the show entertaining and somewhat informative. It is 'middle ground' for what sports talk should be. The 1 hour of hockey talk, I do not listen to it that much but I enjoy that also most of the time. The 10-12 show, not perfect, but I can get something out of it also. The afternoon show, Shopp and Bulldog, that is the only show that I can no longer tolerate. When you say low quality radio, to me that comment does not do justice to just how bad the afternoon show can be. But overall, WGR is decent-to-good for me for general listening.

I do not like the WGR guys all that much. I can tolerate the morning show, but JW seems to 'pick his point' and then never gets off it. The afternoon WGR show is awful. But as far and Brandon Beane, I didn't like how he came off during this interview. He can make his point without sounding like he did, and I think he came across today as somewhat of a jerk.

Not fast enough? where did that come from. He looks like he is one of the faster skaters on the team and above average in the league, and the metrics back that up.

Let us see if it continues with Krebs the rest of the year. Another handful of games will make the very small sample size slightly larger and somewhat more meaningful to evaluate. It appears Lindy finally got frustrated enough with Quinn so he took him off of McLeods line and put him with Krebs toward the end of the game. If Krebs is stuck with Quinn the rest of the season, his numbers may not look so good going forward.

Jack Quinn in the past 2 years has not shown that he is willing or that he has the ability to do the things that make up a complete hockey player. I am saying nothing that others have not said here. As you mentioned he is a very good sniper when he has open ice. He does not backcheck very hard. He does not seem to be able to carry the puck around the offensive zone and find his own shooting seam. He does not win battles, nor often even engage in battles for loose pucks. When I watch him play, it seems like he is doing everything at 60% maximum speed. I am glad he is scoring lately. But other than his shot he seems to be a minor league level player out there.

Cozens now -3 on the night...and back to a minus player just for the Sens. His shooting percentage in Ottawa has also fallen below 10%. He did put that pass right onto Krebs stick, tape to tape, as others have said.

I saw that on the replay just now coming back from the commercial break. The gathering in the corner with some slashes and pushing was going on for at least 10 seconds, Cozens glanced at it, then looked the other way and took a LONG time coming over to it.

3 more saves per 100 is a lot. 3 saves per 100 may not seem like much when stated that way, but that would be enough to take a league average starter and make him a vezina winner.

Jack Quinn and JJ Peterka scored playing with Ryan McLeod. That is the most important thing. But their play as a line would worry me if I were a coach or a Defenseman playing behind them. In the couple of games the 3 of them have played together, they have been on the ice for 13 scoring chances for, but allowed 36 against. That is awful. As a line they are generating 17.8 shots per 60. They are allowing 35.6. They have generated 2 high danger chances, but allowed 17 against. Historically bad ratio. The above is not deep dive analytics, it is pretty basic stuff. As for the more derivative analytics, it doesn't look any better: Expected goals for are 0.94. Against 4.37. Almost 4.5 times worse. Their corsi and fenwick for versus against are slanted almost 3-to-1 against them. The last 2 games Reimer saved their Butts a few times. A typical UPL game behind them may have had us thinking this line lost the games for them. The goals have been pretty to watch, but that line has been a disaster in the neutral zone and the defensive zone helping out the defensemen.

I was making reference to a post on the first page of this thread by @CallawaySabres who said he was never a problem here.

Some people may like Dylan Cozens and think he was the recipient of a raw deal here. But he was a problem. Other players on this team have been here for a while and probably have had their stats and their overall game negatively impacted by this organization. However, none of them were given as much of a chance and did so much harm to the Win-Loss record as Dylan Cozens did. I do wish him well in Ottawa, a change of scenery is doing him well so far and might be what he needs to turn his career around. But he was a bad hockey player most of his time in Buffalo.